Obama Not Waiting for Congress On Clemency For Crack Offenders(Convicts To Be Set Free Soon)

Yahoo News ^ | January 31, 2014 | Liz Goodwin

[lbryce]

An unlikely alliance between tea party Republicans and Democrats in the Senate could result in relief for thousands of federal inmates imprisoned under outdated drug sentences that treated crack cocaine dealing as a far greater offense than selling powder cocaine.

But the long-awaited movement on the issue isn’t sweeping enough — or fast enough — for the Obama administration, which announced its plans to relieve crack offenders through the executive power of clemency the same day the Senate passed its bill out of committee.

[lbryce]

The Senate bill would make the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act — which narrowed the legal disparity between crack and powder cocaine — retroactive, as well as lowering the minimum number of years drug offenders are automatically sentenced to. That means thousands of inmates hammered with lengthy sentences for dealing as little as five grams of crack under the old laws could soon qualify for release or for shorter sentences.

The harsher federal punishments for crack, a drug that’s slightly more prevalent in black than white communities, has long been seen as unfair and racially biased, resulting in far more jail time for black drug offenders than white ones. Congress corrected this in 2010, but did not make the change retroactive.

Hillary the Hutt, seen here in her native garb, having joined forces with the little known community organizers at the time decades ago, concurs with the President's decision to "Let My People Go". Hillary:As everyone knows, Bill Clinton, my co-President, was the first Black President, which makes me the first Black Lady , and I say, yeah, free them all. They deserve clemency for the terrible suffering their ancestors endured as a result of white folks. Let them all go back home to the cities and neighborhoods that were once their homes.
The President has been a staunch opponent of the crack cocaine trade and unbeknownst to the public, while Barry Sotero and his lovely sidekick were organizing folks in the community not so long ago or that far away, they were undercover helping to make his adopted land safe and crime-free for the community, fighting the scourge of crack cocaine that was the driving force behind the criminal Empire.And now, Barry has come full circle and once again there to lend the brothers a helping hand.

As for the rest of America, you thought Obama-Doesn't-Care was a nightmarish scenario. These two hoodlums, The CIC and the AG know exactly what they're doing. And it's not about making amends for racism, or the inequality of the sentencing guidelines in the prison system.

It is the utterly absolute most cynical act that these two could ever conjure of biblical proportions against America. It's about payback time in the worst most unfathomable way.

[AU72]

Flood the streets of America with convicted crack dealers.

What could possibly go wrong?

[12th_Monkey]

Got to get them out for the mid terms

[Texas resident]

He is taking cues from history.
Castro’s Mariel boatlift.
Except baraq is loosing crazies on this country.

[Red Badger]

It may be just a threat to edge the final bill along faster so he won’t ‘do it’......................

[Red Badger]

The top of the bhurka is missing.................

[Iron Munro]

[BenLurkin]

“Release the Cracken!”

[BenLurkin]

Burqa? Heck...she’s dressed to preside over her Coven’s annual cursing ceremony.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I thought smoking crack was far more addictive than snorting coke??????

[Slyfox]

Got to get them out for the mid terms

I agree. However, if AHOTUS is doing everything by executive order and doesn't need Congress at all in the performance of his duties then - "what difference does it make?"

[GOPJ]

Flood the streets? Nah - these are Obama’s people. He’ll hire the cons as ‘navigators’ for Obamacare - with a nice job on the side selling social security numbers.

[GOPJ]

I don’t believe ‘tea party Republicans’ are for this...

[Slyfox]

her Coven’s annual cursing ceremony

Don't you mean her monthly cursing ceremony?

[lbryce]

OMG! That is exactly what I had in mind to say but lost track of it while finishing up the post.

Brilliant minds think alike.

[lbryce]

BenLurkin;
LOL! You are too, too funny.

The White released a memo sent to Holder;
Better get crackin', to release the Kraken.
And when Zero says get crackin' you know exactly the kind of crack he's talkin' bout..

[Organic Panic]

No. It is just a faster delivery system.