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Rand Paul: "The War On Drugs Has Had A Racial Outcome"
realclearpolitics.com ^ | June 23, 2014

Posted on 06/23/2014 7:23:32 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

"Three out of four people in prison are black or brown for nonviolent drug use. However, when you do surveys, white kids are doing drugs at an equal rate, and they are a much bigger part of the population. So, why are the prisons full of black and brown kids? It is easier to arrest them. It is easier to convict them. They don't get as good of attorneys. And, frankly, they live in the city in a much more collected fashion than in the suburbs, and so the police are patrolling the city more. But it is unfair. The war on drugs has had a racial outcome, unintentionally, but it has a racial outcome. And I want to try to fix it."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: drugs; drugwar; prison; randpaul; wod
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1 posted on 06/23/2014 7:23:32 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Simple. Don’t do drugs.


2 posted on 06/23/2014 7:24:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Eh…..I’m getting worried.

I have a bad feeling.


3 posted on 06/23/2014 7:24:31 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This guy has verbal diarrhea lately. He’s angling for a presidential run. And he doesn’t have it.


4 posted on 06/23/2014 7:25:27 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
sounds like the fool is ON drugs...
5 posted on 06/23/2014 7:26:00 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The War on Crime has had a racial outcome. What’s your point?


6 posted on 06/23/2014 7:27:11 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Tailgunner Joe
And, frankly, they live in the city in a much more collected fashion than in the suburbs, and so the police are patrolling the city more.

Or, possibly the cops are patrolling the cities more because that's where more crimes are committed.

7 posted on 06/23/2014 7:27:13 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Throw all conservatives under the bus in hopes that blacks will make up the difference by suddenly voting for the “Republican”.

Good luck with that.


8 posted on 06/23/2014 7:27:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Can someone shut this a-hole Rand Paul up? He ain’t no republican and he sure ain’t no conservative whatever he is.


9 posted on 06/23/2014 7:28:06 PM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles (Remember, you can't spell "progressive" without "SS".)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This guy sounds like a teenage girl lately.....he can’t keep his mouth shut.


10 posted on 06/23/2014 7:28:40 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Non-violent means they were selling.


11 posted on 06/23/2014 7:28:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They said his dad was crazy, but in fact I liked his dad, and I like him, now, too.
But now finally I’m convinced the son is not so much like the dad.

This sounds very much like the start of the process of, “growing in office”.

He has detected Media Approval of certain things, and now he is playing to those things.

He appears to be acquiring a taste for the seductive Media Crack-pipe. This is the start of a Bad Trend.


12 posted on 06/23/2014 7:28:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

He’s going to run and split the republican vote.


13 posted on 06/23/2014 7:29:26 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

In cities, wouldn’t most of the prosecutors be Democrats? Wouldn’t it be smart to ask that question?


14 posted on 06/23/2014 7:29:35 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

Libertarians and Democrats are a match made in heaven


15 posted on 06/23/2014 7:30:35 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The war on drugs is a failure, but Paul is a foreign policy ignoramus.


16 posted on 06/23/2014 7:30:35 PM PDT by ZULU (Impeach Obama NOW.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Any day now he goes back on wanting to audit the Fed. A very fast and very complete sell-out.


17 posted on 06/23/2014 7:30:46 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: ClearCase_guy; Tailgunner Joe; GeronL

18 posted on 06/23/2014 7:32:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Reddy

I agree.

From what he’s saying it sounds like he’s going to act as a latter-day Ross Perot, with the effect that at the last microsecond it will flip to Hillaghazi.


19 posted on 06/23/2014 7:32:43 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gusopol3

Could be a Cloward-Piven variant to put young black men in jail to ruin their later employability. Then they’d have to stay dependent and vote Democrat, burdening the system to the breaking point.


20 posted on 06/23/2014 7:32:49 PM PDT by gusopol3
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