Political Leaders Should Be Jailed, Says Environmental Scientist Dr. David Suzuki

If environmental abuses are the crime, then corporate officers should also be rounded up because corporate greed and avarice surely contributed to the current morass. In the US, the Congress is firmly in the pocket of Big Business, who either buys off meaningful environmental oversight or moves their pollution-belching factories to third world countries ripe for exploitation.

I would also consider illegal aliens "rights" groups and lobbyists. The reproductive irresponsibility of certain cultures has created a political situation where, instead of the country of origin creating a culture of change to meet the new demands on the infrastructure, shady backroom deals allow the reproductive "runoff" to be exported to other countries for exploitation by corporations and political action groups. One of the most egregious side-effects of this exploitation is urban sprawl and "flight" by the native population to get away from these unwanted invaders. The only place the sprawl has to go is into rural areas, in addition to the added burden on the infrastructure.

Third, I would end the reign of terror that lawyers have created in society. The United States already has the highest number of lawyers per-capita of any country and our law "schools" are full of future shysters with thousands waiting in line for entry. We have gone to an honorable man being able to close a deal with a handshake and his word to thirty-page documents written in legalese requiring teams of lawyers, billing at a hundred bucks and hour, to decipher them to make sure their side isn't getting screwed in the deal. Disagreements, which used to be decided by an intelligent debate and sometimes just plain fisticuffs, have now become grounds for litigation, which tie up the courts and squander millions of dollars each year.

(As a side note to the last paragraph, until the Civil War, lawyers-in-training studied not past legal decisions but focused primarily on historical documents and concepts, such as the Magna Carta, to ensure that liberty and freedom wasn't being sacrificed by our courts. The modern-day lawyer-in-training focuses almost exclusively on past Supreme Court decisions and other legal "precedent", which merely ensures that past bad decisions get compounded in perpetuity, and that the lawyers (and them judges and politicians, who are former lawyers) have no foundation in Fundamental law or the reasons for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.)

Lastly, I would round up the creators and maintainers of crass consumer commercialism. People buying things they don't need with money they don't have (kind of like the government) leads to corporate expansion and a culture of accepting cheap crap at any cost. Walmart is particularly notable for this offense; they market what they claim to be low-cost, but the reality is that low-cost comes from the exploitation of factory workers in China and forcing individual stores to maintain a pre-determined bottom line at the expense of employees and their families.

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