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Norm Kent and Howard Greitzer
SFGN Publisher Norm Kent Launches Citizens Against False Arrests
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Norm Kent and Howard Greitzer
SFGN Publisher Norm Kent Launches Citizens Against False Arrests
By Fred Grimm
fgrimm@MiamiHerald.com
MiamiHerald.com/columnists
First off, after my new company wheedles a contract to privatize a state prison, I intend to do away with traditional prison tattoos. Instead of tear drops or daggers or skulls or spider webs or barbed wire, none of which enhance an inmate’s commercial value, only corporate logos and slogans will be permissible.
Prisoner bodies, as virtual billboards, will give special new meaning to familiar phrases like: “What would you do for a Klondike bar?” Or, “It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.” Or, “Obey your thirst.” Or “Between love and madness lies Obsession.” Or “Pork, the new white meat.”
Won’t the fellows look enticing, festooned with logos and glistening with sweat while they pump iron in the prison gym, depicted on the reality TV shows, Prison Break: Everglades Correctional Institution Edition, or Real (Mean) Housewives of Broward Correctional Institution, that my production company intends to peddle to TruTV?
The old Department of Corrections has too long failed to exploit the untapped profit potential within its prison walls. Thanks to the Florida Legislature, my company will change that. On Monday afternoon, the Senate Rules Committee approved a bill that would privatize 29 prisons in 18 counties, all of them conveniently located down here in the southern dregs of Florida. That means some 4,000 state prison workers hereabouts will be losing their jobs. But it also means a lot more opportunity for well-connected operators like me to snag some taxpayer money. Which is why I have named my company “Corporation for the Re-Election of A Senator To Be Named Later.”
In my business plan, I figure to save money (and pocket the profits) by paying prison guards so damn little that only morally suspect, utterly unrepentant, former prisoners would even consider taking the jobs. They’ll know how to keep order. They’ll know how to supplement their paltry salaries by providing special services for the inmate population.
Another privatization bill percolating through the Legislature casts a veil of secrecy over the privatization process. The private companies get the contract first. The details and the cost-benefit analysis and the public discourse comes later. Both the First Amendment Foundation and Florida Tax Watch, not always the best of friends, have both gone berserk over the notion of Florida selling off its assets in secret. Sen. Gwen Margolis of Miami dubbed it the “after the fact” bill. “Extremely disturbing,” she called two privatization bills, though she wasn’t sure that either could be derailed.
Best of all, for someone like me, eager to cash in on the privatization craze, the rules would apply to any agency — toll roads, state parks, state cops. Me, I’ve got my eye on the university system. Don’t think of them as students. Think of them as commodities. My plan is to tattoo barcodes across their foreheads.
And faculty? That’s where I’m saving money.
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Amerika doesn't have a problem with drug use. It has a problem with Big Black Bucks doing drugs. The weasels who make the rules are scared of the Black Man so the Gestapo is let loose to keep them in line. They laugh about it in the privacy of their own homes behind clouds of marijuana smoke and gallons of expensive liquors.
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So? Do you want to compete on a level playing field with them? I don't. Better to keep them disenfranchised. Look what happened when women were let loose into the workforce. Now white men are the minority and they have tne best jobs.
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Everybody knows what's going on in the streets.
Everyone goes along to make money.
It's not racism.
It's capitalism.
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Norma couldn't launch his own radio show for very long. BIG BLOWHARD is the only thing he can launch.
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please, i beg of you stop the "marquee" style legal news. it is SO distracting.
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Give it up Norma. The rest of us have given up on u.
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it is not inclusive capitalism , it is predatory zio-capitalism , it is lawyer enabled treason and zio-imperialism.
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is alive and well on this blog. So is sexism.
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Gotta hand it to you, when you think you know something about the corruption that is rampant in Browrd Courts, you read this blog to get the real idea of just how bad thing really are. Many thanks for the real thing! You get tired and disgusted of reading the watered down version of mainstream media. Keep up the good work!
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SHELDON ADELSON , Wo;f Blitzer and Eric Cantor are foreign agents from Hebron , that neglected to register under FARA.
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Is Norman Kent still around or is that a blow up doll?
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Now here are two bigtime losers both sucking it to stay afloat.
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