Friday, December 14, 2012

Speilberg's Lincoln

I went and saw that movie a few weeks ago, and I've thinking about the most important part that was left out of the movie:  The portion of 13th Amendment that makes the "exception for slavery."

Did you know the U.S. has the largest prison population of any country on the planet?

The U.S. has a larger prison population than communist China!

Did you know the reason for this has to do with the 13th Amendment?

Well you wouldn't know it, if you saw Lincoln.

The reason the U.S. has such a large prison population:  private for-profit prisons +  legalized slavery for those "duly convicted of a crime" ='s the recipe for millions of Americans behind bars for non-violent crimes.

BUT NOOOOO....Speilberg will win an Oscar for blindly glorifying Lincoln, and the part where Americans are supposed to think critically about how millions and millions of Americans are getting fucked by a system that Lincoln created gets lost because I'm living in a country full of dumbasses.

The bottom line is:  Lincoln was a fascist, who just moved slavery from the plantation to the prison system.


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