I was reading a piece Drudge linked to when I saw a link to this article that was so full of lib-speak nonsensical bullshit about the supposed unfairness of the number of illegal aliens in Arizona prisons.
It made me wonder if the clowns who run CBS News (and the rest of the state-controlled media, for that matter) realize why they’re hemorrhaging millions of viewers every year and becoming more irrelevant with each passing day.
Well, here’s a big part of the reason why:
CBS News has this piece about too many illegal aliens filling up Arizona prisons, on their website. Look at how the two libturd reporters, Laura Strickler and Jack Weingart, wrote the first paragraph:
New data from the Arizona Department of Corrections shows that undocumented immigrants are increasingly over-represented in the state’s prison population.
“Over-represented”? WTF!?!?
These two liberal morons make it sound as if prisons should have affirmative action programs to “level the playing field” for admission like so many colleges do. Maybe then our second “affirmative action” educated President can also be our first convicted felon President!
Hey libs, ever see the old 70’s TV series Baretta? Remember the theme song by Sammy Davis Jr.:
Best theme song in TV history! But I digress. Yep, “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”. Let that sink into your numbskulls, libs.
Then, just when you think these two libturds can’t write anything more stupid, they wrote the following nugget of wisdom in the second paragraph:
In June 2010, undocumented immigrants represented 14.8 percent of Arizona state prisoners, but accounted for only 7 percent of the state’s overall population according to the Department of Homeland Security.
I hate to be redundant, but again, WTF!?!?
What difference does it make what the racial make-up or citizenship status is of those incarcerated, and what the hell does that have to do with who should or should not be in jail or prison, you ignorant twits?
Here’s a breakdown of some of the crimes they committed that sent them to prison:
The new data also revealed for the first time a breakdown of crimes for which undocumented immigrants were incarcerated.
For example of all the prisoners serving time in Arizona state prisons for kidnapping, 40 percent were undocumented. Of those in prison on drug charges, 24 percent were undocumented. And 13 percent of those serving time for murder were undocumented immigrants, according to the new data from the Arizona Department of Corrections.
The number of undocumented immigrants in Arizona state prisons has also grown in recent years. In December, 2004 there were 4,098 undocumented immigrants in the Arizona state prison population making up 12.6 percent according to state data. By June 2010 the number had increased to 14.8 percent for a total of 5,983 incarcerated undocumented immigrants.
Yep, those all seem like legitimate reasons to lock up the scumbags, if you axe me. And of course, these bleeding heart lib scumbags fail to mention that just the fact that these illegal aliens are in our country is a crime, which makes them, get ready: Criminals!
But wait! It gets even better! Well, actually worse, when the libs interview another member of what Victor Davis Hanson called the “cultural elite”, a college professor to explain it all to the unwashed masses (you and I).
I wonder if it ever occurred to these two libturd dolts that we don’t need a pointy-headed liberal pseudo-intellectual who thinks he’s smarter than everybody else to explain to us why these scumbags are in prison.
We already know why they’re in prison: THEY BROKE THE DAMN LAW! Why the hell is that so difficult for these libturds to figure out?
Anyway, read this bullshit from professor James Alan Fox from Northeastern University. The condescension is so thick you have to cut it with a knife-
“You take any population that tends to be poor and you will have a higher rate of individuals in prison,” he said. “One, there is a correlation between social class and criminality and two there’s a correlation between social class and the likelihood you’ll be sent to prison for the same crime as compared to people in a higher social class.”
Fox says this is due in part to inadequate legal representation for low-income people. And he adds: “There’s a title of an old book the rich get richer; the poor get prison.”
Again, WTF?!?!
So I guess this “genius” is implying that it’s not the criminal’s fault they’re in jail, since according to the propeller head, the criminal is actually a victim also!
I’m sure the person who was murdered, robbed, or raped by these animals will feel better because the perpetrator is also a victim! You see, it’s society’s fault, not the criminal’s!
Yep, that’s it! Blame the man!
So what does being poor have to do with the propensity to break the law? The answer is NOTHING! Millions upon millions of poor people live their lives everyday as law-abiding citizens.
The problem isn’t poverty, it’s parenting, or the lack of parenting. And that can be blamed squarely on liberal democrats, who decided, to all of our detriment, especially those they were trying to “help”, that a father wasn’t necessary to raise their kids, just a check from the government.
As the great Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote in his article from August, 2004, “The War on Poverty Revisited”:
Never had there been such a comprehensive program to tackle poverty at its roots, to offer more opportunities to those starting out in life, to rehabilitate those who had fallen by the wayside, and to make dependent people self-supporting. Its intentions were the best. But we know what road is paved with good intentions.
The War on Poverty represented the crowning triumph of the liberal vision of society — and of government programs as the solution to social problems. The disastrous consequences that followed have made the word “liberal” so much of a political liability that today even candidates with long left-wing track records have evaded or denied that designation.
And he also wrote this:
The poverty rate among black families fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent in 1960, during an era of virtually no major civil rights legislation or anti-poverty programs. It dropped another 17 percentage points during the decade of the 1960s and one percentage point during the 1970s, but this continuation of the previous trend was neither unprecedented nor something to be arbitrarily attributed to the programs like the War on Poverty.
In various skilled trades, the incomes of blacks relative to whites more than doubled between 1936 and 1959 — that is, before the magic 1960s decade when supposedly all progress began. The rise of blacks in professional and other high-level occupations was greater in the five years preceding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than in the five years afterwards.
So, if just being poor were the cause of all this lawlessness, the USA should have been a war zone during the great depression. It wasn’t. As a matter of fact, not including bootlegging and the ensuing mafia wars, crime rates during the depression actually decreased:
The analysis suggests that relief spending during the 1930s lowered property crime in a statistically and economically significant way. A lower bound ordinary least squares estimate suggests that a 10 percent increase in per capita relief spending during the Great Depression lowered property crime rates by close to 1 percent. After controlling for potential endogeneity using an instrumental variables approach, the estimates suggest that a 10 percent increase in per capita relief spending lowered crime rates by roughly 5.6 to 10 percent at the margin.
