Answer to Question: Why do some Americans like to call the United States of America, "The greatest country on earth" ? Answer by John Dewar Gleissner Because some of us believe it’s true. We’ve got: (1) The world’s oldest written constitution that enshrines and guarantees basic rights, federalism and the rule of law, that has provided for free elections every two years for over 228 years, always moved in the direction of inclusiveness, and which has been a model for other nations. (2) A history of defeating colonialism, fascism, dictatorships, diseases, the slave trade, slavery, legal racism and communism. The world looks to the USA and its strong allies for leadership when it is time to oppose evil forces. (3) A history of leadership in inventing or developing the lightning rod, light bulb, telephone, telegraph, the airplane, manufacturing, television, missiles and rockets, the computer, lifesaving medicines and medical devices, agricultural innovations, nu...
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If you were given complete power to reform the US prison system, including sentencing, what would you do? First , I would institute judicial corporal punishment in lieu of incarceration for many prisoners. This solution is straight out of the Bible, Deuteronomy 25:1–3 and was favored by all the presidents carved into Mt. Rushmore. It is inexpensive, repeatable, proven to work and starts rehabilitation without removing the offender from the community. This might cut the prison population in half. Prison Overcrowding Cure: Judicial Corporal Punishment of Adults Second , to keep kids in school or on the job, eliminate immediate incarceration of offenders, warn the public and shame offenders, I would fit offenders with a metallic collar, with or without electronic enhancement, color-coded per the crime and made heavier or lighter according to the ongoing behavior of the offender. For example, green for crimes of property, yellow for sex offenders, red for violent o...
What does it mean when people say , 'Prisons are for profit in America'? That refers to the private prison industry, which makes money from the warehousing function prisons provide. It does not refer to prison industries, most of which are government-run, lose money, do not provide jobs for all prisoners, and do not allow much private enterprise to operate freely. Prisoners are not entitled to all the employment protection and minimum wages of the free world in the USA, so we ought to return to laissez-faire employment in prisons, allowing private enterprises to pay prisoners a negotiated wage for 60-hour work weeks. Prisoners could make a nest egg, learn how to work a tough job, there would be more money for victims, child support and the state, and everybody could win. Please read How to Create American Manufacturing Jobs and then write a letter to your Congressman! [If prisons made products now exclusively made overseas, organized labor would benefit, too!]
Deuteronomy 25:1-3 "When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty. If the guilty person deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes the crime deserves, but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes. If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes." By ignoring the Bible, and in its place putting our own ideas about incarceration, we have created New Age slavery.
It is true that American slavery comes in for more scrutiny and condemnation than slavery in other regions and epochs. This is because our American media and liberal politicians and academics use the abolitionist-inspired history of American slavery almost exclusively to condemn the South, slavery, the effects of slavery, sometimes the whole USA, etc ., in an effort to serve political ends today. The most extreme elements demand monetary reparations for slavery; others seek preferential college admissions, quotas, affirmative action, political correctness, election of Democrats, black contractors for urban projects, etc. In truth, the United States was the best place in the world to be a slave, especially after 1808, when the slave trade was outlawed as soon as it could be under the terms of the U.S. Constitution. Booker T. Washington wrote that, “The ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slaver...