Friday, April 26, 2013

Quote of the Day: Legal prison rape editon

It's Popehat, which means it's on-target:
Every day young adults are arrested for possession of minor amounts of pot, sent to jail, and gang raped. On my best days I'll say that this doesn't happen because the politicians writing anti-drug laws are in favor of anal rape, or because beat cops are in favor of anal rape, or because wardens are in favor of anal rape or because prison staff are in favor of anal rape. They're all just normal human beings doing their jobs…as part of a huge and grotesque machine that arrests people for possessing leaves of a plant and puts them in rape factories.
J'accuse, baby.
Arguing that we shouldn't be outraged at government because "it's just us" is one of the worst lies we tell ourselves.

Frankenstein's monster was stitched together out of people like us. Nazi Germany was stitched together out of people like us. Mao's PRC was stitched together out of people like us.

And though it's not as bad, the US government is still pretty nasty, and it too is stitched together out of people like us.

There are a lot of reasons you're going to say I'm wrong. Most of them are covered here, but I'm interested in hearing any others.
 "It's just us" = "It's your fault".  Me, I don't think so.

3 comments:

Old NFO said...

Concur with all! All the quibbling in the world doesn't do any good when all of a sudden you have NO freedom left!

Anonymous said...

Stats on the rape claim?

Chris said...

How about this? http://www.hrw.org/news/2007/12/15/us-federal-statistics-show-widespread-prison-rape

Plus, I would posit that anal rape is at least as underreported as heterosexual rape.