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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Leroy N. Soetoro"  wrote in message   
   news:lnsB2918F365A2F36F089P2473@0.0.0.2...   
   > https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/02/anti-slavery-amendment-2/   
   >   
   > California's Legislative Black Caucus and the Reparations Task Force   
   > continue their fight to scrape away at the last vestiges of legalized   
   > slavery remaining within the state constitution.   
   >   
   > Assemblymember Lori Wilson, a Democrat from Suisun City, this month   
   > introduced a new constitutional amendment aimed at abolishing the everyday   
   > de facto slavery practices that persist inside California prisons.   
   >   
   > Last November, a similar attempt - Proposition 6, failed at the ballot box   
   > despite not having any formal opposition. With 47% of California voters in   
   > favor of removing language from the state constitution that allows prison   
   > administrators to force incarcerated individuals to work under threat of   
   > disciplinary consequences, Wilson and a league of co-authors and sponsors   
   > hope to get the revised version back in front of voters in 2026.   
   >   
   > "We're doing this again and going back because we felt like it was a moral   
   > obligation and a righteous thing to do," said Wilson.   
   >   
   > The text of the new amendment would focus more narrowly on the word   
   > "slavery," avoiding references to "discipline" against prisoners and to   
   > "involuntary servitude." Backers of the amendment believe that language   
   > left many potential Prop. 6 supporters confused.   
      
   No, I think the part they understood quite well was "except as punishment   
   for a crime."   
      
   I think most people believe criminals should be punished and if doing work   
   will help reduce the public's cost to punish wrong doers.. so much the   
   better.   
      
   If people don't want to be subject to such, they simply have to OBEY THE   
   LAW.   
      
   Prison should be hard, prison should be uncomfortable, prison should require   
   you to work to support your incarceration.   
      
   In short, you should hate being in prison and the more you hate it, the less   
   likely you are to commit crimes that will send you there.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)