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Time to turn in my Green card
Submitted by Richard on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 3:12pm.I'm done.
As an ex-democrat I joined the Green Party with great expectations and felt I had finally found a party that I could believe in. The 10 Key Values of the Green Party and its platform convinced me to not only join, but reach out to other disaffected democrats to invite them to join as well.
But DAMN, Greens are every bit as loony as the democrats and run the party like children. How in the hell can anyone expect to take Greens seriously when they nominate candidates for president who haven't even said they want to be your presidential nominee? WTF is that about?
Technorati Tags: Slavery, the Prison/Industrial Complex, and American Hypocrisy
Submitted by Richard on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 7:52am.The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, but we incarcerate 25% of all the prisoners in the world. We leave China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and all the other nations we like to look down our noses at far in the dust. We not only lockup more of our citizens than all totalitarian nations, we even lockup more people than China which has more than 4 times the number of Americans, and India which has almost 4 times the number of Americans, and Iran COMBINED. The US not only leads in the numbers of prisoners but far outpace China when measured per capita.
