Wake UP! Photos - July 2013

This is a collection of interesting, funny, or thought-provoking, photos that I have found through my daily travels of the internet, in the month of July.  I upload the latest collections every month or so.

Private Prison Company Used in Drug Raids at Public High School

According to a report by CommonDreams.org, on October 31, 2012, employees of Corrections Corporation of America were used in drug sweeps of public school students in Arizona. 

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is the largest for-profit, prison detention center operator.  They make a profit, off of inmates.  There has been much controversy over the governments use of private prisons, including a recent story where 8 inmates filed a lawsuit against CCA for letting gangs control their Idaho Correctional Center, in an effort to save money.

In a related story, the owners of two private, for-profit juvenile facilities, in Pennsylvania, were giving kickbacks to a judge, Mark Ciavarella, for sentencing children to extended stays in juvenile detention for offenses as minimal as mocking a principal on Myspace or trespassing in a vacant building.  This scandal became known as "kids-for-cash". 

It now looks as if CCA will begin hunting children directly at school.  It's a great business model, if you're a psychopath.  

Watertown, CT Police Spend $25,000 To Ensure Every Cop Has Taser

How do cities and towns find money for things like this, when schools are overcrowded, and the elderly are getting their heating assistance cut ?

Also, how have we gotten to the point where we allow a group of human beings to walk around with the right to electrocute other human beings ?

Police Raid Wrong House, Kill 61 Year Old Man.

     Police perform a "drug" raid on the wrong house, and shoot and kill a 61 year old man, and handcuff his 70 year old wife. This is completely avoidable, if people stop being scared slaves, and begin standing up to their government. You are a human being, there is no reason that another human being should raid your house with a black mask on, because they believe you are hurting yourself with "drugs". The drug war is an excuse to take your rights. 
      Prescription drugs kill way more people than illegal drugs, why aren't they raiding doctors offices ?

Here is a link to the ABC News Article.