Another Ruppert snippet (priceless)

[Senior citizen]

"....the corrupt economy makes money by first selling drugs to people and then by putting them in prison for using drugs."

Crossing the Rubicon, p. 494


In addition to examining Wall Street and CIA (he says they are one and the same) dependence on drug money, Ruppert notes that we have more than two million people in prison, that more than 60% of them are non-violent drug offenders, and that many are employed "as virtual slave labor for multi-national corporations" via the profit-making "prison industries."

[DulceDecorum]

1. Slavery exists,

via the second part of the Thirteenth Ammendment.

[el_gato]

2. 13th. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

13th. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

[Senior citizen]

4. Yeah, and the power to not enforce, and not investigate,

and not impeach......

Must be hard work, all that not doing anything.

[Senior citizen]

3. And also the first part.

Methinks that exception's gotta go.

ABOLISH SLAVERY -- NO EXCEPTIONS!

[Solon]

5. Not only that...

but because of some outsourcing, much of our manufacturing is done by slave labor, particularly political prisoners in China.

[Sven77]

6. i think i heard alex jones

i think i heard alex jones say the bushes are mostly invested in not oil or weapons manufacture, but in prisons and security.

[Senior citizen]

7. 'twould be poetic justice if they end up in their own prisons. n/t