Twenty-five percent of the world's prison population is in America. It's estimated one in four African Americans will be in the prison system at some point, and one in eleven American males. China, who our propaganda machine constantly attacks for being oppressive to their population, has 4x more people than we do, yet far-less prisoners, in what we see as an authoritarian communist government. (This is by no means support for communism or China, but our media portrays them as one large prison)
In a free country, we have a staggering amount of people with their freedom taken away. A lot of this stems from The War on Drugs, a war as impossible to win as the War on Terror. You can't wage war on a product with demand or an emotion and expect to win. The War on Drugs as exploded the prison population, sending NON-VIOLENT criminals to prison, our treatment programs are a joke, and have a high failure rate. Drugs addicts have become comparable to the mental patients of the past; nobody in government knows how to deal with them, so they are simply removed from sight.
You can lose your life in prison without taking the life of another person in this country. Many people begin selling drugs because they have no other way of making the large sums of cash, especially is poverty stricken neighborhoods. The federalized educational system fails and disenfranchises many of its youth, then turns around and puts them in prison for selling drugs. When they are arrested someone else steps in to sell the product, it will never end, the cycle has never come close to ending.
Mexico is absolute chaos right now, drug cartels are slaughtering people, and waging war on U.S. Border Patrol. Officials in Mexico claim "it means the war is working". When drugs still pour into the country as before, and violence has spiked. If drugs were decriminalized and sold by pharmacy's all of the money and power would be taken from these violent cartels...yet the "war" continues.
The U.S. Government has no real interest in ending the war on drugs. As a youth in a lower-class area of a lower class town I never remembered hearing people using heroin or talking about it being around town. Now, it's unbelievable how many people who take and become addicted to the drug whom I know personally and are not from broken homes. This happened of course during the War on Terror. Before the war, the Taliban had almost completely wiped out Poppy growth in Afghanistan. Prior to the regime, Afghanistan was the largest producer of Opium worldwide. After U.S. troops arrived, production is up 95% and the biggest export of the country. The media and mouthpieces claim "we have to support the opium trade to keep the farmers with jobs". Now our youth suffer from a growth in heroin, a spike the drug has not seen in decades. (pun intended) I wonder how Afghanistan finds the finances to ship the large quantities of heroin over the world.
If you think I am claiming the U.S. invaded Afghanistan for Opium, you are correct. In the late 80's something very similar happened. The Iran-Contra Affair. The CIA bought Cocaine and showed "Freeway Rick Ross" how to create crack (a more affordable modification of the drug) in L.A. Crack and Cocaine as we know exploded during the 70`s and 80`s. The U.S. Government profited directly from the sale of Cocaine and crack in America, and used the money to support a contra-war in Nicaragua to overthrow the Sandinistas, while also using the money to supply Iran with weapons (who at the time held U.S. hostages)Freeway Ricky Ross ended up in prison for a long time, everyone on the government side of the operation dodged any legal ramifications. Ross' supplier was a CIA agent, this is how his operation became so large, the government didn't touch him until the whole project went public.
So what does all of this mean? It shows the U.S. Government does not care about the people, it looks at us as pawns in the great scheme of global dominance. Our government will take the youth away of it's people and imprison non-violent drug offenders for using or exchanging drugs. This is while the government and CIA wages covert wars for these drugs for rights to distribute in mass quantities.
Private prisons are becoming quite the phenomenon is the U.S., people are making profit from the mistakes of others, they get large government tax breaks and it is IN THEIR INTEREST TO SEE PEOPLE INCARCERATED. There is a prison industry in America. Interesting once again in a "free" country.
During modernity there has been: a devastating fascist government massacring a population of people because of their religion. In our parents generation African Americans were treated as subhuman in so many ways and supported by laws. Europeans nearly erased the indigenous population from this land during it's conception, then humans were shipped to this country to become slaves, Japanese Americans were detained during World War II in America, two major genocides have occurred in the past decade in Africa, another in Bosnia, Japanese massacres in China during WWII, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners executed in Maoist China, hundreds of thousands killed in Stalinist Russia, racial and religious division in Israel.
Excuse me if my tendency is to always mistrust government, because History has shown government is a genocidal maniac. The media frenzy in recent years has directed itself towards people of Latin American heritage and Muslims. Around the world people are detained in prison without judge or jury, held as a terrorist, tortured and executed. Unfortunately for the internationally incarcerated, The Constitution does not expand beyond American borders. Al Qaeda attacked America, not a sovereign nation such as Afghanistan, Iran, or Iraq. Al Qaeda has an international force of...your ready for this? less than 200 people. We didn't find Osama Bin Laden, who is Saudi, just like most of the attackers on 9/11.
Our reason for war in Afghanistan was "terrorists operated from there" where the most extreme sect of Islam, Wahhabism is Saudi Arabia's official religion, an overwhelming majority of terrorist camps are Wahhabi, and financed directly by members of the Saudi Royal Family. Most of the hijackers as we know were Saudi. Whether you believe the mechanics of 9/11 or not, the motives, targets, outcomes and relationships are extremely questionable. It is hard for me to believe the CIA, FBI, President, Lawmakers and media are all so inherently unintelligent, that they could fuck up a global war so badly, where most of the connections point to our very own ally.
The restriction of free speech in this country and domestic spying has increased through expansion of federal power, while our military has expanded operations into the Middle East. A police state grows under our noses, and most people are either too shallow to care, or too afraid to say or do anything about it. The sheriff, city PD, INS, FBI, CIA, Dept of Homeland Security, the National Guard, Military police, State Troopers and many more could arrest anyone they wish, move them through the prison system either at home or internationally and make them vanish if they wanted to. Just so happens over 1 million people go missing in the U.S. every year, less than a thousand dead are found. I'm not making assumptions, but I find it overwhelming how many people disappear from this country, go to prison in this country, or die in an attack by this government when compared to other countries worldwide.
Every major country has at one time or another involved itself in war crimes, and this makes sense, due to how much of a crime war itself is against humanity. Brute force, intimidation, high tech weapons, compliance, fear-mongering is all used by this government both domestically and internationally to cause people to submit. Search police brutality, US war crimes, and the such, it happens every day. Look how violently suppressed protesters are in this day and age, it looks like Communist fucking Russia. The lethargic, pop-culture obsessed, fat, mentally dying U.S. public is the most depressed in the world clinically. Nobody wonders why, they just feed you more drugs, alter your mind, numb you.
Depression occurs because people hate themselves or their lives. Drugs aren't going to change you or your life, they alter senses. Just because a drug is legal and made by Pfizer doesn't mean its healthy or only has positive effects. It alters your mind, the chemical makeup of you. Here is an idea for depressed people, your job has you down? QUIT. Significant other making you miserable? GO GET SOMEONE ELSE. Hopelessly lost in debt? FUCK EM, YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. Want to get away from your life? GO, RUN AWAY.
This generation is nothing more than a science experiment, people refuse to read, they believe whatever they see on television, though they remind themselves daily how reality can be changed with special effects. New drugs come out to make the imperfect (everyone) perfect. Hair removal, fat burners, wrinkle remover, penis enlargers, drugs to change eyelashes, skin, nails. Commercials pound these products into your head every day to make you feel imperfect. We are fed Cheetos, soda, candy, fast food, grease, all of the things guaranteed to kill. We are slowly becoming a diluted, processed, molded humanity.
One of my favorite lyrics says "There is a war going on for your mind, if you are thinking you are winning". I write these articles because I'm pissed off, I see through the bullshit the government and false speakers present. They prove themselves to be untrustworthy on a daily basis and people still trust them, or simply ignore the problems of our world. There is such a lack of pride or will to fight for good in this world, and I find it disgusting. We accept how dumbed down our population is, and find how blatantly the government keeps people from receiving quality education, or how media and teachers keep important information from people necessary to make an informed and proper decision.
Many are imprisoned in this country physically, but even more are imprisoned mentally. I'm asked so many times "What can I do about it?" "What are you going to do about it" when it comes to the issues I raise. I do my part, I read up on what goes on, I pay attention to what people on television are actually saying. I know what spin is, I know who pays who, who owns parts of what business, I know history, I find statistics, I seek the truth. I understand the motives of businessmen, congressmen, and others, and I realize too many coincidences mean there is no coincidence at all. I'm not special or made different than anyone else, I'm not privileged, I'm just paying attention, trying to find what's right in this world, and what is wrong with my country, if everyone did this everything would be right in this world and nothing would be wrong in the country. You only live once, put in some shred of effort to be the best possible you.
"Educate yourself, make your world view bigger, visualize wealth and put yourself in the picture" -KRS ONE
