Quote Originally Posted by fishman3811
Yeah and this war on drugs doesnt help.But hey you guys are short on cannon fodder i mean troops so why not recruit people in prison?Thats better than a draft isnt it?

Man you're not actually serious right? They're in prison. Deployment would just be an opportunity for escape. More importantly though you'd be taking the scum of society, the rapists, thieves, gansters etc. and letting them loose on Iraqi civilians. Just imagine the amount of civilian abuse that would go on, it's bad enough as is.


As for Medicinal's original post; I'm surprised how little this subject is discussed in mainstream media. Americans are always telling us how they live in the best country on Earth.... well then what's wrong with their best society on Earth when they have to imprison WAAAAYYY more people than any other nation including communist China and any other dictatorship where people can go to jail for thinking the wrong thoughts or spitting gum on the sidewalks.
Honestly I think the military and police has a lot to do with it. Trillions of dollars spent on policing the world and locking up citizens for using substances, which as is should be a public health issue, not a criminal one. It baffles me that Americans are so concerned with who they should be afraid of, inside the nation and out, that the living standards of the very people Washington is governing is seldom the top issue.
All our elections here in Canada have been about what the government does for its people, the most hotbutton issues being healthcare, environment, economy, crime, and drug policy. The Liberals got voted out for doing diddly squat about these issues, not for failing to invade enough nations and lock up enough "criminals".