Think your life is hard? Don't walk on the grass somewhere in say, Florida.... Especially if you are black.

This is an article from The Marshall Project.  

I'd like to remind people that "civil disobedience" can get you a prison sentence. What better way to quash dissent?  Your memory is too short if you don't remember things like what happened in the 60's and the 70's, and 80's: Event's like Seattle? L.A.? NYC?  

I don't think anyone in this article is behind bars for sit in's or simple holding up a placard.  That could change, though. 

I believe we do have a problem of brutalization in our prisons, which can only be solved be a thorough shake up of "for profit prison systems". You know the ones; they are ones that don't care to re-habilitate, but sure do make people who are hidden in the shadows a lot of money.  

So, anyway, here we are.. a nation badly in need of peaceful protest and reform. So, let's start with the Crappy Prison systems now in operation.  You know the ones.  If they and the courts collude, could very well punish PEACEFUL civil disobedience with prison time.  That's half way to a Banana Republic. 

We don't need to look at Russia for a bad example, though it is likely ten times worse.  We need to look  to ourselves.  

We are a beacon for the world, or so we think.  But really, how could such disgusting treatment happen HERE, in Prisons, which are supposed to reform, not be even more abusive than life already is, in the US?  

We've long been bird dogged off into thinking that Russia is worse?  What sort of thinking is that??? Magical thinking?  

We are the world strongest democracy.  Yes, we are!

We shouldn't treat ANYONE like Sh*t .. No one.  

This happens to be Florida.  But I'd bet it's not all that different in far too many other prison systems in the States.