Posted on 04/11/2015 9:38:43 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., formally launched his presidential campaign Tuesday with a speech in Louisville. Among the notable quotes from Paul's speech was a comment seemingly meant to raise minority support by calling for reform of federal drug laws that disproportionately lead to incarceration of black Americans.
"I see an America where criminal justice is applied equally and any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed," Paul said.
Paul went on to address other topics without expanding much on what kinds of laws he meant. But given his past comments, it's not hard to guess he was talking about the war on drugs. "The war on drugs has become the most racially disparate outcome that you have in the entire country," Paul said in November 2014. "Our prisons are full of black and brown kids. Three-fourths of the people in prison are black or brown."
Lauren Galik, the Director of Criminal Justice Reform at Reason Foundation, said she was excited to hear a Republican presidential candidate campaigning on drug reform. "More than half of our federal prison population right now is there for drugs, many of which are African-American," Galik told the Washington Examiner. "African Americans are more likely to receive a sentence that carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment than white individuals."
Mandatory minimums disproportionately affect African American criminals compared to whites and Hispanics. "Although Black offenders in 2012 made up 26.3 percent of drug offenders convicted of an offense carrying a mandatory minimum penalty, they accounted for 35.2 percent of the drug offenders still subject to that mandatory minimum at sentencing," according to the United States Sentencing Commission, an independent federal agency.
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Rand Paul is coming out as the demagogue that he actually is. To defend people/persons who supposedly have the ability to know right from wrong when such persons blatantly/knowingly do anti social acts is beyond the pale of honesty for even a conniving politician. It could be that such persons actually do not realize their own cultural and behavior deficiencies but to postulate and propagate such is the fault of other persons is certainly not a socially responsible thinking of a person who believes he has the social cure as POTUSA.
Stop that. I haven't said anything about Paul other than he and Cruz have the same position on pot at the federal level.
Why is this getting hard for you to understand Ken.
One is for drugs to be legal and the other does not want drugs lega.
Is that clear enough for you because I am not the only one on this thread which has told you this?
You know as well as us that you are trying to pain Cruz as the same position as Paul when clearly they are not.
paint.
Explain how Paul and Cruz differ on pot at the federal level.
Are you high?
I just have explained as well as others to you.
WOW
{shakes head and rolls eyes}
Both want pot to be decided by the states, yes? How can you do that without legalizing at the federal level? You can't.
Go 3 posts up
I just have explained as well as others to you.
No, you haven't.
Go 1 post up.
Look you are either wind up or high, because others have and I have tried to explain this to you. either way I’m done.
‘He was born gay.’ I’m sorry, I utterly disagree. I don’t think biology has the slightest influence on the whole. I think it is entirely environmental - from fatherless homes (because the baby daddy wanted to be there, but he just had to cap the ass of someone who deserved it...) to politicians who play the race card like a concert violinist.
You’re as bad as they are, making excuses for their behavior based upon biology. I’ve a brother in law who has Downs. Even he understands that his actions have possible repercussions. And I’ll certainly wager he’s got more biological issues.
You have studiously avoided addressing how they differ at the federal level.
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Can you explain how Cruz and Paul differ on pot at the federal level?
Love the tagline
It was misspelled for the first few days, lol. Clealy... heh
The best reason to repeal the drug laws is to keep the criminal Feds out of it. Give the states the right to decide and the power to enforce. Right now, the Feds are devouring all conceivable state and individual rights and the Feds are using their power to create the ultimate police state.
When legal differences arise with respect to different laws in the states, as originally intended, the federal courts can act as arbiters. We certainly don’t need Federal Gestapo agencies with their SWAT teams and civil forfeiture powers to adjudicate and enforce the laws for the whole country.
As far as drug addiction is concerned, this problem will never, ever, be mitigated by the Federal Gestapo agents. Only a return to God and moral living will suffice. Sure, we will have stupid states with stupid drug laws, but I thought that was the whole point of federalism; 50 different laboratories of government.
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