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still too cowardly to take a stand against insurrectionists ex president. the idea of political violence is being normalized. he held newspaper published a piece this weekend underlying its stark terms what this new post trump post january 6th world looks like. the number threat in vests launched by u.s. capitol police in 2021 was 100 and 50% higher than it was in 2017. trump s first year in office. lawmakers who are critical of trump remain among those most frequently targeted for violence. the long and diverse listening clues republicans who voted for an infrastructure bill he opposed. democrats who manage the former presidents impeachments. republicans who supported his ouster after the january 6th capitol attack. and most recently, the nine lawmakers on the select committee investigating the 2021 a riot. all of whom have around the clock security details. end quote. president biden addressed the normalization of violence this week in his soul of the nation s speec ....
i m going to complicate some of the ways it is often talked about. we will talk about where it came from and how we ended up with the world s biggest prison system. what that has to do with this time. the 1960 s and 1970 s and the second reconstruction. we will think about the role that people in prison and formerly incarcerated people have played consistently as analysts and observers and critics of mass incarceration. we will start off big and work our way to the human level. the u.s. incarcerates more people than anyone else in the world. in terms of absolute numbers more than 2.2 million people in prison, but also the rate of incarceration. 5% of the worlds population and about two 25% of the prison population. you can see how much more that is than even other countries that have their own version of mass incarceration. 700 people per 100,000 people in the united states that are incarcerated today. that is a relatively recent phenomenon. when we look at incarcerat ....
the marquis lafayette was 19 years old when he came to america to fight in the revolution. he was a french aristocrat and when i talk to students about this and i say he was 19 we think about 19-year-olds today what were you like when you were 19? were you going to fight in revolution across the sea? probably not. he was an interesting individual. his support and influence with the french government helps the revolution s cause. when he came back, he was invited back by president monroe for the purpose of remembering the revolution, munro saw that people were starting to die off, the revolutionaries are starting to leave us, but lafayette was still a living connection to the revolution. he came back and did this amazing tour of what was then the united states, in an era when there were not trains. of course there were not automobiles. this was horses and carriages and he crisscrossed the then united states, and the fact that he had so many places from new york city ....
but not from a big tower at a certain volume where the whole region heard it. it would be amplified on a lower volume which in the quadrangle by mechanical means where people around that area would hear it. that is true but the important thing is the physical occupation of the christian chapel for those prayers will not happen. that is what is important. this seems to be some debate about this but whether it is in this instance or not you can take it to the banks that unless people of other faiths understand that what they are being duped by is a deliberate strategy of subversion from within, is this notion that bridgebuilding and their participation in it is a matter of ecumenical is a man solidarity in defense of first amendment religious freedom rights. is actually a cynical act on the part of those that they are interacting with. we are reminded of a passage from one of the most influential jihadists ideo ....
and the reason they couldn t do that because 22 people sunk their boats in the harbor so that ship couldn t get close enough to make it effective. 22 patriots sunk their boats for a lost cause. 22 patriots were probably told by their friends, what are you doing? it s a lost cause. you re sinking your boat pipts your livelihood. many of them were fishermen. yet 22 patriots decided they needed to act. now, i share that because many of you may have friends who are telling you that you re fighting for a lost cause. and i m here to tell you just as we re about to sing the spar-spangled banner, 22 patriots did an act, we don t know their names, perhaps you re working with 20 of your fellow comrades to work on a particular issue that is not winnable might be winnable. i m here today to tell you the voice of the american people has never been stronger. it s never been stronger on this particular issue. it s never been stronger really when it comes to just letting people know th ....