Let us talk for a moment about the current state of affairs in the United States.  Our society is one based on profit, no matter the sector, be it Wall Street or tobacco, beer or beauty products, jails or pharmaceuticals.  Knowing this, you have to ask yourself, where do you put the limits on these things.  If everything is for profit, then the goal of everything is to get all the money you can.  This makes sense when you apply it to competing products like beer, soda pop, snack foods, and many other things, but when you stop and think about the way to profit in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and jails, you have to reconsider the process.

If a jail is for profit, the way to increase profit is to increase the number of inmates.  For each inmate in the US, on average, a jail gets $70,000 per year of incarceration.  That creates incentive for jails to increase the number of inmates.  How do they do this?  Create an atmosphere that breeds more crime!  Fights, drug trafficking, alcohol production; all these things go on jails everyday.  The result?  Extended sentences.

Before we go any further, lets look at how these jails got so full to begin with.  Approximately 48% of prison populations in the US are made up of burglars, murderers, rapists, and other violent offenders.  So what makes up the other 52% you ask?  Non-violent drug offenders!  That’s right, your government allows your tax dollars to pay for the incarceration of more non-violent drug offenders, many sentenced under mandatory minimum sentences, than it does violent criminals.  In fact, many violent criminals are released on parole early to make room for the non-violent offenders under mandatory minimum sentences.

Going further, lets look at the drug “crimes” themselves.  Many are prescription pill offences.  The government allows the drug manufacturers to produce enough pills to allow the known problem of abuse to continue and increase.  The drug manufacturers gladly produce mass quantities of pills such as Oxycontin and others, knowing full well that the majority of them will end up on the black market, and they don’t care.  Doctors then write the prescriptions because of incentives given by these manufacturers.  The effect of this policy of turning a blind eye is that the government is effectually producing addicts.  When the addicts then get out of control, they wind up in the for-profit prison system.

About half of the people incarcerated for non-violent drug crimes are in for simple marijuana possession, but sentenced to ridiculously long terms because of mandatory minimum sentencing.   Our government has always used marijuana users as scapegoats for their policy abuses.  Hundreds of millions of dollars a year are poured into fighting a weed.  That is why law enforcement is mostly against ending prohibition.  They fear the loss of revenue, for they too, are for-profit.

It is time we stand up and let this government know that we are no longer sleeping through their deception.  We have awakened and will no longer tolerate them stripping our personal liberties.  We are united together against the tyranny of the prohibition machine that creates addicts only to punish them for being what they were conditioned to be. This is the New Revolution, ladies and gentlemen, and we can no longer afford to be silent.  The weapon of this revolution is the voice we are given.  It is time we use it.  For more information on what you can do, write to me.

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Rev Mike

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