5:35 pm
1/27/08
Living Room

I'm watching a documentary on the National Geographic Channel, about prison. As i watch more and more, i can't help but wonder. I wonder if the Government tries to overcrowd prisons. The Correctional industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, employing everyone from Correctional Officers, to the contractors that build the facilities. Would it be that far out to think that the government may possibly be allowing drugs to flow through our borders, so poor minorities get arrested by the DEA( a massive governmental agency, which employs thousands), and sent to already over crowded prisons? Now why would the government possibly want to overcrowd the prisons? To build more of course! They hire private contractors to build the prisons, or maybe they aren't so private(think Dick Cheney, and Halliburton...why are we in Iraq again?). After the Prison is built, hundreds of people are needed to run it. It's kinda scary, because as I've been writing this, I've been wondering if my computer will be monitored, because of what I've said. Which is totally legal, thanks to the USA Patriot Act. If I was to be monitored, it would be totally legal(not constitutional, funny how those are two different things) for me(or any of you) to be labeled an "Enemy Combatant" and sent to Guantanamo Bay, and be incarcerated for any amount of time, without anyone knowing where I am. This is all due to the Military Commission Act. If you don't believe me i suggest you read The End of America, by Naomi Wolf. Sooo if i happen to go missing, you know where I may be.