Remember This Blog’s “Totally Silly” Idea about Solving California Prison Overcrowding, the Belgians and Dutch Did Not Think The Idea was “Totally Silly”
Monday, July 26th, 2010This blog has long maintained that one of the solutions to over crowding in California prisons, is the building of prisons in Mexico to house California prisoners who are illegal immigrants.
http://gerrymaxeyworkshop.com/blogging/?p=3201
In its February 11, 2010 issue, THE ECONOMIST, did an article about overcrowding in California prisons,the following is a quote from that article:
” The governor’s wildest thought experiment has California paying Mexico to build prisons and house California’s inmates in them. This is “totally silly” and probably unconstitutional, says Joan Petersilia of Stanford Law School”.
http://gerrymaxeyworkshop.com/blogging/?p=3441
One of the most interesting arcs of California politics during the first decade of the 21st Century has been the gelding of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a political mover and shaker.
He was presented, by this Blog, with a bold idea to help alleviate the over crowding in California Prisons, and he saw the value of it. The stud Schwarzenegger would have gone for it and tried it. The gelded Schwarzenegger became Arnold Stang( for my Generation X and Generation Y readers, Mr. Stang was a man of very weak body measurements), as soon as a Law Professor, a Law Professor, called the plan silly, “totally silly.”
While this Blog’s California Prison Plan was being called totally silly, check out what was happening in Belgium and The Netherlands.
“…. The Dutch prison population has been falling for some years and, with 14,000 cells for 12,000 prisoners, the government last year decided to close eight jails. But in Belgium the numbers locked up keep rising, causing serious overcrowding.
On February 5th this year, the Dutch and Belgian governments drew the logical conclusion, and agreed on a deal. Belgium took possession of the Dutch prison of Tilburg, a modern affair with tennis courts and a football pitch but a chronic shortage of residents.
For a rent of €30m a year, 500 Belgian prisoners now live behind Tilburg’s barbed wire. The governor is Belgian, most of the guards are Dutch. At first there was grumbling about language (some of the Belgian prisoners speak French, not Dutch) and ease of access (many supplies come from the nearest Belgian prison, 40km—25 miles—away). Now the arrangement causes little fuss.”THE ECONOMIST
What is silly for California is logical for the Dutch and Belgians?
California’s Governor, who has been a bodybuilder, businessman,movie star and politician, backed down to a cloistered Law Professor, and allowed the “girlie men” of Holland and Belgium do the logical thing.
How in the hell can the Dutch and the Belgians, makers of cheese and candy be bolder than Californians? What in the hell has happened to us? Governor, what in the hell has happened to you? If not the gelding?
ARNOLD STANG, the real Governor of California.
“I know most people don’t know who Arnold Stang was. I know him mostly from old 50’s and 60’s TV shows and cartoons. He was on shows like I Love Lucy, Milton Berle Show and various TV shows. He was the voice of Nurtle the Turtle in Pinocchio in Outter Space.”
