The shit? How is such a system still legal in a western country?
There's a reason things like 1984 and A Clockwork Orange take place in Britain. >.>
More to the point: there is a reason the underpinnings of America are pretty much the antithesis of it.
Do you remember that whole thing about Snowden revealing that the US is literally spying on everyone everywhere? Mind you, the current UK gov is attempting to bring in laws that means they'll effectively be doing the exact thing but we learned it from you! (not being serious there btw)
As for all the American's saying about never going to the UK and how shit it is- yeah coz the US doesn't also have a long and continuing history of ridiculous rulings, stupid but enforced laws and violations of people's rights. Nope, everything's perfect there, the two countries definitely aren't as bad as each other.
Don't get me wrong, the UK is almost certainly the worst of the major EU countries all things considered, but people in glass houses for fuck sake. I mean almost every day some enraging horseshit that's happening/happened in the US gets posted and discussed on this very site. Does everyone just forget about it 2 seconds after talking about it or something? But if we're going to talk shit about eachother's criminal and judicial systems then I'm just going to leave these here:
" While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners."
World Prison Population List (tenth edition). International Centre for Prison Studies.
