Posted on 03/27/2009 12:13:19 PM PDT by smokingfrog
A judge has sentenced Rapper T.I. to one year and a day behind bars on federal weapons charges.
The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, was sentenced Friday.
He will have between 30 and 60 days to report to prison. He already has completed about 1,000 hours of community service and has warned youths about the pitfalls of guns, drugs, violence. He will need to complete 470 more hours.
Harris pleaded guilty last March after he was arrested in 2007, attempting to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers. The arrest happened blocks away from where he was to headline the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta hours later.
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he’ll be respecting his soap on a rope.
The libs want to pass MORE gun laws, but this guy only gets 366 days for buying fully automatic machine guns WITH silencers.
I believe that this gentleman did have some criminal record before this event. Why he's not going away for 5 to 10, I have no idea.
Whut up G?
happy with your homeboys with your beltless pants down to show your skivvies, there boooooyyyyyyeeee.
more than 366 days would have been ...racist.
Speaking of racist....Mr. T.I. (or perhaps it's Mr. I., whatever) was a outspoken supporter of one Barack Hussein Obama. I wonder how long it will be before Barry issues the statement...
"This is not the T.I. that I thought I knew"
Don’t be hatin’! T.I. be da shiznit! Tru dat....double tru!
“...unregistered machine guns and silencers.” So if only he’d bought REGISTERED machine guns with silencers, he’d have been OK?
There’s a rapper named “TI”?
Yes, you're right he was an ex-con. And if he had purchased these guns, either he or one of his associates could've used these guns to kill people on the streets of Atlanta.
Why he's not going away for 5 to 10, I have no idea.
TI is a top rapper in the 'game' right now. I don't have a problem with the sentence.
A year in prison PLUS 1500 hours traveling throughout the country talking against guns/drugs. I think the Govt gets more out of that than the extra 4 years in prison.
I heard his statement at sentencing on the radio on the drive home. For a guy who derives his income from some sort of spoken word, he is semi-literate.
TI has a hard rep as it is. And is already and excon. He’ll live like a King inside the joint for a year. Nobody’s gonna dis’ him.
Did he make the Hip-Hop Week in Review?
I missed the review for a meeting.
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One year? Give me a break.
This will result in a boost to his ‘street cred’ and a chance to get buffed, working out in the yard. A few prison tats won’t hurt either.
Try this (yes I like it — if for nothing elese, for nice pictures of the high desert in winter) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXW5-JaSP98&feature=channel_page
Not bad.
So, honestly, had this been Toby Keith or Trace Atkins, what would your view have been? My guess, is that many on this thread would have had a different tone and totally different view.
The support Timothy McVeigh got 14 years ago galls me to this day.
I don't know Keith or Atkins' specific criminal history or even if they have any criminal history. But, if they did have a criminal record, and especially a violent criminal record (like T.I's record of assault on a police officer and numerous drug charges for distribution), I would be equally tough.
Mr. Harris's (T.I.'s real name) long criminal record plus the fact that he made this attempt to purchase machine guns WITH silencers while he was on probation, I believe are extenuating circumstances that demanded serious prison time.
Liberals want to take my right to own a gun away. They want to pass either confiscatory or regulatory legislation that make it impossible to own a weapon of almost any kind as a practical matter. I say in response, aggressively enforce the laws that are already on the books and when those laws are violated - apply the maximum penalty possible. That is the solution to the gun violence in America's urban areas - not the disarmament of the law-abiding public.
T.I's case is a prime example how weapons violations are a paper tiger; libs just want to disarm honest, law abiding citizens.
I would add, when Troy Gentry was charged with a felony for engaging in a "canned" hunt and illegally killing and tagging what was essentially a "tame" bear, I was very hard on him and said so at the time.
I thought that Gentry got off easy and should have seen some jail time with a much, much stiffer penalty. As a life-long hunter, I don't have any sympathy for people that engage in these quasi-poaching events that give the sport and life-style of hunting a very bad name.
Okay, that sounds fair. At times, it seems like there is a double standard in justice, in the arena of public opinion. And the sympahty seems to depend on a person's background.
But if you say you'd be just as hard on Toby Keith or Trace Atkins, I'll take your word for it. Though, I do believe others, on this site, would have different sympathies.
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