jail threat

JAIL THREAT
Before I forget, there will be yet another guest article tomorrow. Don’t think it’s easy getting free labor like this. Last week I had to beg, this week I had to play the “who’s my bitch” game just to get the article submitted. The things I do for my loyal minions. Some of you show your appreciation with bribes, gifts and outright payoffs. I’ve now gotten canned bacon, cold weather gear, dried fruit, books and recently silver. The only thing left is any 303 British brass, but I’ll settle for 38 if it’s all you got. Today I would like to talk about the newest subject being discussed, nearby prisons. Actually, it’s the newest oldest thing, but let’s face the sad truth here. Most of the survival topics were well covered decades ago. We are all pretty much just beating dead horses here. But what else could we possibly have to do until the collapse? Speaking of which, the newest figures as reported at www.americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com for import decline is 9.1%. Oh, look at that, golly gee, the declines continue. 70% of our energy is imported, that is declining year after year, and the decline is increasing. But nothing to see here, move along, no need to panic, we’ll all run our cars on electricity we get from natural gas, ah, coal, no, ah, what hasn’t started to run out yet?
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The conventional wisdom is that living near a prison is the equivalent of a nuclear missile silo upwind, a toxic waste dump over the aquifer or a lesbian nude beach on the other side of the fence ( if you think lesbians are like the girl on girl porno films, you need to go to one of their bars- they got some nasty looking bull dykes waiting to kick your pasty hetro ass ). Here is the reasoning. Big and bad evil dudes are locked up by the government and if they ever get out you are going to be skinned alive and then sodomized. I’m just as guilty as the next guy, thinking I didn’t want to live near any of the prisons, just in case. Who wants to get sodomized ( other than the aforementioned lesbians, and then only with synthetic members rather than biological ones, or with tongues )? But let’s think about this for a second. More than likely, you live in an urban area. Cities have the same per capita crime rate as the rural areas, more or less with the crack epidemic, but they suffer from having all those criminals in a concentrated area. If you doubt the effect of concentration, compare battery acid straight from the case as opposed to in a barrel of water.
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Here is my point. If the rate of crimes solved is low, with the corresponding rate of incarceration resulting in something like single digit percentage of criminals ending up behind bars, why are you fearing prisoners rather than free criminals? There are more bad people out free and able to strike at you than there are bad people in prison. I don’t remember the exact figures, but I think the number of criminals caught was something like twenty percent. Of those, the number that ended up in prison were a fraction. And so something like 9% of all crimes ended up in a prison sentence ( I’m going by imperfect memory here, forgive me if I’m way off). Some of that is the criminalization of drugs which might consist of some non-violent crime and thus skew the figures, but I think a lot is simple lack of law enforcement resources ( we spend a lot to do a little at all levels of government ) and the nature of the game. Unless you have a police state with 100% citizen reporting of all activity, how can you hope to catch the ones that don’t smoke a bowl and brag on what they did?
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If you live in a city, with all its criminals still roaming free, why is that any safer than living near a prison? I think the whole line of reasoning fits in with government propaganda, how much safer they make us and what a great job they do keeping bad men away from us taxpayers. Stop…I’m dying here! I’m laughing so hard I’m going to beshat myself! The government helping us!!!
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