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To Punish and Enslave:U.S. Cops Declare Open Season on Kids
motherjones.com — Five-year-olds in handcuffs, eighth-graders detained for doodling: The prison boom comes to the schools. Fist fight on the playground? Call the SWAT team! Your kid got caught looking at Penthouse? Call the FBI! You kid smoked a joint behind the gym? Five years! Your son cussed under his breath? Sixty days in County lockup!
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- thecatcantalk, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3Of course, judges, sheriffs, and district attorneys are all ELECTED officials; and this is a good thing. It means they're a bunch of shallow, easily-manipulated whores, just like other politicians.
And THAT means that parents can get organized, and let their local sheriff, district attorney and police chief know that he (or they) will be kicked out of office by the voters if this kind of ***** doesn't stop immediately.
"We've become a two-tier society in which millions of ostensibly free people are prohibited from enjoying the rights and privileges accorded to everyone elseāand we continue to be defined by our desire for punishment and revenge, rather than by our belief in the power of redemption."
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