Essay 2: Gary Johnson and the Libertarian view
Gary Johnson is the libertarian candidate running for president. The libertarian party believes in personal liberty, economic liberty and securing liberty. The libertarian candidate is definitely not in the mainstream of the media or high in the polls. In Nevada according to a poll from Monmouth University, he has about 7% of the population is expected to vote for him. His party is considered more of a long shot in regards to winning the presidency especially since they are not the standard Democrat or Republican.
Gary Johnson takes a very divergent view on immigration from both the Republican and Democratic nominee. While he wants immigration reform, he believes there are some core problems
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Johnson feels that undocumented workers “should have a safe path to getting a social security cards, paying taxes and being here legally as long as they do not have a criminal record” (Johnson CNN opinion, 2016). In respect to Gary Johnson I think he’s trying to help immigrants find a way to come here work and make a better life for their families. However he doesn’t say definitively that they should all have a path to citizenship. He does state that undocumented people should be “given a path to citizenship but again only if they have no criminal record and would include temporary amnesty, a work visa that includes a background check” (Johnson CNN opinion, 2016). Johnson also “opposes Arizona SB 1070 because he feels that it encourages racial profiling and doesn’t solve the problem of illegal immigration” (On the issues, 2016). His stance is that these undocumented workers just want to work and make a better life for their families and the way to accomplish that “is to allow them to enter legally to work and avoid problems created by criminalizing it, and allow workers to fill jobs open in the labor market that other” (On the issues, …show more content…
In plain English, this means that we imprison those who break laws but the laws are definitely crafted to keep the current power structure of our society. Currently the USA imprisons more that 2 million so while some people feel these laws protect law abiding citizens, other feels it’s become a money making machine that must have a continual supply of product in the form of prisoners. This supply is guaranteed by our elected law makers who enact laws that make certain acts punishable by imprisonment. One very frightening thought process is that the prison industrial complex is “designed to imprison those who present the greatest threat to the states power, including people of color, the poor, social and political dissenters, non-citizens and youth” (Herzing,
America was about halfway divided by Civil Rights. There was the North, the side that supported it the most, and then there was the South, the side that was mostly against the bill. Johnson had been born and raised in the South having a different way of seeing Civil Rights. compared to all the Mexican Americans,
The article “The Caging of America” is written by Adam Gopnik and published in the New Yorker. In his article Gopnik is discussing the relationship between mass incarceration, and criminal justice in America. He is also touching the current sad condition of American prison. Gopnik is mainly talking about crime and their differences, and how mass incarceration is related to a crime. Gopnik also touches the history of America. And in this article he spends couple of pages about the history, and the past. He starts with “How did we get here?” which is like wake up call to his readers. He is compering how crime rates and it 's punishment were, back in the day then now.
Its genius lies in wielding total power without appearing to, without establishing concentration camps, or enforcing ideological uni- formity, or forcibly suppressing dissident elements so long as they remain ineffectual. Our country has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world, a prison system with brutalizing conditions, and one that has been significantly privatized (Wolin, 57). A high percentage of the imprisoned are Africans Americans, Their incarceration would appear to contrast with Nazi policies that herded millions of jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and political opponents for no other reason than to satisfy ideological beliefs and obtain “free labor”. This shows the high incarceration rates among blacks reflects not only old-fashioned racism but inverted totalitarianism’s fear of political dissidence. If you look at the significance of the African American prison population politically African American population that is highly sophisticated politically and by far the one group that throughout the the twentieth century kept alive a spirit of resistance and
In the 21 first Century, the United States still has an extremely large number of individuals in the penal system. To this day, the American country still contains the highest prison population rate in the world. Although mass incarceration rates are extremely high, decreases in this number have been made. Since the first time since the 1970s, the imprisoned population has declined about 3 percent. This small step seemingly exemplifies how a vast majority of individuals who becoming aware of these issues and performing actions to decrease these numbers. In the Chapter 13 of James Kilgore’s Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time, he asserts how individuals who oppose mass incarceration
We live in a society today filled with crime and fear. We are told not to go out after a certain hour, always move in groups, and even at times advised to carry a weapon on ourselves. There is only one thing that gives us piece of mind in this new and frightening world we live in: the American penal system. We are taught when growing up to believe that all of the bad people in the world are locked up, far out of sight and that we are out of reach of their dangerous grasp. Furthermore, the murderers and rapists we watch on television, we believe once are caught are to be forgotten and never worried about again. We wish on them the most horrible fates and to rot in the caged institution they are forced to call their new home. But, where do we draw the line of cruelty to those who are some of the cruelest people in our country? And what happens when one of this most strict and strongest institution our nation has breaks down? What do we do when this piece of mind, the one thing that lets us sleep at night, suddenly disappears? This is exactly what happened during and in the after effects of the Attica prison riot of 1971. The riot created an incredibly immense shift and change not only in the conditions of prisons, but also in the security we feel as American citizens both in our penal system and American government. The Attica prison riot brought about a much-needed prison reform in terms of safety and conditions for inmates, which was necessary regardless of the social backlash it created and is still felt today.
Votes in an election should not be cast for a party but for the individual candidates. The New Federalist party will be nothing more than a collection of like-minded people seeking to better our great country. In the following pages I have set forth the basic principles and various policy stands of the New Federalist party. STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES
The prison industrial complex maintains the current systems of power by responding to social and economic concerns with policing and imprisonment. Physically controlling people by denying them basic freedoms and holding them in cages is an effective way of preventing people from upsetting the status quo. Every day, prisons make up contracts with private companies who have a lot to gain from cheap labor. Federal Inmates are making the products sold by companies like JCPenny’s, Victoria’s Secret, and Idaho Potatoes. Unicor, an American government corporation that exploits penal labor to produce goods and services, profits $900 million a year while they pay their work crews as little as 23 cents an hour. The United States is the only country in the world that relies on imprisonment
I felt, however, that Johnson could have done a better job of explaining just how he felt emotionally about his identity and also of how he came to the decision of marrying and choosing to embrace more his Mexican culture than that of his Anglo culture that was bestowed upon him at birth.
Johnson throughout his speech provides specific details on how equality is still not where it should be with the nation. Johnson uses this quote, “To deny a man his hopes because of his color, or race, or his religion, or the place of his birth is not only to do injustice, it is to deny America and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom”
Mass incarceration has caused the prison’s populations to increase dramatically. The reason for this increase in population is because of the sentencing policies that put a lot of men and women in prison for an unjust amount of time. The prison population has be caused by periods of high crime rates, by the medias assembly line approach to the production of news stories that bend the truth of the crimes, and by political figures preying on citizens fear. For example, this fear can be seen in “Richard Nixon’s famous campaign call for “law and order” spoke to those fears, hostilities, and racist underpinnings” (Mauer pg. 52). This causes law enforcement to focus on crimes that involve violent crimes/offenders. Such as, gang members, drive by shootings, drug dealers, and serial killers. Instead of our law agencies focusing their attention on the fundamental causes of crime. Such as, why these crimes are committed, the family, and preventive services. These agencies choose to fight crime by establishing a “War On Drugs” and with “Get Tough” sentencing policies. These policies include “three strikes laws, mandatory minimum sentences, and juvenile waives laws which allows kids to be trialed as adults.
For centuries philosophers have debated over the presence of free will. As a result of these often-heated arguments, many factions have evolved, the two most prominent being the schools of Libertarianism and of Determinism. Within these two schools of thought lies another debate, that of compatibilism, or whether or not the two believes can co-exist. In his essay, Has the Self “Free Will”?, C.A. Campbell, a staunch non-compatiblist and libertarian, attempts to explain the Libertarian argument.
My Political Views are most consistent with the Libertarian Party. Libertarian party fights for the personal freedoms of every American. The Libertarian Agenda includes restoring Constitutional Government, legalizing narcotics, no gun control at all, eliminating the Federal Income Tax, cut defense and spending, and running campaigns on privately donated money. The Libertarian Party believes in absolute economic and social freedom. The party believes the only role of government should be protecting people and property against injury. The party believes that government should not regulate the economy at all. Government should only protect a business owner?s property and resources. Compared with the two parties in power currently, the Libertarian Party would not be consistent with either party?s agenda and is unique in its own political aspects.
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and societal management. It is the process by which individuals jailed for the criminal structure. Marked culprits and criminals are put in jail for a long time and after that are discharged into a permanent second-class status in which they are stripped of essential civil and human rights. It is a framework that works to control individuals, frequently at early ages, and all parts of their lives after they have been seen as suspects in some wrongdoing. Alexander discusses the three stages in the cycle of mass incarceration. Those three stages include roundup, the period of formal control, and period of invisible.
Alexander has written many books, but she is mostly known for her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. In the book, Alexander argues the systematic racial in the United States and how the War on Drugs and other governmental policies is having devastating social consequences. Comparing a prisoner today to a slave, she states, “Today a criminal freed from prison has scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a freed slave…” (pg.141) Criminals also known as “slaves” lose respect from the world the second they have a criminal background. The status of a criminal is often compared to the status of a slave especialy, if he or she is African America. Moreover, she states, “When we say someone was ‘treated like a criminal,’ what we mean to say is that he or she was treated as less than human, like a shameful creature” (pg. 141). Criminals are treated as if they are less than humans. From the moment, they are handcuffed and to the second they are released from jail, criminals are no longer seen as an honest citizen. Their basic rights as a Citizen of the United States are taken and forcing them to survive by any means necessary, which often forces them to return to
According to the Oxford Index, “whether called mass incarceration, mass imprisonment, the prison boom, or hyper incarceration, this phenomenon refers to the current American experiment in incarceration, which is defined by comparatively and historically extreme rates of imprisonment and by the concentration of imprisonment among young, African American men living in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage.” It should be noted that there is much ambiguity in the scholarly definition of the newly controversial social welfare issue as well as a specific determination in regards to the causes and consequences to American society. While some pro arguments cry act as a crime prevention technique, especially in the scope of the “war on drugs’.