Yes Bonnie, and most will take the Mark of the Beast too because of Romans 13.

If have have not found anyone who was a victim of the jack-booted thugs, then you have not been to or seen the long line of people waiting to pay their traffic fines.

Tell me, what is IT about using or talking on a cell phone that is criminal? Have not truckers been doing this for years using their CB radio? This is only part of the insane 'crimes' that have placed good people in our overcrowded jails!

Like popular radio hosts Jon and Ken said last week said, "They ought to make it against the law to pass insane laws!"

And if you think you are living right now in 'freedom' with your gun and your money, then I have real sad news for you! You are in dreamland!

Anyone got any ideas why the US has by far the highest incarceration rate of any Western democracy? Four times the international average? Could it be precisely that imprisonment is big business, with its own lobbyists?

Could it be because we have criminals in jail instead of running free?

according to the correctional officers i know who work at the prison in our town, thats absolutely correct!!

i wasnt too happy with the lady merging onto the freeway with a cell stuck to her ear and didnt even look to see if someone was beside her or too close. nor looked back to see if she had missed hitting anyone.

im just thankful there wasnt a lot of traffic so that i was able to move over-without having a chance to check if there was anyone around me.

perhaps most cell users are responsible, but the irresponsible ones have caused too many accidents, like a friend of mine run into a fence, totaling her car and laid her up for a while with a hurt knee, cause the guy was distracted on his cell.

according to the correctional officers i know who work at the prison in our town, thats absolutely correct!!

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Wouldn't prison lobbyists be working for the employee's benefit instead of trying to somehow gain more prisoners?

I doubt that "big business" had much to do with drunk driving after revocation,with promoting more theft to gain more "business",for a spouse to beat up the other spouse,child abuse etc.That is pretty much weekly in our local paper

its not about drunk driving or driving while your head is stuck in a dark hole--it is about those of us who do have a moral code to keep, but since it is a big business, all they want is numbers, just like hospitals want all their beds filled.

When I was a cop, they (the city I worked for, mandated that we write our quota of tickets so we could get paid. I also remember how they cooked the books to make it look like we had more crimes and needed more officers. I am sick and tired of politics, not only in jails, prisons, courts, PDs, but also in religion. Its a numbers game--and when they charge some for being kidnapped by the state, that is down right aweful! It is truly sad!

talking on a cell phone while driving is illegal in Oregon now, unless it's hands-free