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JUSTICE HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: MONEY ISN'T SPEECH, JUSTICE CAN'T BE OUTSOURCED, POVERTY ISN'T CRIMINAL, AND THE 'CLASS 1 LIE' CONTINUES TO INCARCERATE.
Justice is our most cherished Great American Heritage. The world trusts doing business in America because our legal system guarantees rights and due process. But even our justice system has been corrupted, by political opportunists working the Fix. It goes all the way to the Supreme Court and the Citizens United abuse of the English language to establish new rights for legal fictions that deny actual rights enumerated in the constitution to living, breathing humans. That's just stupid! We need to reboot the system and just boot the bought, then reestablish once cherished workers rights and respectability. The United States incarcerates 1.6 million citizens, a greater percentage than any nation in the world. 330,000 are drug offenders, a majority on nonviolent marijuana offenses. These Americans have been put in jail on the lie that marijuana is a Class 1 Narcotic, on par with LSD, Meth and Heroin, having no medical value. This one stupid lie ruins families, endangers children, costs societies for courts and prisons and yields more criminals than they take in. And it disproportionately affects people of color and the poor. Opium is a Class 2 narcotic, as are Codeine, Cocaine and Oxycodone. Marijuana is "more dangerous" yet nobody has ever died from marijuana. It is not addictive or carcinogenic, it has medical uses and is legal for such in 17 states. It is legal in two states. It has none of the social health and side effects cigarettes or alcohol. Yet, for years, millions of people have been jailed because of the 'Class 1' lie. Stop the stupid and fix the lie. Then make amends: undo the damage, end the overtly racist war on drugs. We the People deserve equitable access to food, water, housing, education and a just society offering each of us the opportunity to make something of ourselves. These are the things of life, liberty and happiness which we are empowered to pursue by our constitution We as a society are enriched when we work to fill these needs.We are inspired by these goals and bettered by their fulfillment. Justice is our greatest goal. We the People are poorly served when we outsource justice with private prisons who's wealthy owners work to pass laws to criminalize the poor to fill their private prisons. Game it out. It can not work and is guaranteed to corrupt! In several states the poor are increasingly imprisoned for not payment of public debts in what amounts to debtors prisons, also increasingly housed in privately owned prisons. That's all just stupid, and it has to stop now. When money is speech, bribery is legal.
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