OK, sorry. 0.73%. Cite: Wikipedia.

“Bradley Manning, blah, Ron Paul, blah, biased, blah, McDonalds, blah, impolite joke at your expense, blah.”

Again, a jokey dismissal of real, valid problems – in America. Why the double standard?

In recent decades the US has experienced a surge in its prison population, quadrupling since 1980, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the War on Drugs. Violent crime and property crime subsequently have declined since the early 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

I blame the Internet itself, a tool to better assist fools at sounding informed. Far be it for me to question your expertise on the subject and it is my policy to never feed trolls, but, then again, I don’t have any nuanced political solutions, such as “there are too many laws”.

Also, if you had bothered to look at the rest of the Wikipedia article you plagiarized, you may have noticed that it quotes the US stats of incarcerated individuals at around 730 per 100,000, not one percent. Sure, it’s close to one percent, but only in the same way that it’s nearly close to five percent. But, then again, I used Western math to solve that problem, so it’s probably… Bradley Manning, blah, Ron Paul, blah, biased, blah, McDonalds, blah, impolite joke at your expense, blah.

To sum up, I shall paraphrase the famous quote from Evelyn Beatrice Hall (often attributed to Voltaire, which annoys me): I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the mild inconvenience your right to fart it our your cock holster.

In recent decades the US has experienced a surge in its prison population, quadrupling since 1980, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the War on Drugs. Violent crime and property crime subsequently have declined since the early 1990s.

Nearly one percent of the entire US population are behind bars.

I think your question begs a third option.

Here is probably the one thing TAR said in the entire interview that I think he could stand behind:

“It seems increasingly clear that China is simply at war with the concept human rights. I know that sounds ridiculous, but they block human rights websites. Why? What could you possibly gain from that? Why, of all the Japanese girls peeing on each other and racist Swedes on the Internet, is the enemy human rights?”

Great point, however…

Everything else was the ultimate in “Do-As-We-Say-Not-As-We-Do.” The whole thing was simply a tirade of ad hominem attacks against China, and jokey excuses for the US’s own violations. The Chinese report does seem petty and pathetic, yes, but only because it is coming from the same mouth that says all the other loads of bullshit that we know the Chinese media is apt to do. In actuality though, it makes some fair points, and it’s silly to dodge all of its attacks while turning around and throwing the same type of mud.

“He victimized my property. Ouch! My human rights!” I find it disturbing to personify lawns.”

Where’s the joke about the aforementioned 3.8 million violent victimizations and 1.4 million serious violent victimizations?

“I think, as you can see from the prison population in America, that there are a lot of assholes in the USA. ”

Really? That’s why we have the largest prison population in the world – both by sheer number and per capita – because we have so many assholes? Tell that to the millions who have been convinced for harmless drug possession charges. That they’re “assholes.”

You see the logic? All people jailed in China are heroes. All people jailed in America are assholes!

“…which is more than I have and a stretch considering most people who get murdered tend to be dicks”

Wow. I’m pretty sure Mao Zedong himself said something to that degree in ’67.

By far, the most offensive part was the take on Occupy Wall Street:

“Occupy Wall Street, a vague and thus ultimately doomed protest movement…The government of the United States is currently to the left, and so are the protestors. There would be no point. It would be like the Communist party going after the wu mao dang.”

TAR, are you out of your goddamned mind?? Please tell me you were drunk when you wrote this. It doesn’t even make any sense.

If it’s to be taken seriously, it was an extremely biased and irresponsible post. But hey! – he’s just joking around. No wonder TAR was so popular here.