Thursday, May 21, 2009

Recidivism for Terrorists is 1 in 7

Which is abysmal compared to the recidivism rate for drug offenders. Four out of every five persons released from prison end up back in prison on another drug charge. Comparatively, these terrorists are at lot less devoted to their cause than those in the drug game are devoted to their business (or addiction). Sure, these terrorist guys are pretty dangerous and deadly, but riddle me this (seriously, I don't have the answer):  How many Americans does terrorism kill annually and how many Americans does drug-related violence kill annually?

I'm not saying I like hearing that 1 in 7 people released from America's prisons returns to terrorism (which is hard to believe because a decent percentage of the people incarcerated for terrorism in foreign countries weren't even caught by American forces; Americans paid a bounty to shady militants who brought in people claiming they were terrorists), but comparatively speaking, we have a much bigger, more deadly problem in the recidivism rate for drug offenders than we do with terrorists. Especially considering half of the people arrested for terrorism weren't terrorists beforehand and were turned into terrorists by our use of "enhanced interrogation techniques." 

Sorry. This report doesn't scare me. Guantanamo still needs to be shut down.

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