The politicians just can't jump on this bandwagon fast enough, can they?
Meanwhile, many more pressing problems go unaddressed. Such aswhat, you ask? The facts that:
- Many inner city neighborhoods are virtually garrisoned by police, while grand juries refuse to indict for excessive force.
- Our criminal justice system has become a plea-bargain bizarre.
- America has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any nation, due largely to the so-called war on drugs.
- We still don't have a federal law that outlaws LGBT discrimination across the board.
- The gap between the rich and poor is vast and growing, with 400 Americans having assets equal to the bottom 150 million of us. And these wealthy few now are free to spend all they wish to buy elections.
Meanwhile, "sexual assault" bedazzles the media. Obama's "1-in-5" assertion about the number of co-eds assaulted during their college days went unchallenged for months. At last, some are recognizing that the statistics on which that assertion is based include as little as an unwanted kiss.
Please don't misunderstand me. Real sexual assault is a terrible thing. It should be eradicated. By whom? Well, how about the police... who wouldn't need humvees and body armor to do it either... instead of making our colleges into criminal justice surrogates and fining them if they fail in that task
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