Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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We just wrote few lines on how the businesses of oil and arms are strong components of the American aggressive foreign policies. And in a previous article we determined that the insecurity of our airports was caused by the profit motivation of our security firms in hiring low paid baggage and passenger screeners. We also found out that one social cause of the insecurity of our airports was the highest incarceration rate affecting the pool of people from which the screeners are hired. Now, we have president George Bush
telling the world to wage a war against the Evil-doers and he
describes the war in Afghanistan as between the forces of
civilization against the barbarians, and this reminds me of the
Roman Empire and its wars against the Anglo-Saxon barbarians.
Now as I reflect on the fact that America has the highest
incarceration rate of any other country in the civilized world I
realize that America is a country divided between the Do-gooders and
the Evil-doers.
So we have lots of Evil-doers in Texas and in America. And now with the push for the privatization of the prison system and smaller governments we are going to have the innovative business for the Do-gooders to incarcerate more people and thus create more profits and more Evil-doers. References A Violent World and Today's Capitalism: US Airport Security, Social Inequalities and Shared Capitalism, by Mario deSantis, October 19, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_400/desantis460/sharedcapitalism.html US Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm Rate of growth of U.S. prison population slows, CNN, August 10, 2000 http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/08/09/prison.population/ Population Estimates for July 1, 1999 http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/county/co-99-1/99C1_48.txt UK: Prison rates are second highest, The Times, February 23, 2000 http://www.ukcia.org/news/2000/news/st2842.htm Our communities are not for sale, Institute for Policy Studies http://www.ufenet.org/Privatization/OCANFS.pdf |
So
we have president George Bush who has the civilized interests in the
oil and arms business and then we have his declared war against the
barbarian Evil-doers. It appears to me that president Bush applies
the strategic Roman philosophy of divide and conquer, the coalition
of Do-gooders on one side, the barbarian Evil-doers on the other
side, and the war of policing power to win over the barbarian
Evil-doers. 
And
strangely enough I notice that president Bush's state of Texas,
besides experiencing the highest number of capital punishments of
any other states with 35 deaths in 1999, has also the highest number
of prison inmates at 163,190 in 1999. Texas had a population of
20,044,141 in 1999 and therefore it experienced in this same year
814 inmates per 100,000 residents or one inmate per 123 residents.
As a comparison, in 1998, England experienced the second highest
incarceration rate in Western Europe at 126 inmates per 100,000
people or one inmate per 794 residents.