United States has the highest incarceration rate

“In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.” Leo Tolstoy

http://tinyurl.com/3xlf7p The news story from AP shows the United States has the highest jail incarceration rate in the world. This from a country whose politicians, the same ones who enact the laws that cause the highest incarceration rate in the world, and from a country with the constant iteration that the citizens of the United States live in the freest country in the world.

Why does the United States have the highest incarceration rate in the world? Simply put, it is government policies.

A federal government that creates laws that are over 69,000 pages long is a government that is not about freedom, but about control. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/ Add to the federal register thousands of state and local laws and you can see why all of us are potential criminals.

Here is a story about a crime, "Material Support". Be careful. Be very careful. You may be providing "Material Support" for a crime, which if convicted can get you a long prison sentence, and add to the incarceration rate of the land of the free and home of the brave. http://tinyurl.com/27wvvw

Charles Tolleson