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Marilyn Buck R.I.P. - after 29 years in U.S. prisons and a few weeks of release
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Thursday August 05, 2010 17:51 by R.I.P.
After 29 years of U.S. prisons and a few weeks of release activist Marilyn Buck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Buck passed away with cancer on August 3rd. Our dear comrade Marilyn Buck made her transition on August 3 peacefully and surrounded by friends at home in Brooklyn. She had been released from federal prison on July 15, 2010. |
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Jump To Comment: 1Readers should be aware that the US has the highest prison rate in the world. Prison rates are often expressed as number of people in prison per 100,000 of the population. Within most of Europe it varies from about 60 to about 150 per 100,000, whilst Russia is up around 530, China is at about 120 and the US is at a massive 714 per 100,000.
For anyone who was around during the Cold War, we used to hear endlessly about the Land of Freedom and how so many people were locked up in Russia. How ironic it is that the US far exceeds them all now.
The question has often been asked as to why this is so but it is a measure of how much the lid has to be pressed down firmly on the population to allow the system to operate for the benefit of the wealthy. And Marilyn Buck is just one of the many people who have had their lives stolen by this system. It is incredible that she got 80 years for these supposed crimes, while for example we have direct evidence for example from the recent WikiLeaks documents, that thousands of innocent people have been murdered by the US govt and it agents and actors and absolutely nothing is done about it and much of this goes to show that they are not actually concerned about crimes per se, but about the political side of the fence that someone is on.