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America's Crime Problem Begins in Our Colleges
[Front Page] We think of crime as emanating from the poor and the underprivileged, but the country’s crime wave actually has its roots in the work of academics who taught at prestigious universities.The pro-crime movement that originated in the 1960s and has since swept America began in part with an article by Communist leader and agitator Angela Davis: ’Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition’. Davis, a UCLA academic, was catapulted to national prominence during her trial for supplying firearms to terrorist Jonathan Jackson, who used them to murder a California judge presiding over the homicide trial of his criminal brother George, who later died after slitting the throats of three guards while attempting to escape from San Quentin. There are shrines devoted to Davis at prominent schools like University of California — Santa Cruz. Angela Davis began her seminal incitement by quoting Michel Foucault: a French academic with the Collège de France. Foucault’s ’Discipline and Punish’, which Davis described as "arguably the most influential text in contemporary studies of the prison system" remains widely studied on college campuses along with Davis’ racist perspective that incorporated the Black Panther’s threat to "Off the Pigs" (Police) that has long since entered politics and the wider culture in the form of police assassinations, demonizations and defunding, and other allied efforts to eliminate prisons, prosecutions and the justice system. The two activist academics were not really interested in crime and the penal system as a field of research. They were bent on fomenting a civil war that would put the Left in power. Foucault, a Marxist-trained philosopher, had been a co-founder of the Prison Information Group to support the Maoists imprisoned over the radical violence in France in 1968. Foucault had credited the riots with stimulating his interest in "the direction of penal theory". Angela Davis had bought guns to facilitate a murderous terrorist attack on a Marin County courthouse by the Black Panthers. The attack roughly coincided with Foucault’s visit to the United States during which he "investigated" the American prison system and the subsequent death of George Jackson: the Panther leader whom the Marin County attackers hoped to free. Posted by: Besoeker 2023-04-03 |
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