there will soon be an uprising of not only civil war but racial wars too...
that started 30 years ago when the neo-cons started their fake war on drugs while selling drugs to fund the Contra wars, while selling drugs (crack cocaine) to black street gangs in LA to cause an increase in addiction and crime while ALEC lobbied for mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offenders to keep the rising US for profit prison system full of cheap labor for Fortune 500's company's while the tax local payers get to foot the bill.
37% of US states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations. The list of these corporations include: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom?s, Revlon, Macy?s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more.
Exploitation of cheap labor by Fortune 500 companies has competition from the Military Industrial Complex. Did you know that prison labor ? with no union protection, overtime pay, vacation days, pensions, benefits, health and safety protection, or Social Security withholding ? makes complex components for McDonnell Douglas/Boeing?s F-15 fighter aircraft, the General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin F-16, and Bell/Textron?s Cobra helicopter?
And that prison labor produces night-vision goggles, body armor, camouflage uniforms, radio and communication devices, and lighting systems and components for 30-mm anti-aircraft guns to 300-mm battleship guns, along with land mine sweepers and electro-optical equipment for BAE Systems? Bradley Fighting Vehicle?s laser rangefinder? Prisoners are also ?hired? to recycle toxic electronic equipment and overhaul military vehicles.
Labor in federal prisons is contracted out by UNICOR, previously known as Federal Prison Industries, a quasi-public, for-profit corporation run by the Bureau of Prisons. In 14 prison factories, more than 3,000 prisoners manufacture electronic equipment for land, sea and airborne communication. UNICOR is now the U.S. government?s 39th largest contractor, with 110 factories at 79 federal penitentiaries.
The majority of UNICOR?s products and services are on contract to orders from the Department of Defense. Giant multinational corporations purchase parts assembled at some of the lowest labor rates in the world, then resell the finished weapons components at the highest rates of profit.
For example, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Corporation subcontract components, then assemble and sell advanced weapons systems to the Pentagon.
In private-run prisons, the working inmates receive as little as 17 cents per hour for a maximum of six hours a day, the equivalent of $20 per month. The highest-paying private prison ?employer? is CCA in Tennessee, where prisoners receive 50 cents per hour for what they call ?highly skilled positions? with almost 1million full time workers spread across the various states. the cheap prison labor puts them in direct competition with the private sector.
The Pentagon and Slave Labor in U.S. Prisons
Daily Kos: Prison Labor - How it is used to eliminate the Middle Class and provide Slave Labor for Corporations
* no need to worry about radical Islam destroying the US, the radical right and the Reagan neo-cons are doing a bang up job.