I was too wired up last night to post this:
"Drug felons could get early release" by Eric Tucker | Associated Press July 19, 2014
WASHINGTON — The change is part of a broader rethinking of criminal justice policy that the Justice Department, under Attorney General Eric Holder, has embraced.
I know it looks and sounds good at first, but the devil is in the details as they say.
With an eye toward addressing sentencing disparities rooted in the 1980’s-era fight against crack cocaine, the Justice Department has issued new clemency criteria designed to encourage thousands of additional inmates to seek clemency. Last year, Holder directed federal prosecutors to avoid seeking mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
That the latest drug he is experimenting with?
‘‘This is a milestone in the effort to make more efficient use of our law enforcement resources and to ease the burden on our overcrowded prison system,’’ Holder said in a statement.
That doesn't mean the SWAT teams are going to stop kicking down doors to the tune of 100 raids a day at least.
And this dump 'em out of overcrowded prisons garbage after the government has spent the better part of three decades building them up at the expense of schools, hospitals, roads, bridges.
And just who are they dumping, coke heads?
Related: Obama's War on Medical Marijuana Comes to Massachusetts
Oh, yeah, maybe he could call of the DEA dogs, too.
I mean really, folks. These leaders must be on drugs the way they think they operate in a f***ing vacuum. And they are not in control of anything; it's the $y$tem running them.
Though sentencing guidelines are advisory rather than mandatory, judges still rely heavily on them in deciding on prison sentences.
I was told there was the huge debate over.... never mind, hey. I'm so overdosed on deception and distortion from propaganda pre$$ it's not worth it to comment anymore.
The guidelines recommend sentences that factor in the types and quantities of the drugs. The commission in April voted to lower recommended sentences across all drug types, meaning, for instance, that a cocaine package of a given size would now be linked to a shorter range of punishment than before....
Okay, no difficulty reading between the lines here. It has become common knowledge at this stage of AmeriKan $ociety that cocaine is spread out on tables out in the open at elite parties. It's an accepted given, like you would set up a bar and buffet table if you were throwing a party. There is no worry about authority coming to spoil the party, because that cla$$ of people are the authority.
I came to this conclusion seeing the football QB rookie Manziel being defended by the sports guys after being caught with a rolled up dollar bill in a bathroom in Vegas. It's his own business, blah, blah, blah, privacy, blah, blah, blah, they argued. What stays in Vegas happens in Vegas or whatever. The fact is if you go back 40 years cocaine was the big drug among the elite then, too. Nothing has changed. The only time celebrity or rich folk get in trouble for it is when they have left the party, literally and/or figuratively.
Oh, your turn:
Advocates of the early-release plan say it would cut prison costs — nearly one-half of the federal prison population is locked up for drug crimes — and scale back some of the harsh sentences imposed during the country’s war on drugs.
I'm certain $omeone and $ome agenda was $erved.
Remember, drug war door knockdowns are also a big part of the overall plan of total surveillance tyranny and population repression. Plus they make a good budget item for funding increases. Now let 'em out the back door(?).
Prisoner advocacy groups immediately trumpeted the change, calling it a matter of fundamental fairness....
Hate to say it, sounds evil, but I think it truly is time for legalization to occur -- although I felt that way about med marijuana and the Globe completely turned me around on that. That whole indu$try $tinks of corruption, if you know what I mean. Besides, it's also being corporati$ed by legali$ation and currency speculators like George $orrows are pu$hing it. I $mell that and I say no good, no good, even if it would be good for me.
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Gee, I really got talking there, huh?
In all honesty, I always thought blow sucked. I'm paranoid and impotent, yay! Only did it a couple of times, long, long ago, and never smoked the stuff. Saw guys do it once at a Super Bowl party, and they acted weird.
Related:
Holder on Drugs
Holder on Heroin
Terrorist Attack on Holder
One thing leads to another, doesn't it?
Also see: Maine recovery center uses art, poetry to take a hard look at heroin
Sorry to have such a malaise about it.
Winchester brothers face drug charges after fatal overdose
You better head over to MGH, stat!
