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On Sun, 30 May M. Mucsuss Robles <mucsuss@pacbell.net> wrote:
"THE ENTERPRISE"
There's an 'ENTERPRISE' in the United States, actually it's in California,
and I am not talking about a new Star Trek movie, sitcom or an elaborate theme park attraction. I am talking about the enterprise
of an industrial complex that is costing the taxpayers of California millions of dollars when each "city-within-a-city" is
erected ... "State Prisons", it's growth is never-ending.
Yes Prisons have become and enterprise and it is profitable.
State prisons have become so profitable that a large number of corporations such as: Goldman Sachs
& Co., Prudential Insurance, Smith-Barney Shearson Corp., and
Merrill Lynch have
been investing. These entities, (among others) underwrite prison construction bonds, then you have companies like
Westinghouse Electric, Minnesota Mining, Alliant Techsytems adapting and selling their technology
to fight crime. People need to wake-up and realize that the existing prisons system is a big business and the largest commodity
are people.
California leads the nation in imprisonment, spending more than $4 billion dollars annually to operate
the nation's largest prison system. Prisons do not profit the tax-payer, prisons are only profitable to those companies mentioned
above and to the prisons themselves. The whole purpose of prisons these days is to isolate, exploit, and eliminate, and Caifornia
seems to be doing that by any means necessary.
Under the disguise of the "WAR ON DRUGS", the government has initiated
and implemented legal policies and enacted laws through legislative acts of congress, ergo, the "ENTERPRISE" continues to
grow at an alarming rate by over-crowding the already over-crowded existing prison system with
frivolous and asinine laws
such as the Three-Strikes and You're Out Law.
Does anybody really know the true meanining of the term, WAR ON DRUGS?
The WAR ON Drugs, to me, means that the United States Consitiution, in times of "WAR", is defunct, null and void.
There
was a time in legal history, in California, when a person could prove that his/her constitutional rights were violated and
justice would demand that he/she receive redress. But it is not like that any more, history has changed to his-story, and
justice has changed to just-us, and now a constitutional violation is not enough. There are so many technicalities and loopholes
involved in that law that's virtually impossible to receive justice and this, in itself, serves to feed the ever-growing ENTERPRISE
of
the prison industrial complex.
That's what laws like the Three-Strikes and You're Out Law is doing in California
-- destroying, distorting, and disregarding the true meaning of the United States Consititution. Those of you who are victims
of this law know exactly what I am talking about. Now the Governor wants to build another prison in Delano, Calfiornia ...
he is submitting his approval for $300 million-plus dollars for this prison to be built ... the ENTERPRISE is
still growing
like some huge beast and the prisoners are in the belly.
Myself, I believe that if we are to be successful in having
our voices heard, if we are ever going to be successful in overcoming obstacles that we are constantly confronted with, we
must continue to form united fronts and establish bases of support so that we can not only support each other, but also plan
how best to have our voices heard and how best to fight for the restoration of justice and expose these bad laws that seem
only to profit those in power.
I challenge anyone who reads this article to get involved in or with the prison struggle,
there are too many human-beings in prison that need drug rehabilitation, not a life sentence. Drug addiction can be treated
-- it has been proven that it is a disease.
If you do nothing else at least pass this web page on to everyone you feel comfortable in doing so.
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