Oranges vs. Greens

There’s nothing I despise more than a liar, snitch or fake-ass bitch. A lot of these inmates run around claiming, “Thug Life” while eating our some deputies asshole. They’d do anything for 50¢ a day and an extra tray of food. If you want to work for the cops and be a trustee, then f**k you, too!

Why am I so pissed? Because half of ya’ll don’t belong here! Have you heard of “realignment”? As of October 1, 2011, only violent criminals go upstate to prison. Everyone else stays in county jail. So county jails are now overcrowded with inmates sleeping on the floor. But most people in county jail aren’t even criminals and don’t belong here. They’re here on some bullshit charges and belong in a program.

We could make realignment happen at the county level by shutting this bitch down. If inmates refused to be trustees, cook, clean and do laundry – the county would have two options. One, the county could hire outside help to do all the work of the trustees but the county is already $80 million over budget and can’t afford that. So, their only other option would be to let most of us out. Would they do that? They’d have no choice. 80% of county inmates would be sent into programs. But when I brought this up, I was told I was too hardcore. Imagine that, too hardcore for jail! Shit, f you want me to water it down, open your mouth ‘cuz I’ve got to take a piss, bitch.

They wanted me to have the protest on the outs, so I did. From inside my jail cell I organized “Occupy Temecula/Riverside City Hall for November 24th to December 1st but these inmates still haven’t grown any balls. So, from now on, whenever you see an inmate in county jail greens, he better be sporting a black eye and a fat lip ‘cause if you work for the deputies, you’ll catch a fade and quick. Don’t trip bitches, if you’re in greens, you’d better hand them in and ask for orange or you’ll be leaving county with a fat lip.

Su Riverside, CA

I’m writing in response to the article “County Oks Charging Jail Fee”, dated November 9, 2011 about a new law being passed by Riverside County politicians. The county is over $80 million in debt and politicians want to charge inmates $142.42 per day for incarceration. Riverside County inmates are organizing a shut down of the jail system in response to this new law. Inmates are planning a peaceful strike in which inmates will refuse to be trustees and trustees will refuse to work, i.e. cook, clean, etc. By law inmates must be fed so this will force the county to hire outside help and authorize overtime for deputies.

The citizens of Riverside County are also organizing an “Occupy Riverside City Hall” in response to overspending by county politicians. Interested parties can join these protests at:
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Where Do You Draw The Line?

Where do you draw the line? First the City Council overspends the people’s money and Riverside County is now $80 million over budget. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Councilman, Jeff Stone (R), Temecula CA, writes and the Riverside City Council approves a bill to charge inmates in County Jail $142.42 per day, or $996.94 per week, to be incarcerated. Since most citizens do not make this much while working, how does the city council expect anyone to pay this amount while sitting in jail?

Oddly enough, as quoted in the Californian article, “County Oks Charging Jail Fee”, dated November 9, 2011, City Council members agree most inmates will not be able to pay this amount and are concerned this bill will cost taxpayers more than is collected. Most voters see through politicians like Jeff Stone who aren’t really trying to save taxpayers or county money but are wasting it with unworkable laws.

The worst part is that a simple solution does exist. Courts have the choice to sentence inmates to programs such as work release, house arrest, drug classes, anger management classes, etc., that are paid for by the inmates as opposed to jail time. This would reduce overcrowding and save the county $142.42 per day per inmate.

Politicians like Jeff Stone, who overspend the people’s money and then use their office for publicity stunts to make a name for themselves in order to run for higher office, should be charged with dereliction of duty and negligence of their sworn duties and remanded to jail where they should serve out the remainder of their term in office.

Letter To The Editor

In response to “Governor’s tax plan could face big hurdle” by Dan Walters.

California’s governor is trying to raise everyone’s taxes to pay for “re-alignment”. What is re-alignment? California was sued by the Federal Government and the ACLU over severe overcrowding. Re=alignment took effect October 1, 2011. Only criminals convicted of violent offenses will be sent to prison from now on. Everyone else will be serving their sentence in county jails. County jails that weren’t already overcrowded are now. Bunks are full and inmates are forced to sleep on the floor. America currently locks up more of its own citizens than any other country on the planet including Russia, South Africa and China combined.

Revolving door incarceration is a total failure and has not changed crime rates or solved America’s crime problem. Governor Brown wans to raise everyone’s taxes to pay for re-alignment. This is not a solution.

Re-alignment needs to trickle down to the county level. 80% of county inmates could be moved into programs such as house arrest, work release, drug classes, anger management classes, etc. paid for by the accused criminal as opposed to being paid for by the taxpayer.

Politicians who preach “get tough on crime”, while allowing the deterioration of our schools, need to be run out of office. Judges who can’t see the forest for the trees should be voted off the bench. D.A.s who think their job is to lock away as many people as possible for the longest amount of time should be run out of town.

Christopher Rice

Extreme Civil Disobedience 2012

Politicians are raising tuition fees on students and want to raise taxes on everyone. California is facing a projected budget shortfall of over 2 billion dollars. Governor Jerry Brown has proposed raising sales tax due t prison overcrowding.

Raising your taxes will NOT solve this problem. In 2010, corporate giant GE made hundreds of millions of dollars but paid almost NO taxes. If GE, B of A, Wells Fargo and other corporations and banks paid their FAIR SHARE, there would be no federal, state or county deficits/shortfalls. Instead, the government would have a surplus like they used to. Roads, dams, schools, hospitals, prisons, jails, etc. would not be in disrepair or overcrowded. The government would have the money they need and would not be looking for ways to raise taxes, cut social security, cut social programs or raise tuition fees. We already pay more taxes than corporations, now they want us to pay more for less. Corporations spend millions of dollars buying off our politicians. Politicians are paid over $100,000.00 a year. That’s over three times the starting salary of police officers or schoolteachers. When politicians overspend the people’s money. They should be required by law to take a pay cut. This would guarantee a balanced budget. Voting has only served to ensure the continuation of one corrupt party or the other. Occupying parks is NOT an effective protest. SHUT IT DOWN! They won’t listen any other way. Join these local protests taking place.
1. Blu-flu/sick in: Deputies, prison guards and sheriffs are holding random “blu-flu”; call in sick protests across the state. Participating officers have pledged to uphold their oaths and disobey unconstitutional orders; will not pepper spray peaceful demonstrators.
2. Students at middle schools, high schools and colleges are organizing “WALK OUTS” across the state.
3. Occupy Wall Street will occupy City Halls and Superior Courts across the state to stop the real criminals and corruption.
4. Union members will refuse to pay more and accept less.
5. Inmates will refuse to be trustees and work for their own incarceration. Stop overcrowding – SHUT IT DOWN! America currently locks up more of its own citizens than any other country on the planet. This is unacceptable and will no longer be tolerated.
6. Work stoppages and work slow-downs are taking place across the state.

SHUT IT DOWN! They won’t listen any other way.

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Reality Is Not Real, Part II by Christopher Rice

I’ve lost my mind and can’t seem to find it anywhere. Your reality is a lie and this is making me crazy. I’m going to try explaining myself; not for your benefit, but because I feel it is the only way to keep from going entirely mad.

WARNING: Ignorance is bliss. For the sake of your own sanity I suggest you stop reading this NOW! This information I am about to write might make you go stark raving mad, as it is slowly doing to me.

What I’m referring to is “alternative realities”. This is when the whole world believes one thing but the opposite is true. (People used to believe the world was flat.)

Let me explain: as a young boy, I used to catch lizards and spiders and keep them as pets. Now that I’m an adult, I have moved to a desert city where everyone thinks they have been bit by a spider. Everyone living here has heard of the brown recluse spider and they blame it for any red bump they find. But the very name “recluse” means this spider likes to hide. It is nearly impossible to get bit by a spider. Most reported spider bites are “tweeker bumps” caused by methamphetamine or crystal meth. If you do have spiders in your house, it is because you have nasty insects that carry diseases and really do bite humans. Spiders only appear where there is a food. Spiders are not interested in you or your family. Even Black Widows, when confronted, will curl into a ball then run and hide. Spiders are safe to humans. Spiders eat the bugs that ravish and destroy our crops. It is next to impossible to get bit by a spider of any kind.

As I grew up, I caught larger things including toads and snakes. Another alternative reality – most snakes are NOT poisonous. Most snakes are harmless. Snakes eat man’s enemies – rodents. Rodents get into our food supply and rodents carry diseases. And like spiders, you won’t find snakes unless there is a food supply. Yet, people fear and kill harmless snakes everyday. These alternative realities made me wonder if everyone was retarded. I’m not going to apologize. You are what you are and I cannot help that.

My next alternative reality was when I became a vegetarian/vegan. All of my life I was taught I must eat meat or I would turn green and surely die. I have not eaten any meat, chicken or fish in over 23 years. When I first quit eating meat, my wife thought I’d lost my mind and would surely die from a lack of protein. So she bought me lots of nuts and insisted I eat them daily to keep from certain death. We didn’t know any vegetarians and a well-meaning friend said I shouldn’t do this without a doctor’s supervision. Not only don’t the human body require meat in their diet but there nothing in meat that is good for you. As it turns out, eating meat is actually bad for your health because it clogs the arteries and causes heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, etc., etc.

The evidence supporting the superior health of vegetarians is undeniable. Google it. It is well documented yet we are constantly told we must have meat in our diets until you have a heart attack. Then your doctor gives you a list of foods to avoid with meat at the top of the list. This information is not a secret. None of it is new. It is as old as the hills. The superiority of a vegetarian diet was known and written about by the prophet, Daniel, over 2,000 years ago.

Milk is also bad for you. We are the only animal, mammal or otherwise on the planet, that consumes milk after being weaned. You can teach the habit to cats and dogs but you will never see a coyote or wolf run up to a goat or cow and get a drink. Yet their teeth and bones are just fine. Everything you know, everything you have been taught us a f**king lie, In countries that do not have cows, where milk consumption is unheard of (such as Japan), their teeth are just as good or better than ours. Milk actually leeches calcium from your bones. In countries where milk is unavailable, people do not suffer from osteoporosis. If milk was mandatory for humans, as I have been taught my whole life, then why are some of us lactose intolerant? Did God make a boo-boo?

I refuse to apologize for being bitter. As I said at the beginning, your lies and fake reality are causing me to feel like I’m going crazy. Anger is natural. Anger is a good thing. When someone wrongs you or lies to you, you should become indignant. Anger is a human defense mechanism.

Everyone preaches about a happy-go-lucky, turn the other cheek, Christ. I don’t get that. I read about a Christ who is angered by the moneychangers’ in His Father’s house. I hear Him pissed off at his own disciples when He had to constantly correct, reprove and explain everything. Everything I’ve been taught has been a G*d damn lie!

Every four years I watch everyone line up to vote in another rigged election. Some people even think wrestling is real! You must be deaf, dumb and blind. Are you for real? The C.I.A. has admitted to rigging elections in Italy, El Salvador, Guam, etc. If these countries that are not even the size of one of our states are that important, then how much more important is the election of the whole United States?

Why would the same corporations donate to both political parties and candidates? Because no matter who wins, they have been bought off before they even enter office. Are people really this stupid? I guess so because every four years they line up like trained seals doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Boxers take dives and baseball stars/heroes, like Pete Rose, shave points. If a sporting event is important enough to fix the outcome, then how much more important is the presidency of the United States or a Senate or Congressional seat where millions of dollars of trade agreements are signed everyday? Think! God gave you a brain. Use it!

As I got older, I took the time to read the Bible cover to cover. This created yet another alternative reality. Did you know that nowhere in the Old Testament does God offer or ever promise heaven to anyone? When God created man He gave only one commandment – do not eat from this one tree or you shall surely die. Why warn us about death if we simply go straight to heaven? God said nothing about a soul or a spirit that would return unto Him. God said, “from dust you came; to dust you shall return.”

When God comforted Cain, He did not say, “Guess who I bumped into in Heaven today.” No, God said in Genesis 4:10, “What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother crieth out to Me from the ground.” If God believed in an eye for an eye or in the death penalty instead of forgiveness, Cain would have died that very day. The truth is, Heaven was created for the angels and earth was created for man. Man was supposed to live in a garden paradise forever but we traded that in for this. Now we blame God every time someone dies or when anything goes wrong. What assholes!

A little over a year ago, I become a pimp and entered yet another alternative reality. I’ve worked as a pimp for almost a year and a half. I’ve had over 20 women working with me. I have never had to hit or slap anyone.

I used to chase tail just like every other man or like all the men I’ve ever known. Now tail chases me. People have suggested I quit pimping but pimping is not an occupation. It is knowledge. I have not learned how to unlearn things. Asking me to quit pimping is the same as telling me to forget what I already know.

As I’ve already stated, “ignorance is bliss.” Oddly enough, the less someone knows, the more they have to say. Dumb people will chew your ear off all day. The world is full of ignorance and ignorant people cannot give up meat or voting or watching rigged sporting events. Take a dive. You’re hopelessly addicted to lies. You are what is wrong with this planet, not God, not politics, not your wife or your children, but you. As long as you continue to accept fake realities and lies, life will suck for you and for everyone. We are overtaxed, diseased, overweight and undernourished. Constantly lied to and abused. Always wondering how things got so bad. Welcome to my reality. Now go back to sleep, my sheeple. You do not want to believe.

Like God, I’ve come to the conclusion, or the realization, there are not 10 good people in any given city worth saving. I am not here to save you or the world. The One who was sent to save the world was tortured and crucified by people just like you. Do not expect me to follow in His footsteps.

The animals you choose to eat create tons and tons of waste (excrement, shit, poo) every day and there is no sewer system to treat the waste. This waste creates greenhouse gases that cause global warming, which you have been told, is not real. If it is real, you’ve been told there is nothing you can do about it. So, next time you eat that double cheeseburger, remember how many lies you have to swallow.

Reality Is Not Real, Part I By Chris Rice

I’m reading “An Outline of History” by H.G. Wells and came to an historical account of Jesus’ life. As I read the account of Peter who denied knowing Jesus three times, I realized why my friends had turned their backs on me. First, I am not comparing myself to Jesus. I am saying that if Jesus could not rely on his friends/disciples in his time of need, then how crazy that I should expect more from my friends. If this is the treatment the Son of God received, someone far better than myself could not count on anyone, how can I expect my friends to stick by me?

Everyone seems to live by the motto it’s better to protect one’s own scalp than to stick one’s neck out. Better to run and hide then to stand up and be counted. My friends, like Peter, worry that just knowing me threatens their own freedom and wellbeing. For most men, when they come upon a burning building, will not run inside to see if they can save someone from certain death but, instead, will stand around and watch it burn.

When I was with my girlfriends and younger, better-looking men would hit on them my girls would laugh. It would confuse me and I’d ask them why they stayed? Their answers that I was a different breed or that those men were boys and I was a real man only confused me even more – until now.

Now I see that when a wolf comes to snatch a sheep from the herd, a boy will run; flee and hide hoping only the wolf won’t snatch him up as well. It is only a real man who will stay and risk his own life to protect his flock. A real man will risk putting his own body between his sheep and the wolf until the danger has passed.

I do not take any comfort in this knowledge though, because it means every time a danger rears its ugly head, the only thing I can count on is that my friends will run and hide. Being different doesn’t help me. This knowledge doesn’t comfort me. It only assures me it will always be this way. It only serves to confirm my distrust in my fellow man. There is no solace or comfort to learn there is not something wrong with me but something wrong with everyone else.

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I’m On Strike/Shut It Down by Christopher Rice

Riverside County Politicians just passed a law that will charge inmates $142.42 a day/$996.94 a week for their own incarceration. You will now have to pay to be in hail. Someone suggested rioting to stop this law. Rioting will not change the law. It would only put us all on lockdown. There is a way to stop this law and to change the jail system forever.

If you work for the police as a cook or in laundry or whatever, you are paid 50¢ per day, $3.50 a week – slave labor wages. If every trustee refused to work and every inmate refused to be a trustee, we could shut the whole jail system down in a matter of days!

By law, they have to feed us. By law, they have to clothe us. By law, they have to give us two hours of day room per day. If inmates refused to cook, clean, etc. there is not enough deputies to cook for all of the inmates. The county CANNOT afford to hire outside help to do all of the jobs trustees do.

For this work, it would require all of us. It would not work if only D pod went on strike. Every inmate in every dorm would have to agree. Just like this new law passed unanimously, we must all agree to go on strike. If they get one pod to work or if they can bus in inmates from Banning or Robert Presley, this will not work. We must agree and then every Rep in every dorm must enforce this strike.

The deputies will threaten us. They will threaten to take away our day room. But, by law, they have to let us out 2 hours per day. They will threaten to stop feeding us but by law, they have to feed us three times per day. They will also threaten to take away our visits and our good time/work time credits making us serve our whole sentence. This is a bluff because if they don’t have enough deputies to feed us now, how will they keep us longer?

We will shut the whole system down in a matter of days. They will be forced to rescind this law or start releasing us.

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Sex: Two Extremes by Christopher Rice

Died a Virgin:
1. Sir Isaac Newton (English Scientist 1642-1727)
2. Immanuel Kant (German Philosopher 1724-1804
3. John Ruskin (English writer 1819-1900) On his wedding night, he was shocked into sexual abstinence for the remainder of his life by the sight of his wife’s pubic hair. He became an obsessive masturbator – “a suicide committed daily,” he called it. Sexual repression drove him mad. He kept a dairy of his sex dreams.
4. Adolf Hitler (German leader 1889-1945), it was thought he had only one testicle. He loved pornographic films and books. At a Christmas party, a woman kissed him under the mistletoe and he literally shook with rage. Despite his last-minute marriage to Eva Braun, many authorities believe he died a virgin.

Busiest Lovers:
1. King Solomon (c. 973-933 B.C.) The son of David and Bath-Sheba became the third king of Israel and reigned some 40 years, during which time, he enjoyed 700 wives and, from 60 to 300 mistresses. His women were both Israel and foreign born. They were among the most beautiful in all of antiquity. Although polygamy was the matrimonial standard of the time, later, rabbis claimed Solomon’s single son was proof of punishment by God for Solomon’s violation of monogamy.
2. Cleopatra (Egyptian ruler 69-30 B.C.) Though some modern scholars say she was no great beauty, Cleopatra was among the most alluring women of all time and was well versed in the art of lovemaking. From the time she took her first lover at the age of 12, the Queen of the Nile used sex for power as well as for pleasure. It is said she erected a small temple where she kept scores of young male lovers who were fed drugs to increase their lust. It was with these slaves she practiced erotic secrets she had learned from courtesans in a bordello in Alexandria. Allegedly she could take on 100 men in a single night.
3. Queen Zingua (Angolan early 17th Century) was an admitted nymphomaniac rivaled only by the legendary Amazons who were said to make sex slaves of male captives. The Queen, who kept a large harem of males, enjoyed arranging battles to the death between warriors then going to bed with the winner. Her sex life continued until she converted to Catholicism at the age of 77.
4. Giovanni Giacomo Casanova (Italian 1725-1798), according to his own voluminous memoirs, seduced thousands of women; only 116 of them are actually named in published records. Life for the Italian adventurer was a continual search for new pleasures and his name equals Don Juan’s as a synonym for a promiscuous womanizer. Casanova’s specialty was seducing his friends’ wives and daughters, often two at a time.
5. Catherine the Great (Russian ruler 1729-1796), sexually insatiable empress of Russia, advocated sexual relations six times a day. She had 21 official lovers, although her final total would exceed 80. An avid voyeur as well as an insomniac, Catherine claimed sex was the best sleeping pill. Rogerson, her physician, and Mme. Protas, her procurer, examined and tried out all male prospects before approving them for the empress.
6. Marquis de Sade (French 1740-1814) was the man who gave us the word sadism. He lived a life of scandalous debauchery marked by habitual infidelity and sexual perversions. Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade (he encouraged people to call him “Marquis”) was a handsome little Frenchman and a “fanatic of vice.” He was involved in the notorious Rosa Keller affair, in which he tortured a Parisian prostitute, and was tried in absentia and sentenced to death for his part in the Marseilles scandal – an orgy in which he was accused of sodomy, torture and poisoning participants with chocolate covered bonbons. Eventually reprieved by the King, de Sade authored numerous novels and plays, including 100 Days of Sodom, in which he described 600 variations of the sex instinct. In 1803, he was committed to an insane asylum at Charenton where he died 11 years later.
7. Mlle. Dubois (French actress c. 1770) – a chronicler of the day wrote, “her greed for gold was equal to her greed for pleasure. ”She once made a catalog of her lovers over a 20 year period. The final tally was 16,527 individuals – three per day.
8. Frank Harris (author and editor 1854-1931) – his first job at ge ten consisted of selling dirty postcards and, later, he invented a card game called “Dirty Banshee” in which the cards depicted satyrs and goddesses engaged in sexual acts. Harris’ book, My Life and Loves, was banned for 40 years in the US and England though it sold for a long time in Parisian bookstores for $100.00 and more. He also worked as editor for England’s Saturday Review magazine.
9. Mata Hari (Dutch dancer 1876-1917) was probably the most notorious suspected spy since Delilah and the most accomplished mistress since La Pompadour. Mata Hari (born Margarete Zelle in Holland) was believed to work as a spy for the Germans while posing as an exotic dancer in Paris. Her lovers included Jules Cambron, chief of the French Ministry, the crown prince of Germany, the Dutch prime minister and the Duke of Brunswick. When she was convicted of spying, at least half dozen former lovers hatched absurd plans to save her from the French firing squad that eventually took her life. She refused both blindfold and being tied to a stake and looked the squad straight in the eye when she was shot. Later evidence absolved her of spying.

Should Inmates Pay To Be In Jail? by Christopher Rice

Maybe you’ve seen in the papers where Riverside County is proposing to charge inmates for their own incarceration. The reason for this is they are facing an $80 million budget shortfall. I’m going to spend the next couple of minutes going over some reasons and some solutions. The one thing I’m not most sure of is the solutions requiring you to do nothing, you’ll like the most and the ones requiring some sacrifice on your part, you will like the least.

The first and most obvious solution though would be to tell Riverside County politicians to stop overspending. One of the reasons for the shortfall though has nothing to do with jails or criminals. It is the economy, stupid. When the bubble burst on the housing market, California was hit hardest. Falling property values and massive foreclosures have caused lost revenues in property tax collection and the recession has caused a loss in sales tax collection, also.

The next problem was started in the 198-s. Ronald Reagan’s “Get Tough on Crime” has been a complete and utter failure. America now locks up more of its own citizens than Russia, China and South Africa combined! Crime rates, however, have not changed much across the board. Federal mandatory sentencing laws have only served to tie judges’ hands behind their backs and to eliminate any hopes of rehabilitation. Calling judges “liberal” and “soft on crime” has created a frenzied competition to see who can lock up the most people for the longest amount of time.

Brave men and women die every day on the battlefield protecting our rights. But our rights have been usurped. If you can not afford bail, you are presumed guilty and must prove your innocence from inside of a cage with no decent representation and no access to legal books or a law library. Why not eliminate outrageous bail amounts that only serve to enrich bail bondsmen and replace it with a GPS ankle bracelet paid for by the suspects to monitor them while they go through trial. Riverside complains of a $142.00 dollar cost to house and feed inmates. The ankle bracelet alone would save the county millions of dollars while ensuring the rights our fathers fought and died for are not trampled on.

Another obvious problem is California’s three-strike law. While, in theory, this is a great idea, in practice, it has locked away citizens for shoplifting a slice of pizza! Strikes should not be handed out like candy at Halloween. The original intent by voters was to lock away violent criminals. Das have used the three-strike law to further their own careers. Voters need to go back to the voting booth and amend this law to its original intent. A criminal who has committed three individual violent crimes should face 25 to life. Strikes should not be handed out for non-violent crimes or to non-violent criminals.

California, as of October 1, 2011, is facing re-alignment due to massive overcrowding in California prisons. Most citizens are probably unaware California uses privately owned prisons run by corporations or that California ships inmates out of state to be housed in other state’s prisons or that re-alignment was caused by California being sued by the Federal government for its serious overcrowding issue.

Re-alignment means that non-violent criminals will now be housed in county jail as opposed to being sent to prison. The simplest solution would be to re-evaluate what constitutes a jail-able offense. California jails are still mostly filled by drug offenders. Stop criminalizing individual choice and refocus our limited resources on crimes that endanger the welfare of society.

When understaffed police forces are tasked with controlling individuals’ behavior as opposed to preventing violent and deviant acts, our streets are turned into the wild, wild west! Every 45 seconds someone, somewhere in America is locked up for simple marijuana possession. It is time to stop treating drug users as criminals. The drug war is a complete and utter failure. The drug war has cost us billions of dollars since being started by Nixon ove 40 year ago. Today, drugs are more prevalent and better quality than ever before. Don’t believe the hype. Drug laws do not prevent anyone from doing drugs.

For every dollar spent on prevention, eight dollars are saved in the budget. Yet our politicians continue to cut school funding and college grants while increasing our dwindling resources on incarceration. Instead of building more prisons, we should be building more schools. Instead of locking up children for 25 to life, we should be sending them to college.

Teaching young men trades and providing jobs destroys the cycle of gangs and jails. Helping young families cope with their new responsibilities cuts down the number of divorces and out-of-wedlock pregnancies insuring a healthy family unit for children to grow in. These are much more realistic solutions than charging inmates to be in jail. It’s time to get rid of politicians who think more jails is a solution.

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