ICE CUBE: "Same people who own the labels own the [private] prisons"

“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit but above all to corrupt its citizens.”—Leo Tolstoy

What Ice Cube is laying out here is 100% historical. Record company executives funded and pushed the creation of gangster rap in the 1980 as a form of weaponized culture. The CIA supplied the crack to supercharge the crime wave. Now Hollywood pushes thug culture on the World with… https://t.co/zj7HDOADPi

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) January 29, 2024

Well, if it's the case that the police want to put you in prison, it stands to reason that the cops are given orders to write more tickets, and have more confrontations, to put more people in prison.  Prison: it's big business.  

Economist Simon Black wrote in 2015, 

More people rot away in US prisons than did in the Soviet gulag at the height of communism. And many Americans are serving hard times for victimless crimes of failing to abide by some obscure regulation.

For more on prisons, here are some must-read, 10-year-old articles.  

Here is the great Will Grigg of Pro Libertate on prisons.  

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