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ensho
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Fri May-13-11 09:07 AM Original message |
update on what our prison slaves are working on |
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YellowRubberDuckie
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Fri May-13-11 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
1. There is a skill we need our prisoners learning: |
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Mopar151
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Sat May-14-11 05:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
45. Weapons only in the abstract |
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The Magistrate
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Fri May-13-11 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
2. We Seem Determined, Ma'am, To Give The Twentieth Century Totalitarians a Run For Their Money.... |
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DBoon
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Fri May-13-11 09:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. the word is "gulag" |
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ensho
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Fri May-13-11 09:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. kick, when they were first published I read those gulag books and |
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RZM
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Fri May-13-11 12:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. Anybody comparing US prisons to the Soviet camp system has some reading to do |
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BOG PERSON
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Fri May-13-11 12:26 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. peak soviet incarceration rate and current US incarceration rate is the same |
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RZM
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Fri May-13-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Perhaps it is, though I don't think that justifies a strong comparison |
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readmoreoften
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Fri May-13-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. If you're black, it's exactly like this. Google videos from prison in Texas and tell me its not. |
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Hannah Bell
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Fri May-13-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. bullshit. |
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RZM
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Fri May-13-11 01:13 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. I can only think of two reasons somebody would make those types of comparisons |
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Hannah Bell
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Fri May-13-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. i can only think of two reasons somebody would deny that there are similar |
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RZM
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Fri May-13-11 01:21 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. You're not bringing much to the table here |
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Hannah Bell
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Fri May-13-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. neither are you. the similarities aren't superficial at all. |
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RZM
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Fri May-13-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. How about this |
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DBoon
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Sat May-14-11 10:54 AM Response to Reply #36 |
49. both systems are an assault on the rights of free labor |
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Rage for Order
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Sat May-14-11 11:29 AM Response to Reply #49 |
53. What should prisoners do all day, then? |
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Rage for Order
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Sat May-14-11 11:49 AM Response to Reply #36 |
55. Your comparison is invalid |
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DBoon
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Sat May-14-11 10:49 AM Response to Reply #19 |
48. The difference is in degree and not kind |
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Capitalocracy
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Sat May-14-11 04:44 AM Response to Reply #3 |
41. Which side actually won the Civil War? |
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formercia
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Fri May-13-11 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
4. Werner Von Braun would be proud. |
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ensho
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Fri May-13-11 09:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. and giggling all the way to the bank |
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hootinholler
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Fri May-13-11 12:03 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. While he certainly used prison labor... |
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formercia
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Fri May-13-11 12:12 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. No leads there. |
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coalition_unwilling
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Sat May-14-11 04:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
63. I think you may be confusing Albert Speer with von Braun, but |
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Brickbat
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Fri May-13-11 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
7. Prison labor is slave labor. |
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ck4829
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Fri May-13-11 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
8. So then where is all the money to the Pentagon going? |
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Recursion
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Fri May-13-11 10:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. To the other 99% of the components that aren't made using prison labor |
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Hannah Bell
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Fri May-13-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
27. defense contractors' profit margins. the slaves get $1/hr but the contractors get $500/hr. |
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mimitabby
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Fri May-13-11 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
10. I know a lifer, he earns 32 cents an hour |
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lynne
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Fri May-13-11 10:54 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. PLUS food, board and free medical care. - |
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Horse with no Name
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Fri May-13-11 11:00 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Yeah he is living the high life, eh? |
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lynne
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Fri May-13-11 11:07 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. You denying what I wrote was truthful? |
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Horse with no Name
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Fri May-13-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Yes. What you wrote was a RW talking point. |
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RZM
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Fri May-13-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. It's certainly not a sweet deal |
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Incitatus
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Fri May-13-11 12:25 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. There was an recent article about someone who ended up with a life sentence |
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RZM
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Fri May-13-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. I support decriminalization of all drugs, though I'd start with marijauna |
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Capitalocracy
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Sat May-14-11 04:52 AM Response to Reply #28 |
42. Sure, if you're in for life, it might be for a violent crime... |
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Hannah Bell
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Fri May-13-11 01:16 PM Response to Reply #14 |
31. yes, i deny what you wrote was truthful. |
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Capitalocracy
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Sat May-14-11 04:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
43. If it's such a sweet deal, give it a try. |
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Matariki
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Fri May-13-11 11:44 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Your post is sickening, you know. n/t |
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Horse with no Name
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Fri May-13-11 01:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
35. Has the same smack as this nugget: |
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Incitatus
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Fri May-13-11 12:23 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. You can easily join him if it sounds so sweet. nt |
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Obamanaut
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Fri May-13-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
33. Not free at all. You and I are paying for it. nt |
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Daphne08
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Sat May-14-11 04:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
40. Your post is disgusting! n/t |
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wickerwoman
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Sat May-14-11 05:24 AM Response to Reply #12 |
46. The point |
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DBoon
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Sat May-14-11 10:56 AM Response to Reply #12 |
50. It's not free - he is paying for it with his liberty |
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Zax2me
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Sat May-14-11 01:13 PM Response to Reply #50 |
59. Oh puke - he 'has given up the most precious' |
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Posteritatis
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Sat May-14-11 10:57 AM Response to Reply #12 |
51. What a staggeringly idiotic post. (nt) |
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RadiationTherapy
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Sat May-14-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
52. Room and board in a room with 30 other men. |
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Rage for Order
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Sat May-14-11 11:32 AM Response to Reply #12 |
54. + 1 |
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Matariki
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Sat May-14-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #54 |
58. And why, do tell, do private industries get to profit on that fact? |
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Zax2me
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Sat May-14-11 01:14 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. I don't know - free country? |
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Matariki
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Sat May-14-11 03:48 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. What in the world kind of answer is that? |
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Rage for Order
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Sat May-14-11 09:31 PM Response to Reply #58 |
64. Prisons should not be privatized |
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laureloak
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Sat May-14-11 10:06 PM Response to Reply #12 |
65. I used to think the same thing but now I know better. |
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Horse with no Name
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Fri May-13-11 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
11. Well...those sounds like jobs that unincarcerated Americans won't do |
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BOG PERSON
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Fri May-13-11 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
24. behold |
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Hannah Bell
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Fri May-13-11 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
26. oh good. more profit for prison corps & defense contractors. |
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frylock
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Fri May-13-11 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
38. the wonderful symbiosis of the MIC and the PIC |
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onethatcares
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Sat May-14-11 05:19 AM Response to Original message |
44. these are the same people that can't get a |
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Chris_Texas
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Sat May-14-11 05:41 AM Response to Reply #44 |
47. win |
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inna
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Sat May-14-11 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
56. what a SCARY fucking country. |
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Odin2005
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Sat May-14-11 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
57. Private prisons and prison slave labor MUST BE BANNED. |
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leftstreet
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Sat May-14-11 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
62. kick |
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