i believe the lack of a federal shield law protecting journalists and their sources not only helps out terrorist organizations like the bush administration, but it also has led to the latest 'NO SNITCHING' campaign by other organized crime groups - it's a trickle down thing where the federal government sets the trend at the top, and all the underlings follow suit...
essentially; the prison/military-industrial complex is directly connected to the rise of gang involvement and/or the purposeful decrease in education funds, as the current trend is to create a superfluous population of purposefully dumbed-down youth who have no education and therefore 'no choice' other than entering the prison-industrial complex, or the military-industrial complex...
and! the democrats delivered the double-whammy during the clinton era when they protected 'the children' a little bit too much, which has created a young generation of unapproachable youth who cannot be straightened out by their elders, making modern gang members much more dangerous, anti-social and unpredictable than those which flourished during the last republican presidential reagan/bush NRA era...
