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