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On the Correctional Faculty: Part Ii

what we’ve got here is much more than a failure to communicate--- for what has been happening for years is only intensifying--- our behavior as a society is not one in which we even attempt to rehabilitate, medicate or give therapy anymore--- instead, a very very small fraction of the population which owns everything & thrives from the desecration, degradation & detriment of others within these borders, has found new ways to profit from the collective misery of those that it deems “correctable.” how long this unsustainable process will be able to play its game of make-believe is anybody’s guess, but the reality is that when people are locked up they generally are not happy with those that locked them up & so if you are out here, walking around free, as if none of this concerns you... you need to wake up. the ignorance & silence concerning those that this country considers its garbage, needs to be addressed, and a sense of justice must be reinvigorated (if one believes it ever existed in the first place)--- it has to be commanded by those that have been sleeping, for those that fill their bank accounts with the money rolling in are just going to cash out and fly to the moon, or one of the private islands being built in international waters. you & i will be the only ones left on the outside when the gates finally come crashing down. so, the clock is ticking & one needs to take a side--- best you hurry up now.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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