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That sounds like a reasonable solution for our crime and prison population problem...except PETA would be all over you for that! But you'd ship THEM over, too, yes? Good! ;-)
[fantasy mode on]
The "non-lethal" solution I came up with some years ago -- and also with no reprieve like yours -- was to send them all to Siberia, where the Soviets had those Gulags...a verycold harshplace, where if you caught a rat to eat you were lucky -- in between the timesthe guards were beating you within an inch of your life that is. IIRC, thoseprison camps aren't being used and in sad a state of disrepair, butthere are plenty of unemployed Russians (no longer "Soviets" since the fall of the USSR, and so no longer guaranteed a job) who could use the money...which would also help the local Russian economy.
So why not "fix" up those old prison camps (which wouldbe done via prisoner forced-labor in true Soviet tradition -- let's start our "American" trash off right away over there, introducing them to a new and exciting foreign culture via building their own crude huts to live in), hire Rssian guards and support staff (support for the guards -- prisoners get jack), ship our trash over to them (in a cargo hold of some rust-bucket tramp steamer of questionable seaworthiness), and said trash can serve their life sentences over in Siberia?
Yes, for most it would beshort brutal "animalistic"life, but who cares?
And let's not fail to appreciate that the Russians sure know how to mistreat prisoners (as do the Asians and Arabs...butI digress). There'd be no TVs, no talking even (I like that -- just like Alcatraz, and as it SHOULD be in every American prison today), prisoners would have to be seated in their cells at all times -- when they weren't on chain-gang duty somewhere -- staring at the door...if the guard checked and someone wasn't looking at the door,he'd beremoved and beaten. You know, those nice little psychological touches the Soviets came up with that only enhanced a prisoner's physical hell.
To me it's a win-win situation: We help employ out-of-work Russians, they get to make some decent money compared to what they ordinarily couldexpectif they found a job paying what the Russian economy would, our trashdoes not experience the death-penalty over HERE (to satisfy the naiveliberals here against it)yetthe likehood the trash would survive long is doubtful.Even if they did, however, they'd havea life sentence and there'd be no such thing as parole for them anyway. And if they escaped in Siberia and the dogs, guards, winters didn't kill them, any Russians living nearby could shoot them on sight and earn a bounty. Especially the Russians who make their living as hunters/trappers (THEY would find our trash stumbling about in the snow I'd expect). And if caught by the guards, the penalty for escaping would be death.
Frankly, given what THEY would be in for, were I one of them, I'd choose death here than be shipped over there.
And then there's my plan for "crime and punishment" here -- no outsourcing whatsoever -- and that one is even simpler. The result: Prisons are cleared out for first-time offenders only, crime drops almost overnight, street gangs have to hide under rocks, and problem kids in school would either straighten out or be "escalated" up the "chain-gang opportunity program." There'd be a REAL war on crime, which could be extended into a REAL war on drugs, too.
If nothing else was ever accomplished in this country, just removing most drugs and most crime wouldhave a HUGE impact on making America a great placeto live and do business in.
[fantasy mode off]
Obviously though, we all know that even these non-lethal solutions wouldn't happen, as most "Americans" still can't deal with these "inhumane" measures (as if criminals acted "humanely" in the first place), non-lethal solutions or not. So we continue the same old BS where criminals ply their trade with very little deterrence and no real punishment...whilelots of citizens have gotten, are getting and WILL get maimed/raped/molested/killed because of that. It's disgraceful.
So all one can do -- and that's almost all of us here, andunlike MOST of America-- is not be an easy victim-waiting-to-happen but rather be armed and ready to deal with our own little personal "war on crime" when/if we ever encounter it -- in a very decisive, violent and permanent way. Yes, violence really DOES solve criminal problems, and they are best solvedpermanently.
But as I have said, under the present circumstances with our sorry "justice system,"only the armed citizen can give any REAL justice to a criminal...at risk of getting into trouble themselves.
That's completely upside-down and needs to change.
-- John D.