Foolish Americans’ priorities scrambled
It’s interesting to read the Saturday edition of the Rocky Mountain News, which today (June 30) outlined the plight of crumbling Colorado school buildings, developmentally disabled adults on 20-year waiting lists for assistance, and the woeful tales of correctional facilities having to release inmates early because they don’t have the resources or capacity to keep criminals locked up, much less provide them any mental health care.
Such was the case with Robert Amos who, despite a lengthy criminal record, was freed to allegedly kill a Colorado Geological Survey intern, apparently in cold blood. The Kansas correctional system freed him early, because it had no money and no room for him.
It’s also interesting to read about the resources, money and blood that the foolish people of America allow the criminal government in the White House to throw down the hellhole that is Iraq, killing thousands, wounding and maiming and destroying a generation of Iraqi citizens, while American contractors reap the spoils of taxpayer money.
Something is wrong with a people and a country that would stand by and aid and abet our government’s torturing, killing and blatant lying while the needs of our own people go unmet.
It is beyond shameful — it is indicative of a country in decline.
L. Highland, Morrison
and yet, bullets are cheap.
Posted by Dravur on July 12, 2007 08:12 AMAre they really? Hard to tell since they are so hard to find these days.
Posted by on July 12, 2007 09:33 AMwe needed the prison space to lock up some marijuana users
Posted by just sayin' on July 12, 2007 10:20 AMSeven federal agencies gave away $2.1 billion to religious charities in fiscal 2005. Terrorist Justices, five Catholic Supremes say Bush doesn’t have to obey 1968 law and can give away $billions to Christianity because the money doesn’t come from Congress but from his appropriations, his allotment and as the decider he can squander the funds. Bush and Supremes pilot their craft into the wall of church state separation. Taxpayers have no standing to challenge Bush’s giveaway. Saddam, Hitler, Bush all have their loyalists. $Billions going to the Church could be going to enforce America’s border. Alcatraz type prisons could be built to house the likes of Robert Amos along with pedophile priests. Bush's gratuity is now going to the Supreme's Master, the Pope, to pay for its beastly priests which includes Scalia's son since it is best to err in favor of the child.
Posted by Richard Grimes r22037@yahoo.com (ffrf.org and ask for copy of FreeThought Today) on July 12, 2007 11:02 AMNo drug user should be jailed. Period. lets use the prisons for bad, hurtful people and stop filling them with what some people call "imoral people"
No one should be in jail for a non violent crime now that we can moniter them.
they should do community service and pay restiltution.
Or word on farms to replace the fleeing migrant workers. Of course that could lead to a situation like in the South where friends of the local judges never lacked for workers. Or is that just another urban myth.
Not child sexual abuser should ever be let out. Ever.
Posted by Sharon B. on July 12, 2007 11:10 AMIf all bad people were in jail, then Bush and Cheney would be sharing a cell with Rummy and Condi.
Posted by on July 12, 2007 12:04 PMCome on!
We HAVE to have room in prison for all those
horrible pot smokers.
Remember someone by the name of Brent J. Brents? Nice job Aurora PD. Serve and protect?!? What a joke.
That's why there's a loaded .40 auto on my headboard.
Posted by RickyLee on July 12, 2007 12:18 PMIf you want grass legalized, talk to the Democratic controlled congress. In fact talk to Degette. She's the deputy Whip.
Posted by Yaakov Watkins on July 12, 2007 12:42 PMNice sentiment Yaakov, but progressive legislation will not pass chimpy (think stem cell research) and the powerful tobacco lobby. I must say though, Bush has done a heckuva a job bringing back the heroin production in Afghanistan after the evil Taliban had reduced the opium production. Go figure.
Posted by hikingartist on July 13, 2007 07:59 AMOn both sides of the political aisle, our politicians are stacked with traitors and treasoners. US Sen. Benedict Arnold Salazar tops the list with his pimping and exploiting American taxpayers and his criminal illegal Mexicans, for the financial gain of the Vatican, Wal-Mart, Mexican govt, etc. Bringing up the rear is Hillary and (D-Punjab ) Gov. Ritter and their thirst for criminal illegal Hindu-Indians. I am simply astonished, in violation ofboth federal and state appropriation laws, Rotter the He-- Ritter, has outsourced Metro State College's hiring and recruiting function to Dataman, Inc. (located in Denver Tech Center). These thugs are in violation of the INS "hi-tech" employee visa rules and should be deported ASAP. Recruiting and hiring isn't "hi-tech". Americans can't afford foreign welfare to India, Mexico, and Canada (Pat Bowlen's illegal stadium deal which wasn't approved by the congress or president).
Shamnesty Salazar reallys has his work cut out for him now that the Vatican has just been popped for $600 million for priests that rape little boys. Shamnesty wanted to be a priest too, at least that is the excuse he used when he cut and ran from NAM. Shamnesty, Bill Clinton, Hillary, and Ritter, are threats to blacks nationally. Their favorite criminal illegals are robbing blacks blind. For the life of me, I can't figure how I served America for 23 years in the USN and 3 deployments to Vietnam, only to have a Hindu-Indian who could barely speak English, tell I didn't qualify for a state job, funded by the federal gov't. I didn't see any of these anal orifices during my military career. Please, please, Clinton's Ritter, and Shamnesty, stay out of our local black churches during the '08' DNC "dog and pony" show.
Posted by 40acresandmymuleandvetbennies on July 16, 2007 06:33 AMOther traitors and treasonrs include Marshall, Groff, T. Carroll, Milliner, Poole, Patterson, Hancock, and Jones. These "MT" suits and dresses, are hiding under their desks, while J-Loop and Ritter are robbing black disabled Vietnam veterans of their disability, contracting, and employment benefits.
Wedgeworth-"less", a true black political clown, had the audacity to tell in an e-mail, to take her off my e-mail list (Groff too), when I complained to her J-Loop and Turner West, were stealing federal funded city jobs from black disabled veterans, who had federal appropriation preference. Ritter, J-Loop, Gallagher, and Turner West (suurender monkeys, communist-siders, and draft dodgers), are modern-day plantation "massas" and share-cropping executives. They are guilty of fraud, waste, and abuse of federal funds. They should take the place of Scooter at a federal prison altar, so they can get some of what they have been giving Front Range black disabled Vietnam veterans.
If this "Soul-Train" band of brothers of sisters, are the best blacks in Colorado can muster for political representation, then we don't deserve any political representation, at all. Suddenly, Condi, Colin, Clarence, and Connerly, don't look so bad after all.
Posted by 40acresandmymuleandvetbennies on July 16, 2007 06:59 AM