GEO Group Wikipedia Page Controversy Erased After Football Stadium Naming Deal

I thought the idea of the penal code and system were to have the criminal repay their debt to society and re-amend their social contracts and moral standing. I find the for profit prisons system rob society of their repayment and rightful repentance of the criminal. In turn diminishes the "criminal" to property of the state to be sold as a commodity to the market(is this sounding familiar?). Now we have outsourced and privatized criminal deterrence to the highest bidder because we were afraid of a big government and big brother. The two have nothing to do with the other, but we were told that they were one and the same One has been bought by the other, diminished returns on revenue create desperate decisions. Private interests write our laws, execute our public services, finance our politics (a candidate needs corporate sponsors, like NASCAR, to run the track), and define our lifestyles. That's cool, but there is a consequence to this and a prison company (that sounds so moronic and fascist) naming a university stadium is nothing but a consequence of immediacy, side effect of free-market capitalism.
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GEO Group Wikipedia Page Controversy Erased After Football Stadium Naming Deal

Hunger Games much?



I wonder how long before there is a collapse in immigration to western nations. I think it's a real possibility considering that once word gets out that Private companies are making money by incarceration and forced labor, many without so much as a joint in the pocket. What happens when the Corp. doesn't please the stock holders? Or when Wall Street is discontent with it's performance? Or your Pension/401k company needs to replenish your funds by buying stock in this company or others like? Or your state runs our of money to incarcerate? What happens when there is another economic crisis or collapse(an there will be and always man made)? What's happens when there is a high level of dissidence in politics like the 30's, 60's and the 70's? What if? Are we comfortable to know that the United States government has outsourced your repayment (punishment) to society to a for-profit entity? Are we comfortable with their possible lobby in our politics?
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Florida Atlantic Football Stadium Will Be Named For Private Prison Company

Why is this a surprise? It's like being surprise to find a sex worker buying condoms. This is par for the course. Remember the phrase corporate america? The United States is is ruled by free market capitalists. We were lied into wars, founded and funded by slavery, genocide, and war profiteering. Fooled you all that government is the problem- when the government is "of, by and for the people"- you're the government.You're the problem, they're saying. So now the government is privatizing everything, outsourcing our legislature, presidency, and soon our judicial system. No longer with there be the law of the land, it will be law of Wall Street and corporate interest (if not already).

Think I'm a looney toon conspiracy theorist- there will college kids watching their teams play in a corporate prison sponsored stadium. God bless unabashed capitalism!
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Mars One Astronaut-Selection Criteria Revealed In Advance Of 2022 Mission To Red Planet

Get me off this rock! I would love to be the a facilitator in the course for the trip. If I can't go, I want to help others go.
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Rick Santelli Loses It Over The 'Fiscal Cliff' Live On CNBC (VIDEO)

IMHO, JUMP! Don't walk, don't skip, jump! If we are to go over the cliff, do it right. I can get by hand washing my clothes. I've lived with out luxury and amenities before and I can do it again I am not afraid, just stop BSing the public please. We'll see you on the other side. We need to learn our lesson. As for Rick, he is the father of the Tea Party. That says it all.
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Joe Scarborough Destroys Rep. Tim Huelskamp: 'We Can't Even Talk About [Gun Control] Without You ... Insulting Me Personally? (VIDEO)

As an American abroad, this and the fiscal cliff is truly embarassing. I have to explain this to people here constantly and it makes my head hurt.
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Antonin Scalia Defends Legal Writings Some View As Offensive, Anti-Gay

OK Scalia the document is inaminate. Yet the document does not give the government the right to discriminate against one particular group BASED on religious views. The basic genesis, the reason for the constitution's existance was, is or has been to separate and delagate power for the citizenry to participate and regulate. If one group is pigeonholed not to participate in the process of its govenring for no other reason than perceived perversion of person, than you have begun to violate the very basis of the constitution as a whole.

Scalia you have the right to have a personally prinicipaled view but that right stops at my liberty to see, feed, and care for my loved ones, despite your disregard for it's morality. Yet you stand there on your hind legs allowing Gitmo to stand open, PRIVATE interest decide elections, and ignore the plight of the public in which you judicate. Keep your personal stance off the stand and judicate with the morality that you profess.
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Syria Chemical Weapons Readied For Use: Sarin Loaded Into Aerial Bombs Despite International Warnings

Hi Dick Gregory fan here... he has a philosophy that is now a street saying, and I am pretty sure you have heard it before... one can not turn a whore into a housewife (excuse the sexism). The point... the traits and characters of westen nations are obvious and apparent. Western countries have not changed their character let alone their behaviour. It is up to us to trap that beast and observe it for what it really is.
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Cheating Statistics: HuffPost/YouGov Poll Reveals Who Cheats More

I think we should be mature enough to realize that 'marriage' and coupling is not the same as it was before. We are living longer, there is less need to have a dozen children, and we recognize that sexuality goes way beyond the bedroom. Artists, politician, businessmen, and devout religious persons may have more stimulating relationship with their passion than with their partner- but that is not cheating. We all cheat constantly when we have a best friend. That best friend shares something more 'intimate' that can never be challenge or replaced by a social construct no matter how strict we make laws. Relationships need to have an augmented and evolved perception to define 'cheating'.



Another thing, then I'll shut up....

A mentality of propriety (I don't know if that is a correct use of the word) over our partner should stop. We do NOT own our partner. That idea needs to end. She or He is not mine, yours, or theirs. We do not own life, we rent it. Memories we own and sometimes lose, but sentient beings are not property. I think that would be the first step.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Faces Backlash For Threatening Public Workers With National Guard

Why is this no the issue?



"The governor himself claims that Wisconsin can save $165 million by the end of next June simply by restructur­ing existing debt. Additional­ly, the share of corporate tax revenue funding the state government has fallen by half since 1981 and, according to Wisconsin Department of Revenue, two-thirds of corporatio­ns pay no taxes."



It's absurd on it's face. 2/3 of corporatio­ns pay NO TAXES. The proponents of the bill are saying the Wisconsin people 'subsidize the corporate interest not the not YOUR government employees'­.



It just makes my head hurt.
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