Posted on 04/29/2021 5:12:09 PM PDT by grundle
Liberals at the ACLU are worried about it:
Conservatives at Breitbart are worried about it:
Libertarians at Reason are worried about it:
And here are two previous articles from the New York Times about how Biden’s crime bill hurt black people:
Joe Biden on Crime and Mass Incarceration
During the ’80s and ’90s, Mr. Biden helped shepherd a string of bills that transformed the criminal justice system — and, experts say, hurt America’s black communities.
June 27, 2019
As Joseph R. Biden Jr. makes his third run for the White House, he is being pressed to answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities.
During the 1980s and 1990s, when Mr. Biden was a senator from Delaware, he and other leaders of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee helped fashion a string of bills that overhauled the country’s crime laws.
Among the most significant were: the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which established mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses; the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which imposed harsher sentences for possession of crack than for possession of powder cocaine; and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was essentially a catchall tough-on-crime bill.
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‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration
He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.
June 25, 2019
Now, more than 25 years later, as Mr. Biden makes his third run for the White House in a crowded field of Democrats – many calling for ambitious criminal justice reform — he must answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts and his critics say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities. That he worked with segregationists to write the bills — an issue that recently dominated the political news and seems likely to resurface in Mr. Biden’s first debate on Thursday – has only added to his challenge. So has the fact that black voters are such a crucial Democratic constituency.
There should be a provision that lets the police use lethal force against anyone trying to sell illegal menthol cigarettes on the street.
The police...always the police. If they refused to enforce this shit we’d all be better off. Another loosie murder waiting to happen.
Is there a national crisis related to menthol cigarettes?
I don’t think so.
Their research must have told them this would foment more Burning, Looting and Murder.
Even if blacks were not effected more this is madness.....more nanny statism and I have never smoked a menthol cig in my life.
Laws,laws,laws....all to protect us.
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“There should be a provision that lets the police use lethal force against anyone trying to sell illegal menthol cigarettes on the street.”
How about the government leaves us the f@#k alone? :)
Sure. BLM will love that. More victims for them to feed off of and agitate against cops.
WTF. Nobody could keep people off of booze during prohibition, nor weed or coke or heroine, or even meth and opioids. They really think they can ban menthol “loosies”? Do these people learn nothing?
Let’s ban watermelon!
ML/NJ
Menthol flavored Marijuana.
Menthol Flavored Fentanyl.
I used to smoke Kools and I’m 100% White European ancestry.
I used to. They’re delicious. Now that I quit smoking, I get my fix from Fisherman’s Friend cough lozenges. Far out, man.
What percentage of the black vote did Biden get? They voted for him to ban menthol cigarettes. Have at it.
Even though I am a white man, I smoke Marlboro menthol lights. Does this mean I have to stock up on menthol cigs like I do 5.56?
Going to need jobs for the displaced mask police.
Drawing a blank here. Why would a ban on menthol smokes increase police/black interaction?
Skip the incremental steps, ban all cigarettes and vape so that it equally applies to everyone. Our nation’s health and finances, except the taxes collected, will improve.
Ripple and fried chicken, too.
I used to years ago.
Of all the problems and menthol cigs are a issue? Like so much crazy crap and everything is racis’. I am as white as a ghost and used to smoke Newports. Don’t ask what I was thinking thank God I quit smoking.
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