Some People Act Differently
Posted on 05/23/2011 10:29:12 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to release tens of thousands of its prisoners to relieve overcrowding.
It is one of the largest prison release orders in the nation's history, and it sharply split the high court.
In dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia called the ruling "staggering" and "absurd."
Now, he said, the majority were ordering the release of "46,000 happy-go-lucky felons." He added that "terrible things are sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Every time a judge or other official makes a decision that puts a criminal back on the streets - that official should be held criminally responsible for ANY AND ALL crimes that released convict commits. Decisions have consequences.
Bears repeating. To expand, Ted Kennedy's legacy is one of destruction of liberty and prospertiy on a truely epic scale.
CA has a population of about 36 million - releasing 36,000 prisoners is gonna dump about 0.1% chronically unemployable people onto the streets ...
Take about an 80% recividism rate, about 29,000 are gonna commit more crimes. If each commits 5 crimes before being convicted and returned to prison, about 150,000 additional crimes are going to take place. Say, 10% are violent - thats 15,000 !!!
Now, CA has been ordered before to release prisoners and has always been saved by the conservative Supreme Court [ironic, ain’t it]. You would think that CA would realize that sometime its luck would run out, like it did today ...
So, WHY didn’t CA build MORE prisons in the interim instead of spending money on social programs like a drunken sailor in a French whorehouse on “Dollar Day” ???
Should the State Legislature need to pass a bill to prioritize release of convicts, who should be first?
Those convicted of assaulting sitting judges?
Those threatening members of the judiciary?
Or maybe they should work to balance the budget by laying off bailiffs?
Difficult decisions.
Maybe prison budgets could be realigned to remove cable TV, etc. Return to prison labor. Chain gangs.
Some People Act Differently
This is going to work out well. Hope that they all relocate to nazi pelosi’s district.
The Federal Government that has no money, must first take it from the State in order to give it to the State, minus a handling fee. Perfect.
“California is the crown jewel of America”
lol
I suspect this is just an end run around the 3 strike law.
Liberals hated this law (taking career criminals off the street)
They could not get the law over turn so they did the next best things. Quit building prisons and like an overflowing toilet let it fill up.
Then liberals do what liberals always do when they can not get public support for their views, they run to the courts.
How many innocent people will be robbed, injured or murdered when these thousands of criminals are let back loose in society.
How many millions of dollars will be lost because of these crimes and for the eventual (hopeful) prosecution of these criminals and sent back to prison (only to force more criminals out onto the streets).
California is broke and liberals have broken it.
Now I know why I have 2 loaded handguns at my bedside. God forbid I ever have to use any of them in my hometown San Jose.
Nope
SCOTUS says better that thousands of innocents become victims rather than the hardened criminals be in crowded conditions.
They go with the criminals against us.
Any state ordered by the federal courts to release prisoners should ignore that stupid order and let the scumbags enforce their order.
Did you think these far-Left America haters (yes, Kagan sponsored a Sharia Finance class at Harvard Law and got all funds out of Israeli companies) would not vote to have more of us killed by criminals?
Liberalism is a disease of the mind. Obama and the Communists love the criminal, not the victim. It’s Bizarro world on steriods.....
Keep in mind that this is the same Supreme Court that ruled that the police have the right to come into our homes without first getting a warrant. Apparently the Supreme Court don’t believe that we the people are entitled to 4th amendment rights, but murderers and rapists should go free. Brilliant.
I hope the inevitable victims are all liberals.
Meant “doesn’t believe.”
Yep, one more communist apointee and we are really in deep doo doo. We need a conservative POTUS for at least the next 16 years to correct the court balance. Let's hope that when that happens that he/she appoints fairly young conservatives, so they may live long and useful lives.
How do they decide which criminals to let out? Also, more importantly, where in the Constitution does it say the Supreme Court has the authority to interfere in the internal affairs of a state??? Their job is to interpret the Constitution, not act as an appendage to the Executive Branch.
The Second Amendment states somewhat ambiguously: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The first part of the Amendment supports proponents of gun control by seeming to make the possession of firearms contingent upon being a member of a state-regulated militia.
The next part is cited by opponents of gun control as a guarantee of the individual's right to possess such weapons, since he can always be called to militia service.
The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that there is no individual right to own a firearm. The Second Amendment was designed to allow states to defend themselves against a possible tyrannical national government.
Now that the federal government has stealth bombers and nuclear weapons, it is hard to imagine what people would need to keep in the garage to serve that purpose.
-- footnote Slouching Towards Gomorrah
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So would you you have wanted him ruling on Heller and McDonald?
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