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   From: proto@panix.com   
      
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    Brother Nate  wrote:   
      
   > I don't want to take away any focus from the tragedy of the moment,   
   > but I'm definitely seeing a pattern:   
   >   
   > Financial regulators in bed with sub-prime speculators ==> market   
   > crash.   
   >   
   > MMS regulators in bed with oil companies ==> spill, baby, spill   
   >   
   > I'm sure someone has done investigative reporting on how interest   
   > groups like drug companies and prison operators are manipulating   
   > public policy so that we choke our jails with pot heads, but what   
   > I'm wondering now is how the drug policy crisis is going to play   
   > out when some innocent-looking straw finally breaks that camel's   
   > back.   
   >   
   > Much as I'd like to believe that we could shift towards a humane   
   > drug control policy without a defining crisis/scandal, at this point   
   > I just don't believe our leaders are smart enough to make any   
   > changes before the prison system collapses into bankruptcy.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Brother Nate   
   > bronate@gmail.com   
   > Moral Compass   
      
   It's the states that will collapse into bankruptcy, not the prison   
   industry, although the corporate run jail will follow. The Federal   
   system will not go broke while the US can print money, and still be a   
   reserve currency.   
      
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