As I was sitting in typical Southern California traffic I was listening to the news and the story was that was being covered made me spit out my latte out of laughter. It was in regards to the grades the nations can give other nations regarding humanitarian acts. Apparently, the US got a “needs an improvement” or essentially a D in needing to improve our humanitarian efforts in the department of prisoner treatment (they did not elaborate, but I assume it is GITMO they are referring to).
Now, this is where the funny comes in to this. . . our grading peer were the likes of Libya, Iran and Venezuela.
Getting a grade from the likes of those countries that kill, rape, mutilate the female gender, on their own citizens, including children, would be the equivalent of Ted Bundy coming to me and telling me that I need to get my house in order.
The US does have some bad apples in the military prison system, heck we have bad apples in the public prison system and even society. But getting “schooled’ by the likes of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, and Wacky Qaddafi is not only laughable, but outrageous that it was even taken seriously.
A Piece of the Pie Hole 
We have 1.4 million people incarcerated here. Much more than even China. At least half are in for non violent drug offense. I seems to me we make people felons with this ridiculous war on drugs to create employment for several million employees in criminal justice “industry” And officials make no bones about calling it an industry. If we have a war on drugs and are in Afghanistan why aren’t we napalming the poppy fields ?70% of world’s opium (think heroin and morphine) comes from there. Seems like we want some to get here so we can keep the prisons full. In Miami the police allow several dope holes to operate so they can arrest several hundred “clients” each Friday and Saturday night for the jails and related bureaucracy of hoops the arrestees must navigate to raise revenue for criminal justice industry. If we have a war on drugs why don’t they close the dope holes? On the other hand if we involve ourselves in humanitarian efforts like in Libya we engage in costly nation building which involves war and American lives. If we don’t intercede we are accused of allowing suffering. What do we do?
I am sure that was a headline that Fox News probably took and ran with….
Don’t know about that, but I heard it on public radio. Oreilly did not report on it 🙂
LMAO! For real? Are you serious? I would have spit my damn latte out of my nose. No joke, I’ve done it before!
Ouch now that would hurt