he would like to see “any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed”
The Brits Pols ignore these crazies !
Who is running the show at Rand headquarters ?
Are Brits voting in our elections now ???
Why ?..
That said, I think he's as nutty as his father and that's saying quite a bit.
Based on what Rand said, “any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed”, the media question was perfectly fair. What specific laws would you repeal? What about those already incarcerated? Would you have different sentencing guidelines for the races to balance out incarceration statistics?
Rand stepped in it here.
If he thinks this is bad, wait until the neocons start smearing him.
He will be stopped at all costs. By any means necessary. Up to and including an unfortunate accident.
Paul is great where he is, but is in over his head at this time running for president.
Cruz totally outmatches him on every level.
Those who don’t like Paul need to realize he is demonstrating the correct treatment of the media.
The MEDIA determine who wins elections, and what laws get made, and they are the ones who literally rule the low info voters. ALL of the info those people do have comes from left wing media.
Bravo to Paul for treating the media not like kings but as our servants.
“...any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed...”
Even if they are also disproportionately guilty?
You can look at the general lawlessness of hip-hop culture that the “yoots” in the black community are largely enthralled with and understand why the disproportionate incarceration occurs.
If more purple youths are enthralled with a culture that romanticizes and promotes criminal behavior, then I would rationally expect to see more purple youths incarcerated, profiled, pulled over, involved with drugs, in gangs, etc.
What I don’t get is how these folks don’t see/understand the obvious. It must be exhausting to vigilantly maintain that level of politically correct intellectual dishonesty.
He didn’t “walk out”. Paul haters can go back to DU where they belong.
So when Paul says “I got time for one more question”, then the interviewer says “One more question”, Asks the question, Paul answers then moves on. How is that walking out of an interview?
Of a choice of 3 candidates Paul is like my 5th choice. That said i think this video interview warrants an uproar.
Now to the issue. The libertarian view of incarceration is based on faulty facts and runs contrary to 25 years of criminal justice experience in this country. It is simply not true that people are in jail for minor drug offenses. Vast vast majority of drug offense terms are in conjunction with other more serious offenses, probation violation and/or prior convictions.
Although the USA has higher incarceration rates, it is also true that crime in the US has declined for 25 years. Why, because 25 years ago, the NYC/Giuliani model moved to law enforcement i.e., criminal justice instead of root cause i.e., criminology. We have forgotten that the USA almost gave up on lowering crime because we believed crime was the result of income disparity and lower education.
Many will argue that crimes associated with the black community carry higher prison terms than white crimes. The example is that crack crimes have heavier punishments the cocaine. THIS is true. But, what is also true that in the 1980's when crack came on the scene, the penalties were lighter than cocaine. At that time racism was charged because crack hurt the black community and thus white lawmakers did not care about the black community. The black community push for tougher sentences to get crack out of the black communities.
I don’t think it warrants an uproar.
In 2012, Newt Gingrich’s best moment was when he attacked the media.
Britebart reports Guardian lied
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3277889/posts