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KrazyRabidSheep
1st February 2005, 00:18
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4224665.stm

Honestly, I don't know if the soldiers who killed the men had many other options. It sounded like a dangerous, prolonged incident. For that particular senario, I don't think they nessesarly did the right thing, but I also don't think they did the wrong thing, either.

The fact that it happened at all, however, is unexcusable. They are not running the prison correctly (otherwise a riot would no have occoured, esp. for 45minutes). The higher authority should be held responsable.

I wouldn't be shocked if half the prisonors were in there for being military aged men.

Dosen't the U.S. get enough practice locking people up at home?
I think the U.S. has about 5% of the global population, but 25+% of the prisonor population (not sure how accurate this is. . .check my statistics)

America
1st February 2005, 00:49
Don't forget that other nations don't have prisoner populations also have mad-men running around the country-side with trucks having guns mounted to them (many in Africa, for example). The people would love them to be in prison, but have no power to exersise them there.

America

KrazyRabidSheep
1st February 2005, 17:57
Yes, but also remember that the U.S. has a bad habit of "creating crime".

Most states have a "3 strike rule". . .3 convictions of drug charges, and mandatory life in prison.

Don't you think this has a great deal to do with the prison problem?

Also, I'm not sure if you've been to an inner city recently, but you won't have to look hard to find the gangs.
I live in a nice part of St. Louis, but I know that if I want to find some madman with a gun, I can just take a train to East St. Louis.
It dosen't matter what kind of gun, several armed men are going to make you just as dead.

Why don't you wake up from your suburbian dream world and face the truth?
The prison system in the U.S. dosen't help cut back on crime. The only thing it does is bottle it up.
When you fill a bottle too full, it's going to break.
I don't want to be there when it does.