Death and Taxes?

A C.O. searching a cell in a Key West prison turned up a mattress to reveal piles of tax forms hidden by the inmate who got angry when the C.O. found them, causing him to look at them more closely. I don't understand why a prison employee would need an inmate to get mad before becoming suspicious of scads of tax forms under a mattress, but the search was not being conducted at MIT, was it?

It seems the inmates at this and many other prisons have been filing fraudulent tax forms for years with the IRS and as long a their refunds total no more than $5,000, no one is the wiser. They use a tax form being circulated, complete with instructions, sending the forms off with an outsider's help -- and, no doubt, their return address. The money ultimately winds up in either their inmate account or an outside entity to which they have access, and our tax dollars are available to this lowest segment of society for their convenience.

Along with our tax dollars, a shining example of our state and federal employees hard at work. How and why is this so hard to control? I know why...as it is with every government misstep that involves great amounts of money, someone in government is lining there pocket with large amounts of it. I don't care if it's some IRS idiot between their smoke breaks or the greedy, potbellied C.O. looking the other way, someone is pocketing my tax dollars and yours. Are you going to do anything about it other than get mad and bitch to your coworkers around the water cooler tomorrow? Of course not. You never do anything about the thieves stealing from you other than comment on-line at the bottom of the page after reading the article. That's all you can be bothered to do and the theft continues. I can use your help.

Embarrass the Bigoted Idiots

Wasn't it the racist state of Georgia that sent a black teenager to prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager? A girl that was having oral sex with just about everyone else in the room. Now they have a black man awaiting execution who has not been proven guilty, and I wonder what the difference is between this and an old fashioned lynching. Why can't the courts in these cases be accused of racism to the extent of effecting change? Signing petitions may or may not work, but unrelenting public ridicule puts the issue on the front page and the guilty parties along with it. Don't let them hide. Racism has existed long enough and will continue to exist as long as the practitioners are allowed to get away with it. If they are not intelligent enough to renounce it on their own, shame them out of it. Enough is enough.