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2016 Postmortem

tecelote

(5,122 posts) Sun Apr 19, 2015, 03:17 PM Apr 2015

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This statement makes me lose respect for a country I love.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world -- housing 25 percent of the globe's prisoners, but only 5 percent of the total world population.

It comes from this article:
Obama Signals Support For Changing Course In Federal War On Medical Marijuana

Land of the Free? What bullshit.

We are owned in so many ways.

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This statement makes me lose respect for a country I love. (Original Post) tecelote Apr 2015 OP

And the racial ratio makes it even worse. libdem4life Apr 2015 #1

And the poor. tecelote Apr 2015 #3

Isn't his nominee for AG against legalizing marijuana? And quite fond of civil forfeiture, djean111 Apr 2015 #2

Yeah - it's a big list. tecelote Apr 2015 #4

K&R nt Mnemosyne Apr 2015 #5

Home of the free, not so much dreamnightwind Apr 2015 #6

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)

1. And the racial ratio makes it even worse.

Reply to tecelote (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 03:19 PM

Apr 2015

tecelote

(5,122 posts)

3. And the poor.

Reply to libdem4life (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 03:37 PM

Apr 2015

Rich & White - Screw the breadbasket of the world. Rich white people deserve America more than we do.

djean111

(14,255 posts)

2. Isn't his nominee for AG against legalizing marijuana? And quite fond of civil forfeiture,

Reply to tecelote (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 03:23 PM

Apr 2015

by the way.
Bullshit is quite correct. Words, deeds, and so on.

tecelote

(5,122 posts)

4. Yeah - it's a big list.

Reply to djean111 (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 03:38 PM

Apr 2015

Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)

5. K&R nt

Reply to tecelote (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 04:29 PM

Apr 2015

dreamnightwind

(4,775 posts)

6. Home of the free, not so much

Reply to tecelote (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 04:39 PM

Apr 2015

Even worse, in some (many?) sates, felons never regain the right to vote, even after serving their time.

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