""The US is the world's largest prison state, imprisoning more
of its citizens than any nation on earth, both in absolute numbers and
proportionally. It imprisons people for longer periods of time, more
mercilessly, and for more trivial transgressions than any nation in the west.
This sprawling penal state has been constructed over decades, by both political
parties, and it punishes the poor and racial minorities at overwhelmingly
disproportionate rates." "And, of course, these HSBC-protectors in the Obama DOJ
are the same officials responsible for maintaining and expanding what NYT
Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal has accurately described as "essentially
a separate justice system for Muslims," one in which "the principle of due
process is twisted and selectively applied, if it is applied at all."
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