Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Land of the Free?

Add this to the shame that comes with torture, readers.

"Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’"

"The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.

Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American prison sentences.

The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation.... (If you count only adults, one in 100 Americans is locked up.)....

“Far from serving as a model for the world, contemporary America is viewed with horror,” James Q. Whitman, a specialist in comparative law at Yale, wrote last year in Social Research...."

This will be the only article I will be posting from the MSM web sites.

Readers, I am so disgusted with the pro-Zionist bias, the hypocrisy, and the agenda-pushing that I don't even want to criticize them today (and I sure as hell won't be purchasing them).

I'll check the blogs later.