Yes, telling me to die and fixing nooses for those you disagree with are all about not being angry.

I am outraged about people going to the pen for small drug crimes, but that's a law issue as opposed to an incarceration issue. The fact is, this isn't 1971 where you end up in the pen over having a number in your car. And I very much get that what I do is against Federal law, which is another discussion. The other shoe to drop is that I don't deal, I don't traffic, I don't light up at McDonalds, I don't drive high (or impaired at all), I don't try to carry to or from Canada. In other words, I'm discreet. If you're a doof and think you're within your rights to fire up in front of a cop or at a primary school, well, natural consequences are that you'll come into contact with John Law. Whether that's what SHOULD happen or not is up for debate, because I believe responsibilities come with smoking weed, drinking, driving a car, whatever.

I'm not sure where the tough guy thing comes from, because I certainly don't think I am. FBF is the one wanting to kill folk, not me. I am a crier, tho. You got me there.

But we've gotten way off the point of prison conditions, no? Incarcerating people is grim business. Privately run prisons suck. Government prisons suck. Three albums notwithstanding, Varg must've thought the prison he was in sucked because he tried to escape at least once. Are there abuses in privately run prisons. There sure are. Well documented ones. Same with state run. Pelican Bay, the Federal Supermax ones, Angola, Alcatraz, the cook County lockup. Neither is better or worse than the other. And frankly I don't have a dog in the state vs. private jail business. But here is the truest thing you're going to hear today. No matter who runs a prison, no matter how it's run, none of us will be happy with it. Denying freedom to individuals is, again, grim business. With minute day to day problems unique to it that none of us can even begin to imagine. I don't know what fix, if there even is one, would remedy those problems. Obviously you folks don't either, because all you've done is point out problems and not offer solutions. Sadly, we end up at my original point: prison is prison. There is no easy way to take away an individual's liberty. Prove me wrong. Instead of bitching, offer some fixes. Personally, I think that would be a much more interesting discussion than listing the folks who should face the noose.