So I recieved this in the mail last week. I knew something was stinky when I read the subject line, but my jaws dropped when I saw what it actually was.

I can't even say in how many ways this is wrong in a moral sense.

> Prisons being a private enterprise in the US there are a lot of people profiting from the prison industry: e.g. the owners, the people working in prison, those buying the goods manufactured cheaply by prison inmates. Now they are looking for cheap people to work for them.

> Homelandsecurity has been a scam from the beginning. The security-business is growing immensly (see above statistic, which is not counting private enterprises) and people are getting rich by taking away civil liberties from people. Taking away civil liberties is wrong.

> Who would be attracted by this ad? How many more uneducated fuckups do we need wearing uniforms? What does it mean to give those people power over other people?

> Does anyone remember the book and movie "The Wave" about how fascism works? What about "The Experiment"? The final vision of a society like this is one half of the population in prison and the other half working as guards.

> The concept of "Our country" or in its hyperboled state "my country" is completely beyond me. There is nothing I can do with it. I don't even understand it. Absolutist kings or dictators may say "my country", because that is actually true. To us modern people it should be "our society", and that would imply thinking on a global basis: "our world". And the only enemy we have to protect "our world" from is ourselves.

> If we wanted freedom and peace, wouldn't it be better to try and have less inequality, less poverty, less pain and fear, less conflicts, instead of more military, police and special forces? There is someone profiting from "more uniforms" and it is not the clothes-business.

This thing basically gives me the creeps. Awful awful awful.

Georg Cracked, June 2005

P.S.: What the heck is "Victimology"?