Posted on 10/03/2020 3:18:51 AM PDT by RandFan
During a Democratic presidential debate last year, Cory Booker weaponized one of Joe Biden's proudest accomplishments. The New Jersey senator noted that the former vice president, who represented Delaware in the Senate for 36 years, "has said that, since the 1970s, every major crime bill—every crime bill, major and minor—has had his name on it."
Said was an understatement. Biden has not just noted his leading role in passing those laws; he has crowed about it repeatedly over the years, throwing it in the face of Republicans who dared to think they could be tougher on crime and fellow Democrats he viewed as too soft. Now here he was, after a notable shift in public opinion about criminal justice issues, bemoaning the excessively, arbitrarily punitive policies he had zealously promoted for decades.
"The house was set on fire, and you claimed responsibility for those laws," Booker continued. "You can't just now come out with a plan to put out that fire."
Biden's response was telling. Those crime bills, he said, "were passed years ago, and they were passed overwhelmingly." More recently, he noted, he had tried to ameliorate some of their worst consequences—for example, by sponsoring a 2007 bill that would have eliminated the unjust, irrational sentencing disparity between the smoked and snorted forms of cocaine, which led to strikingly unequal treatment of black and white drug offenders. That gloss brushed over the fact that, just a few years before he entered the 2020 presidential race, Biden was still bragging about the incarceration-expanding Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act—or, as he preferred to call it, "the 1994 Biden Crime Bill."
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He's a proven crook
He's a Maoist
He's a child molester
He's a rapist
He's in an advanced state of brain deterioration
He's subject to manipulation by people even more evil than he
He is a democrat. That is the only reason I need to not vote for him.
JoMa
Yes, “rent seeking POS.”
Crack cocaine goes up in smoke fast.
Crack habits are more expensive and result in more crime per addict.
Crack cocaine distribution needs to have a stiffer sentence.
Joe Biden is not a crook.
Hunter gladly accepts yuan and rubles, however.
I guess you aren’t in line for a $7000, $10000 or $14000 voter bribe from Joe.
“Joe Biden is not a crook.”
REALLY??? methinks he is corrupt
Ponder this: Biden is as crooked as that little road in San Francisco (Lombard Street). Pelosi changed the rules in the House of Representatives by impeaching President Trump with no good reason. In fact, she has stated that the impeachment began when he rode down the escalator before the election. So if Biden does win but the House turns Republican, then when do the impeachment hearings start? He laid out so many ‘pools’ of evidence and bread crumbs, it won’t be hard for a Republican House to impeach him. As Aunt Maxine shouted, “Impeach Biden, impeach Biden, impeach Biden!”
I grew up in western PA, the cradle of the Whiskey Rebellion, and there are (in my mind) some loose parallels with the way crack is viewed under the law.
In the period following the revolution, farmers on the western frontier (i.e. western PA) were separated from the big markets in the East (i.e. Philadelphia, Baltimore) by the Appalachian/Allegheny mountains. It was far more efficient to distill their rye, barley and corn into whiskey for the trip over the mountains than it was to transport the unprocessed grains. Furthermore, the whiskey itself was generally regarded (moreso than the grain) as a medium of exchange for barter transactions.
The FedGov enacted a tax on whiskey, ostensibly to pay off war debts, which adversely impacted the farmers in the west far more than those east of the Alleghenies, prompting them to organize and revolt against the tax.
If, in the eyes of the government, distilled spirits are treated differently than the unprocessed grains, then crack should be treated differently than raw cocaine. I would be willing to bet that if drugs were legalized the FedGov would want to tax crack at a higher rate than powdered coke based on its potency. As long as it's not legal, it makes sense under the same logic that it's possession and sale should be treated more harshly. Regardless of one's views on taxes or drug legalization, at least the FedGov is being uncommonly consistent in its logic here.
Obama and Biden authorized spying on Trump.
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