Posted on 03/10/2018 6:20:32 PM PST by mdittmar
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump attacked his critics, promoted his steel and aluminum tariffs and tossed out an idea to have drug dealers face the death penalty, addressing a raucous rally on Saturday for a Republican congressional candidate in a tight race.
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It’s so good how he can just talk for an hour unlike all those before him who had to read from a teleprompter.
Be careful before jumping on the death penalty for drug dealing because you never know if jr. Is selling pot or a little bit of Coke or ecstasy at college.
Drug dealers come in all shapes and sizes. Be ready to accept your sons or daughters death for selling in college or bars before you run with this.
Got a niece who is doing great in her job. Climbing the ladder. Graduated college 2 years ago. 4 years ago got caught selling pot, got probation, a year later it was removed from her file.
She made maybe two hundred bucks a week. And if she had gotten jail time I would have been terribly upset but I would not have protested. The death penalty might have bothered me.
Embattled Republican
F-U Reuters.
Ah, Tass, er, Reuters are good for laughs.
I would disagree.
If we were more like Singapore, serious crime would be rare in our country.
People who poison others in the name of profit deserve to forfeit their lives.
We should have zero tolerance for drug smuggling and drug abuse.
He took a shot at GHWB on lousy trade deals.
I like that a lot.
I hope you’ll feel that way when you sit at a Sons or daughters or nieces or nephews or friends trial and they got the death penalty. You are so extreme you don’t even make a distinction. Like higher level drug dealers. You would kill someone who sells pot for a few hundred bucks a week. I had a higher opinion of you before this. I know you don’t care about my opinion of you LOL. I am just a little shocked that you consider pot poison. People like you terrify me because my niece would be dead.
Dude I would keep the daughter was a drug dealer story to yourself
Nice yeah she sold some pot and I don’t give a s***.
It was a little hard to hear President Trump. His big brass balls were clanging a lot.
Yeah, I don’t think he’s that embattled.
I think he wins by at least 8.
I didn’t know you could get kicked off a free republic for talking about someone elses crime when there are no names involved. I hope you are not in charge :-) I live in the real world. Not the Puritan world of many folks on this board. That’s one problem with attracting younger voters. The extreme Puritan b*******.
Drug addiction is extremely difficult to treat and drug addicts commit crimes to support their habit.
It seems more humane for a civilized society to permanently end their suffering rather than enable them to continue to harm themselves and others.
facing the death penalty is a far cry from KILL ALL DRUG DEALERS.
Case by case....
I think you could use a Midol. Nobody said anything about hanging people who sell some pot. What’s your DU screen name?
I hear you about the niece.
It is dangerous to have big penalties that can be misused; just as it is dangerous to have big penalties that are never used. An example: There’s major penalties for aiding and abetting illegal aliens, including heavy prison time, but they haven’t been mentioned for the Mayor of Oakland.
In the pot arena, Jeff Magoo has come on strong, but even he has recognized that the ultimate penalty should rarely be pursued. He said that the Feds wouldn’t pursue minor pot penalties that are in line with current state laws.
The key issue here is prosecutorial discretion. If Justice isn’t self-serving, it works. If it is self-serving you get severity (and even entrapment) where it isn’t warranted, and leniency where severity is called for. Cases in point: Your niece, Ruby Ridge, Hillary, Mayor Schaaf.
But we're not. We're not an authoritarian state. We are a Republic with guaranteed freedoms, and due process.
Glad to hear your niece is doing so well. I wonder how well her former customers are doing.
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