EDITED. Forum poster claims I used no facts in the song I posted or in the words to introduce the song. So, here are the facts.

I trust that everyone knows how wikipedia works: articles are fluid and editable by anyone who bothers to sign up for a wikipedia account, but democratic; meaning that the content is policed by the users of wikipedia itself. Facts remain, corroborated by evidence, and articles not backed by facts are edited for content until claims are supported by published evidence is generally how they work. To supply the facts requested by a forum poster below I will default to Wikipedia articles. If you have articles that debunk the statistics of the wikipedia articles, please help democracy of information by editing the wikipedia article yourself.

This song uses statistics that are part of United States Federal Law: 1986
Anti-Drug Abuse Act penalizes 5grams of crack cocaine trafficking as the same as 500grams of powder cocaine. 5 years of time is what resulted from less than an ounce possession of crack versus more than a pound of powder cocaine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Drug_Abuse_Act_of_1986

In the song I use 1gram / 100grams. I suppose I could change it to 5/500. This difference in penalization was somewhat rectified in 2010 in the Fair Sentencing Act down to a 1/18 ratio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_Act

The song also mentions ALEC and how the 1994 crime bill enabled them and the myriad laws that began the privatization of the prison system, how the system benefits from the free labor in the prison system, etc.

Wikipedia article on 1994 crime bill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_Enforcement_Act#Other_provisions

The authors and signers of the 1986 and 1994 bills are very likely not people you might expect. Or you might. You should look them up and see who they are. I didn't mention their names in the song intentionally.

13th amendment of the United States Constitution which provides for free labor by prison inmates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The One in Nine statistic comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation press release: https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-testimony-on-microscopic-hair-analysis-contained-errors-in-at-least-90-percent-of-cases-in-ongoing-review

I was going for a Neil Young vibe. Thin electric guitars - I usually make them more chunky.

Missing my old Acuma Final Mix mastering plugin.

This was my first song for February Album Writing Month 2020. Previous demo was a bit embarrassing for quality. This one is a little better.

https://soundcloud.com/rockstar_not/one-in-nine-by-scott-lake

The forum poster also suggested that I do something about it, etc.

I don't have an ability to show my voting record as a matter of fact in this post, but I'm proud to have voted to have the free labor clause removed from the Colorado Constitution's 13th amendment, which mirrors the free labor clause of the text of the US Constitution's 13th amendment. The measure was passed with a 66% for, 33% against (quite bipartisan thankfully - try to find any recent legislation passed by any statewide election with that kind of similar support) to eliminate the free labor clause. By the way the actual word used in both 13th amendments, and likely your state amendment, is not 'free labor'. I avoid using it in this post to hopefully avoid any potential triggering it may cause, even though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Amendment_A_(2018)

One thing I will thank the forum poster that objected to my original post, I haven't yet written my US House representatives to introduce bills to eliminate the free labor clause in the US Constitution 13th amendment. Your angry post reminded me I need to do that!

Apart from that all I can do is copy good ol' Woody Guthrie with three chords and the truth. I don't always agree with Woody's content, but dang he was a good songwriter.

Last edited by rockstar_not; 02/10/20 09:13 PM. Reason: Address forumite complaint that no facts were used in original post
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