On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 10:19:27AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
I have wondered what happens when a 14-year-old kid is picked up for truancy at the shopping mall and then explains that he was kicked out of school.
I'm wondering what the actual laws are across the country. I know when we lived in MN, state law said the kids only had to attend one day every fortnight to not be considered truant. That's how we were able to homeschool before it began to be allowed by the state.
As for putting more and more people in prison, this is what happens when prisons become corporate owned-and-operated profit centers and
But, but, but -- isn't that the libertarian dream, to privatise all gov't functions? 8-)
when the same folks who profit from the destruction of Iraq and then the lucrative rebuilding of Iraq are the ones launching the wars and ordering the rebuilding.
Amazing how much of the "military" is now privatized. Even their training, from what I've read.
As one of the noted fascists said, "Fascism _is_ corporatism."
Yup.
--Tim May
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