Category Archives: Justice
Voting not allowed: Disenfranchised in America
Many Americans were disenfranchised when Jim-Crow-Type Laws prevented 5.3 million people from voting in the United States in the last election.
The Cambridge dictionary defines disenfranchise as “to take away power or opportunities, especially the right to vote, from a person or group.” We are all familiar with the United States history of disenfranchising the black [...]
Is the Death Penalty a Deterrent to Murder?
The death penalty is not a deterrent. I examined the death rate per 100,000 people for each state in the United States. The safest state to live is North Dakota with only 0.5 murders per 100,000 people whereas the most dangerous place to live is Louisiana with 11.9 murders per 100,000 people in 2008. Well [...]
United States is NOT number one in health care!
Americans are taught in elementary school that we are number one, and that we have the best health care systems in the world.
The health care debate is on the television every day now showing Americans that Brittan, France, Canada, have free health care and we don’t. The propaganda is running rampant. But, with the internet [...]