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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9714)	1/4/2006 8:53:00 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus > The Color of Wealth lays bare a dirty secret: for centuries, people of color have been barred by laws and by discrimination from participating in government wealth-building programs that benefit white Americans. Ah, US liberalism rears it head -- what's needed are more handouts and official wealth-creating programs. Just like aid for Africa where most of the aid money is spent on expanding the bureaucracy that does the "handing-out". Meanwhile, the US is "Top of the Pops" when it comes to people in prison, beating SA and that's only because there isn't a proper criminal justice system in SA. businessday.co.za >>Today more than 9-million men, women and children are held in penal institutions worldwide, according to the sixth edition of the World Prison Population List, compiled by Roy Walmsley at the International Centre for Prison Studies at King’s College, London. More than 2-million of those prisoners, or 22% of the total, are found behind bars in the US, which maintains the world’s highest rate of imprisonment — with 714 prisoners for every 100000 inhabitants.<< In SA, as is usual, the whites are blamed for the black criminals -- and will be in perpetuity. >>SA faces a complicating factor: it has been just over a decade since a democratic government inherited a racially skewed criminal justice system lacking integrity or legitimacy in which prisons were not subject to credible or effective oversight. The transition to democracy was accompanied by a sharp increase in the reported incidence of violent crime. Statistics from the Institute of Security Studies show that recorded violent crimes such as murder, rape and all forms of robbery and assault grew from 618000 in 1994 to 751000 incidents in 1999. These trends appeared to catch the new African National Congress-led government by surprise. As the public outcry over crime grew, however, government officials increasingly adopted a tough on crime stance. << Always an excuse for the ANC >>Today, SA’s 240 prisons are grossly overcrowded. In September 2004 these institutions, designed for a total capacity of 113825 prisoners, housed 186546. “It is no exaggeration to say that, if the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) were to cram as many animals into a cage as our correctional services are forced to cram prisoners into a single cell, the SPCA would be prosecuted for cruelty to animals,” said Pretoria High Court Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann in February last year when he gave reasons for not sending Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to prison.<< But this is supposed to be a system in which prisons ARE allegedly "subject to credible or effective oversight" -- but no matter, the previous regime is still blamed because a black politian cannot be held responsible for his actions -- or lack of them. In fact, black politicians are, by definition and like the criminals, always a victim of some white, somewhere. And all it takes is an American liberal or a shyster NY lawyer to find that person.