Why do Cons want more than half of the population in jail?

Question

It really seems they want to put people in jail for an incredible varied amount of reasons...

Well, I guess that would take care of the homeless, poor, employment, immigration, and a whole host of other problems they can't find solutions to deal with! maybe they have a point! Everyone really SHOULD be in jail!

Answer 1

What happens in Australia, is you have two types of law, enforced and not enforced. E.g. in australia if you murder someone, the law is enforced (you will go to court). Though if you j walk, or park you over 3 tonne truck on streets for years on end which say 3 tonne or less, no one cares.
What happens though, if you break an enforced rule, they go through your records, add in all the unenforced rules, so that rather than getting 10 years for murder, you would get 10 years for murder, 5 years for possession of illegal weapons, 1 year for possesion of illegal drugs and so on.
My point is is that although your politicians make rules, i bet most aren't enforced, and as long as your generally good you will get away with it. Though i have heard that the unenforced rules only occurs in Australia, i know that most americans get away with crimes all the time. E.g. all images put on the web are traceable, as they have to go through certain routing systems. In laymans terms, imagine that the network is a series of roads, which you can't leave. Everytime you come to a corner, you have a choice of directions, which is a hub. Everytime you pass a hub point you have to know which way to go, i.e. the address of the next hub, or the message will get lost (note so the message can be authorised, all messages also include the mac address, a physical address which can't be changed, of the sender). The message doesn't lose this information, so all you have to do is travel back along the addresses provided by the sent image. Yes, that means they know where Osama or one of his followers are if they place a message on the net. By the same token, everytime a person downloads an pirated movie or mp3, the companies know all about it (and probably have tabs on you). It's just that it isn't worth their time to report it, but if you start something like kazaa, they'll be on you in an instant. i.e. in america downloading illegal mp3's ain't enforced, but distributing them is.

Answer 2

Everyone walks around breaking the law. How many people actually obey every speed limit every time they drive. Or never jaywalk. Or always update every government document with their current address within 10 days of a move.

There are too many laws already that are ignored because they are too difficult to continually enforce. Adding more is just a pointless waste of legislative effort and does nothing for actually improving law enforcement.

Answer 3

You would be hard pressed to find inteligent conservatives that would advocate such things. Sounds more like the mindless musings of a liberal!

Answer 4

Think of the business opportunity with all that prison labor

Answer 5

Why do you believe that ALL cons want this? Try looking at us with the same tolerance you want for those groups you mentioned.

Answer 6

you make a nice observation about conservatives ,It is the policy to arrest and detain anyone who does not conform to the norms of society.

Answer 7

only the lawbreakers.

Why do the libs think people should be allowed to walk around ignoring the laws?

Answer 8

Yet another Liberal who can argue only against a straw-man.

Answer 9

Not in jail,in the electric chair!

Answer 10

Maybe you should wake up.