AND SO IT BEGINS, AGAIN! [+] serious ballot by passiveson ACTIVE Sat Mar 10, 07 - Mon Mar 09, 09 Don't Say I Didn't Warn You! In Ballot #111963, It is revealed that the government is in the process of constructing "Civilian Internment Camps", or prison camps, intent on installing a civilian inmate labor program under development by the Department for the Army. Today, The Washington Post reports on a legislative plan In Colorado, since toughening the State's stance on illegal immigration, that will utilize the minimum security inmate population to fill the gaps on Colorado farms. The inmates will earn the state's standard prison pay of $.60 cents per day. Critics from every side of the immigration debate called Colorado's plan a deeply flawed stopgap solution to the chronic labor shortage, which afflicts agriculture from New York's apple orchards to Oregon's Christmas tree farms. The basic problem is that the pay is so low that it's difficult for people to accept those jobs. If farm work paid a livable wage like any other industry, they wouldn't have that problem. No one even seems to deny that immigrants are unable to earn a living doing field work, but it has been an acceptable exploitation of illegal aliens who come across the border to work for decades. Those who want to restrict immigration tend to agree that farm wages are too low for a person to live on. With the stemming of a free pass across the southern border, for Colorado and several other State's, the inmate program has precedents. Farmers will contract with the state for the labor, paying the cost of transportation and guards. ----------------------------------------------- About 78 percent of the Nation's 1.8 million agricultural workers are immigrants, according to Department of Labor statistics. The majority are in the country illegally. Nationally, there are 1.4M prison inmates, but only 18%, or 263,744 classified to minimum security. The numbers just don't add up for filling 1.8M jobs. We're about 1.5M short. There are several issues to consider with this plan. The first is whether it's ethical to force prisoners to work below the National Minimum wage, paying only $.60 per day to preform back breaking labor. Next is the possibility that the Civilian Labor Camps have a predisposed purpose. Namely, to gather up the many thousands of indigent, poor and homeless, charging them with various dubious (trumped up) petty offenses and sentencing them to work America's fields at $.60 per day, until they've paid the fines. I think it's a discriminating way to rid ourselves of those that society deems less desirable. Many are mentally ill, handicapped, and some war veterens. In my opinion, they're not the scourge we need to purge ourselves or, it's these politicians who lost site of what it means to be America! Do you think it's right to make inmates work for $.60 per day? What of forcing the homeless and poor into camps to fill their agenda? It's Unethical Nothing Wrong With It Ballot #112930 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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