America – the Land of the Free
Grandad July 24th, 2010
I came across a rather startling piece of video the other day.
It’s an extract from the QI programme on BBC. It’s supposed to be light entertainment, but the facts revealed somewhat sobered up the panellists.
Yes. The slave trade is alive and well and living in America, the Land of the Free.
In case anyone should be in any doubt that this is happening, there is even an official industry set up – UNICOR
A bit of an eye opener, huh?
[Hat tip to Captain Ranty who pointed me in the right direction.]
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Meh. They’re only Americans.
Actually now that I think if it, Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians etc. are all Americans too. So what’s the correct term for someone hailing from The United States?
Edit – Never mind. According to Wikipedia, American is the correct demonym for Yanks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_U.S._citizens
Knuckledragger?
What’s with the Hallmark Channel background music ?
wow….can i repost that ?
i’m a fan of stephen fry, he talks a lot of sense…not trying to drop a link or anything, but, if you get time, and you do like his points of views on life, maybe give this a listen sometime…
http://broadcastingfromashed.blogspot.com/2010/07/some-words-of-wisdom-from-stephen-fry.html
two life terms for shoplifting nine video tapes….thats unreal !!….amazing other stats too..
Another rather interesting piece from Capt Ranty here Grandad ….
http://captainranty.blogspot.com/2010/07/that-special-relationship.html
The video clip is quite entertaining ..
TT – Don’t know anything about the music. I didn’t put it there.
Doug – Feel free.
Haddock – I saw that [I read all Ranty's posts]. That should make our American friends very happy?
Yep. The brown noses are real quiet about this one. It’s people with a little knowledge turning it into a “know all about it attitude” It’s a state by state thing first off. Not national. Some states are stricter than others. Some have the 3 strike policy and some don’t. I think it’s always for felonies, not midemeanours. Usually for violent crimes. But not always. It’s true that “we’ love jailing people though. Folks have the criminals (them) and non criminals (us) attitude. Then they discover it’s a thin line. Fact is sentencing is too heavy here. But in your part of the world it’s too light. By a fucking mile. Kilometre ?
Can we have that system here? Please?
3 strikes and … BAM … Life!!
Great stuff, and all down to the malefactor’s own choice!
TT – We have a simpler system here. We just let ‘em kill each other, and good riddence.
Stephen – Be careful what you wish for. It may come true.