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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

My Views on Cop/Prison Reality Shows

   My view on all cop/prison reality shows are that they are being use as propaganda to slowly, but surely turn this country in to a total Police State. It's like some "Star Chamber" somewhere has ordered  network/cable TV to put on these shows to promote the idea that America is an out-of control, criminal nation that only by increasing The State's power and limiting citizen's rights can Americans be safe. Even my favorite cable networks - Discovery, National Geographic, and  The History Channel now have endless programming about crime, the police, and prisons. Every hour of the day some channel has on some exploitive so-called reality show on cops and prisons. Have you ever seen a show on COPS, Border Patrol, U.S. Marshall, ect.... where the police are wrong? Or arrest the wrong man, Or even do something stupid? Never! They are always portrayed as the Knights in Shining Armor arresting another U.S. Lowlife. Have you ever seen a prison reality show where all the inmates were not tattooed, violent, racist, evil gang members? Any person watching these programs have got to think the United States is the most violent, corrupt, uncivilized country in the world filled with rapists, scumbags, gang bangers, drug dealers, ect... This of course is not the case. All these prison reality shows are Bullshit. I've done over 16+ years and for the most part prison is boring as hell filled with guys who just want to do their own time and get the hell out of there, but this of course would not make stimulating and exciting TV. What these shows do is highlight the most dangerous, the most sickest, and most violent inmates that make out that most people doing time are scary and belong right where they are at. A decade ago the only shows of this nature where COPS and America's Most Wanted. Now there are literally hundreds of pro-police and anti-prisoner shows on TV. It makes me sick. Where is all the shows that about police abuse, justice system corruption, the wrongfully convicted, prisons and inmates who are trying to rehabilitate, and how our rights as U.S. citizens are slowly, but surely being eroded?

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