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I'm going to mention a few things here:
#1 Executive Order 12803, Signed by George H. W. Bush on April 30, 1992....
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(b) "Infrastructure asset" means any asset financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government and needed for the functioning of the economy. Examples of such assets include, but are not limited to: roads, tunnels, bridges, electricity supply facilities, mass transit, rail transportation, airports, ports, waterways, water supply facilities, recycling and wastewater treatment facilities, solid waste disposal facilities, housing, schools, prisons, and hospitals.
#2 The Privatization of our prison systems...
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What has happened over the last 10 years? Why are there so many prisoners?
The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off prisoners work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce. The system feeds itself, says a study by the Progressive Labor Party, which accuses the prison industry of being an imitation of Nazi Germany with respect to forced slave labor and concentration camps.
#3 The Privatization of our police forces... 2007
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In conclusion, an example of how to start your own private police force with all the same rights as government public servants:
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Youlen, a former Manassas Police officer and private detective, started his own police force, the Manassas Housing Police Authority, in Manassas just over a year ago.
Through the agency, he is equipped with arresting powers, black unmarked cars, a private dispatch service and the ability to call for mutual assistance from neighboring law enforcement.
The police authority is an independent agency given the same powers by the Virginia Circuit Court as any traditional law enforcement agency, he said.
"The very notion is new to Northern Virginia, but it is not new to Virginia," Youlen said. "We have a very proud history of private police departments in Virginia."
What's really going on in Ferguson, I wonder? Since apparently, anyone can start a police force now-a-days... How about we all start our own and weed out corruption... Use this bogus ability to act as private cops to do better in the world...
ALSO, what stops a private prison system owner from also creating a private police force? That creates huge crimes against humanity and leaves the door wide open to exploit human lives for money in an even more direct approach than people previously imagined... Grrrr
CrispyQ
(36,112 posts)TheVisitor
(173 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Fuck Saint Reagan for starting this trend.
Fla Dem
(23,242 posts)services. So the citizenry pays for it just the same. Will probably end up costing more because private company execs pay themselves more than city officials and the municipality has no more control over their police force.
The Wizard
(12,467 posts)aka slavery.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)there is every incentive to harvest us for profit, exactly as they farm crops and animals.
TheVisitor
(173 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,540 posts)... their private prisons. It might already be happening.
What if a good, honest private police force is created to police the (public) police?
As the NRA might say ... is the only thing that stops a bad cop with a gun, a good cop with a gun?
rock
(13,218 posts)Welcome aboard CaptainTruth! Stay a while.