[Reno89519]

Actually, I'd be doing the same. I think there are people with bad sentences. Obama, if I recall correctly, wanted equal attention to crack and powder cocaine. Seems fair and appropriate. What I'd object to with both is commuting terrorists, cop killers, violent felons.

I think the change, and I have been on FR since 2008, is that people can look at the policies and not so much knee-jerk responses. There are still too many of those and I, like many others, simply agree to disagree.

[JohnBrowdie]

perhaps you would like to spend some time in prison with all of those unfairly incarcerated fellows doing meaningful research into this social injustice.

we could publish your findings. posthumously, of course.

[Repeat Offender]

I think there are people with bad sentences. Obama, if I recall correctly, wanted equal attention to crack and powder cocaine. Seems fair and appropriate.

It was the Congressional Black Caucus, during the "crack epidemic" in the 80s that wanted higher penalties for crack in order to discourage minorities from doing crack.

30 years later........those penalties designed to protect blacks is now rasis.