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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Crime in America
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Crime in America -- Shoot 'em Down, Lock 'em up, Kill 'em all or Mytholitics
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Who says crime is on the rise? Americans do, thats who. According to a
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recent Gallup poll, 80 percent of Americans to be exact. Not so, says Michael
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Tonry of the University of Minnesota. Crime is only up for about 5 percent
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of the population living in the inner city, mostly those living in failed
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government projects. So what the hell is going on? A bill is currently in
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Congress as of this writing aimed at bringing America closer to a police
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state as it has ever been. You think I'm kidding, I'm not.
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The $33.2 billion dollar program will include some of the most drastic
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measures yet conceived by the U.S. Government to put a stop to a crime wave
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that does not actually exist. The program includes:
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* Handing over $11.1 billion to state and local law enforcement agencies.
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* Spending $2.8 billion on federal law enforcement and courts.
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* Spending $1.2 billion on drug courts (coming soon to a city near you.)
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* $10.5 billion (count 'em) for prisons.
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* $400 million for a Police Corp scholarship program (much like the National
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Gaurd.)
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* And $191 milion for Border Patrol???
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What is this, Russia? All this to put a lid on an increase in crime that
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doesn't exist? How could the government make such a mistake. The thing is,
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its not a mistake. Americans actually have perceived a threat to their
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safety, and in mass numbers they have flocked to the very people they despise
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the most, their own government. They have effectively said, "Yes, I am
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willing to further give up my rights for this placebo that will make me THINK
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I'm safe." Safe in our homes, or locked in them? The question is scary to
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consider.
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Oh, did I mention the further ban on guns this bill calls for? Silly me, say
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goodbye to your assualt rifles. Yes, that right, goodbye. Because the bill
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also calls for the banning of all assualt rifles. If the Brady Bill wasn't
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enough infringement on the 2nd Amendment, a complete ban on assualt rifles
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should fix that. But don't count the goverment down and out after they
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achieve that goal. One Senator has ALREADY proposed a complete ban on all
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guns and is in the process of working up the bill.
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Wait, its still not over. 100,000 more police officers will be hitting the
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street by 1996. Oh, did I say police officers, how about stormtroopers, that
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sounds better. I don't know about the cops in your town, but the sherrifs
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in mine are already starting to wear black BDU pants and combat boots. Does
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something sound wrong here?
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Oooh, oooh, wait, what about the part of the bill that aims at putting third
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time felons behind bars for life. The three strikes and your out policy, as
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its called. Only in America could a justice system be run like a favorite
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sport. Shit, baseball is pure American! Not only is this policy amusing,
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its also a tragedy of justice. Not because it necessarily impractical, but
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simply because its just one more hole to be used. What about ten years from
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now? Will crime have skyrocketed so high that we have to revert to a two-
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strike, or even a one strike system? What will the Commisioner of Baseball
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think?
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There has got to be a word for it. I don't know what it is. But the concept
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of it is this: some how we have made a mistake. Okay, in the past 10 years
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technology has skyrocketed. Communications has errupted, everything is speedy
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as hell. It is truly what we envisioned it would be, a global village.
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But what do we measure this increase in communications with? For instance,
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100 years ago there was crime. But nobody knew about it. It was not spread
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in a matter of seconds to a million people across the nation. Instead, most
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people probably NEVER knew about it. Therefore they conceived no threat to
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their safety. Therefore they were not moved to protect themselves. Today,
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there is crime. We know about it instantly. We know about the guy who
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crashed his truck into Lubys, pulled out an assault rifle and killed a lot of
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people. We think maybe WE could've been one of those people. Suddenly, there
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is a threat to our safety, real or imagined, that has to be dealt with. But
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if we had never heard about it, we would've never felt that threat. Is crime
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worse in America now than it was 100 years ago? Our population is lot greater,
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so first we have to consider the inflation aspects. Like money. A dollar
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would buy you alot more then than it would now. Our population is bigger,
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so incidents of crime are going to be higher. Its relative. Then we have
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to consider that nameless factor, what about the proximity of crime to a
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person? A hundred years ago a murder in Detroit would mean very little to
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someone living in Boston, lets say. Today, a murder in Detroit seems so much
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closer because there it is on TV, right in your face, blood, guts and all.
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It might as well be on your front porch.
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The point is, we are giving up our rights for something we DO NOT NEED. If
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crime was that bad, the National Guard would already be on the streets, there
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would already be cameras on every street corner, guns would already be gone.
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Please, think. Use your head. And oppose bills and regulations that aim
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at turning America into police state.
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Rice
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