08-26-2021, 12:57 PM
Surprisingly, Michigan is not one of the 44 states with a publicized Supermax unit. In view of Michigan's bleak, harsh winters, imprisonment there would have its own agony. I was in Jackson one day and made a wrong turn (on the roads and not in life) and got to see the outskirts of the prison for people who don't simply make a wrong turn off or into Interstate 94 but instead a huge mistake like doing an armed robbery. Michigan has no death penalty, but it has very long sentences; the one for armed robbery is the same as for attempted first-degree murder (25-to-life with no chance of parole for 25 years). Because any armed robbery is a potential murder, I fully understand and accept that equivalency. The federal weapons charges and accusations of conspiracy to do interstate kidnapping suggests that federal charges will be adequate.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.