Don't wear white after Labor Day.
Don't wear a wig after 1825.
Yes
NO
Posted on 06/23/2014 7:23:32 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
"Three out of four people in prison are black or brown for nonviolent drug use. However, when you do surveys, white kids are doing drugs at an equal rate, and they are a much bigger part of the population. So, why are the prisons full of black and brown kids? It is easier to arrest them. It is easier to convict them. They don't get as good of attorneys. And, frankly, they live in the city in a much more collected fashion than in the suburbs, and so the police are patrolling the city more. But it is unfair. The war on drugs has had a racial outcome, unintentionally, but it has a racial outcome. And I want to try to fix it."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Rand, I just said the other day that I will no longer consider you as a viable candidate for president. I guess you just wanted to make certain of that.
This guy is an absolute clown.
(2013) "More than half of federal prisoners are incarcerated for drug crimes in 2010, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and that number has only just dipped below 50 percent in 2011. Despite more relaxed attitudes among the public at large toward non-violent offenses like marijuana use, the number of people in federal prison for drug offenses spiked from 74,276 in 2000 to 97,472 in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The punishment falls disproportionately on people of color. Blacks make up 50 percent of the state and local prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes. Black kids are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white ones -- even though white kids are more likely to abuse drugs."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/drug-war-mass-incarceration_n_3034310.html
According to the US Dept of Justice, table 9, 53% of prisoners in state prisons were there for violent offenses, 16.8% for drug offenses. There is may be more turnover with the drug offenses.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p12ac.pdf
There are about 12% as many federal as state prisoners sentenced.
And there are about a third as many people in jail as in federal or state prison. The violent offense rate is lower there, the drug offense higher than state prison.
I’m for ending the war on drugs at least part way - legalize marijuana and opium products, yes, meth no, cocaine, not sure.
But Rand Paul is annoying me - he is smart and has potential - he is clueless on immigration and now he screws up basic statistics - did he let someone feed him those bogus numbers?
I don’t believe Paul’s stats at all. I’d like to see the facts.
Including the legal ones, of course.
Contraband law is Tyrannical. The requirements of its enforcement necessarily lead to gross abuses, Constitutional and otherwise.
Limited, minimal government should never wield such arbitrary power as to make commonplace such things as:
During alcohol Prohibition, the government was perfectly willing to imprison ordinary citizens for possessing or selling the wrong drug (distilled spirits). Such "government" was Tyrannical then, it's Tyrannical now, and it always will be Tyrannical.
The willingness to grant government such sweeping, virtually unchecked powers (see the USSC) occurs on all "sides" of the political spectrum, IMHO, and it's net effect is a whole lot o' governmental Tyranny.
I'll always be against that. No free adult deserves to be imprisoned merely for committing the "crime" of possessing (or facilitating possession of) the wrong plant, distilled spirit, medicine, or recreational substance.
I just don't believe that Rush Limbaugh is a criminal, regardless of the fact that some government agency didn't like his medical habits. Do you?
The same goes for the likes of Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, or any of countless others, including ordinary everyday people. Does anybody really believe such a wide swath of peaceable people belong in prison? You know, like during Prohibition?
In any event, contraband law, in all of its insidious forms, will always be the road to Tyranny, and, even when enforced in the most unrestrained and extreme ways, its horrid abuses will be rationalized executively, legislatively, and judicially by whichever political faction happens to hold power at the time.
Prohibition is just another cog in an increasingly Tyrannical government behemoth, IMHO.
Deal in illegal drugs, go to jail. I have no sympathy for idiots.
So said the Prohibitionists in the 1920's.
Then they realized that the Tyrannical "solution" was worse than the original problem...
Don't wear white after Labor Day.
Don't wear a wig after 1825.
Yes
NO
It might be that if you were to analyze the data many minorities are jailed for violent drug related offences vs whites sparking a doober in moms basement. P.S. Rand Paul dead to me
Is the illegal drug marijuana more immoral than the legal drug alcohol? Why?
Martin O’Malley, my guess for the RAT POTUS nominee in ‘16.
Annoying, whiney little turd.
Seriously? Would they be that stupid?
I don’t see Hillary! doing it. And to be honest, now that AA’s been given it’s chance and failed beyond belief, yeah, I see a white Anglo male as being a positive in POTUS politics. I’ll stop there.
I see O’Malley with a female VP running for the RATS.
“...O’Malley with a female VP...”
Or vice versa; Psychohontas Warren with O’Malley as VP.
Interchangeable, completely replaceable, reliably lunatic liberal.
Possible. But I think after this “experiment”, people are going to be looking for an adult to be in charge. To me, that’s a white man.
Maybe.
Dems are stupid enough to want to continue the Lemming Run (animated gif graphic, anyone???).
And Hillary is narcissistic and entitle-minded enough to insist that she be queen.
Either way, it’s going to be a popcorn-worthy dog or cat fight on that side of the aisle.
The typical RAT voter is so stupid, they’ll hear the “O’” and just figure it’s Obama running again.
Yes I’m serious.
Sadly you may be right.
Excellent rant! Thank you.
And I love this one:
Libertarians are just hippies with guns...
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