From: ghost_of_morphy@killfile.com   
      
   On 17 Nov 2003 03:13:36 GMT, stewartconnor@aol.com (Stewart Connor)   
   wrote:   
      
   >You are all ignoring the elephant in the room.   
   >The jack-booted thugs who cause and or allow the crimes against prisoners   
   >tohappen, from the petty guard hiding behind the blue-wall(but plain as day to   
   >anyone listening to the truth) to the highest offices of the government:   
      
   I will grant you that this is very bad.  Your alternative of letting   
   those who prey on other prisoners free to prey on the general   
   populationin your  "just society" is hardly a solution, however.   
      
     these   
   >are all criminals...Why does anyone continue to adhere to the artificial   
   >distinction between those whom the "courts" have put in prison and those whom   
   >the "courts" seem too scared to touch.   
      
   <>  Only a fool would believe that the courts always make a just   
   and righteous conviction.  Considering the number of felons who are   
   being freed due to the newer DNA tests alone is proof that they are   
   not always right.  But where is the better alternative?   
      
   >How can one believe in a system where the number one reason for the   
   populations   
   >of prison is victimless crime.  The drug laws themselves are criminal, just as   
   >a revealing fact to name one example.   
      
   Time to educate Stewie again.  The number one reason for prison   
   populations is NOT victimless crime.  The statistics for my state   
   break down the inmate population as follows:   
      
   40% --  property crimes   
   33% -- violent crimes   
   14% --  drug possession   
   13% --  drug sale and manufacture   
      
   Even if you combine both drug categories and claim that they are all   
   victimless crimes, victimless crimes run a distant third behind   
   property crimes and violent crimes, both of which have victims.   
      
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