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How many articles/essays has Ted Rall written about American prisons? Things like guards knowingly allowing sexual and physical assault (including murder)? I have never approved of jail vigilantism but it is well known in America (even if the full horror isn't). People are sentenced and they pay their punishment.

If jail vigilantism is permissible then we might as well forego the trial and just get a lynch mob.

Everyone has seen at least one movie, tv show, etc. where some newly convicted prisoner is told, "meet your new cellmate/husband". Guards knowlingly allow this abuse to occur. Where is the tv report about it? Where are the protests in the streets?

I've had a former guard here on FR complain to me when I said that some guards do use such action to control prisoners and to break their spirits (the guards don't rape, they let a prisoner do it). I responded with a number of articles that I quickly googled. I didn't hear a response and I won't bother to do it again on this thread. Sometimes the guards are brought up on charges, quite often authorities know it happens.

Even GG Liddy has discussed such abuses. When he was in prison, there was a man who was about a week from his release date. He got his throat slit while he slept. He was cut from ear to ear. I think it got ruled a suicide. Mr. Liddy said that there was little regard for an investigation.

And that is just America. If Rall really wants to vent he can do an expose on Mexican prisons. If he "really really" wants to vent he could have done exposes on the abuse of prisoners while Saddam was in power. CNN knew what was happening. Ted could have talked to some Baghdad bureau employee and promised annonymity.

He`s the typical whiny liberal hypocrite, which pretty much describes all liberals. It`s a mental disease caused by the refusal to grow up and face reality. The only reason he is drawing this stuff is because he`s one of the usual whiny ass mutts who don`t like who the President is. Like a little kid who doesn`t get what he wants, he stamps and stomps his feet waaaaah waaaah and he doesn`t care what the consequences are. If what he draws in his scrawl emboldens the psychotics even more, so be it. If protesting Bush before the Iraq war emboldens Saddam to defy the UN even more, so be it, because Teddy is upset! Waaah! Waaah! He didn`t get Al Gore as President, Al Gore, a guy who thinks the temperature is more of an imminent danger to the entire world than a bunch of wackos who have been mass murdering civilians in just about every country in the world for the past 36 years. So Teddy is gonna ignore people like Saddam, ignore Castro who throws people in prison for 70 years for sneezing and shoots people who try to escape Cuba, and just
keep on stamping and stomping because the little boy doesn`t like who is President. WAAAH WAAAH! The elction was stolen! Waaah WAAH! Yeah, but Al Gore who wanted to put the voting "rights" of felons over the voting rights of our own military in Florida, who got Jesse Jackson to come down and create a BS protest about "blacks who were turned away at the polls", who sent people out in the street to give booze and butts to the homeless for votes, who lost recount after recount down to the chad, was completely legit. Lets not mention anything about that. What Teddy wants Teddy should get because the universe revolves around Teddy and his fantasy world.