Posted on 04/29/2015 8:14:46 PM PDT by lbryce
Facing a scandal that threatens to capsize her quest to return to the White House, Hillary Clinton debuted her first major policy speech since the official launch of her current campaign. Clinton focused on a call to end “mass incarceration” in America and denounced racial injustice in the legal system, but her focus was on the question of “trust” saying “we must urgently rebuild the bonds of trust and respect among Americans. …Restoring trust in our politics, our press, our markets.” That’s a pretty tall order for a woman who is now widely distrusted by the American electorate and facing accusations that she and her husband raked in part of their massive fortune through payola from people doing business with her State Department. Remember the last time Clinton spoke in so public a setting in New York, she was explaining that she had destroyed 31,000 emails from her time in office.
It’s quite a switch for Clinton to join President Obama and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in anti-imprisonment crusade. Clinton has long heralded the tough-on-crime policies of her husband’s administration – laws credited with helping to end the bloody drug turf wars of the 1990s but blamed for a booming black prison population. Under the Clinton administration, federal prosecutors stepped up drug prosecutions and today, and today most federal inmates are behind bars for drug offenses. Facing pressure from her left and a skeptical black electorate, Clinton had no trouble making the reversal.
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No one could make this stuff up!
Is there really another reality the Hilda beast is living in, or does she just think we are all stupid?
Forget I asked
Mass incarceration is only an issue because some groups are incarcerated at higher rates than others. So to avoid "disparate impact" she needs to be explicit about her goal: no non-white group can be imprisoned at a higher rate than whites. If they are, it is prima facie evidence of racism.
Does that mean her Foundation is converting to a Trust?
Such a SIMPLE sentence, yet a PROFOUND TRUTH.
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