Wanted to addess a bit more on Toms reply as it really is a matter that touches on far more important matters. For those of you who are interested please take a look at the following article on who's in American prisons today. Read the whole thing... some amazing statistics are included. http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/poor/pp.html America has the greatest per capita percentage of its people behind bars of all the countries in the world. Reflect on that for a moment... China has about one quarter as many by the same measure. When one sees that there is an actual majority of people behind bars...with their citizen rights disenfranchised in many (if not most) cases for doing essentially nothing more then what other Americans do with various alcohol products... often enough in much less harmful fashion..... it doesn't take much observation to see why Toms statement about sex offenders getting slapped on the hand by the judicial system. You don't have room for them in prisons to begin with. Again... whats happening there in reality. Everyone who wants a job in certain sectors now has to get fingerprinted and registered much as a criminal does..... against the constitutions stated purpose on the matter. Lower economic classes... especially non-white are being incarcerated and citizen rights taken away... coincidently the same group that statistically would have a high probability of voting against those who support these kinds of policies. The ballooning expense of all these kinds of measures now outstrips educational budgets which in turn lowers the quality of education creating a larger population of ignorance which in turn again is easier to control one way or the other... either by imprisoning them or by convincing them to sign away their freedoms. Slowly but surely... inch by inch... step by step.... Just how soon will it be before piano tuners... service folk of all kind are <<afraid>> to simply enter a house alone... for similar reasons. American society has simply got to cut through all the ridiculous legal red tape and re-establish its constitutional freedoms.... or it will go down. Time to wake up and smell the coffee folks. Who's making the big bucks and gaining enormous power in the present buy out of all this bad debt ?... follow the dollar as they say. Pretty much off topic... I know... but these are very disturbing times. RicB
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