Justice Dept to End Private Prisons

[Spurminator]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/?postshare=9221471534255226&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.762de2d3c3c9

The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.

Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contracts for private prison operators when they expire or “substantially reduce” the contracts’ scope. The goal, Yates wrote, is “reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.”

“They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department’s Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security,” Yates wrote.

In an interview, Yates said there are 13 privately run privately run facilities in the Bureau of Prisons system, and they will not close overnight. Yates said the Justice Department would not terminate existing contracts but instead review those that come up for renewal. She said all the contracts would come up for renewal over the next five years.

The Justice Department’s inspector general last week released a critical report (https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/e1606.pdf#page=2)concluding that privately operated facilities incurred more safety and security incidents than those run by the federal Bureau of Prisons. The private facilities, for example, had higher rates of assaults — both by inmates on other inmates and by inmates on staff — and had eight times as many contraband cellphones confiscated each year on average, according to the report.

Disturbances in the facilities, the report said, led in recent years to “extensive property damage, bodily injury, and the death of a Correctional Officer.” The report listed several examples of mayhem at private facilities, including a May 2012 riot at the Adams County Correctional Center in Mississippi in which 20 people were injured and a correctional officer killed. That incident, according to the report, involved 250 inmates who were upset about low-quality food and medical care.

“The fact of the matter is that private prisons don’t compare favorably to Bureau of Prisons facilities in terms of safety or security or services, and now with the decline in the federal prison population, we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to do something about that,” Yates said.

The problems at private facilities were hardly a secret, and Yates said Justice Department and Bureau of Prisons officials had been talking for months about discontinuing their use. Mother Jones recently published a 35,000-word exposé detailing a reporter’s undercover work as a private prison guard in Louisiana — a piece (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer) that found serious deficiencies. The Nation magazine wrote earlier this year (https://www.thenation.com/article/privatized-immigrant-prison-deaths/) about deaths under questionable circumstances in privately operated facilities.

It is possible the directive could face resistance (https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/how-for-profit-prisons-have-become-the-biggest-lobby-no-one-is-talking-about/?utm_term=.336882831cf6) from those companies that will be affected. In response to the inspector general’s report, the contractors running the prisons noted that their inmate populations consist largely of noncitizens, presenting them with challenges that government-run facilities do not have.

Scott Marquardt, president of Management and Training Corporation, wrote that comparing Bureau of Prisons facilities to privately operated ones was “comparing apples and oranges.” He generally disputed the inspector general’s report.

“Any casual reader would come to the conclusion that contract prisons are not as safe as BOP prisons,” Marquardt wrote. “The conclusion is wrong and is not supported by the work done by the [Office of the Inspector General].”

Yates, though, noted that the Bureau of Prisons was “already taking steps” to make her order a reality. Three weeks ago, she wrote, the bureau declined to renew a contract for 1,200 beds at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico. According to a local TV station (http://www.koat.com/news/cibola-county-correctional-center-closing/41008448), the county sheriff said the facility’s closure would have a negative impact on the community.

Yates wrote that the bureau also would amend a solicitation for a 10,800-bed contract to one for a maximum 3,600-bed contract. That, Yates wrote, would allow the Bureau of Prisons over the next year to discontinue housing inmates in at least three private prisons, and by May 1, 2017, the total private prison population would stand at less than 14,200 inmates. She said it was “hard to know precisely” when all the privately run facilities would no longer have federal inmates, though she noted that 14,200 was less than half the inmates they held at their apex three years ago, a figure she said indicated the department was “well on our way to ultimately eliminating the use of private prisons entirely.”



“We have to be realistic about the time it will take, but that really depends on the continuing decline of the federal prison population, and that’s really hard to accurately predict,” Yates said.

According to the inspector general’s report, private prisons housed roughly 22,660 federal inmates as of December 2015. That represents about 12 percent of the Bureau of Prisons total inmate population, according to the report.

In her memo, Yates wrote that the Bureau of Prisons began contracting with privately run institutions about a decade ago in the wake of exploding prison populations, and by 2013, as the federal prison population reached its peak, nearly 30,000 inmates were housed in privately operated facilities. But in 2013, Yates wrote, the prison population began to decline because of efforts to adjust sentencing guidelines, sometimes retroactively, and to change the way low-level drug offenders are charged. She said the drop in federal inmates gave officials the opportunity to reevaluate the use of private prisons.

Yates wrote that private prisons “served an important role during a difficult time period,” but they had proven less effective than facilities run by the government. The contract prisons are operated by three private corporations, according to the inspector general’s report: Corrections Corporation of America, GEO Group and Management and Training Corporation.

The Bureau of Prisons spent $639 million on private prisons in fiscal year 2014, according to the report.

Yates said it was “really hard to determine whether private prisons are less expensive” and whether their closure would cause costs to go up, though she said officials did not anticipate having to hire additional Bureau of Prisons staff.

“Bottom line, I’d also say, you get what you pay for,” Yates said.

[Trill Clinton]

systematic racism/white supremacy just took a huge blow

[spurraider21]

Good

[ducks]

bad gov control post office
post office broke
federal gov broke
think private prisons would work better

[z0sa]

All private prisons need to be closed down.

[Will Hunting]

bad gov control post office
post office broke
federal gov broke
think private prisons would work better
Excellent analysis.

Keep doing god's work in reminding the world what the average Repubican voter is like.

[boutons_deux]

Private Prisons Are Far From Ended: 62 Percent of Immigrant Detainees Are in Privatized Jails


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37306-private-prisons-are-far-from-ended-62-percent-of-immigrant-detainees-are-in-privatized-jails

[TheSanityAnnex]

Private Prisons Are Far From Ended: 62 Percent of Immigrant Detainees Are in Privatized Jails


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37306-private-prisons-are-far-from-ended-62-percent-of-immigrant-detainees-are-in-privatized-jails

Deport them all and shut down the immigration detention centers, problem solved.

[ducks]

instead of letting them sit in jail make them build the wall!

[clambake]

nothing says stay out quite like a wall of corpses.

[CosmicCowboy]

That works. How about heads on spikes?

[clambake]

thats right.

no mixed message there.

[clambake]

put up a bunch of signs "would you like to be part of our new wall"

[RandomGuy]

systematic racism/white supremacy just took a huge blow

+1

Making money on imprisoning people is a moral abomination, IMO.

[RandomGuy]

bad gov control post office
post office broke
federal gov broke
think private prisons would work better

You realize the post office is privately run, right? (sighs)

[RandomGuy]

That works. How about heads on spikes?

Not quite the sentiment that built the greatest civilization in human history.

http://mentalartsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/statue-of-liberty-poem-copy2.jpg

[clambake]

yep......the french fucked us again.

[RandomGuy]

Excellent analysis.

Keep doing god's work in reminding the world what the average Repubican voter is like.

This election cycle has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Republican party cannot be trusted with governments.

The people of Kansas have found that out the hard way. Massive Republican policy failures are fucking expensive. 2tn+ Iraq blunder, Kansas in the toilet, etc, etc, etc.

The string of Republican policy failures was really obvious to many, but this cycle is hopefully waking people up to the moral and intellectual rot at the center of conservatism in this country.

[RandomGuy]

Not that conservative ideas are bad in and of themselves.

It is just that so many of the policy proscriptions that come out of them ignore evidence, morals, and basic human nature.

[boutons_deux]

You realize the post office is privately run, right? (sighs)

That's effectively UNTRUE, when Repugs force USPS into annual losses by dictating 75 years pension pre-funding in 10 years, AND blocking USPS from expanding into retail banking.

[boutons_deux]

Uncovering a $1 Billion Deal to Detain Unauthorized Immigrants

In his piece for the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/inside-the-administrations-1-billion-deal-to-detain-central-american-asylum-seekers/2016/08/14/e47f1960-5819-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html), reporter Chico Harlan sheds light on one of these secretive arrangements, detailing a $1 billion deal between the Obama Administration and Corrections Corporation of America, also known as CCA, the largest private prison company in the country.

Under the deal, CCA was responsible for building and maintaining a large immigrant detention facility for women and children in South Texas; in an unusual arrangement, CCA is guaranteed payment for being at capacity regardless of how full the facility actually is.

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/uncovering-a-1-billion-deal-to-detain-unauthorized-immigrants

[Winehole23]

good riddance to smelly garbage

[tlongII]

You realize the post office is privately run, right? (sighs)

Uh what?


The United States Postal Service (USPS), (also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service), is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.

The U.S. Mail traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, where Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general. The Post Office Department was created in 1792 from Franklin's operation, elevated to a cabinet-level department in 1872, and transformed in 1971 into the U.S. Postal Service as an agency of the U.S. government.

The USPS as of February 2015 has 617,254 active employees and operated 211,264 vehicles in 2014. The USPS is the operator of the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world.[2] The USPS is legally obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality. The USPS has exclusive access to letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail" and personal letterboxes in the United States, but still competes against private package delivery services, such as the United Parcel Service (UPS) and has part use with FedEx Express.[3]

The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters.[4] Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume,[5] after which Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act,[6] (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to fully prefund employee retirement health benefits, a requirement exceeding that of other government and private organizations [7]), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced[8] declining mail volume,[9] prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit.[10] The USPS lost $5.5 billion in fiscal year 2014 and $5.1 billion in 2015, and its revenue was $67.8 billion in 2014 and $68.9 billion in 2015

[spurraider21]

Making money on imprisoning people is a moral abomination, IMO.
i don't even care about that. the problem was that the conditions in private prisons were borderline inhumane

[spurraider21]

Earlier this week we dealt with the popular belief (http://postalnews.com/2015/05/07/postal-myths-it-would-take-a-constitutional-amendment-to-eliminate-or-privatize-the-postal-service/)that because the US Constitution mentions post offices, it would take a constitutional amendment to eliminate or privatize the USPS. Today we have the flip side of that myth- the belief that the US Postal Service isn’t part of the federal government. You see this in news stories often- FedSmith ran a column just a week ago (http://www.fedsmith.com/2015/04/29/air-traffic-controllers-propose-system-reform-put-us-in-charge/) referring to the USPS as a “quasi-governmental entity”, that had been privatized in 1971! The Gallup Organization, which was responsible for the poll we reported earlier today naming the USPS the best-liked government service, referred to “the quasi-governmental U.S. Postal Service” in an earlier poll report (http://www.bizreport.com/2015/04/poll-reveals-americans-attitudes-to-the-contents-of-their-ma.html). A recent story in the Atlantic claims that “Postal services were quasi-privatized in the US decades ago”. Just to make things interesting, the Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe once referred to the USPS as “a quasi-federal outfit” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111205939.html)– whatever that means!

Most of the quasi-confusion can be traced back to the 1971 Postal Reorganization Act, which eliminated the old Post Office Department, replacing it with the US Postal Service. The act was intended to make the USPS self-financing from its own revenues, and to make it an independent, non-political public service. Prior to the PRA, postmasters (including the postmaster general) were political appointees; rates were set by Congress, and the POD had to go through the appropriations process to get the money it needed to operate.

The PRA established a Board of Governors who were responsible for selecting the PMG and setting policies and budgets. It allowed the USPS to use its revenue to finance its operations without any appropriation process. It set up a separate commission to set postage rates.

What it didn’t do was privatize the postal service in any way, shape or form. Some in Congress, then as now, would have favored privatization. Consideration was also given to making the USPS a government owned corporation, like the TVA or Amtrak. But neither of those things happened. Here’s what the Act says:”The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States”. It also defines the USPS as “an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States”.

Being “independent” doesn’t make the USPS a “quasi-” anything- it simply means it is not part of one of the cabinet departments. Other “independent” agencies include the CIA and NASA.
In a footnote to its most recent report on postal finances, the Congressional Research Service, part of the Library of Congress, had this to say:


The USPS often is mischaracterized as a quasi governmental or private entity. It is neither. The USPS is a government agency that was created by Congress to achieve various public purposes. Federal law defines what products and services the Postal Service may offer. Additionally, the USPS’s employees are federal employees who participate in the Civil Service Retirement System, the Federal Employees Retirement System, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.


The Supreme Court has even weighed in on what being “independent” means for the USPS, inan opinion from 2004 (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/540/736/):


The PRA’s designation of the Postal Service as an “independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States,” 39 U. S. C. §201, is not consistent with the idea that the Postal Service is an entity existing outside the Government. Indeed, the designation indicates just the contrary. The PRA gives the Postal Service a high degree of independence from other Government offices, but it remains part of the Government.


That would seem to settle it, wouldn’t it?

http://postalnews.com/blog/2015/05/09/postal-myths-2-the-usps-is-not-a-government-agency/

[Spurminator]

So much for that.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-prisons-idUSKBN1622NN

Probably no coincidence they're also talking about enforcing the federal ban on marijuana even in states where it's legal.

[CosmicCowboy]

We have one right here in SA...the old Bexar County Jail is GEO. Thought they were going to demolish it next year. Maybe not now.

[Spurminator]

Jeff Sessions is a corporate prison puppet. Fuck this guy.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-issues-sweeping-new-criminal-charging-policy/2017/05/11/4752bd42-3697-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?utm_term=.e9390622c5c5

[Trill Clinton]

Smh

[Chucho]

Good. Shit is a deathblow hopefully to the biggest lynchpin of the DemoKKKrats 150 year systemic slavery of the black man. Billy Clinton died a little on the inside seeing the reason his 3-strikes scam was passed.

Any blow to slavery is a good thing. Now if we could focus on a Global slavery initiative and not allow companies that manufacture through slave labor to sell goods here in the US. But 'Muricans gotsa have their iPhones, Starbucks, Nike, et. al before they pretend to employ morals.

[Chucho]

Jeff Sessions is a corporate prison puppet. Fuck this guy.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-issues-sweeping-new-criminal-charging-policy/2017/05/11/4752bd42-3697-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?utm_term=.e9390622c5c5

He's just practicing law enforcement practices from the Clinton Big Book of Racism, circa 1996.

[Spurminator]

Good. Shit is a deathblow hopefully to the biggest lynchpin of the DemoKKKrats 150 year systemic slavery of the black man. Billy Clinton died a little on the inside seeing the reason his 3-strikes scam was passed.

Any blow to slavery is a good thing. Now if we could focus on a Global slavery initiative and not allow companies that manufacture through slave labor to sell goods here in the US. But 'Muricans gotsa have their iPhones, Starbucks, Nike, et. al before they pretend to employ morals.

The thread title is from August 2016 and a Democrat Justice Dept.

It has been reversed by the current Attorney General.

[Spurminator]

He's just practicing law enforcement practices from the Clinton Big Book of Racism, circa 1996.

Trump President not Bill Clinton.

[Chucho]

The thread title is from August 2016 and a Democrat Justice Dept.

It has been reversed by the current Attorney General.


Well then, sounds like the DemoKKKrats in charge can sleep a little better tonight knowing their life's mission of keep blacks in perpetual slavery is still intact.

Me ignorant. DemoKKKrats racist. Got it.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Good. Shit is a deathblow hopefully to the biggest lynchpin of the DemoKKKrats 150 year systemic slavery of the black man. Billy Clinton died a little on the inside seeing the reason his 3-strikes scam was passed.

Any blow to slavery is a good thing. Now if we could focus on a Global slavery initiative and not allow companies that manufacture through slave labor to sell goods here in the US. But 'Muricans gotsa have their iPhones, Starbucks, Nike, et. al before they pretend to employ morals.

This is stupid. Nixon famously courted Thurmond and the rest of the dixiecrats over to the GOP after the Civil Rights act. They took their gerrymandering and voter suppression tactics with them. Your attempt to change the narrative is ignorant as hell.

I don't know that there are any dems around here that support the Clintons outside of a head to head with a shitbag like Trump. The democratic electorate sure as hell did not come out to vote for her.

Meanwhile it was Newt Gingrich's house that conceived of the crime bill and Phil Gramm's senate that saw it to completion. GOP types are more than willing to stroke those two off to this day.

[Chucho]

Trump President not Bill Clinton.

Trump not racist. Clinton racist.

[Spurminator]

Trump not racist. Clinton racist.

Then I'm sure he will step in and reverse this racist Clintonian policy by his AG.

[Chucho]

This is stupid. Nixon famously courted Thurmond and the rest of the dixiecrats over to the GOP after the Civil Rights act. They took their gerrymandering and voter suppression tactics with them. Your attempt to change the narrative is ignorant as hell.

I don't know that there are any dems around here that support the Clintons outside of a head to head with a shitbag like Trump. The democratic electorate sure as hell did not come out to vote for her.

Meanwhile it was Newt Gingrich's house that conceived of the crime bill and Phil Gramm's senate that saw it to completion. GOP types are more than willing to stroke those two off to this day.


LOL. A whole lot of bloated language. Doesn't matter. A DemoKKKrat passed it. A DemoKKKrat DIDN'T FIX IT.

All that language won't change the end result.

[Chucho]

Then I'm sure he will step in and reverse this racist Clintonian policy by his AG.


Unlike people who refuse to step past their partisan lines, I will admit, the POTUS is a fucking idiot that is unqualified for the job. But he is still better than the DemoKKKrat alternative.

That said, I have no doubt he does little of his own decision making. So it's even worse considering Obama was soooooo close to getting this done and he didn't and he has 5x the political acumen than POTUS. Might have been too busy killing babies in Syria or wiping Aleppo off the map or some other crime against humanity...

[spurraider21]

Unlike people who refuse to step past their partisan lines, I will admit, the POTUS is a fucking idiot that is unqualified for the job. But he is still better than the DemoKKKrat alternative.

That said, I have no doubt he does little of his own decision making. So it's even worse considering Obama was soooooo close to getting this done and he didn't and he has 5x the political acumen than POTUS. Might have been too busy killing babies in Syria or wiping Aleppo off the map or some other crime against humanity...hey bro, you're clearly active and posting today. why have you been ducking my questions about christian persecution and nye contradicting himself?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

LOL. A whole lot of bloated language. Doesn't matter. A DemoKKKrat passed it. A DemoKKKrat DIDN'T FIX IT.

All that language won't change the end result.

I actually like that you mouthbreaters still fixate political energy on Clinton.

I'm satisfied to let my rebuttal stand as it was written.

:lol whining about language while you make up new words in attempt to change the narrative.

[D_Admiral]

This is stupid. Nixon famously courted Thurmond and the rest of the dixiecrats over to the GOP after the Civil Rights act. They took their gerrymandering and voter suppression tactics with them. Your attempt to change the narrative is ignorant as hell.

I don't know that there are any dems around here that support the Clintons outside of a head to head with a shitbag like Trump. The democratic electorate sure as hell did not come out to vote for her.

Meanwhile it was Newt Gingrich's house that conceived of the crime bill and Phil Gramm's senate that saw it to completion. GOP types are more than willing to stroke those two off to this day.

So all dixiecrats switched to republicans?

[Adam Lambert]

So all dixiecrats switched to republicans?

the ones who didnt are dead now so wtf is your point

[D_Admiral]

the ones who didnt are dead now so wtf is your point

only 2 dixiecrats switched from dixiecrats to republican out of 18

[boutons_deux]

So all dixiecrats switched to republicans?

ALL the rebel-flag-waving racist ones, aka Nixon/ailes/Atwater Southern Strategy

[D_Admiral]

ALL the rebel-flag-waving racist ones, aka Nixon/ailes/Atwater Southern Strategy

Are democrats racist? Nixon lost to racist george wallace in the deep south in 68

[D_Admiral]

* lost the deep south

The racist republican south as it has been called voted For bill clinton, were they racist then?

[boutons_deux]

Are democrats racist? Nixon lost to racist george wallace in the deep south in 68

welcome to the forum

goddam, you're stupid

[D_Admiral]

Great rebuttle, snitch

Do you support color-blind government policy?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

So all dixiecrats switched to republicans?

This is pretty ignorant. Starting with Goldwater, the GOP turned on its abolitionist roots. They started courting the Wallace voter pretty famously. They flipped positions on bussing and other civil rights that had previously been the purview of the southern democrats. Concurrently, minority caucuses began taking over the Democratic party at the county level.

The new Wallace democrat was now coming up through the GOP in southern constituencies particularly any urban constituencies.

Prima facie, calling the party that contains LULAC and the NAACP the KKK party is typical of 4chan types in their desire to steal the narrative but its ridiculous.


Nice new account though. You going to try to play this one straight now that your faux Mexican one went to shit?

[boutons_deux]

Great rebuttle, snitch

Do you support color-blind government policy?

Don't fuck with me, newboy, you'll end up in a bloody like the rest of the racist, misogynist, xenophobe Trash fellators here.

[TeyshaBlue]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/teyshablue/COMABro_zps91abc69d.gif (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/teyshablue/media/COMABro_zps91abc69d.gif.html)

[D_Admiral]

Im not a dupe lmao

[D_Admiral]

Youre a typical loon.

[D_Admiral]

This is pretty ignorant. Starting with Goldwater, the GOP turned on its abolitionist roots. They started courting the Wallace voter pretty famously. They flipped positions on bussing and other civil rights that had previously been the purview of the southern democrats. Concurrently, minority caucuses began taking over the Democratic party at the county level.

The new Wallace democrat was now coming up through the GOP in southern constituencies particularly any urban constituencies.

Prima facie, calling the party that contains LULAC and the NAACP the KKK party is typical of 4chan types in their desire to steal the narrative but its ridiculous.


Nice new account though. You going to try to play this one straight now that your faux Mexican one went to shit?

No, you're the one who is not allowed to rewrite history, standup for your national socialist roots you fascist coward

[D_Admiral]

Don't fuck with me, newboy, you'll end up in a bloody like the rest of the racist, misogynist, xenophobe Trash fellators here.

You sound like an unaccepting bigot, but thats to be expected from a racist

[FuzzyLumpkins]

No, you're the one who is not allowed to rewrite history, standup for your national socialist roots you fascist coward

The GOP's Southern Strategy is history, dim. Try actually addressing what I said instead of the mindless unfounded blanket dismissal.

:lol Calling me a Nazi.

[D_Admiral]

The GOP's Southern Strategy is history, dim. Try actually addressing what I said instead of the mindless unfounded blanket dismissal.

:lol Calling me a Nazi.
Blacks moved overwhelmingly to the democratic party in the 30s. Becaues of the beenfits of the new deal.

Which in itself causes opression. Made to keep people voting for benefits instead of increaased opportunity.

The switch wasnt about race its about economics

Most dixiecrat dems, remained democrats

Nixon win the south by winning the economic centers of the south

Nixon desegragaded southern school

Nixon was for the civil rights movement. (Hence Dr. Kings thank you letter to Nixon for his help passing civil rights)

Nixon increased civil rights budget by 800%

More blacks in federal offices, more small business loans to minorties, more blacks in college all under nixon

Goldwater voted for civil rights bills.

Goldwater integrated national gaurd in arizona, before truman integrated the military

Do you want to debate each parties history and see which party is predominantly supressing rights?

[boutons_deux]

Blacks moved overwhelmingly to the democratic party in the 30s. Becaues of the beenfits of the new deal.

Which in itself causes opression. Made to keep people voting for benefits instead of increaased opportunity.

This switch wasnt about race its about economics

goddam you're stoopid

[D_Admiral]

goddam you're stoopid

Okay so which part do you disgaere with

Historical revisionism is a bitch

You dont even have to look far back in history to see how dems divide a country.

The last 8 years we have been nore divided than at any other time in my life. I wonder who has been in power

[boutons_deux]

Okay so which part do you disgaere with

Historical revisionism is a bitch

The racist Dems in the Confederacy became racist Repugs in the late 60s, 70s, and were encouraged by racists like Nixon, Ailes, Atwater and all the Repugs. The Repug party is the party of racists, bigots, xenophobes.

The New Deal caused repression? G M A F B

You're totally, stupidly duped by racist right wing hate media, demagogues, etc, vomiting their talking points without any evidence.

[D_Admiral]

The racist Dems in the Confederacy became racist Repugs in the late 60s, 70s, and were encouraged by racists like Nixon, Ailes, Atwater and all the Repugs. The Repug party is the party of racists, bigots, xenophobes.

The New Deal caused repression? G M A F B

You're totally, stupidly duped by racist right wing hate media, demagogues, etc, vomiting their talking points without any evidence.

Nixon wasnt racist.

The new deal does oppress

Historical revisionism is a bitch


Typical bigot response

[boutons_deux]

Nixon wasnt racist.

The new deal does oppress

Historical revisionism is a bitch


Typical bigot response

Nixon was a racist, the Repugs are racists. Nixon ramped up the war on drugs SPECIFICALLY to go after knitters and war protestors, aka, criminalizing legitimate dissent.

[D_Admiral]

Nixon was a racist, the Repugs are racists. Nixon ramped up the war on drugs SPECIFICALLY to go after knitters and war protestors, aka, criminalizing legitimate dissent.

Clinton passed mandatory sentenicng

Clinton - "The Personal Responsibilites and Work Opportunity Reconcliation Act of 1996"

Far more incarcerstions of blacks under bill clinton than nixon, raegan or bush

[boutons_deux]

Clinton passed mandatory sentenicng

Clinton - "The Personal Responsibilites and Work Opportunity Reconcliation Act of 1996"

Far more incarcerstions of blacks under bill clinton than nixon, raegan or bush

Clinton didn't pass them, he signed them. Repugs wrote them.

Clinton was a disaster, signing 5 major long-time VRWC strategic objectives, eg throwing 100Ks off govt assistantance/"ending welfare as we know it", deregulating finance, militarizing the police, etc.

REPUGS/VRWC/BigCorp/MIC wrote the laws, Clinton signed them. Get your SHIT STRAIGHT (you won't, being duped by the right wing bullshit)

[D_Admiral]

Are you for color - blind government policy?

[Adam Lambert]

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[spurraider21]

Better late than never.

[unleashbaynes]

Isn't retard gonna fund more private prisons?

[Spurminator]

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[spurraider21]

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[Chucho]

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:tu Let's hope this actually happens.

[Adam Lambert]

It will happen, and it'll be reversed again once Republicans are in power and can once again cater to the prison lobby.

We can only hope a good portion of these awful people go bankrupt in the meantime.

[boutons_deux]

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The War on Drugs has been won, the Nixon, etc objective achieved: "Lock up the Blacks"