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"We are wasting billions of dollars and diminishing millions of lives. We need to fix the system. Doing so will require a major nationwide recalculation of who goes to prison and for how long and of how we address the long-term consequences of incarceration."

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51453



Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons

Savaged by dogs, electrocuted with cattle prods, burned by toxic chemicals, does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm



Americans' Outlook for U.S. Morality Remains Bleak

"Americans' assessment of U.S. morality has never been positive, but the current ratings rank among the worst Gallup has measured over the past nine years.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/128042/Americans-Outlook-Morality-Remains-Bleak.aspx


From Information Clearing House

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A duty to be oppressed?

Liberty For All
by Larken Rose

05/17/10

Do good, upstanding citizens have a moral obligation to allow themselves to be oppressed, harassed, terrorized, assaulted, and wrongfully detained or imprisoned? Most people would say ‘no.’ But would most people actually mean it? There are many examples of ‘law enforcers’ treating innocent people like dirt. Random stops at ’sobriety checkpoints’ is a favorite of mine, since the local jackboots do that in front of my house on occasion...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4328


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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