Posted on 06/13/2011 9:17:04 PM PDT by Nachum
Obama has to get his “crack” vote ready for 2012. So what a better way then to give at least 12,000 early releases from jail via the “Fair Sentencing Act.” Did you know the Democrat controlled Congress last year passed this bill? I guess everyone was focused on the ObamaCARE bill and the nightmare Frank-N-Dodd bills. The so called “Fair Sentencing Act” is describe by the Washington Post as “narrowing the huge disparity in punishment” given to those convicted of possessing crack cocaine versus those found with the drug in powder form. Wow, I’m sure glad they cleared that up with the bill.
The Wall Street Journal mentions that the Obama regime is pushing to retroactively apply a new law that reduces sentences for crack cocaine convictions. Obviously he need all the voters he can muster next year. I can already see the signs! Crack Dealers for Obama 2012!
This is not our idea of cutting government spending. Gosh he can’t even get that right. Cut other stuff like the IRS.
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When did possessing crack equal being a crack dealer? Oh wait - when it made a scarier-sounding headline.
One of those damned if you do damned if you don’t situations. Black communities used to consider crack to be such a scourge compared to plain cocaine that they wanted the crack dealers to be punished worse. Politicians were happy to comply. Then when the obvious statistics followed, some other agitators got black communities all wrought up about the “inequity” in dealer punishments for the “drug of choice” in black communities. Again, this is about dealers, not about consumers, who get a slap on the wrist — if that — no matter what the drug.
No sweat. Why do you think there has been a “shortage” of ammunition for the last two or three years...?? Demand has been way, way up and it took a while for production to catch up.
Come meet my lil’ fren’......
His pals and fans in Hollywood will be very pleased.
Obama wants to take away our gun rights - and then early releases 12,000 crackheads who commit crimes against citizens to get their stash. Is it possible he's upping the ante for gun control (a reverse gunwalker scheme)?
Well, they CAN be. Nudge, nudge, wink wink. Know what I mean. Know what I mean.
Ping...They just keep writing themselves.
Not weed smokers - crack dealers.
In the meantime, he gives a trillion bucks to his banker friends, while smiling and saying oh well, no more money, gotta let the crack dealers go.
In the future, people are never going to believe a free people elected this guy.
Those aren’t voters, they’ll be Democratic poll workers.
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