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Obama shortens 98 inmates' sentences, bringing total to 862 (New single-year clemency record)
Seattle PI ^ | 10/27/2016 | Josh Lederman

Posted on 10/27/2016 2:53:53 PM PDT by tekrat

Ninety-eight federal inmates will return home sooner than expected after President Barack Obama commuted their sentences on Thursday, part of a clemency push that has sped up dramatically in Obama's final months.

All told, Obama has cut short sentences for 872 inmates, including 688 this year. The figure is higher than the number commuted by the previous 11 presidents combined, and the White House said more commutations were coming before Obama leaves office in January. Of the latest batch, 42 had been serving life sentences, the White House said.

Neil Eggleston, Obama's White House counsel, said it was important to remember that "there are personal stories behind these numbers."

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anarchist; clemency; immunity; moreoldnews; obama; pardon
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Is Hillary next?

See the clemancy stats here.

A differnt view on this story can be seen here:

1 posted on 10/27/2016 2:53:53 PM PDT by tekrat
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To: tekrat

How many converted to Islam while in prison.


2 posted on 10/27/2016 2:57:22 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: tekrat

Hey, Obama, o pal of mine, whata bout me?

3 posted on 10/27/2016 2:57:38 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!)
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To: Old Yeller

If OJ wants out, he should convert to Islam.


4 posted on 10/27/2016 2:58:09 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: tekrat

Good. Extra room for his entire administration.


5 posted on 10/27/2016 2:58:48 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: tekrat

Was a condition of release that they had to move to a “battleground” state?


6 posted on 10/27/2016 2:59:28 PM PDT by Does so ("Oversampling Dems" means Soros' adjustments will give Hellery an acceptable landslide. ==8-O)
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To: tekrat

I am curious how many of these thugs freed by Obama are black, Muslim, communist, or all of the above. Is this really based on the usurper’s warped concept of justice, or is this, like everything else Barack Hussein does, all about identity politics.


7 posted on 10/27/2016 2:59:33 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: tekrat

Obviously he shares an affinity with criminals.


8 posted on 10/27/2016 2:59:46 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: tekrat

I think Obama expects to be sent to prison one day, so he is seeding the population with people who may be sympathetic to him. He hopes that a lot of folks rally for his early release and full pardon, if he has to report to ‘Jail-jail’ at all.
Worse comes to worst, Obama hopes to get House Arrest, and avoid any Chain Gangs. “That would be too much a humiliation!
Even for a President Trump, right?”


9 posted on 10/27/2016 2:59:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Pollster1

My wild guess is over 95% are as you describe.


10 posted on 10/27/2016 3:00:37 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Old Yeller
If OJ wants out, he should convert to Islam.

More like "Black Liberation" communism.

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate

Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama's pastor in a heated interview about his Church's teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190904/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]

By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190909/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

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Re: James Cone, founder of "Black Liberation Theology":

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a - reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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 photo Black Liberation - James Cone book 02_zpsryaynzyb.jpg

The Black church and Marxism: what do they have to say to each other
by Cone, James H. 1938- . Harrington, Michael 1928-1989

https://archive.org/details/TheBlackChurchAndMarxismWhatDoTheyHaveToSayToEachOther
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REVEREND WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone..."

11 posted on 10/27/2016 3:01:35 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!)
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Hussein has a few more to pardon, so he can break Gov Schmuck Malloy’s record of 3K released in Connecticut with previous felony charges or convictions.

http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/early_release_program_scrutinized/


12 posted on 10/27/2016 3:03:22 PM PDT by Daffynition (*Donald Trump represents the WILL of the PEOPLE.*~ Don King 09.24.16)
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To: tekrat

Oh swell....the one example is a convicted heroine dealerservong life. Just what we need out on the streets


13 posted on 10/27/2016 3:04:46 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: tekrat

Hillary was 97 votes behind in some key district.


14 posted on 10/27/2016 3:08:21 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( LOTS of /s)
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To: tekrat

How many blacks? How many Muslims? Willing to bet whites and Christians are few and far betweeen


15 posted on 10/27/2016 3:09:09 PM PDT by reaganaut (I'm looking forward to Trump as President. I'm an Evangelical and I vote.)
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To: Daffynition
Hussein has a few more to pardon, so he can break Gov Schmuck Malloy’s record of 3K released in Connecticut with previous felony charges or convictions.

Can you imagine all of the traitorous dogs, leftist radicals, and enemy agents that are likely mixed in with these more common criminals. They figure no one will notice this way.

16 posted on 10/27/2016 3:11:59 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!)
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To: tekrat

I wonder how many are from Broward County...


17 posted on 10/27/2016 3:14:42 PM PDT by Hadean
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To: tekrat

You can bet these THUGS are 0dungsh*t’s army and already have their marching orders from 0dungsh*t if Trump wins.


18 posted on 10/27/2016 3:19:25 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: tekrat

Statistically 76 percent of released federal inmates are rearrested within five years. Of these 56 percent are rearrested within the first year of release.

http://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/pages/welcome.aspx


19 posted on 10/27/2016 3:20:07 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Old Yeller
How many converted to Islam while in prison.

That is a racist, Islamophobic comment and has no place on FREEREPUBLIC.

Hussein Obama has done so much for the advance of Islam throughout the world, including here in America. If the world was entirely Muslim, there would be no hateful wars or killing. /sarc

To make things right between you and Hussein, you can vote for Hellery so she can continue Hussein Obama's peaceful agenda.

The graph shows Hussein is doing something differently than previous Presidents. More dead infidels means more will willingly convert to Islam to bring peace.

20 posted on 10/27/2016 3:24:07 PM PDT by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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