Exactly. There was a big study done recently about who actually gets sent to prison for drug offenses. It isn’t the innocent hippy peddling a little marijuana to his friends. These are the hard core.
One of these stupid stories talked about some poor guy now doing life because of a “minor drug violation” and how he should be let out as a non-violent offender. (And it was all because he had previously been convicted of other “unrelated crimes,” which somehow the article never identifies.) When you do a little sleuthing, however, you find out he had priors for things like drug manufacturing, armed robbery, assault, etc.
The whole point of “3 strikes” was to stop the revolving door and to get these guys off the streets permanently or to stop their behavior.
And by the way, it works. I was once involved in a case where the environmental opponents hired a rent-a-mob to disrupt the client’s activities. One day I was on the site, and one of the leaders of the rent-a-mob started making all sorts of threats to me. Standing right next to me was an undercover cop; the cop leans over and whispers in my ear not to worry about the guy, he wouldn’t carry through on this threats because he’s had two strikes already (for commercial marijuana cultivation and distribution, ironically) and if he does anything else he was going away permanently—so the guy wasn’t about to step over that line.
By the way, what was the client’s activity the enviros were trying to stop?
The client wanted to do an alternative energy development on some remote rural land that was otherwise prime marijuana cultivation habitat. And so Big Environmental Groups and marijuana interests aligned on stopping the project, arguing that somehow we were going to destroy a pristine natural environment by our actions. (Actually, it was former cow pastures that had gone wild for 50 years because they had stopped running cattle there.)
I am not convinced Obola got handed money (overseas or “local” (Chicago-DC-Miami-NYV-LA crime-drug money). This is racial (drug dealers and prisoners seen as black-Mexican-illegal alien “victims”), idealogical (he is viciously anti-conservative-Christian-white-moral-ethical positions which hold drug dealers are “bad” or “criminal”), religious (Muslim-black drug dealer again seen as victims of Christian persecution.
ANd, then again, he just wants to “stick it” to the white cops and judges and prosecutors who put these criminals in jail in the first place.
And every liberal press propagandist is going to follow along, going to lead him on, going to cheer him on and reward him for doing this.
But never forget the votes in the black communities that Hillary HAS TO get in November.