The
American Court System: Nothing More than an Extraction Process
By: Sasha Svoboda
Our
court system is a sham and everyone knows it. It is not there to put those who
deserve it behind bars. If that were
true a large majority of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, and Wall Street fat cats would
be in prison. Instead we have the world’s largest prison population per
capita and it’s filled with petty offenders and non-violent criminals like
stoners. In reality, the court system targets the poorest in society and simply
extracts more money from our communities. In reality, our rule of law system is
not followed by our government or by the rich. In reality, it is just
capitalism at work again. In reality our court system and its judges should be
recognized for what it is, an illegitimate authority based on double-standards.
1. Judges are scum – Judges
are people whose only real concern needs to be retaining their petty positions
of power. They have about as much legitimacy as a priest who doesn’t practice
what he preaches. You are likely to be judged by a scumbag pedophile that
likely deserves to be locked up far more than you. Judges have no moral
investment in their community; they are not there to help make it a better place.
Mark
Ciavarella, a scumbag and a juvenile court judge, was convicted of selling
kids to the private prison system by using his power to convict them and receive
bribes from owners of detention centers. Sometimes I wish hell really did exist
so bastards like him could rot in it.
2. The prison system is a profit
system – Nearly 2.2 million people (1 in 100) are behind bars
in the United States. An additional 5 million are under correctional controls
such as probation. We have more people imprisoned than any country currently on
Earth or in human history. Yet the majority of those incarcerated are on
non-violent offenses. The CCA, the largest private prison corporation in
America, is currently building 10,000 new beds to meet demand in the business of warehousing humans.
3. The rule of law means nothing to
those who claim to uphold it – We have an
internationally notorious history of judicial corruption and police brutality.
Our government is actively engaged in spying domestically and abroad. Having
drones flying overhead and tanks rolling down the streets is considered the new
normal in the United States. We are often described by both citizens and observers
as a police
state. An official report from 1996 states “A safe estimate is that several
hundred times every day (easily 100,000 times a year) DO [Directorate of
Operations] officers engage in highly illegal activities (according to foreign
law) that not only risk political embarrassment to the US but also endanger the
freedom if not lives of the participating foreign nationals and, more than
occasionally, of the clandestine officer himself.” It can only be expected that
number has increased since. Not only are the CIA a national embarrassment, they’re
a terrorist organization. If the rule of law really applied thousands of CIA agents would be rotting in
jail where they belong or hanging on the hangman’s noose.
4. The court system is based on PROFIT
not JUSTICE – The average lawyer in the United States
makes $200-$700 per hour. Prisons get paid based on how many prisoners they
house. Our tax money goes in large amounts to jail people of our own class,
while the rich class which is decadent, thievish, and criminal sits on top of
us all. Cops love the free labour from community service, they will sit around
and have a barbeque while you wash the cars we bought for them. Prison labour
is booming
as unemployment rates rise. The average drug test costs $25 dollars per test paid
out of pocket from the convicted and only really can detect marijuana. It is
not there to keep people from using drugs, it is there to get you on more
charges, extend your sentence, and make you funnel more money into your local
court-house.
The United States is a
country of double-standards. We have an intelligence agency who has trafficked
cocaine, commits murder, and engages in terrorism, but god forbid you steal
that bread to feed yourself as the system starves you! We'll lock you away!
