To Be King...

Was reading a piece on the cost of incarcerating convicted criminals, felons mostly, and it's a staggering sum. Lost the bloody thing and won't make a bigger ass of myself by tossing out numbers I am unsure of, but wowsers.

Eventually, pretty much any transgression will be considered felonious so I do understand that there's a difference between violent nutjobs and someone getting caught doing what used to be perfectly legal. But it's the violent offenders I and society should be worried about, and no, I'm not saying give the grifters a free ride but for the love of pete it's high time for the madness to end. Federal penetentiaries are nothing more than graduate schooling for villains thieves and scoundrels, and I do suppose it's going to take some sort of revolution to get the country back on track. Cruel and unusual punishment USED to mean torture and bread and water but the liberals have reformulated the concept to mean no internet access and less than a score of conjugal visits per month.

Barracks environment for those capable of living with other inmates. Cellblocks for those who need to be behind bars. Barbed wire, the German kind, strung several feet deep and a dozen or so feet high. Beyond that, mine fields. Want to escape, be our guest. Commit a REAL felony, in other words steal or harm another person or persons and it's a quick 20 in the can, with parole ONLY for those who've demonstrated a genuine willingness to return to society as valued members, not childrens-stories-writers or Jesus freaks. The death penalty for those who've been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to have killed another human being while committing a rape or robbery. In the can, on to death row, and have it all neat and tidy in less than a year before throwing the switch.

All this could be done were it not for the loons. Less prisons, a safer society, and of course I'm so full of shit my eyes are turning browner by the nanosecond. Pipedreams. But it'll get worse before it gets better and to get better probably means we'll have to throw the rascals out. New York is the financial center of the universe, and as such serves a useful purpose so it gets to stay, and Massachusetts too because a lot of the Founding Fathers thought it was cool digs.

But California has no reason to exist except as housing for those who are a bad example to all of humanity, so it goes. Everyone who wants out gets out, then email Mexico and tell them it'll be okay to move back in as soon as the fences are ready. Particle beam weapons are being tested in Iraq and will most likely be available once the last section of the wall is up. Anyone trying to scoot over...zap.

Then, on to the politicians. Wait a sec...maybe we should save a spot near Frisco to house the loons we've just forceably removed from office. That'll screw up my map but I can be flexible.