<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you, Randall, for researching further into the topic. How sad and tragic for the USA. A real eye-opener.<div class="">I may post this on FB. <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 31, 2020, at 6:29 AM, Megan Krivchenia via Fuusm-l <<a href="mailto:fuusm-l@fuusm.org" class="">fuusm-l@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="ydp2af69ffbyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div class=""></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Thanks for the information....so sad.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Megan Krivchenia</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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On Sunday, August 30, 2020, 08:31:13 PM EDT, gbanz42--- via Fuusm-l <<a href="mailto:fuusm-l@fuusm.org" class="">fuusm-l@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:
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<div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Randy,<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""> Thanks for this information. Very revealing.<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">---- Randall Kidder via Fuusm-l <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:fuusm-l@fuusm.org" href="mailto:fuusm-l@fuusm.org" class="">fuusm-l@fuusm.org</a>> wrote: <br clear="none" class="">> I found his comments enlightening, and thought-provoking. I decided to look<br clear="none" class="">> up where the United States places in a ranking of world violence<br clear="none" class="">> statistics. Naturally, depending on the source or year, stats will vary<br clear="none" class="">> somewhat, however there is a general trend and the reality is unsettling to<br clear="none" class="">> say the least. Following are just a few of the results I found. Keep in<br clear="none" class="">> mind that there are currently 195 countries in the world.<br clear="none" class="">> <br clear="none" class="">> <a href="http://indexmundi.com" class="">indexmundi.com</a> - as of 2017 the USA ranked 55th in intentional homicides<br clear="none" class="">> per 100, 000 people.<br clear="none" class="">> <br clear="none" class="">> <a href="http://worldpopulationreview.com" class="">worldpopulationreview.com</a> - USA is 36th as far as violence in 2020. This<br clear="none" class="">> can be further broken down into types of violence.<br clear="none" class="">> <br clear="none" class="">> <a href="http://10news.com" class="">10news.com</a> - USA ranks 13th on the list of the 15 most dangerous countries<br clear="none" class="">> in which to live. (Or die as the case may be).<br clear="none" class="">> <br clear="none" class="">> And as a bonus statistic, as many of you probably know, the USA has the<br clear="none" class="">> highest incarceration rate in the entire world, with 655/100,000 in prison<br clear="none" class="">> as of June, 2020; thanks in part to the so-called War On Drugs, Three<br clear="none" class="">> Strikes and Your Out laws, automatic sentencing (depriving judges of the<br clear="none" class="">> capacity to consider extenuating circumstances), and privitization of more<br clear="none" class="">> and more prisons thereby reducing the prison system to a profit-making<br clear="none" class="">> enterprise which demands by its nature to fulfill quotas, and using (read,<br clear="none" class="">> selling) prisoners as slaves to companies to use for whatever purpose.<br clear="none" class="">> Capitalism run amok.<br clear="none" class="">> <br clear="none" class="">> A further consideration of violence. There are only 14 countries that have<br clear="none" class="">> still retained the right to execute criminals according to<br clear="none" class="">> <a href="http://worldpopulationreview.com" class="">worldpopulationreview.com</a>, the USA is one of them. This is only about 7.2%,<br clear="none" class="">> out of 195 countries. So, 181 countries no longer honor the practice. It<br clear="none" class="">> begs the question, WHY?! It is no secret that our criminal justice system<br clear="none" class="">> is plagued by obvious and unabashed racial and economic biases. And<br clear="none" class="">> consider that an alarming number of inmates have been exonerated due to<br clear="none" class="">> later DNA evidence either after having served years, even decades of prison<br clear="none" class="">> sentences, or after having been wrongfully executed.<br clear="none" class="">> <br clear="none" class="">> No further comment necessary.<br clear="none" class="">> <br clear="none" class="">> <br clear="none" class="">> <br clear="none" class="">> Randall Kidder<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">--<br clear="none" class="">George Banziger<br clear="none" class="">202 Lawton Road<br clear="none" class="">Marietta, OH 45750-1111<br clear="none" class="">740-434-5685<br clear="none" class="">cell: 740-434-3354<div class="yqt8956601253" id="yqtfd79042"><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">_______________________________________________<br clear="none" class="">Fuusm-l mailing list<br clear="none" class=""><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Fuusm-l@fuusm.org" href="mailto:Fuusm-l@fuusm.org" class="">Fuusm-l@fuusm.org</a><br clear="none" class=""><a shape="rect" href="http://fuusm.org/mailman/listinfo/fuusm-l_fuusm.org" target="_blank" class="">http://fuusm.org/mailman/listinfo/fuusm-l_fuusm.org</a><br clear="none" class=""></div></div></div>
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