Gulag - It Aint Just For Soviets Anymore

GULAG - Even more broadly, "Gulag" has come to mean the Soviet repressive system itself, the set of procedures that prisoners once called the "meat-grinder": the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths.

This is what we have become. And many of us laud this proudly, rejoicing in their "victory" over human rights, applauding our demise. Like all things, it's a matter of love. I must make you love me. There is no cost too high.

Mexico almost legalized personal drug use. The American hypocrite community shit its pants and got to them before the law could become enacted. Whew, close one! No one wants to be exposed as a hypocrite, a person of no morals. Had that law gone into effect and the sky didn't fall for our southern neighbors, the gnashing of teeth would be heard around the world. No, our self-loathing must stay hidden - there is no cost too high.

So many think control will save them. There is no rational explanation for our drug laws. That's why all arguments are emotional ones. It's not that the immoral majority is pissed you're taking drugs, it's that you're taking the wrong drugs. Simple politics. Texas leads the nations in DWIs. Mention that around here and you'll see a bunch of rednecks high-fiving each other. "Look at what we can get away with! Yeehaw!" But if you got any of that wacky weed, well, we don't hold with that. We gotta put an end to that - there is no cost too high.

But power is an illusion. "But if I can't control you, I can't make you love me." Christ, these people whine! It would be funny if the consequences weren't so tragic. One third of our prisoners are political. This ain't about morality, it's about rape. Find a man with a joint, you can take his car, his job, his life. I have seen this with my own eyes. Holy Hypocrites follow the script to first say that is "terrible", then argue its necessity and always end with "there is no cost too high."

"With a record-setting 2 million people locked up in American jails and prisons, the United States has overtaken Russia and has a higher percentage of its citizens behind bars than any other country." This is the truth of us. We are worse than than Stalin. Traitors among us say that is a good thing. You can see them on TV, hear them on the radio, read them in print. How bold. Right now we are like a bunch of punks out joyriding: laughing, speeding, tearing things up. "Not my car - who cares?" But the bill is gonna come due for that behavior and the punks won't be laughing then.

But I will be.