Issodhos says.....        
    I can't speak for Aussieland but in America judges come in all
colors, gender, and ethnicity. So do American prosecutors, defense
attorneys, paralegals, cops, and (most importantly) American juries. Why
do you think them racially discriminatory?
    
and Bill responds.....
   That's a very narrow definition of discrimination you are driving at,
the process doesn't have to be openly discrininatory to be effectively
discriminatory.


Wait a second, Bill.    Don't you think that Issodhos is getting away
with murder here?     Issodhos would have people believe that the
judicial and policing systems of the United States are some sort of
perfect Rainbow Coalition, equal in proportion to society as a whole!
And fair!

Having just come from a board meeting of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice, I didn't exactly see that Rainbow Coalition.    I saw
a group that looked like they were going to church in an upper middle
class white community, by and large.

When I worked in a prison, I saw white guards toting rifles on horses
guarding black prisoners dressed in white uniforms.     When I passed
inside, I went past a row of photos of white big-wig pigs in the prison
administration to an almost Black prison population that served food in
the guards cafeteria lke slaves to their masters.

Owners of the private prison contracting companies that run prisons for
private profit down here aren't Latino or Black.     What type of
self-con is Issodhos trying to pull?

Most judges are political appointees.     Even if nominally elected,
it's still via a White controlled patronage machine.     Sure, there's
some Clarence Thomas coloring added.    And Judge Judy is on TV.     I
guess we have a non-sexist, non-racist system in place?    At least on
TV.

How did the Black and Latino community get where it has a
disproportionate number of its residents committing murder?     It got
to be that way from a racist legal system, and racist police force,
combining up to throw a disproportinate number of poverty stricken
minorities into the prison system.

If we had Whites thrown into prison proportionately for drug and
property offenses with Hispanics and Blacks, then the murder rate would
rise in the White community also.     Increasing the numbers of
prisoners incarcelated ,increases the numbers of murders committed.
Go to jail and find out why.    It's not really hard to figure out.

The simple fact is, that by imprisoning high numbers of minorities, the
system is also increasig the amount of violent crime in those
communities.      That's what the racist judicial system is set up to
do.

Communities traumatized by crime are less likely to be able to mobilize
themselves to demand social justice on other issues.     If you are
worried about a drive-by shooting killing one of your kids, you're not
going to make joining a union, or demonstrating against war, a top
priority.

White prosecutors and police know that throwing people into jail for
victimless crimes turns out more violence into the community.     That's
why if you are White, you will get a better deal for youthful
stupidities done.     Black or Hispanic gets the lock.

Tony Abdo