Posted on 10/29/2015 12:30:43 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
In July 2015, President Obama paid a press-saturated visit to a federal penitentiary in Oklahoma. The cell blocks that Obama toured had been evacuated in anticipation of his arrival, but after talking to six carefully prescreened inmates, he drew some conclusions about the path to prison. “These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made,†the president told the waiting reporters.
The New York Times seconded this observation in its front-page coverage of Obama’s prison excursion. There is but a “fine line between president and prisoner,†the paper noted. Anyone who “smoked marijuana and tried cocaine,†as the president had as a young man, could end up in the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, according to the Times.
This conceit was preposterous. It takes a lot more than marijuana or cocaine use to end up in federal prison. But the truth didn’t matter. Obama’s prison tour came in the midst of the biggest delegitimation of law enforcement in recent memory. Activists, politicians, and the media have spent the last year broadcasting a daily message that the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks and insanely draconian. The immediate trigger for that movement, known as Black Lives Matter, has been a series of highly publicized deaths of black males at the hands of the police. But the movement also builds on a long-standing discourse from the academic Left about “mass incarceration,†policing, and race. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Crime is treason to the nation.
[Anyone who “smoked marijuana and tried cocaine,†as the president had as a young man, could end up in the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution]
Nah, too easy.
What the hell is “mass incarceration”?
The truth is raciss!
We can build all the prisons in the world.
Punishing criminals only keeps them from re-offending.
That’s not a solution.
We need to focus on building strong intact families that will instill strong values into our young people.
So they never commit a crime. The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies here.
“When incarceration rates go up crime goes down.”
Not necessarily. It depends on who you are locking up. If it’s murderers, rapists, armed robbers, and the like then yeah, it probably does have an effect. Unfortunately, since our courts/prison industrial system has adopted a for profit model, it has emphasized use of jail and prison space for things like DUI’s and drug offences which generate more revenue than violent crimes.
In any case, a nation of prisons begets a nation of prisoners. If they build them, they will fill them. Perhaps with violent criminals, perhaps with troublemaking Christians.
We’ve all made the same mistakes.
Forgot to fill in the date on the withdrawal slip and ended up committing armed robbery; forgot to bring a textbook to that babysitting job to catch up on the studies, then stole the kid and demanded two million dollars for his return.
We’ve all been there.
Incarcerate Bammy H-> and the heads of the IRS, DOJ and BATFE for starters.
Yet true believers embrace the lies as their reality.
psychosis is defined as a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. The woman described in the link is by that definition psychotic. (and also baboon butt ugly - ever notice how the average attractivness of hard core liberal women is so much lower than the norm?)
Some states, not all, have adopted a for profit prison system. If you read the article closely you would the great majority of people in prison deserve to be there.
That's not a solution.
Incarcerating them is temporary. Executing them fixes the problem.
We need to focus on building strong intact families that will instill strong values into our young people.
This is true. But we cannot afford to abandon enforcement of our current laws. In fact, if we actually enforced the laws we'd have better families. Right now we heavily subsidize broken families instead of punishing the behaviors that break families. Welfare causes crime.
So they never commit a crime. The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies here.
Still true. But in those cases where they do commit a crime, punishment must be quick and exceedingly painful so that they (or their survivors) do not commit any more crimes.
That's not a solution.
Incarcerating them is temporary. Executing them fixes the problem.
We need to focus on building strong intact families that will instill strong values into our young people.
This is true. But we cannot afford to abandon enforcement of our current laws. In fact, if we actually enforced the laws we'd have better families. Right now we heavily subsidize broken families instead of punishing the behaviors that break families. Welfare causes crime.
So they never commit a crime. The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies here.
Still true. But in those cases where they do commit a crime, punishment must be quick and exceedingly painful so that they (or their survivors) do not commit any more crimes.
(sorry for the double post)
they didn’t “make a mistake” they committed a crime!
The comments to the article in that link are terrific! The subject of the article, Prof. LeSavoy, may be a piece of performance art. I doubt any of us on FR could’ve invented a more ridiculous parody of a leftist.
Oh she's not a parody, but a liberal 0 worshiper in full normality for the species.
Also am I the only one to notice how eye searingly ugly liberal women are? I have my doubts that even Laz would hit it.
It is amazing what comes out of this assclowns mouth! the reason they are incarcerated is that they committed crimes that are punishable with a sentence. No on is in jail for smoking a joint. This is just another ploy by this so-called president flood the streets with his ilk like the goosesteppers of old did before him.
So why do the mother's of serial killers and criminals
tearfully proclaim after the trial, "he was a good boy."
The intact family of Natalee Hollway's killer vouched for him...his mother called him "a good boy." The "good boy" is now in jail for killing another young girl. God knows how many more vandersloot killed....then went home to his loving family (I believe his father was a judge).
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