alt.politics.republicans

Breaking news, one of every one-hundred Americans is behind bars.

You want to know why we are number one in prison population? Because we
have a "justice" system that relies heavily on prison informers. Entire
cases are built up around a false witness, and no one is safe, including
a governor who belonged to the wrong political party.

Citizens are being locked up for "un-American" thoughts?
Yemeni clerk facing charges of assaulting his girlfriend "informs" on a
Hispanic Miami construction worker as an Islamic terrorist.
/news/feature/2008/03/

Alabaman governor was sentenced by testimony from an extortionist who
was bargaining for a lighter sentence on his own felony conviction.
/stories/2008/02/21/60minutes/

What does all sound like? It sounds like the period of reeducation by
the Khmer Rouge, where people were brought in, made to inform on others,
who were brought in and made to inform on others.

Well, that's bad, but does it reduce crime? Hell no! Crime in America is
bad compared to another America of 1963. That was an important year in
that it was the start of the counter-New Deal revolution by a shadow
government much like the shadow government of the Khmer Rouge. Our
society has become sick and divided by wealth disparity. It is a war
between the immensely wealthy with their paramilitary units .
police and justice department against the poor and a middleclass that is
under constant threat and is diminishing.