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Rand Paul calls for repeal of drug laws; reaches out to minority voters
Washington Examiner ^ | 10-7-2015 | Jason Russell

Posted on 04/11/2015 9:38:43 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., formally launched his presidential campaign Tuesday with a speech in Louisville. Among the notable quotes from Paul's speech was a comment seemingly meant to raise minority support by calling for reform of federal drug laws that disproportionately lead to incarceration of black Americans.

"I see an America where criminal justice is applied equally and any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed," Paul said.

Paul went on to address other topics without expanding much on what kinds of laws he meant. But given his past comments, it's not hard to guess he was talking about the war on drugs. "The war on drugs has become the most racially disparate outcome that you have in the entire country," Paul said in November 2014. "Our prisons are full of black and brown kids. Three-fourths of the people in prison are black or brown."

Lauren Galik, the Director of Criminal Justice Reform at Reason Foundation, said she was excited to hear a Republican presidential candidate campaigning on drug reform. "More than half of our federal prison population right now is there for drugs, many of which are African-American," Galik told the Washington Examiner. "African Americans are more likely to receive a sentence that carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment than white individuals."

Mandatory minimums disproportionately affect African American criminals compared to whites and Hispanics. "Although Black offenders in 2012 made up 26.3 percent of drug offenders convicted of an offense carrying a mandatory minimum penalty, they accounted for 35.2 percent of the drug offenders still subject to that mandatory minimum at sentencing," according to the United States Sentencing Commission, an independent federal agency.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: antimilitary; drugs; paul; randpaul; wod
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To: Citizen Zed

I though reaching out to minorities was Carsons role for the GOPe’s.


21 posted on 04/11/2015 10:07:14 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: All

It’s clear to me that immigration laws disproportionally affect hispanics, so immigration laws should also be scrapped.


22 posted on 04/11/2015 10:09:07 AM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: Cicero

Well, Goodbye Rand Paul.


23 posted on 04/11/2015 10:10:53 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: kingu

In reality black problems are due to generally low intelligence creating a lack of foresight, plus poor impulse control which overrides any foresight that does come to the individual. There is a real horror in facing biological limits in our Society.


24 posted on 04/11/2015 10:21:10 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Citizen Zed

I don’t have the answer but I do know the current and past MO is not working and it is costing us and taking rights even from average law abiding citizens. I’d support the use of statewide pilot programs with different philosophies and evaluate outcomes and tweaks, just as most businesses do before making major policy changes.

For some reason the government thinks they know how to implement major programs by committee and expect them to work. We need to look at other countries and use their experience too.

A big problem is we’ve created a huge embedded interest group that profits off the status quo.


25 posted on 04/11/2015 10:21:37 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Be the person that your dog thinks you are. ( saw it as a bumper sticker))
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To: Citizen Zed

The same conversations were held during Prohibition, but America didn’t take as long to come to its senses after that mistake. And just as it was with Prohibition, the only winners were organized crime and government police power that grew to fight it. Laws that outlaw the mere possession of any thing are antithetical to freedom, for without the requirement of criminal intent, any citizen can be set up and framed with planted evidence. I hate drugs as much as anyone, but I fear a police state even more. We must be cautious of good intentions, because freedom is often lost to thundering applause.


26 posted on 04/11/2015 10:24:14 AM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

I don’t remember his dad ever pandering though. Maybe politicians must lie, pander, scheme, back slap and kiss babies to get elected.


27 posted on 04/11/2015 10:24:31 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Be the person that your dog thinks you are. ( saw it as a bumper sticker))
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To: Citizen Zed

The basis for his desire to repeal drug laws is stupid.

Every law will affect one group more than others.

Secondly, if polls shows Paul gaining any traction with minorities by this pandering, the Dems will pick it up as their own idea and Paul will never win in the general election.


28 posted on 04/11/2015 10:25:36 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Walker/Cruz 2016)
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To: Citizen Zed

Rand Paul is an idiot.

Soon enough he will want carjacking legalized


29 posted on 04/11/2015 10:26:00 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: Citizen Zed

Rand Paul is in the wrong party, he obviously has no intention of supporting the platform


30 posted on 04/11/2015 10:27:29 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: manc

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have the same position on marijuana, which is to leave it up to the states.


31 posted on 04/11/2015 10:30:07 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

yea you keep telling everyone Ken. Randy panderer is done and was on the first day of his speech.
see an America where criminal justice is applied equally and any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed.

Cruz is a conservative and social and fiscal, while Paul is liberal, hell he;s more liberal than more liberals on social issues


32 posted on 04/11/2015 10:32:26 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: NRx
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Prohibitionists arriving in 5-4-3-2-1...

That's a pretty cute remark. Did you type it between bong hits ?


"Stoners" do NOT make the "best" engineers, scientists, airplane pilots, doctors, lawyers, etc.

For that reason ... countries like China and India WILL NEVER "liberalize" their drug laws, because the end result is called "national poverty", followed by political "enslavement".

Of course, "Stoners" are already "slaves" of the herb, so what difference does it make ?



Ever read about China's "Opium Wars" ?

Stoners' Clue Number One: The "Opium Wars" were never published as a Marvel comic book series.

Do you even have a freakin' clue as to WHY China courageously fought a war against "technological giants" such as England and France ?

It was because, dear "Stoner Flower Child", China's future (tens of millions of brain-adled opium addicts) was being DESTROYED by England's opium imports.

Think of "freely legal" pot and opium as the national economic equivalent of the Black Death and Ebola.



Frankly, you "free pot" Stoner Libertarians are a pretty pathetic lot.

The only reason you "clowns" have the "economic luxury" of campaigning for "legalized drugs" in 2015 is that TEN generations of Americans worked their asses off ... saved money ... built a nation ... all pretty much in a "no legal drugs" world.

Sure, alcohol has always been around.

But smoking pot and heroine DESTROY minds and "cognitive ability".



Please take your "childish moonbeam" wishes to legalize pot to another country, and STOP trying to FUBAR the United States of America (where my grandchildren live).

Any questions, Francis ?



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33 posted on 04/11/2015 10:33:35 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: manc

” Sadly there are people voting for their drugs to be legal, or some who hate the military to see it reduced, or homosexuals who want their agenda advancing.”

Swell......


34 posted on 04/11/2015 10:38:13 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: manc
Cruz is a conservative,

So one can be for legal pot and still be a conservative.

35 posted on 04/11/2015 10:38:23 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
In reality black problems are due to generally low intelligence creating a lack of foresight, plus poor impulse control which overrides any foresight that does come to the individual. There is a real horror in facing biological limits in our Society.

Black problems are due to others making excuses for their problems. When they take responsibility for them, the problems go away.

Impulse control comes from a strong family unit that teaches at a very young age that there are repercussions for their actions.

36 posted on 04/11/2015 10:39:14 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Patton@Bastogne
Any questions, Francis ?

Couldn't you find a way to do that without punishing people for trying to be self-sufficient?

37 posted on 04/11/2015 10:42:33 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Ken H
"I see an America where criminal justice is applied equally and any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed," Paul said

One cannot say this and be a conservative

38 posted on 04/11/2015 10:44:03 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: NRx

The Libertarian Pander Bear, Rand Paul, strikes again!


39 posted on 04/11/2015 10:44:37 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Ken H

My point Ken is that you keep saying the same thing to everyone.

Paul needs to either stay with his own party which is the liberal-tarian or go and join the Dems


40 posted on 04/11/2015 10:45:05 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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