There are times when the inmates run the asylum, and its a wonderful resolution. People have been using that phrase to describe the early years of WBCN, but almost literally, the California Penal System experienced that last weekend when the inmates rioted to the tune of millions of dollars of damage and hundreds of injuries, and thousands more in medical bills for dozens of inmates.
I ranted a few weeks ago about how the Calif. Leadership is going to appeal a Supreme Court ruling that required them to shrink the population by 40% and an insanely high dollar amount. The Attorney General Jerry Browne, who is going to run for Gubnah like his Daddy," is going to lead the charge in appeal.
I would love to see that now - weeks after judges explain how "unmanageable" the prison system is, one of the largest riots in Prison History occurs and shows, precisely and exactly, why something must be done. The thing that kills me is thinking about some 22 year old kid who may have been selling 4 pounds of pot on the UC-Davis campus 4 years ago and is still in jail for that crime was likely cut up with a pen-knife by some Neo-Nazi who had a chip on his shoulder.
Those inmates demonstrated the real need for change, and possibly the real need for California to be broken up into multiple states, and it's current Governor to disappear from the political map forever.
* Does it make any sense in this day and age for families to be in political power? I mean, JQ Adams makes sense, given the times and how privilege was so unique and succinct, but now, with the sheer numbers of college graduates and self-made and educated folks. But haven't we learned our lesson at this point?
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