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johannes1984 Donating Member (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 08:12 AM
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32. Nelson Mandela said it best
a nation's true heart can be seen in the way it threats it's prisoners ,....and trust me he knows a thingie or two about that .

as for prison rape .....any rape for that matter is a most heinous act .Yet what worries me more is the abysmal manner in which childeren are treated ...whenever i went to america alone , as an underaged kid .... i always registered at the local consulate ....not because i was afraid a big black or hispanic individual might attack me .But because i might need legal assistence to protect me from some ape shit judiciary and law enforcement , in record time .


It's all part of how you see yourself as a nation , ...if you believe the government , the institutions, emboddy the nations they're left to move and act at will .If you believe the people ......all the people , are the nation ....it's a lot harder to get away with .And that is the problem ,as i see it ,Some americans have trouble seeing that the beauty of america is the freedom of the people , the freedom of a nation united under a common sense of humanity .

the problem is a huge one , and it's obvious most of you feel that , in saying there is little or no solution to be found .If there is a solution to be found , I'm afraid it will require an exercise in philosophy which ussually , or up till now that is , took decades , if not centuries to build amongst people .That said , neither of us here want our kids to grow up in this world , and this being the age of quick troubleshooting , we might as well give it a spin .

I'll leave the plan up to those who know what they're talking about .But here we are folks , the twenty first , and this is the point where it's pretty much all been said and done before .Now we have these laptops and circuits to say it again though , and let it be heard in every corner of the sweet blue crapper of a globe .So either we'll stand up now and ,against all odds , try to bring the world one step closer to humanity ....or loose life trough hope long before we grow extinct .

all in all , this is horrible , but it's part of a much larger problem .And when the larger problem surfaces it's ugly head it'll be too huge to face with words and logic ....i'm afraid it'll be what we saw last century.....and the century before that ....come to think of it the century before that we had the same thing ....
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