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With less than 5% of world population; USA has over 2.3 million of 9 million world prisoners!

The majority of U.S. prisoners are there due to the drug war!

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Introduction, and links to pass on. [TopLink]

Please distribute this paragraph below and the links at the end of it. Some day Americans will wake up from deadly NRA propaganda. Banning handguns does not kill people. NRA beliefs kill people, and the NRA lobbies for tyranny and terrorism. Both individual terrorism and the terrorism of the U.S. prison-industrial-complex. NRA members believe that people have the right to own any weapon - including rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), high explosives, suitcase nukes, anthrax, jeep-mounted heavy machine guns, stinger missiles, etc.. Your basic militia terrorist arsenal. These people are bold evil morons who support the moron-in-chief George W. Bush.

*National Rifle Association (NRA). Their campaign for longer sentences, mandatory minimum sentences, truth in sentencing. For both violent and non-violent offenders, DRUG offenders, etc.. A far-right Nazi-like cult for the U.S. prison industrial complex, whether they know it or not. Ban handguns, so we can keep rifles and shotguns legal. Wimpy handguns don't defend against tyranny. We can end the drug war and mass-incarceration tyranny a lot faster if murders, handguns, and drug war violence were at Canadian, Australian, and Western European levels.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/nra.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/nra.htm

Handguns are effectively banned or severely discouraged in Canada and Europe. The lack of handguns in Canada and Europe is a big factor in why Canada and Europe have such low murder rates when compared to the USA. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate

Canada has far fewer handguns per capita than the USA:

"As we see it, a ban on ordinary Canadians continuing to own handguns is eminently reasonable and ought to be supported by most of us, even in the face of statistics indicating there could be as many as one million of the weapons now in Canada. After all, that statistic can be seen as showing that 30 million Canadians don’t see a need for such easily concealed firearms. If nothing else, the ban would stand as a statement made by a peaceable society. Unlike the much-maligned federal gun registry, such a ban need not involve any costly administration. And, as we understand it, handguns could still be owned by collectors and others so long as they are rendered permanently inoperable."
~ Orangeville Citizen. Orangeville, Ontario, Canada. January 5, 2006. Emphasis added.
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2006/0105/Editorial/016.html
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1195031

There is no problem with rifles and shotguns being legal. They are not used in murders nearly as much as easily concealed handguns. The motive for most murders in the USA and in some other nations is arguments:
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi110.html and
http://www.google.com/search?q=statistical+abstract+united+states+homicide+motives

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http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/graphs/12.htm




"The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
George Orwell. January 8, 1941 article for the Evening Standard.
http://www.orwelltoday.com/readerriflequote.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution does not need wimpy handguns to defend against tyranny. But outraged public opinion may someday effectively regulate into oblivion nearly ALL guns in the USA due to the high number of murders done with handguns due to their easy concealment in public. So the National Rifle Association may be responsible for eventual tyranny in the USA because some of the NRA are Morons that choose to defend handguns, and thereby end up causing rifles to be nearly banned along with handguns.

The average person is not going to risk smuggling a handgun across a border when he/she can buy a rifle or shotgun legally to protect their house. 

Average people smuggle drugs across borders frequently. Far fewer average people smuggle guns across borders. The reason is simple. There is little need nor desire to smuggle handguns across borders. There is HUGE desire for drugs.

When concealed carry of handguns is allowed in places in the USA, the crime rates are hardly effected. Minor variations in crime rates.

In nations where handguns have been effectively banned over a long period of time, and where they allow rifles and/or shotguns, their murder rates are MUCH lower than in the USA.

Home invasion and burglary rates vary greatly all over the world. When rifles and shotguns are also banned then home invasion and burglary rates go up.

It is ineffective to ban handguns in some cities while allowing neighboring areas to have handguns. It only works in whole nations over years. Then there is much less of a problem of gun smuggling.

It is just too much trouble for the average person to smuggle guns across borders. It is easy to smuggle guns from city to city in the same nation. 

When a whole nation bans handguns the lack of handguns greatly lowers the homicide rate. Just because criminals have handguns doesn't translate into a high homicide rate. Most homicides are committed out of momentary rage between non-criminals.

That is why overall the near-banning of handguns in Europe and Canada is working. Most people don't want to go to the trouble required to get an illegal handgun. They can much more easily buy a rifle or shotgun to protect their home, and teargas to put in their pocket to lower their fear while outside their homes.

People try to equate prohibitions of handguns and drugs. But people want drugs for enjoyment mostly. People want handguns mostly out of fear. Totally different motivations.

Motivation is key. It is like the cannabis situation in Holland. Young people can buy cannabis legally, and they don't have to associate with hard drug dealers to do so, and so there is far less likelihood that they will get involved with people who sell heroin. There is little motivation to do so. Even cannabis use is lower in Holland than in the USA because there is no "forbidden fruit" syndrome. Cannabis is just no big deal there.

That is why there is less use of both cannabis and harder drugs in Holland, especially in young people. The whole harm reduction philosophy is openly advocated in Holland. The average age of people using heroin is increasing because younger people for over a generation have had access to legal cannabis, and less motivation to get harder drugs.

So let's compare: In most of Europe people can buy the legal "soft" guns such as rifles and shotguns, rather than the "hard" illegal more-dangerous guns such as handguns. Most people aren't going to deal with international smugglers just to get a handgun.

Plus the murder rate is much lower in Europe due to the fact that handguns have been effectively banned for so long in most of Europe. Fear of murder is not nearly as big in Europe as in the USA.

People in Europe and Canada like having a much lower murder rate than the handgun-happy NRA-ruled USA.

Really think about this. If you wanted to kill some one and get away with it, what weapon would you use? Some people have never thought about this because it is such an unpleasant subject. But killing someone with almost anything other than a handgun will likely be very messy, with a lot of blood. Some blood is bound to get on you or your clothes. How do you make your getaway?

People talk out their ass about the second amendment, defending themselves in the street, etc. but don't think about what actually really happens. Most thieves and muggers and murderers are not going to warn you before they stick a weapon in your face and demand your money or your life.

You aren't going to have time to pull out any weapon. So your concealed handgun is mostly just a fashion accessory to impress your friends and associates. Or to shoot them when you are in an argument and in a temporary rage.

Get real, everybody. Rifles and shotguns serve the original purpose of the Second Amendment which was to defend against tyranny. They are also adequate for stopping home invasions and burglaries.

They were what existed, and what average people could afford, at the time of these quotes:

"Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~ James Madison

"Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped." ~ Alexander Hamilton

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States." ~ Noah Webster

"No free men shall be debarred the use of arms." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." ~ Richard Henry Lee

"The great object is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun. . . . Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?" ~ Patrick Henry

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments . . . forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition. . . . [The] several kingdoms of Europe . . . are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~ James Madison

"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which might be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." ~ Tench Coxe

Tench Coxe, noted federalist and friend of James Madison, wrote in defense of the proposed Constitution, in the Pennsylvania Gazette of Feb. 20, 1788: "Their swords, and every other terrible instrument of the soldier, are the birth right of an American. ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or the state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."


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NRA's incarceration lobbying. MANDATORY MINIMUM sentences. [TopLink]

*Mandatory-Minimum Drug Sentences. U.S. CHARTS. Non-violent possession only. Drug War concentration camps for "undesirables." Sentences that usually do not allow parole until at least around 80% of the sentence served. Federal laws, and most states, have mandatory minimums. New York Times: Length of sentences causes the huge U.S. inmate count that dwarfs other nations. 2.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mandatory.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mandatory.htm

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION (NRA), and their hard lobbying for federal and state-level mandatory minimum drug (and cannabis) sentencing laws.

The NRA lobbied many state legislatures hard for mandatory minimum sentencing laws (which includes cannabis and drug mandatory minimum sentences). They did this to divert attention away from gun controls, and banning handguns. These state-level sentencing laws are the main reason for the huge increase in the U.S. incarceration rate, since state prisons hold far more inmates than federal prisons.

It is not just the NRA's lobbying for state mandatory minimum drug and cannabis laws that are the roots of the draconian U.S. drug war. It is also the fact that the murder rate in the USA is several times higher than the rest of the Western (long democratic traditions) world. That includes Western Europe, Canada, Australia, etc..

Nearly all other Western nations (nations with long democratic traditions, such as Western Europe, Canada, Australia, etc.) have banned handguns. This is the main reason they do not have high murder rates, and the main reason they do not have murderous, drug-trade, free-fire zones in their inner cities that justify U.S.-style, draconian, drug wars, mandatory minimums, etc..

Millions of Americans have been under correctional supervision (jail, prison, probation, parole) due to the NRA's drug mandatory minimums, and the NRA's support of the drug war. NRA leaders would choose to scapegoat and incarcerate millions more just so they can continue to caress, fondle, and worship their precious handguns.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is a far-right cult for U.S. mass incarceration tyranny, whether they know it or not. NRA leaders are, by far, the most fascist force in the USA, and the most freedom-destroying force in the USA.

Let's ban handguns, so we can keep rifles and shotguns legal.

NRA's handguns and the ensuing violence of the NRA's drug war created the astronomical US murder rate. The drug war and the high murder rate created the Republican "law and order" police state in the USA. The NRA are the SS and brown shirt militias for the modern Nazi party equivalent, the Republican Party. Because NRA fanatics are not willing to sacrifice handguns, the murder rate in the USA may become such a political issue that ALL guns are banned. That would be a huge risk for even more tyranny.

Rifles and shotguns are not a major cause of the high murder rates, and they keep the home burglary rate from rising too high. Rifles and shotguns are far better than handguns for resisting the complete dictatorship that the Republican Party and others really desire. So NRA fanaticism and lack of compromise has lead to high murder rates, ever-more violent drug trade and drug wars, ever-longer prison sentences, more and more police control of our lives. The NRA has created mass incarceration tyranny, and risks creating total tyranny in the USA!

*Bush coup d'etat by illegal disenfranchisement (no voting rights). Around 600 votes in Florida won the November 2000 U.S. presidential election. BBC, London Observer, March 9 2001 report of US Commission on Civil Rights, Congressional Black Caucus, Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, etc. paint big picture of ILLEGAL disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of Florida voters. Especially blacks, Puerto Ricans, poor whites. By claiming falsely that they had previous felonies that prevented them from voting. Voters that normally vote mostly Democrat. Blacks voted 9 to 1 for Democrat Gore. Also, LEGAL Florida disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of felons via racist Republican drug laws. Laws enacted with the help of far-right NRA lobbying for mandatory-minimum felony sentencing for both violent and non-violent (such as drug possession) felony offenses.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/coup.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/coup.htm

*March 1999. NRA OFFICER brags about DRUG mandatory minimum sentences, and 3 Strikes for DRUGS. California NRA (National Rifle Association). Author of the article: "Ralph Weller is an NRA, CRPA Member, an officer in a San Diego NRA Member's Council and a gun rights activist in Southern California. He is also the web master of www.calnra.org and manages other pro-gun organization websites." The author is an NRA OFFICER. The article was posted on an NRA website in March 1999. And obviously most average NRA members agree with it, or there would have been enough hell raised to have the article taken down. NRA members, as a whole, are not known for being quiet! Weller's article starts a few paragraphs into the messages below.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drugwarnews/message/231 and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hemp-talk/message/8100

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*History of NRA's hard lobbying for state-level mandatory minimum sentencing laws, and "3 strikes" laws. March 1997 "In These Times" article called "The NRA strikes back." Non-violent cannabis and drug offenders are included in these laws, too. State prisons hold far more inmates than federal prisons. Truth-in-sentencing laws are mandatory minimum sentencing laws. 2 and 3-strikes laws are the most draconian mandatory minimums. From the In These Times article: "...the NRA was 'instrumental' in passing truth-in-sentencing measures which lengthened average prison sentences." Article is a few paragraphs into the messages at the first 2 links below):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drugwarnews/message/206 and
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x23279 and
http://www.prop1.org/legal/prisons/970317itt.htm -last article.

IN the year 2000 the National Rifle Association was yet AGAIN calling for more long mandatory minimum prison sentences in their massive, election-year, TV ad campaign. In those ads people with previous drug offenses are also mentioned as being among those who should have longer sentences.

Far-right, Nixonian, Reaganite, "law-and-order" demagoguery at its worst. For both non-violent and violent offenders the NRA calls for more incarceration and long sentences. Scapegoating anybody they can in order to divert attention from the number one cause of murder and violent crime in the USA: HANDGUNS.

It is high time for hunters to condemn the NRA campaigns that called for mandatory minimum sentences, 3 strikes laws, "truth-in-sentencing," etc.. MASSIVE NRA TV ad campaigns for longer sentences. The NRA TV ads and infomercials mention drugs in their list of offenses needing longer sentences.

If many NRA members didn't basically agree with the NRA OFFICER's article below, then the March 1999 article on the NRA website would have been taken down by now, because many NRA members are outspoken. Obviously, those NRA members who disagree are silent and/or outnumbered. Those NRA members should think about leaving the fascist NRA. There are other pro-gun organizations. They can't all be pro-drug-war fascists.

The cognitive dissonance is amazing. One can repeatedly read in many threads in many message boards and email lists and elsewhere from rightwing anti-drug-war people that handgun "liberty" is more important to them than the liberty of not having themselves and their friends in prison for nonviolent drug offenses.

How so, you say? These people will vote for Bush over other candidates, because even though Bush is by far the greater drug warrior, Bush is also by far, the greater gun-nut.

There aren't enough anti-drug-war types who are willing to make the drug war a single issue campaign.

The NRA leaders (who also happen to be very cozy with the drug-war-leading Republican Party leadership) are aware of this fanaticism of its average members, and thus the NRA leaders feel little need to avoid adding non-violent drug users to its litany of offenders needing longer prison sentences in its MASSIVE multi-million dollar ad campaigns to encourage the public to lock more people in prison for longer periods of time.

Many anti-drug-war people spend lots of time analyzing who would be the lesser of evils concerning the drug war in deciding who to vote for in various races.

But many of them are missing the main field of battle: PUBLIC OPINION. Working on changing public opinion and moving the center gradually away from this insane failed U.S. drug war is more important in the long run than the political "lesser of evils" analysis.

That is why it is so important to blast these NRA campaigns because they turn public opinion more towards a mass incarceration attitude. And worst of all the NRA doesn't distinguish between non-violent crimes (such as drugs) and violent crimes.

NRA leaders really hate having the light of truth shown on them, and love diverting public opinion towards their latest scapegoats. Let's expose the bastards for the fascists they are.

The majority of the 2 million prisoners behind U.S. bars are there due to the drug war (see proof farther down).

There are ideologues who value their handguns more than they care about the LIBERTY of their non-violent friends going to prison for long mandatory minimum drug sentences.

THE NRA (AND THEIR FLUNKIES IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY) ARE AMONG THE MAIN ENEMIES OF CANNABIS AND DRUG REFORM IN THE USA.

Concerning the drug war the Democrats and Republicans deserve to be blasted as fiercely as the NRA.

*Republicans lead U.S. Drug War. Democrats follow Republican evil. Huge LINKS list! U.S. Drug-war Industrial Complex. Republican fundamentalist holy war. Friendly Fascism. Drug war leaders are the rabid right, hate radio, hate television, NRA (National Rifle Association), religious right, (snortin') George Bush the hypocrite, etc.. Republican-led drug war disenfranchises (no voting rights) millions of voters (mostly Democrat-voting blacks).
http://corporatism.tripod.com/gop.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/gop.htm

Facts have little effect on their ideology.

For example:

Without the high U.S. murder rates relative to other Western industrialized nations, the NRA would not be able to continue to have massive TV ad campaigns calling for ever more, ever longer, MANDATORY MINIMUM prison sentences.

Handguns have been effectively banned or severely restricted for so long in Europe and Canada that even criminals are hard-pressed to find handguns. So the murder rates are much lower than in the USA. Handguns are banned, or nearly banned, throughout Western Europe. So killing someone and getting away with it is a LOT harder in Europe.

Most murders are crimes of passion from average people who are not criminals. No amount of half-ass U.S.-style gun regulation would ever stop most of these crimes of passion. Only banning handguns would put a SERIOUS dent in those types of handgun deaths, and in the U.S. murder rate.

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MURDER RATES. By nation. CHARTS. [TopLink]

*Homicide, murder. Rates worldwide. CHARTS. Various causes described such as drug war, handguns, poverty, poor safety nets, poor healthcare nets, corporatist hate radio, etc..
http://corporatism.tripod.com/homicide.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/homicide.htm

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Many more LINKS. [TopLink]

*11-1997. DRCNet Legislative Alert -- Oppose Mandatory Minimums (11/20/97). Drug Reform Coordination Network -- Rapid-Response-Team. "When the provision was being debated three years ago, the National Rifle Association ran ads featuring actor Charlton Heston, claiming the bill would 'let 10,000 drug dealers out of prison.' "
http://www.prisonactivist.org/pipermail/prisonact-list/1997-November/000976.html

*8-1994. DRCNet. The Activist Guide. NRA and Charlton Heston Criticize Safety Valve. "In a highly dishonest advertisement by the National Rifle Association on CNN last Tuesday, actor Charlton Heston criticized the Crime Bill, claiming that it would let 10,000 drug dealers back out on the streets. ... The U.S. Sentencing Commission has calculated that only 1,600 prisoners will be released under the retroactive safety valve clause. Only first time, low level, non-violent offenders who have cooperated fully with federal authorities will be eligible."
http://www.drcnet.org/guide8-94/nra.html

*3-2000. March 24, 2000 (Christian Science Monitor). Australia’s Attorney General released a letter sent to Charlton Heston, NRA President, disputing the information the NRA presented in an infomercial in the nation claiming that Australian gun laws had led to more crime after passage. The Attorney General stated that he was outraged that an organization in a nation with 11,000 firearms homicides a year would say gun laws are failing in a nation with 54, a reduction since passage of the gun laws. In 1998, that worked out to 4 firearm-related homicides/100,000 in the U.S., compared to 0.28/100,000 in Australia.
http://www.msccsp.org/resources/weapons.html

*8-1999. Three-Strikes Law Is Missing the Mark! Polly Klaas grandfather. CALIFORNIA: "78% of second-strikers and 50% of third strikers were convicted for nonviolent offenses. ...crime fall at a quicker rate in non-three-strikes states." NRA law!
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread2616.shtml

*7-1999. USA. DRCnet. News Briefs. 25 years to life for stealing food. Appeal lost. 3 strikes law. Drug war tool. See end of http://www.prop1.org/legal/prisons/970317itt.htm about this Republican, NRA (National Rifle Association) law.
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/100.html#newsbriefs

*3-1997. " The NRA strikes back." IN THESE TIMES article from March 17, 1997. It is the last article on the page.
http://www.prop1.org/legal/prisons/970317itt.htm

*4-2000. Gun Control in the United States: A Comparative Survey of State Firearm Laws. This may be the first comprehensive analysis of gun control laws in all U.S. states. Note that it was done by a Soros.org group.
http://www.soros.org/crime/guncontrol.htm


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Incarceration Rates Charts. And links to more charts. [TopLink]

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World Prison Population Rates.
In descending order.
From World Prison Population List.
5th edition: "Most figures relate to dates
between late 1999 and November 2003."

There is a 6th edition here:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/world-prison-population-list-2005.pdf
The very latest list is found on this web page:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/highest_to_lowest_rates.html

Rates are calculated for the total number of
prisoners in penal institutions,
including pre-trial
detainees. Incarceration rates of 210 independent
countries and dependent territories.
Use "find" in
the edit menu to locate one here.


Imprisonment RATE per 100,000 population.
"c" means the rate is an estimate.
There are links and more notes at the end of the list.
Use free Adobe Reader to see more notes in pdf file:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r234.pdf
It has dates, national populations, inmate totals, etc..

For comparison purposes the 2 U.S. states with the
highest rates (Texas and Louisiana) are in the list:

1014____Texas 1999 (governor George W. Bush)
1013____Louisiana 2001
966_____Texas 2001
715_____United States of America
584_____Russian Federation
554_____Belarus
532_____Bermuda (UK)
523_____Palau
522_____Virgin Islands (USA)
501_____Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)
c.489___Turkmenistan
c.487___Cuba
459_____Belize
437_____Suriname
420_____Dominica
416_____Ukraine
414_____Maldive Islands
410_____Bahamas
402_____South Africa
390_____Kyrgyzstan
388_____Singapore
386_____Kazakhstan
378_____Puerto Rico (USA)
367_____Barbados
364_____Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands)
354_____Panama
351_____Trinidad and Tobago
340_____Thailand
339_____Estonia
339_____Latvia
338_____St Kitts and Nevis
334_____Guam (USA)
333_____Grenada
327_____Botswana
324_____French Guiana/Guyane (France)
324_____Swaziland
303_____Mongolia
297_____Moldova (Republic of)
278_____Antigua and Barbuda
270_____St Vincent and the Grenadines
267_____Namibia
253_____Tunisia
c.250___United Arab Emirates
248_____Taiwan
243_____American Samoa (USA)
243_____St Lucia
237_____Aruba (Netherlands)
234_____Lithuania
229_____Costa Rica
215_____Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
214_____Mauritius
210_____Poland
209_____Uruguay
207_____Seychelles
204_____Chile
198_____Azerbaijan
194_____Iran
190_____Romania
189_____Hong Kong (China)
188_____Jersey (United Kingdom)
184_____Macau (China)
184_____Uzbekistan
178_____Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
178_____Czech Republic
177_____Greenland (Denmark)
176_____Jamaica
176_____Morocco
175_____Guyana
174_____Israel
173_____Libya
172_____Honduras
169_____Brazil
169_____Mexico
165_____Georgia
165_____Hungary
165_____Slovakia
164_____Martinique (France)
161_____Malaysia
161_____New Zealand
161_____Tajikistan
c.160___Zimbabwe
159_____Guadeloupe (France)
158_____El Salvador
158_____Samoa (formerly Western Samoa)
157_____Dominican Republic
156_____Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
155_____Bahrain
146_____Lebanon
144_____Spain
143_____Lesotho
143_____Nicaragua
143_____Reunion (France)
142_____United Kingdom: England & Wales
139_____New Caledonia (France)
134_____United Kingdom: Scotland
132_____Brunei Darussalam
130_____Madagascar
129_____Burundi
129_____Cameroon
129_____Portugal
128_____Guernsey (United Kingdom)
127_____Bulgaria
126_____Colombia
125_____Republic of (South) Korea
c.121___Egypt
121_____Zambia
120_____French Polynesia (France)
119_____China
118_____Myanmar (formerly Burma)
117_____Fiji
116_____Canada
116_____Tanzania
114_____Australia
112_____Gibraltar (United Kingdom)
112_____Netherlands
112_____Peru
111_____Kenya
111_____Luxembourg
110_____Algeria
110_____Central African Republic
110_____Saudi Arabia
109_____Rwanda
108_____Serbia and Montenegro: Montenegro
107_____Argentina
106_____Jordan
106_____Tonga
105_____Albania
105_____Sri Lanka
102_____Bolivia
102_____Kuwait
100_____Austria
100_____Italy
96______Germany
95______France
95______Mayotte (France)
95______Qatar
94______Philippines
93______Syria
92______Armenia
c.92____Ethiopia
92______Isle of Man (United Kingdom)
92______Serbia and Montenegro: Serbia
92______Turkey
90______Andorra
90______Cook Islands (New Zealand)
c.89____Uganda
88______Belgium
87______Ireland, Republic of
83______Greece
83______Yemen
81______Benin
81______Oman
79______Sao Tome e Principe
78______Macedonia (former Yugoslav Republic of)
76______Venezuela
75______Paraguay
75______Sweden
72______Denmark
72______Malta
72______Switzerland
71______Finland
71______United Kingdom: Northern Ireland
71______Vietnam
70______Malawi
68______Guatemala
67______Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska
66______Papua New Guinea
64______Croatia
64______Norway
62______Ivory Coast
61______Djibouti
59______Ecuador
59______Pakistan
59______Slovenia
c.57____Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)
56______Kiribati
56______Tuvalu
54______Japan
54______Senegal
54______Serbia and Montenegro: Kosovo/Kosova
53______Haiti
53______Liechtenstein
52______Ghana
c.52____Niger
51______Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation
50______Bangladesh
50______Cyprus
50______Mozambique
48______Mauritania
48______Nauru
46______Chad
46______Togo
45______Cambodia
44______Angola
44______Marshall Islands
44______Vanuatu
41______Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor)
40______Iceland
39______Monaco
38______Congo (Brazzaville)
38______Indonesia
37______Republic of Guinea
c.36____Sudan
34______Mali
34______Micronesia, Federated States of
33______Nigeria
32______Gambia
31______Solomon Islands
c.30____Comoros
29______India
29______Nepal
28______Faeroe Islands (Denmark)
23______Burkina Faso

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Incarceration RATE per 100,000 population. You can
divide it by a thousand to get the percentage of
the national population imprisoned. Or just move
the decimal point to the left 3 places. 1000
prisoners per 100,000 population is 1.000 percent
of the population imprisoned.


"Over 9 million people are held in penal
institutions throughout the world,
mostly as pre-
trial detainees (remand prisoners) or having been
convicted and sentenced." -- World Prison
Population List (fifth edition),
published in
2004. Top 3 links below are for mirror pages with
web page charts of rates of nations in descending
or alphabetical order:

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/world.htm Charts mirror.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/world.htm Charts mirror.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html Population.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html Population.
World Prison Population List. By region:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps -Multiple languages.
http://www.prisonstudies.org -Easy-to-remember URL.
http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/international/wpl.html
-All editions.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r234.pdf <-- 5th edition. 6th -->
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/world-prison-population-list-2005.pdf 
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/world_brief.html
Click above link for incarceration rate maps worldwide.
For highest to lowest prison populations, rates, regions, etc.:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/highest_to_lowest_rates.html

U.S. state rates map. Click any state name on the map:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/usa.html
http://corporatism.tripod.com/rates.htm USA rates.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/rates.htm U.S. state rates.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim01.htm 2001 USA.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim01.pdf -2001 USA
state-by-state incarceration rates chart is Table 16.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim99.htm 1999 USA.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim99.pdf -1999 USA
state-by-state incarceration rates chart is Table 11.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html Population.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html Population.
Click, enter nation or state, and click again:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22prison+population+rate%22


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U.S. Incarceration Rates Timeline.
Number of prison and jail inmates per 100,000 population.
Midyear population. Rates slightly lower if yearend population.

TEXAS rates at the chart end:
1014 in 1999. 966 in 2001.

That is 1% of Texans imprisoned!

1925 to 1977 incarceration rates are estimates based on prison rates.
1925 to 1977 jail rates are estimated to be 50% of prison rates.
The 2 rates are added together to get the 1925-77 incarceration rate.
High*** and low** rates are shown for 1925-77. See endnotes.
  Year Incarceration
Rate.
Total
inmates
in prisons
and jails.
USA. Total
Midyear
Population.








Some key years.
1968. Nixon elected.
1969. Nixon in power.
1971. Nixon declares
        a War on Drugs.
1973. DEA begins.
1974. Nixon resigns.



6 Ronald
6 Wilson
6 Reagan 666
and
Nancy Reagan.
Their
"Just Say NO" ,
Holy War on Drugs.
The Beast. :)
Fascism with a
smiley face...
1925
1928
1932
1934
1939
1945
1950
1952
1961
1968
1969
1971
1972
1973
1974
1977
1978
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
119**
144
165***
164**
206***
147**
164***
162**
179***
141**
146***
143
140**
144
153
194
203
220
241
263
276
288
312
332
353
388
435
458
480
503
524
558
595
610
639
658
678
686
688
707
718
729
742
















452,790
501,886
555,114
610,767
645,713
681,282
742,939
799,171
856,906
949,659
1,076,670
1,146,401
1,216,664
1,292,347
1,364,881
1,469,947
1,585,586
1,646,020
1,743,643
1,816,931
1,893,115
1,937,482
1,961,247
2,033,022
2,085,620
2,135,901
2,193,798
















222,585,000
227,726,463
229,966,237
232,187,835
234,307,207
236,348,292
238,466,283
240,650,755
242,803,533
245,021,414
247,341,697
250,131,894
253,492,503
256,894,189
260,255,352
263,435,673
266,557,091
269,667,391
272,911,760
276,115,288
279,294,713
282,338,631
285,023,886
287,675,526
290,342,554
293,027,571
295,734,134
Add in
126,561
inmates
(Juvenile,
U.S. Territories,
etc.) to get
total inmates.
    +126,561 +4,327,569
   
2005 773 2,320,359 300,061,703
  Total
incarceration
rate per
100,000
population.
Total
inmates
in
U.S.A.
and its
Territories
Total
population
of U.S.A.
and its
Territories
(4,327,569).
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/rates.htm mirror page.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/rates.htm mirror page.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p05.pdf and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/pripropr.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/p05.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/corr2tab.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/usaterr.htm
and
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html Population.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim99.htm 1999 USA.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim99.pdf -1999 USA
state-by-state incarceration rates chart is Table 11.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim01.htm -2001 links.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim01.pdf -2001 USA
state-by-state incarceration rates chart is Table 16.
2001 Federal rate of 49 can be calculated from Table 1.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/sheets/pjim01.zip -2001 USA
spreadsheets. See tables 1 and 16. Use MS Excel, etc..
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/usa.html state
rates map. Latest. Click any U.S. state name on the map.

The last link above is a clickable U.S. map of
state-by-state incarceration rates.

The rates are for inmates per 100,000 state population.
Note that no state in the USA has a rate less than 200.
Bush was governor of Texas 1994-2000. His legacy:
Louisiana (1025)
and TEXAS (1014)
(under Bush) had the highest rates in 1999.
In 2001
(see the 4 links just above) it was
Louisiana (1013)
and
TEXAS (966)
that again had the highest incarceration rates with

1% of their populations imprisoned.
2001 Federal incarceration rate of 49 was NOT 
added in to those numbers.
In the USA it costs 
around $25,000 average per year for each inmate. 
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS):
"At midyear 2005,
nearly 4.7 percent of black males were in prison
or jail, compared to 1.9 percent of Hispanic males,
and 0.7 percent of white males. Among males in
their late 20s, nearly 12 percent of black males,
compared to 3.9 percent of Hispanic males and
1.7 percent of white males, were incarcerated"

Above BJS quote is from the link below:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/pjim05pr.htm __
*1925 to 1977 incarceration rates are estimates
based on prison rates from the Bureau of Justice
Statistics document NCJ 102494, State and
Federal Prisoners, 1925-85. Info is also in
NCJ 85861. The 1925-1977 jail rates are
estimated as 50% of prison rates. Prison rate plus
jail rate equals total incarceration rate. Sources:

http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t6282004.pdf
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/wk1/t6282004.wk1
http://www.ncjrs.gov/bjsonlineorders/feepubs.html
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/paperonly.htm
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0701fig1.pdf
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/govpubs/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t6001.pdf
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/govpubs/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t6002.pdf 
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/govpubs/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t6003.pdf
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/govpubs/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t6004.pdf 

 


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Liberation from Religion.
 -
Spirituality, and/or Extra-dimensional physics, for Dummies.

A Declaration of Independence. 
The spiritual worlds may even be extra dimensions that will be totally explainable by science someday. It's all good.
Here below are 2 Bible verses that release people from all Bible verses, all religions, all texts, all names, and even names like "Jesus" or "Lucifer"!
If people can think and feel for themselves, and if the spiritual and/or extra-dimensional worlds are real, and if free will is real, then no one can really force anyone to loosen up, and open themselves up to broader horizons. And conversely, no one can forcibly close someone up and keep them from thinking and feeling. People are in prisons of their own making and choosing. Especially the prison of religion. Many of the world's problems, wars, hate campaigns, and drug wars come from text-based religious fundamentalists. It is due to their simplistic intolerance, and their close-minded belief in the infallibility of religious texts and names. These true believers are closed-off simpletons and dumbstruck beginners who are tied to their religious textbooks. Texts that are often completely changed from the original texts, and/or were edited by many people over many years. Texts that are often chosen for political purposes centuries ago. There are many texts that are more accurate and truthful. But they usually attack the status quo, especially religion. So they are often burned and lost to history. Sometimes they are found. In any case almost no text can be proven to come unedited from the period or person claimed.
Even these 2 famous verses below are too harsh. People can open or close their minds and hearts at will. The point is that names, texts, and religions matter little compared to the spiritual and/or extra-dimensional worlds (whatever they are).

Matthew 12:32
(from New American Standard version):
"And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in the age to come."

A similar version is found in the Gnostic gospel of the apostle Thomas:
"44. Jesus said, 'Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven.' "
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html ~
-- "The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures -- texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define 'orthodoxy' -- scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, ..."

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Bold Evil Morons with power.

The false prophets of the fundamentalist and corporatist slave herds.

Morpheus: "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." Neo: "What truth?" Morpheus: "That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you can not smell or taste or touch. A prison - for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends. You wake up in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember! All I am offering is the truth. Nothing more." -- From the 1999 movie, The Matrix.

Thought herding. A history of hate radio and television.

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull*hit!"

*Adolph Hitler. Ex-Moron-in-Chief. Religion of Nazi hate. War criminal.
*Joseph Goebbels. Hitler's Minister of Propaganda. The "Big Lie."
*Rush Limbaugh. Corporatist Propagandist. Rush Windbag. Hillbilly heroin hypocrite.
*Bill O'Reilly. Propagandist. 5-minute Harassment "Interview" lectures.
*Pat Robertson. Fundamentalist. Male-based Christianity. Versus female.
*Osama Bin Laden. Islamic Male Fundamentalist. Old-time patriarchy.
*Jerry Falwell. Male Fundamentalist. Neither moral, nor in majority.
*Nancy Reagan. Propagandist. "Just Say No." Role-played subservient female.
*Henry Kissinger. War criminal. Death squads. 9/11 Commission mole.
*Ariel Sharon. War criminal. Jewish Male Fundamentalist supporter.
*ONDCP, DEA. "Big Lie" ads, consciousness control, astronomical U.S. incarceration rate.
*George W. Bush. MORON #1. Crusading Armageddonist. Drug-war criminal.

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The majority of the over 2.3 million U.S. inmates are imprisoned because of the Drug War!

Republicrats: Republican EVIL, 
and Democrat complicity.
1968 to date. Creating the U.S.

Drug War Incarceration Nation
of arch-drug-warriors
Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II.
Texas = state-sponsored
drug war terrorism!

Remember Tulia, Texas!
This is determined by totaling drug crimes, drug-related crimes (such as robbing to get money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), drug trade crimes, drug-related parole violations, etc.. Click the above link for more info.

The U.S. incarceration rate is over 5 times higher than in 1971 when the impeached arch-criminal, "law-and-order" President Richard Nixon declared an evil "war on drugs" as a substitute for the good "war on poverty." The USA has less than 5% of the world's population and around 25% of the world's 9 million prisoners. Since the year 2000 the USA again has the world's highest incarceration rate! It is 5 to 20 times higher than all other nations with long democratic traditions such as Australia, Canada, Western European nations, Iceland, Japan, etc.. Government waste: It costs around $25,000 per prisoner per year. Statistics, references, links, and charts:

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