Reply #4: Excuse me but... [View All]

[cherokeeprogressive]

There is a wide disparity in the numbers you quote, to be true. ONE reason for the disparity just MIGHT be that in countries like China, Russia, and Belarus (the latter two which you left in a paragraph above rather than to list separately like the rest; for what reason I can only spectulate on) you are much more likely to be EXECUTED upon convicton of a crime for which you might only be "incarcerated" for in the United States.

One example I might point to would be the way Malaysia (and a whole lotta other countries) EXECUTES those involved in the drug trade. Another might be the fact that China doesn't consider its "re-education" camps (de rigueur in communist countries)to be prisons. And, don't quote me on this, but I think that in Nigeria, the gendarmes can just shoot you summarily.

I first came to this site after being clued-in to it by a friend who posts here regularly. I came because of a deep-seated dislike for anything conservative, republican, or authoritarian. That, and I fucking HATE George W. Chimperor.

Lately though, I'm becoming very dissilusioned. Some who post here, in an effort to make a point, will use any purported fact in an effort to make the country look bad. I posit that it's not the COUNTRY, but the GOVERNMENT (this one and every one who followed the Truman administration) who is the culprit.

You can tell by my post count that I pick and choose my posts very carefully. Still though, that doesn't stop people here from stating out loud (as it were) that "we've been freeped" in response to my posts.

To those I say: Big Tent My Ass. I love this country. I served it. I gave blood for it and still bear the scars.

I guess maybe I'm not "progessive" enough for this place afterall?