A must-read by Peter Eichenberger:
How does it feel that North Carolina is becoming a center for profits amid the blatant and egregious blurring of law enforcement and corrections?With the great sucking sound, that of the vacuuming of personal information of law-abiding Americans emanating from DeeCee, I would enjoin all of you out there to study more carefully what your legislators are turning this place into--just another arm of the entity, the U.S. government, which has gotten us into more huge messes than I have time or interest in recounting.
With regards to corporations like GEO and Blackwater, like with tow-truck drivers or bondsmen, private enforcement means you lose your constitutional rights. Not only are there almost no legal limits to what they can do, but their procedures and policies are often kept from oversight for "proprietary" reasons. Vis the Wackenhut juvenile facility in Louisiana that saved money by not providing the inmates with clothing--you know, costs and all.
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There was a report on the BBC that said that the for profit prisons in Britan are more subject to corruption due to low wages and poor working conditions. I didn't follow it up, I think it was a reporter in the Guardian or Independent who went undercover for a number of months. It seems that the for profit prison was mostly run by the prisoners.
The only way to understand conservatives is by keeping your eyes on the money. Everything that has happened under the Republcans for the last six years has had looting the treasury as its primary motive. And on top of that they are borrowing and stealing as fast as they can. They are teenage thugs who have your car and credit card and they'r egoing to ruin you.
Posted by: olvlzl, jamais cool | April 21, 2007 9:23 PM
Hey, I've got a good idea. Let's put a complete copy of the whole Google database in some little town in North Carolina. None of those pesky California Constitution privacy rules will apply to data stored there.
Oh, wait ....
Posted by: Hank Roberts | April 21, 2007 9:43 PM