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2009-04-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-29 08:21|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 This is a rare case where I actually tend to agree with Zero. Not because I believe it's a racist thing, but because I agree that the comparative mandatory sentences are not fair.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-04-29 10:00|| 2009-04-29 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEGywhma69E

Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) anti-crack cocaine PSA.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-04-29 10:05|| 2009-04-29 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't get it. Are white people supposed to be evil for pushing crack cocaine on black people (as per all the Konspiracy Theories) or for putting crack dealers in jail?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-04-29 11:12|| 2009-04-29 11:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Just guessing here, but the different sentencing guidelines might have something to do with different levels of potency and rate of addiction.

Posted by Iblis 2009-04-29 12:19|| 2009-04-29 12:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps whoever wrote the mandatory sentencing regulations/laws thought that selling cheap crack to poor Americans is worse than selling expensive crack to rich Americans?

Posted by trailing wife 2009-04-29 12:22|| 2009-04-29 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 One notable difference is the murder rate.

But ~~Bush~~ Obama doesn't care about black people. See I can also write like a journalist.

Posted by ed 2009-04-29 12:46|| 2009-04-29 12:46|| Front Page Top

#7 This is just another "mistake" .....quite similar to flying the Air Force One back-up bird low-level over Manhatten.

How about it USAF? Has anyone at the 06-09 level got enuf balls to come clean and tell Fox News about the AIR TASKING ORDER that launched that bird?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-29 13:26|| 2009-04-29 13:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh. I see.

Forget about CRACK, being cheaper and far more addictive. The Dealers are mostly black therefore sentence should be reduced.

IMHO the sentence should be TRIPLED.

Posted by Angaise Gonque4789 2009-04-29 15:04|| 2009-04-29 15:04|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd prefer drug dealers get the death penalty. You could even do 3 strikes and yer dead. Just to lessen the tiny risk of an innocent 'holding' drugs for someone gets the chop.

One things for sure. A dead dealer (be he white, black, green, purple or demonrat) will never EVER sell drugs again.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2009-04-29 15:44|| 2009-04-29 15:44|| Front Page Top

#10 And then there's meth. What kind of conspiracy is that and who is the target?

Posted by JohnQC 2009-04-29 17:03|| 2009-04-29 17:03|| Front Page Top

#11 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a8_1210894109

Crackhouse.

Posted by Spairong Lumumba1031 2009-04-29 17:48|| 2009-04-29 17:48|| Front Page Top

#12 With all due respect silent brick,

I favor a life-sentence, but, a true life-sentence, incarerated untill death or so an advanced age that the cullprit has only bittersweet memories of a very misspenth youth.

I actually find this to be crueler than outright killing them.

Posted by Spairong Lumumba1031 2009-04-29 17:56|| 2009-04-29 17:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Sparong, you're right it's more cruel, that's exactly why I advocate death, end the shit once and for all.

As my grandmother said "Scare them White".

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-29 18:20|| 2009-04-29 18:20|| Front Page Top

#14 Isn't death is a little overboard for drugs -- something a fair number of people have tried? I can think of many crimes which should carry the death penalty, but selling drugs is not one of them.

Honestly, there are shows on TV that do more damage to more young people than drugs.

Posted by Iblis 2009-04-29 18:53|| 2009-04-29 18:53|| Front Page Top

#15 If the majority of crack dealers are black then thus goes the Obama excuse.

Posted by Icerigger 2009-04-29 20:03|| 2009-04-29 20:03|| Front Page Top

#16 I have no problem w/a three time convicted crack dealer being clipped. Add child molesters and rapists into that mix as well.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-04-29 21:14|| 2009-04-29 21:14|| Front Page Top

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