What the hell is going on in this country?!?!

Corporations are running many Americans prisons, but will they put profits before prisoners?
A grim new statistic: One in every hundred Americans is now locked behind bars. As the prison population grows   more...faster than the government can build prisons, private companies see an opportunity for profit.
This week, NOW on PBS investigates the government's trend to outsource prisons and prisoners to the private sector. Critics accuse private prisons of standing in the way of sentencing reform and sacrificing public safety to maximize profits.
"The notion that a corporation making a profit off this practice is more important to us than public safety or the human rights of prisoners is outrageous," Judy Greene, a criminal policy analyst, tells NOW on PBS.
Companies like Corrections Corporation of America say they're doing their part to solve the problem of inmate overflow and a shortage of beds without sacrificing safety.
"You don't cut corners to where it's going to be a safety, security or health issue," Richard Smelser, warden of the Crowley Correctional Facility in Colorado tells NOW. The prison is run by Corrections Corporation, which had revenues of over $1.4 billion last year.
The Crowley prison made headlines back in 2004 after a major prison riot caused overwhelmed staff to run away from the facility. Outside law enforcement had to come in to put down the uprising.
"The problems that were identified in the wake of the riot are typical of the private prison industry and happen over and over again," Green tells NOW.
This week NOW travels to Colorado, where the controversy over private prisons is boiling over. The hot question: should incarceration be incorporated?  less

President Obama has completely swung from the rule of law in a speech where he emphasized the rule of law. This is a real danger to everyone! Our Constitution, the very document the president has sworn   more...to defend (U.S. Const. Art. V, Sec 3), does NOT allow for such unlawful detentions to prevent future-crime. It is IMPERATIVE that all of you contact your State congressman & representatives to OPPOSE this upcoming legislation - don't ASK them to oppose it; TELL them. Remember, they are supposed to represent YOU, so speak up!
If such legislation is passed anyone who opposes the government can/will be labeled an extremist/terrorist (government officials use these nondescript terms interchangeably) and can/will be imprisoned without an indictment, without charges, without a trial, without a sentence; basically without any due process at all.
An Unconstitutional Act is not law; it confers no rights: it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.
- Norton vs. Shelby County 118 US 425 p.442
It is well settled that, quite apart from the guarantee of equal protection, if a law impinges upon a fundamental right explicitly or implicitly secured by the Constitution it is presumptively unconstitutional. Harris V. McRae, 448 US 297 (1980) (USSC+)
Anything repugnant to the Constitution is null and void.
-Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury V. Madison,1Cr.137
"On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
--Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823. ME 15:449
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument."
— John Marshall: Opinion as Chief Justice in Marbury vs. Madison, 1802
"[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid."
— Alexander Hamilton  less

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I haven't made a vid in a while so I promised Stromrider I'd put out a fear tag vid. I'm not tagging anyone as this tag has probably run its course now.