Why do we bother spending all of our tax money letting them rot in jail? I say we put taht money to good use and build a new colliseum and make them fight to the death, at least we'll get some entertainment out of their sorry asses.
First, abandon fascism.
Second, free perpetrators of victimless crimes
Third, use that plan for crooked politicians.
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Anonymous2007-05-31 18:12 ID:z/V8Us02
Hmm, crooked politicians 'eh?
No wonder more and more people are voting less, they don't want these dickwads running the country.
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Anonymous2007-05-31 21:50 ID:TYQhduaF
>>3
Yes. We need overweight soul mothers to run the country, not harvard educated professionals. Just like the movies.
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Anonymous2007-05-31 22:25 ID:dn9t5ycC
As our society is built on liberty, prison as the deprivation of liberty is the obvious punishment. The self-evidence of the prison is also based on its role in transforming individuals. It corrects and reproduces the mechanisms found in the social body. Prison always covered both the deprivation of liberty and the technical transformation of individuals. The movement for prison reform is not a recent thing, and did not come from their failure. Prison has always been the focus of debate. It creates a form of illegality amongst others, which it isolates and organizes as the enclosed world of delinquency. Delinquency is not the most virulent illegality, but rather an effect of penality that makes it possible to supervise illegality. Prison has succeeded extremely well in producing delinquency, a politically and economically less dangerous form of illegality which can be isolated from other offenses. It is so successful that it has survived after 150 years of failures.
Why does prison create the delinquency that it is supposed to combat? There are certain advantages to delinquency: one) delinquency can be supervised because delinquents are a small group; two) it can be directed to other activities and separated from the main group; three) it may be useful in colonization projects; four) delinquents have political uses as informers.
But the organization of delinquency would be impossible without organized police surveillance. Through supervising delinquency, one can control the whole social field. Surveillance works only together with the prison, which creates an organization of delinquency. Prison and the police together create an enclosed world of delinquency. Each part of the system supports another. Unsuccessful attempts were made to separate delinquents from the lower classes. A polemic took place in the workers' press about crime and penality; nineteenth century anarchists attempted to disengage delinquency from bourgeois illegality and legality. They attempted to reestablish the political unity of popular illegalities.
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Anonymous2007-05-31 22:42 ID:PaEFRKGN
Hey, anonymous, way to rip off Foucault word for word there.
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Anonymous2007-05-31 23:59 ID:z/V8Us02
>>4
I didn't mean that, I meant we need more politicians that work for the better of the country and not their party/personal agendas and whatnot.
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Examples: Entire republican party.
Except for George W Bush, he never recovered from the lobotomy.
Really though, it's more about keeping test scores and GPAs high to make the university seem better than it is. This is why Ivy League schools suck, they're merely status symbols.