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To: Metacomet who wrote (194251)	7/18/2012 12:27:19 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 543604

Goodness. What a totally stupid idea. I'm 100% against the privatization of prisons. IMO incarcerating our own citizens should not be "business as usual" and a Big Business. I don't want lobbyists lobbying to keep the prison business expanding. You have to winder why all those "freedom loving" republicans aren't all over this, like flies on what flies like. If there was ever a threat to our liberties, the prison biz, and the police/ law enforcement incentives in forfeiture, are it.

To: Metacomet who wrote (194251)	7/18/2012 12:27:56 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 543604

Florida Republicans are desperate to privatize the prison system in the state, which had been stalled by a judge in Tallahassee. So, they have introduced SB 2036 and SB 2038 to do just that. The measures would allow the state government to privatize prisons in secret and would also allow the government to secretly outsource the work of other state agencies. I think they should add an amendment to that bill that says that no one can talk or write about the outsourced jobs either. After all, it would just add to the chatter that's out there now, and the Democrats would just lie about it, so why allow chatter and lies? It worked for slavery in the antebellum period, when people were tarred and feathered out of town for talking about or distributing literature about abolition, and occasionally even lynched for doing so, so it is square in the American tradition, a tried and true method to accomplish things. Oh, wait, what happened to slavery again?