[Vision2020] US Prisons Breeding Ground For Terror

[Ted Moffett]

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040505-111705-4604r.htm
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"The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its
prisons."

--Feodor Dostoyevsky

http://www.eureka.edu/emp/Hemmenway/Ids262/Dostoevsky%20RG.htm

Dostoevsky can be read as a religious philosopher, a political commentator,
a psychologist, and/or a novelist. His writing deals with the central
contradictions in our lives: good and evil, God and atheism, freedom and
tyranny, the fall of humanity vs. the belief in progress, revolution and
utopia. Dostoevsky's religion has been described as "a personal version of
extreme mystical Christianity." Humanity, while fallen, is free to choose
between good and evil, but choosing Christ means taking on oneself the
burden of humanity in love and pity, since "everybody is guilty for all and
before all." Dostoevsky stresses *personal* freedom of choice and an
affirmation of the worth of every individual with an equal emphasis,
paradoxically, on the individual identity of all human beings, their
equality before God, and the bond of love that unites them.
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