September 24, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry of Texas and his ties to private prisons
He has the talk. No doubt: “And I’m just not real sure you’re a bunch of right-wing extremists,” the Governor of the Lone Star State had told a crowd in 2009, “but if you are, I’m with ‘ya!” The crowd roared, and Perry was quickly embedded inside the American psyche. Many who were paying attention saw this as his first step towards the 2012 Election.
Yet it must be realized: Perry’s swagger is nothing more than the same tired neo-conservative rhetoric now disguised as populist libertarianism. In fact, a closer inspection of Perry’s record yields familiar attributes of a typical Washington politician in the 21st Century. That is to say, he has a tendency to deviate from his stated principles. In his state of Texas, the longest-ever serving governor has been sleeping cozily with the largest concentration of private prisons in the country, while also signing executive orders mandating little girls to be vaccinated against their will...
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