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Certainly when their johns are making THIS much money out of keeping pot criminalized.

http://www.socialmedicine.org/2009/01/30/uncategorized/record-marijuana-arrests-feed-the-prison-industrial-complex/

My god. We all know the arrests could be bogus, too, by now, and the young man/woman's life would be wrecked without access to a student loan at a time education is being priced beyond the reach of so MANY young, hopeful people.

Thanks for the information.

demands warm bodies. Privatized prisons, yeah, that's the ticket.

That's the only way we can keep these great private money-maker prisons going!

Wouldn't it be heavenly living in a small town where EVERYONE worked at the prison?

I wonder if they would ever consider "profit sharing!"

Here's a bit of Reuters hackery about it:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/04/14/idUKN1423713820070414

I think that influenced his approach to drug policy. Earlier, he led a move to seriously lighten the sentences of small-time couriers in Ecuador, where they had been being sentenced like major traffickers.

The prohibitionist consensus continues collapsing in the Western Hemisphere, including some rot from within the very heart of Babylon. With more to come in 2016.

These propaganda mills NEVER miss a chance, do they?

It was interesting reading the trickle of actual information, however, that they did manage to get in print concerning his early years. After reading that part, I respect him even more!

Thanks for taking the time to share the very interesting information, and the vicious assault propaganda is always good for a laugh anymore, after we get used to it!

Correa is a person who matters.

cocaine triangle a few years ago.

Legal where you grow it, illegal where you sell it means $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

...I have never seen it verified. It was allegedly an enormous holding on South America's biggest aquifer, near Rev. Moon's holdings. But I simply don't know if it's true. The quiet rightwing coup d'etat in Paraguay recently, in which the beloved "bishop of the poor," Fernando Lugo, a leftist, was ousted, may suggest Bush villainy and land interests-- but that's just a guess as to what's going on in that poor country. Paraguay is, indeed, part of what the Bushwhacks termed a "terrorist" triangle. It was just bullshit to try to get U.S. boots on the ground in Paraguay. Lugo rejected U.S. troops--which may be why he's gone.

Ecuador is way to the north and west, on the Pacific--a small country, with Peru and Bolivia between it and Paraguay (which is land-locked like Bolivia). I don't think Ecuador has ever been included in any of our police state's "triangle" designations. I may be wrong. The Bushwhacks were trying very hard to demonize Ecuador, especially its leftist president. They had a number of nasty plots going against Ecuador, among them an effort to instigate a war between the U.S./Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela. Colombia--a U.S. ally--is the very notorious source of cocaine, not Ecuador.

If you've heard of a Bush land purchase in Ecuador, please elaborate. It would be news to me. Also, I don't think it could have occurred quietly, not with Rafael Correa as president of Ecuador. He would certainly have raised holy hell about it, and would certainly have looked for a way to prevent it. Correa it was who promised Ecuadoran voters to rid Ecuador of the U.S. military base at Manta, Ecuador, and he did so in 2009 by refusing to renew the U.S. military's lease.

even though Ecuadoreans had been protesting it for a long time before Rafael Correa was elected.

It would still be there if Noboa, the money first fascist, and Ecuador's banana magnate had somehow won, instead of the one the people so clearly prefer.

Our corporate media picked up the hostility from Washington toward Correa immediately. They always spin in a nasty direction on stories about him.

More likely it is a base of operations to use against Argentina or Chile when they step too far off the reservation.

It works.