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X: Zohran Mamdani on abolishing prisons and jail: "What purpose do they serve, besides making people feel good?"
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Posted on 07/17/2025 3:52:55 PM PDT by TigerClaws

End Wokeness @EndWokeness Zohran Mamdani on abolishing prisons and jail: "What purpose do they serve, besides making people feel good?"


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: abolishprisons; capitalpunishment; deport; itsthemarxismstupid; jihad; moslem; nomamdani
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To: TigerClaws

Too dumb to breathe.


21 posted on 07/17/2025 4:36:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TigerClaws

He’s not the first.

The AOC and other points were that too many persons of color are arrested and incarcerated, which means innocent people are being jammed into prisons. Decarceration of current inmates, restoring their full voting rights and reduction and elimination of some current prisons were all topics for AOC.

2019 (six years ago)


AOC Calls Immigration Prisons “Concentration Camps”
Headline Jun 19, 2019

New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has come under fire for comments made in an Instagram video Monday, in which she called immigrant prisons “concentration camps.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on prison abolition: ‘explore just alternatives to incarceration’

by Alexandra Arriaga
October 7th, 2019
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AOC Is Talking About Prison Abolition. Will She Take Action?
Up until now, no politician would be caught dead defending abolition.

By James Kilgore
Published October 8, 2019
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22 posted on 07/17/2025 4:40:05 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: TigerClaws

Mamdani is Insane


23 posted on 07/17/2025 4:41:31 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: TigerClaws

Yep, cut off a hand or feet anf........ Just like the Muslims do. Then prisons won’t be needEd.


24 posted on 07/17/2025 4:55:58 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: toddausauras

I think so, too, if the three stooges get it together and decide which two are going to to drop out


25 posted on 07/17/2025 5:00:13 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

Let’s have Mamdani spend a day or two in one of those jails and see if he feels the same way afterward.


26 posted on 07/17/2025 5:17:05 PM PDT by princess leah ( )
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To: TigerClaws

There are five reasons for prisons: Punishment, Rehabilitation, Deterrent, Public Protection, and Retribution.


27 posted on 07/17/2025 5:39:46 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: TigerClaws

Okay then. Instead of prison, let’s institute punishments for different crimes. Murder means a public hanging within 14 days from the date of conviction. A conviction for rape results in being castrated. If it is a minor, then immediate hanging.

For theft, the punishment is the dominant hand being amputated. Home invasion results in a hand and foot both being removed. A first DUI means 30 days without a driver’s license, but a second DUI removes driving privileges for life. Any 3rd felony results in a public hanging.

I can get more creative if need be.


28 posted on 07/17/2025 6:26:28 PM PDT by CFW
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To: TigerClaws

Maybe they will lock him up in one and he will enjoy it immensely.


29 posted on 07/17/2025 6:59:31 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: BenLurkin

“Serious question: Does he do drugs?”

No. Just goats.


30 posted on 07/17/2025 7:00:58 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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31 posted on 07/17/2025 7:16:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: Beowulf9

He is being stupid! Isn’t he aware that prison is great place for Muslim converts.


32 posted on 07/17/2025 8:03:10 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: eastforker

I like the way you think.

No prison, so let’s just kill the people we’re pretty sure are baddies. Sure, we might get a few wrong. What do they call that in war? Collateral damage.

The good news is we won’t be sent to prison!

Form some vigilante groups... What, that’s ILLEGAL. So what, they’re not sending anyone to prison so who the F cares!?!


33 posted on 07/17/2025 9:02:49 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: TigerClaws

Twit should read some history. Comrade Stalin just loved prisons and jails.


34 posted on 07/17/2025 9:41:02 PM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Texas Eagle

They protect the general public from people who would harm them through repeat offending.

There’s also the issue of justice.


35 posted on 07/17/2025 9:48:07 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: eastforker
If they were to abolish prisons and jail for everyone, I could have one hell of a time taking care of business. I mean think about it, the good upstanding people in this country, without the threat of being arrested or doing jail or prison time, could clean the vermin from this land.

BINGO!

The argument could be made that prisons were originally designed to protect the incarcerated from the righteous anger of the general populace.

Regards,

36 posted on 07/17/2025 11:55:10 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: waterhill

I VOTE FOR #2


37 posted on 07/18/2025 9:43:25 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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