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2015-04-01 Government

Champ commutes sentences of 22 criminals in federal prison

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-01 03:16|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Like a good foot wedge out of the rough it takes practice. The big release day will come on the last day in office.

Posted by Airandee 2015-04-01 06:36|| 2015-04-01 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Were a proportionate number of whites, Asians, Hispanics, Middle-Easterners, Latinos, Native Americans, and .... oh, yeah ... blacks released? I mean proportionate to the general population, not the incarcerated population.

Interesting that the Constitution does not allow ex post facto to put you in prison, but it can be applied - by constitutional scholars - get you out quicker.

Posted by Bobby 2015-04-01 07:21|| 2015-04-01 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting that the Constitution does not allow ex post facto to put you in prison

That is what reparations are for; applying today's standards to historical norms.

Posted by airandee 2015-04-01 08:44|| 2015-04-01 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't have a problem with this. Previous sentencing guidelines for some drug crimes were indeed unreasonable. And the whole "War on Drugs" is foolishness squared.

Posted by Steve White 2015-04-01 08:47|| 2015-04-01 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 He probably has the pardon letters for Holder, Lerner, Hilary, etc al. already typed up, just awaiting his signature.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-04-01 09:01|| 2015-04-01 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I wouldn't have a problem with it either, if done in a court.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-01 09:02|| 2015-04-01 09:02|| Front Page Top

#7 future Detroit City Council members

Posted by Frank G 2015-04-01 09:09|| 2015-04-01 09:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Commutes does not equal pardon. They still keep their federal felony convictions. Not that it matters when it comes to voting anymore regardless of what the 'law' says (see-MN).

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-01 09:39|| 2015-04-01 09:39|| Front Page Top

#9 And the whole "War on Drugs" is foolishness squared.

I must disagree with you about the stated intent of the war on drugs. I believe that keeping hard narcotics away from our children is a good idea. I believe that starting every day with a blunt is a bad idea. But we're talking here about a president whose DEA parties with prostitutes provided by Colombian drug cartels and leaves the border wide open for anybody who wants to walk right across it. Gotta wonder if they scored any blow for the Champ. So, yeah. Foolishness.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-04-01 12:17|| 2015-04-01 12:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Either that or it's one more step in his continuing effort to bring about the demise of Western Civilization.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-04-01 12:19|| 2015-04-01 12:19|| Front Page Top

#11 > The big release day will come on the last day in office.

To free up space ofr political prisoners?

/clockworkorange-USA

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-04-01 12:22|| 2015-04-01 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Hmmmm....

So its foolish to fight and incarcerate those who traffic heroin, crack cocaine and meth amphetamine?

These substances are poison and destroy the lives of everyone who uses them. I can see no rationale to make them legal.

Posted by El Jefe 2015-04-01 12:29|| 2015-04-01 12:29|| Front Page Top

#13 The "war on drugs" has totally failed. It's a total failure the only beneficiary are police departments, prison builders and the criminally minded who sell drugs at much higher profits.

All It's managed is to profit criminals, supplying more dangerous drugs at more random concentrations to more people in far less controlled circumstances with far greater externality on the rest of us.

It was the excuse for all the security theatre before terrorism became a problem, it's armed up the "police" to securitate levels, imported more dangerous criminals and locked up people who have'nt actually harmed anyone else.

What next, the war on riding a motorbike fast, or the war on rock-climbing?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-04-01 12:29|| 2015-04-01 12:29|| Front Page Top

#14 The war on drugs is a failure because of politicians like Obama who fail to prosecute it. And if you think there are too many meth dealers in prison there is a simple yet effective solution: shoot them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-04-01 12:57|| 2015-04-01 12:57|| Front Page Top

#15 You think it should be legal to buy any narcotic you want without so much as a subscription? Really? No age limit?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-04-01 13:04|| 2015-04-01 13:04|| Front Page Top

#16 I like the pic in the article, he is where he should be. Behind Bars - if only.

Posted by Bubba Hatfield9936 2015-04-01 13:54|| 2015-04-01 13:54|| Front Page Top

#17 "Neil Eggleston, the White House counsel, said many of the 22 people whose federal sentences will be cut short by Champ's action would already have served their time and paid their debt to society had they been sentenced under current laws and policies."

How many Neil?

I'd also like to say, if we change sentencing laws why don't they go over everyone arrested under the previous law and consider that fact at the next available parole hearing?

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-04-01 14:36|| 2015-04-01 14:36|| Front Page Top

#18 can I have a breakdown by race and amount of political contributions?

Posted by Greatle Thrutle7161 2015-04-01 15:11|| 2015-04-01 15:11|| Front Page Top

#19 ...and number of times successfully voted in the same election?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-01 18:00|| 2015-04-01 18:00|| Front Page Top

#20 Yes. Buy any drug you want. But only if you have a Druggie Permit from th government. A permit which also absolves the government from ever pro dining financial, food, Heath, legal, housing and medical assistance. And also the permit would forbid private entities from doing the same except with charitably donated funds. And severe penalties for being under the influence on any public property, including highways' streets, public conveyances and parks.

Basically do all the drugs you want, but stay out if the public so you don't hurt others, and all the consequences are borne by you and you alone.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-04-01 20:03|| 2015-04-01 20:03|| Front Page Top

#21 Democrats need 60% of the Latino vote and 90% of the Black to win in 2016 and that is what this is all about. All non-whites are considered "Political Prisoners" in in Obama and Holders view.

Posted by junkiron 2015-04-01 20:10|| 2015-04-01 20:10|| Front Page Top

#22 Don't forget they get 100% of the dead voters.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-04-01 21:23|| 2015-04-01 21:23|| Front Page Top

#23 Sends a huge message to stoners and doper fiends that the Zero has their back.

Not a good thing at all for society.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-04-01 22:15|| 2015-04-01 22:15|| Front Page Top

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