By the standards of the U.S., yes. But that's an index of how sorry
things are here now.
>
>
> [WS:] Au contraire, I think it is quite pathetic. Releasing jail
> birds next
> to Israel and universal health care, but not a word on improving
> economic
> conditions, educational opportunities, or employment opportunities
> of the
> Black working class, or abolishing idiotic drug laws that keep
> prisons full
> and drug dealers in business. Yeah, right. Releasing criminals to
> neighborhoods already struggling with economic hardship, drugs and
> crime is
> exactly what the working class Blacks need.
>
> Wojtek
>
It IS pathetic, the most minimal, pathetic progressive agenda you can
imagine. Everything on that list is either a defense of minimal
liberal democracy or, at least arguably, in the long-term interests
of capital. As far as releasing jail birds goes, wouldn't the most
rational thing be to reduce the prison population by abolishing
idiotic drug laws that keep prisons full and drug dealers in business
- combined with an amnesty for the poor schmucks already in there for
possession. You want to add some measures that are at least modest
moves in the direction of Black (or any) working class interests,
fine by me.
Michael McIntyre mcintyremichael at mac.com
http://morbidsymptoms.blogspot.com