Aurelius on Nostr: There is an exceptional amount of money available to the government and the private ...
There is an exceptional amount of money available to the government and the private prison-industrial complex when the war on drugs is accepted by the public as legitimate.
The secret to power is to create fear, and the secret to making money off that fear is to convince us all that our taxes are best spent in the militarization against the “threat”.
Now we have more people per capita in prison than any country in the world. We privatize prisons under the guise of greater efficiency, and those corporations push the war on drugs and convince governors to be “hard on crime.” Then they average $76/day for every inmate.
Read Chris Hedges’ “Wages of Rebellion”
Read Alfred McCoy’s “The Politics of Heroin” to learn how the CIA encourages drug trade.
The secret to power is to create fear, and the secret to making money off that fear is to convince us all that our taxes are best spent in the militarization against the “threat”.
Now we have more people per capita in prison than any country in the world. We privatize prisons under the guise of greater efficiency, and those corporations push the war on drugs and convince governors to be “hard on crime.” Then they average $76/day for every inmate.
Read Chris Hedges’ “Wages of Rebellion”
Read Alfred McCoy’s “The Politics of Heroin” to learn how the CIA encourages drug trade.