Posted on May 15, 2017
Rand Paul: Sessions' sentencing plan would ruin lives
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Mandatory Minimums - essential or unnecessary?
Rand Paul: Sessions' sentencing plan would ruin lives
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Well Senator, why don't you change the laws? Sessions is doing his job, law enforcement. It is not the job of the Attorney General to decide what is good law or bad. If you believe federal law is faulty or being misused in some fashion by the Justice Department then it was poorly written. It is your job to pass well written laws for this country. If you do your job the system works. By the way, his instructions don't ruin lives. The decision to violate the law ruins lives. Put the blame where it belongs.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
Mandatory minimums are a horrible idea for nonviolent drug offenses. You do know that sometimes innocent people get wrongly convicted as well right?
I absolutely abhor drug dealers and believe addiction is a choice. But putting people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses for 10 years or more won't solve anything. I know someone who is in prison for drug trafficking when she had nothing to do with it and had no clue that people she thought were friends were using her garage as a place to do drug deals. But they made a deal with the state to testify against her. She had been involved with drugs in her early 20s but she turned her life around. She moved to get away from the people who dragged her into that life. She got a good job, she was taking care of her kids, involved in the community. Then gets arrested because these other people didn't want to do the time for the crime they committed.
It's pretty ridiculous that someone gets 10 years or more for some pot but you have child molesters who do 2 years and get out on probation. People commit murder and get less sometimes.
If you read the article - he is trying to get a law passed to get rid of mandatory minimums.
Our prisons are far too crowded and most of the people in there are nonviolent drug offenders. How about we actually try to rehabilitate people instead of shoving them into cages and treating them like animals and then wondering why they act like animals when returned to society?
I absolutely abhor drug dealers and believe addiction is a choice. But putting people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses for 10 years or more won't solve anything. I know someone who is in prison for drug trafficking when she had nothing to do with it and had no clue that people she thought were friends were using her garage as a place to do drug deals. But they made a deal with the state to testify against her. She had been involved with drugs in her early 20s but she turned her life around. She moved to get away from the people who dragged her into that life. She got a good job, she was taking care of her kids, involved in the community. Then gets arrested because these other people didn't want to do the time for the crime they committed.
It's pretty ridiculous that someone gets 10 years or more for some pot but you have child molesters who do 2 years and get out on probation. People commit murder and get less sometimes.
If you read the article - he is trying to get a law passed to get rid of mandatory minimums.
Our prisons are far too crowded and most of the people in there are nonviolent drug offenders. How about we actually try to rehabilitate people instead of shoving them into cages and treating them like animals and then wondering why they act like animals when returned to society?
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SSG Michael Tellekamp
I agree. Those examples are miscarriage of justice.
I don't support an official charged with law enforcement saying I don't agree with the law so I will ignore it and tell others to ignore it. He does not have that right or power. That overrides Congress or the State Legislatures. Change the law. Repeal the law. So I hope Sen. Paul is successful.
I don't support an official charged with law enforcement saying I don't agree with the law so I will ignore it and tell others to ignore it. He does not have that right or power. That overrides Congress or the State Legislatures. Change the law. Repeal the law. So I hope Sen. Paul is successful.
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The goal of minimum sentences is crime reduction, right? Keeping the bad guys off the street? But the problem is with the inequity of sentences -- why require minimums of drug offenders (or whatever), leading to an imbalance of sentences between categories of crime. As one person mentioned, giving a drug offender 10 years while a sex offender gets 2.
My suggestion: Instead of trying to tackle this problem from the Administrative branch of government, let's reform the Judicial branch of government. Let's identify the judges who are giving stupid-small sentences to serious crimes, and get them the hell off the bench. Let's start impeaching judges when they, for example, let an accused rapist out on $2500 bond or let the accused walk out the back door of chambers. When we have competent judges giving just sentences that fit the crimes, there will be less need for any kind of minimum sentencing.
My suggestion: Instead of trying to tackle this problem from the Administrative branch of government, let's reform the Judicial branch of government. Let's identify the judges who are giving stupid-small sentences to serious crimes, and get them the hell off the bench. Let's start impeaching judges when they, for example, let an accused rapist out on $2500 bond or let the accused walk out the back door of chambers. When we have competent judges giving just sentences that fit the crimes, there will be less need for any kind of minimum sentencing.
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Let's be honest , those with half a brain realize his plan to fill privatized prison in which he and his buddies are invested in. The man is pure evil personified. Don't believe me, check private prison stock which has risen since November.
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SGT Cort Landry
SSG Michael Tellekamp - I guess innuendo is enough to make someone guilty nowadays... Look at the Trump/Russia connection. I guess if someone says something false so many times, it becomes truth..
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MCPO Roger Collins
Joseph Goebbels:
Table of Contents
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Biography
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On the Jewish Question
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Table of Contents
|
Biography
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On the Jewish Question
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
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