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Title: A Tale of Two Americas: Where the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Go to Jail
Published: 2018-05-22
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAovmUXrBJE
Title: A Tale of Two Americas: Where the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Go to Jail
Published: 2018-05-22
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAovmUXrBJE
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sadly the American criminal justice system has been operating as a for-profit enterprise for years now it is covertly patting its pockets through penalty ridden programs aimed at maximizing revenue and making money rather than ensuring public safety [Music] let me tell you the tale two Americas where the rich get richer and the poor go to jail aided and abetted by the likes of Attorney General Jeff Sessions2/6
a man who wouldn't recognize our Constitution if it smacked him in the face [Music] [Applause] the American dream yes the American dream has become the American scheme the rich are getting richer and more powerful while anyone who doesn't belong to the power elite gets poor and more powerless to do anything about the nation's steady slide toward fascism authoritarianism and a profit-driven police state not content to3/6
merely pander to law enforcement and add to its military largesse with weaponry and equipment designed for war sessions has made a concerted effort to expand the police state's power to search strip seized rage steal from arrest and jail Americans for any infraction no matter how insignificant now sessions has given the state courts the green light to resume their practice of jailing American citizens who are unable4/6
to pay the hefty fines imposed by the American police state in doing so sessions has once again shown himself to be not only a shill for the deep state but an enemy of the American people first some background on the debtors prisons which jail people who cannot afford to pay the large exorbitant fines imposed on them by courts and other government agencies Congress banned debtors prisons5/6
in 1833 then in 1983 the US Supreme Court ruled the practice to be unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection Clause despite prior attempts in the federal level across the country to prevent the profound injustice of locking people in cages because they're too poor to pay a debt concludes the Atlantic the practice persists every day ladies and gentlemen this is not justice this is just another