What is your evidence that without poverty, racism, and the drug war, there would be "incredibly small" numbers of criminals?
They would certainly be much smaller numbers, but "incredibly small" I doubt, considering the existence of white, middle and upper class criminals in the United States. Hey, speaking of your baby-raping canard, as if people who molest children did not exist, some of them are, in fact, baby rapers.
Incidentally, did I say anything about wanting to preserve the "US prison-industrial complex"? No, I did not. I said I wanted to preserve incarceration.
--- On Wed, 4/8/09, Matt <lbo4 at beyondzero.net> wrote:
>
> But you're worried about the incredibly small number of
> people who,
> were it not for poverty, racism, and the drug war, would be
> criminals
> anyway - psychopathic baby rapers or something? Are
> you saying you
> can't imagine *anything* other than the US
> prison-industrial complex
> as a way to deal with these small number of people?