🚀 go-pugleaf

minimum sentencing and the profitable War on
#   Drugs (due to a 1978 Federal forfeiture law), the United States has
#   become the unchallenged world leader in incarceration rates.
#   
#   We are so far ahead of every other nation we can be rest assured of
#   remaining No. 1 for many years.
#   
#   What kind of society are we hoping to create by this policy of wholesale
#   incarceration? What will these millions of branded people, most of them
#   unskilled, uneducated, and brutalized by imprisonment, be prepared to do
#   when they emerge after many years?


This section is also about abusing citizens to control targeted individuals.
Examples are scattered throughout. Here come some now...


*   "1984", author George Orwell, 1949, ISBN 0-679-41739-7
*   
*   Something crashed onto the bed behind Winston's back. The head of a
*   ladder had been thrust through the window and had burst the frame.
*   Someone was climbing through the window. There was a stampede of
*   boots up the stairs.
*   
*   The room was full of solid men in black uniforms, with iron-shod
*   boots on their feet and truncheons in their hands.
*
*   There was another crash. Someone had picked up the glass paperweight
*   from the table and smashed it to pieces on the hearth-stone.

:   On May 23, 1994, the BATF and the IRS "searched" the Lamplugh home.
:   All firearms were drawn. An M-P5 machine gun was stuck in Harry's face.
:   They did not announce who they were or why they were there, and no search
:   warrants were displayed. "When I asked if they had a search warrant, their
:   first reply was 'shut the fuck up mother fucker; do you want more trouble
:   than you already have?', with the machine gun stuck in my face" Harry said.
:   "They then proceeded to tear my house apart."
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