Posted on 08/04/2016 8:45:22 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
'Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow'
Barack Obama is, rather famously, a non-violent drug offender. In his youth, he roamed Hawaii with the Choom Gang and indulged in the local fare. As he wrote in his book, Dreams of my Father:
I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though—Mickey, my potentional intiator had been just a little too eager for me to go through with that.
67 were serving life sentences....for drugs??
For non-violent drug-related offenses, at that.
“Not smack, though—Mickey, my potentional intiator had been just a little too eager for me to go through with that.”
Oh, if only Mickey had been a bit more persuasive, imagine how much harm to the country could have been avoided???
3 strikes laws don’t care what the 3rd strike is for.
Imagine the trouble I’m having with this. I hate this project of Obama’s.
My daughter, while only a law student, (she’s since graduated and passed the bar) got one of them out. I’m a non-practicing lawyer too. The guy was 70, sold drugs in a school zone but not to kids. He got life. My young daughter was smart enough to get him on this release list making me a proud Papa but I told her thought it awful. She got tremendous experience visiting the federal prison in West Virginia, etc. and working the criminal and political system. OTH, How do you keep cretins form selling drugs in school zones if you later on say, never mind. Argh...
Any information as to the ratio of blacks to whites released?
We have got the worst of two worlds here. The USA isn’t fighting a “war on drugs” as if it really expected to win. It’s a cash cow for police, prisons, and all the other peripheral stuff.
Undermining addiction is the real key here. And this doesn’t matter whether the drug in question is deemed legal or not. We might be able to be far more lenient about that, in fact, if we could lick the addiction monster.
Three time losers? In some states, three felony convictions get you life. Or at least used to.
But being drug dealers they were not non-violent; they were just not caught at the violence or pleaded it down.
I don’t think we can afford to legally adopt and become permanently responsible for everyone who uses drugs. How did we get here?
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