We do have a prison industrial complex that is killing us and has to go. There are far too many “crimes” created by our metastasized governments.
However, on the other end of the issue, we need to end “life imprisonment” with a swift death penalty for ALL violent and perverse sexual felonies. Murderers, rapists and molesters need to be hung or shot within weeks not years of conviction.
Addressing both ends of the issue would help get things done politically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis#Anarcho-tyranny Sam Francis wrote: What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through "sensitivity training" and multiculturalist curricula, "hate crime" laws, gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally, and a vast labyrinth of other measures. In a word, anarcho-tyranny.
And he also wrote: The laws that are enforced are either those that extend or entrench the power of the state and its allies and internal elites ... or else they are the laws that directly punish those recalcitrant and "pathological" elements in society who insist on behaving according to traditional norms people who do not like to pay taxes, wear seat belts, or deliver their children to the mind-bending therapists who run the public schools; or the people who own and keep firearms, display or even wear the Confederate flag, put up Christmas trees, spank their children, and quote the Constitution or the Bible not to mention dissident political figures who actually run for office and try to do something about mass immigration by Third World populations.
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It's about scaring you, the peasant, into supporting the always-expanding Police State.
If they killed off the scary ones, how could they scare you any more?