Forum Post: U.S. to impose drug policy GLOBALLY
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 7, 2011, 3:59 p.m. EST by Mets
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The sad thing is that there is no mention of the Private Prison lobbies that undoubtedly had influence in passing this bill:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/us-drug-policy-war-congress_n_998993.html
One of the biggest problems in this country are private prisons lobbying for harsher sentences and more ways to punish people. Just the fact that Prisons operate as a profit generating company in this country is just plain wrong.
This issue NEEDS to get more press.
Agreed. Though I hope that after all the partisanship in Washington, it should be unlikely for a Democrat-controlled Senate to consider any Republican-sponsored bill from the House, let alone this one. But if passed - the courts and the First Amendment have always been the place where these censorship bills fail. Without them, the OWS website would long since have been banned.