Posted on 02/12/2014 5:07:33 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather
A former Congressman has accused President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder of a racial ulterior motive in a massive early prison release planned for up to 10,000 drug dealers.
Ernest Istook, a former U.S. Congressman and writer for the Washington Times, pointed out on his radio program that “Obama claims minorities usually get longer terms than whites, so he wants to shorten their time served. He says letting them out of prison early will save taxpayers money.”
Most of the prisoners were convicted for crack cocaine violations, almost always for dealing or possession with intent to sell. Istook went on to say, “It's like what President Obama claimed about marijuana, namely that enforcing anti-drug laws is unfair to minorities. When minorities commit a crime more often than other groups, rather than trying to fix behavior, Obama screams racism and says we shouldn't enforce that law.”
In a January interview with The New Yorker, President Obama claimed that US drug law enforcement punishes a “select few.” Obama opined, “We should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing.” The President insisted that the current drug laws unfairly target young minorities and that there is an inherent racism built into our criminal justice system. “Middle-class kids don’t get locked up for smoking pot, and poor kids do,” Obama said. “And African-American kids and Latino kids are more likely to be poor and less likely to have the resources and the support to avoid unduly harsh penalties.”
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They want their 12:1 helter skelter, they can have their 12:1 helter skelter.
Unfortunately, yes, while being the best man can do, it is not the way of God. It is destined to fall when morals decay what is left is babylon the whore, lets hope america stands in freedom until His return.when we can see the reality we were created for.. at the moment I am not convinced we still have a country.
Yup Laz, me too.
What am I a sucker or something?
What do they expect?
Enough is enough.....
It will be hard to take away something which was not given to begin with.
My 2A rights remain regardless what any @#$hole in public office does.
Wouldn’t releasing minorities from prison make that a majority of prisoners being released?
More “conscripts” for the upcoming race wars I see.
And I’m sure they will all be instructed to “get whitey” with an assurance that Holder will not prosecute them if caught again.
“some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing”
I am so tired of libs assuming that everybody else did what they did. I didn’t. I may be the only person in the last 40 years to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin who didn’t, but I didn’t.
Jeez.
This bastard is operating right out of Saul Alynski’s book on destroying a Democracy.
No. Not only that, but it is happening very fast. Rush Limbaugh was really good today talking about this. How nobody is stopping him.
Blacks have been whining for years that the huge majority of people being convicted and imprisoned for crack-cocaine are African American so as soon as a black racist was put in charge of DOJ that problem will be solved.
Anyone who thinks releasing a flood of prison inmates back on the streets nearly all at once won't mean a large increase in crime is crazy-even if most of the crime will be in their own communities.
“Did you ever think that America could degenerate to this level of crime, sleaze and corruption ???”
Yes. We were there with the Clinton’s but people didn’t know it because not as many people were on the internet and depended only on the MSM for their news and opinion.
If Hillary gets into the WH this jug eared clown will look like a piker.
So then what will they do?
They’ll go from Jailfare to welfare ...
Either way, they’re on our dime.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
He needs thugs for his civilian army.
What is the difference in overrepresentation of minorities on drug charges and the appearance of excessive sentences for murder, armed robbery or burglary? This line of reasoning would limit the prison population of minorities to their percent of the population as a whole. In fact, I think that is where this crap is going.
At the same time they’re going own the path of disarming the rest of us.
Lets see what happens when Morsi squeals his guts out at his Terrorism Trial in Egypt.
I think General el Sisi has his undivided attention. He still refuses to acknowledge Sisi’s authority to try him and keeps saying that he is the rightful President of Egypt. But don’t think it is helping his cause much now.
May the Truth of Benghazi come “out of Egypt” during the Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Trials.
I wonder what all the arian nation guys are gonna think about this?
Widespread prison riots in the offing?
They are at war with us the Amercian people.
We are not paranoid but they are watching & listening.
He’s laying the groundwork for what Hillary called “The Scorched Earth Policy”.
Holders arranging the release of the FLAN terrorist in 1999 was intended to do the same thing, cause public outrage, it was just on a smaller scale.
There’s a new clown that is being brought into the civil rights division at DoJ. His job is going to be to get the exact same kind of FBI files Hillary threatened to release during Clinton’s impeachment and implement “The Scorched Earth Policy”.
Let’s see what kind of outrage and reaction there is from people with the release of 10,000 cons.
Then think about the reaction if they are required by law to release another few hundred thousand because of what is in the FBI files they are going after.
I can tell you pretty close what the reaction will be in the black community when the content of those FBI files are made public.
Rodney King type riots in every city in the US.
They are following the Weather Underground playbook.
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