The Rocket List 2040

Not everyone had to leave earth. Masses of humankind said, "Why did we leave earth?" They all asked themselves this question if only in their subconscious minds. The first four hundred of the "Rocket List" involuntarily boarded the vessel. Their thoughts stopped as did their hearts as they were projected beyond gravity.

The prisons were over populated to the point of daily riots. The cost to house and feed the inmates became unsustainable by the land with taxes maxed out so badly that the law abiders literally worked for the heinous criminals to survive.

It was rapidly becoming an unbalanced population between good citizens who were mostly employed and outlaws, the severely mentally disturbed and bums.

The wife of a leader at NASA had been tortured and killed during an all too common home invasion. The offenders claimed insanity.

It was tax time of the year and to him, it was passed time to make a bit of a change. He proposed "The Cell," a landfill on the moon, to Congress. It was a place for convicted prisoners to be placed, DOA.

The cost was minimal compared to the years of supporting locked up dangerously dysfunctional humans. Offenders would be placed on the "Rocket List" should sentencing be greater than five years. They could be removed from the list if their trial exonerated them. There were no more "Australias" left on earth.

No longer did people become police officers. Theft, violence, mass shootings and chaos in The United States were getting way out of hand. People had no choice; it was "us" or "them" that would die.

"The Cell" law was passed in 2040.

Now I am positive that there are a few constitutional violations in this write but one never knows if the Rocket List is in our uncertain future..