Posted on 07/16/2015 7:23:53 PM PDT by smoothsailing
July 16, 2015
On Thursday, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to ever visit a federal prison. In anticipation of his arrival, the inmates of Oklahoma's El Reno prison hid not their feelings, even suggesting that divine intervention is at play.
"I am not gonna lie; I went up to my room and cried," one inmate said upon hearing of Obama's visit. "I feel that after twenty years in these prisons, the good Lord brought us Barack Obama to set things right."
He was speaking with Vice news who went along for the ride to video the historic occasion for an upcoming HBO special on the criminal justice system. But inmate Kenneth Choice's response takes the cake:
Obama once said that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. Well, there's a whole lotta peoples in here who look like Trayvon, his uncle, his daddy and all his relatives. We are your people Obama—we all look like Trayvon. I just hope you take after your hero Abraham Lincoln and free us like the slaves that the mandatory minimum laws have made us.
But it's not just non-violent drug offenders who are looking for more mercy, it's also first-time offenders, like Choice above, who want their own Obama commutations. And beyond that category, prisoners tagged as Armed Career Criminals want theirs, too. Vice reports:
Charles Scott knows that all too well. A first-time offender serving 51 and a half years for multiple gun crimes, he hopes President Obama will not just look at helping nonviolent offenders, but also at first-time criminals who were painted as murderers, terrorists, and career maniacs.....
(Excerpt) Read more at truthrevolt.org ...
<<< But it’s not just non-violent drug offenders who are looking for more mercy >>>
Embezzlement is non-violent. So is perjury. So is tax evasion. Should we release all non-violent convicted criminals or just Obama’s choom tribe?
I'll bet they were painted as murderers and terrorists after they were convicted of murder and terrorism. But that is irrelevant...
Dead.
Arbeit Macht Frei, prison homies!
Prisons are filled with democrats...
The Cheeks-Kilpatricks were on Hillary’s team in 2008. I think Kwame’s SOL.
All that matter to him most likely.
good one!
Obama might as well empty all the Prisons like Castro did in Cuba in the days of the Marial Boatlift.
Unfortunately, any Prisoners released by Obama wouldn’t be going to Cuba, they would be showing up in our Neighborhoods
Barack Hussein Obama - hero of murderers, rapists, and thieves everywhere.
Kinda gives ya a warm feeling... oh... somewhere.
Someone please play the Twilight Zone theme....
8. Assist Iran with nukes to attack Israel & America
They look like a guy who's been dead and buried for a couple years?
Obama only hates the idea of guns in the hands of white people.
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