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Obama commutes sentences of 98 inmates

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[h=1]Obama commutes sentences of 98 inmates [/h]
The batch included 42 inmates serving life sentences. Many will not be released until late 2018 and will have to enroll in residential drug treatment programs.

The latest round of commutations is part of Obama’s effort to free prisoners serving lengthy sentences handed down during the government's war on drugs.
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It's way past time to end the war on drugs.
 
Dittohead not! said:
[h=1]Obama commutes sentences of 98 inmates [/h]


It's way past time to end the war on drugs.
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I can only comment as a well informed poster on one of those cases but I fully commend Obama for it=some guy got a life sentence based on the testimony that a guy popped with several kilos of blow was to deliver it to the defendant-a defendant that had two prior minor trafficking convictions (less than 2 years served for both combined)

its an abomination that someone is given a life sentence for "conspiring" to obtain cocaine"

Period
 
Credit where credit is due. Good move by Obama. Pardons would have been better, but this is some measure of justice for those persons.
 
We need to intensify the war on drugs if anything
 
Hashed this out in another thread. The bottom line is that there's really no good answers that solve the problem.

Thinking out of the box, perhaps we isolate the drug abusers, give them the free clean drugs they want, but they can't pass the fence back to society until they've had 90 days clean and sober.

In my view it's a win / win / win.

The drug abusers get what they want, clean drugs, a place to stay, 3 squares and a cot.
Society gets what it wants, which is no drug related crime, smuggling, cartels, gang wars, etc.
And the over all I think it'd be a cost reduction, as we don't have to fight this war on drugs anymore.
 
eohrnberger said:
Hashed this out in another thread. The bottom line is that there's really no good answers that solve the problem.

Thinking out of the box, perhaps we isolate the drug abusers, give them the free clean drugs they want, but they can't pass the fence back to society until they've had 90 days clean and sober.

In my view it's a win / win / win.

The drug abusers get what they want, clean drugs, a place to stay, 3 squares and a cot.
Society gets what it wants, which is no drug related crime, smuggling, cartels, gang wars, etc.
And the over all I think it'd be a cost reduction, as we don't have to fight this war on drugs anymore.
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Bingo. We could build these "isolation" units all over the country, make sure they're protected with armed guards, have the "abusers" wear orange jumpsuits so they're easily identifiable should they breach the fence, and give their family weekly visiting hours! (no hugging)

Why hasn't anyone ever thought of this???
 
Thoreau72 said:
Voting for Trump? Should torture be included as part of the punishment for drug offenses?
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Torture breaks a good many laws, so no. Murderers and rapists, yes, torture them
 
Of course not. Alcohol is legal fool!
 
ScrewPokemonGo said:
Torture breaks a good many laws, so no. Murderers and rapists, yes, torture them
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I see you think highly of the rule of law. :lol: Selective application of the law. Does that make you a "cafeteria legalist"?

"I favor the rule of law except in certain cases". My, my, the web we weave....
 
Garydog said:
Bingo. We could build these "isolation" units all over the country, make sure they're protected with armed guards, have the "abusers" wear orange jumpsuits so they're easily identifiable should they breach the fence, and give their family weekly visiting hours! (no hugging)

Why hasn't anyone ever thought of this???
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Stalin and many others have not only thought of it, they practice it. The US practices it on a very large scale.
 
ScrewPokemonGo said:
You have np right to have illegal, dangerous, deadly substances. What right's do u feel have been violated?
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Right. I mean, other than a "substance" that sprays hot lead at 3,000-feet-per second into the heads of schoolchildren when used properly.
 
The Clinton link to cocaine trafficking at Mena, Arkansas reveals interesting tentacles: Averill Harriman's father links to the Puritans at Hempstead, New York, not far from Clinton's vacation spot. Harriman, Tennessee was a meth hotspot, and across the mountain is Oliver Springs, where a certain Clower once lived, Clower family DNA also lived at Mena, Arkansas, and perhaps Larry Nichols, now on the Alex Jones show, knew of them Oliver Springs is also the British MI6 link to the Clinton mafia. You go back to Skolnik (Chicago) fingering Obama as a British spy. Not that far-fetched, really.
 
badger2 said:
The Clinton link to cocaine trafficking at Mena, Arkansas reveals interesting tentacles: Averill Harriman's father links to the Puritans at Hempstead, New York, not far from Clinton's vacation spot. Harriman, Tennessee was a meth hotspot, and across the mountain is Oliver Springs, where a certain Clower once lived, Clower family DNA also lived at Mena, Arkansas, and perhaps Larry Nichols, now on the Alex Jones show, knew of them Oliver Springs is also the British MI6 link to the Clinton mafia. You go back to Skolnik (Chicago) fingering Obama as a British spy. Not that far-fetched, really.
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Put "Nugan-Hand Bank" into your Google machine. It makes Mena look like Boy Scouts.
 
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