Posted on 12/16/2008 3:21:04 PM PST by jessduntno
Obama: Tilting at Racial Windmills By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, December 16, 2008
In an interview published December 10th in the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, Barack Obama stated that one of his top priorities as president will be to put an end to racial discrimination in the criminal-justice system. This pledge is consistent with his oft-repeated campaign promise to “eliminate disparities in criminal sentencing,” most notably “the disparity between sentencing [for] crack and powder-based cocaine,” which Obama said was “wrong and should be completely eliminated.”
At a presidential primary debate in January 2008, Obama asserted that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, [and] receive very different sentences…for the same crime.” On another occasion he sounded a similar theme: “We have certain sentences that are based less on the kind of crime you commit than on what you look like and where you come from.” Though neither the media nor the McCain campaign dared to challenge any of Obama’s presumably sacrosanct pronouncements about racism in the justice system, the fact remains that every one of those pronouncements was an unadulterated falsehood.
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interesting how he sees discrimination from the criminals’ point of view, rather than from those in the communities that must live with the convicted.
I’d prefer to keep the dangerous criminals out of my community as long as possible.
I’d think the black community would like the same.
Damn Crackers keeping the man down.
The president doesn’t write laws or decide sentences. Did Obama understand what part of the government he was running for?
Obama is going to RULE. Rulers get to do what they want. Where have you been man. ... /s
It’s when he becomes dictator .....
It is not the duty nor in the province of a United States President to determine criminal sentences for criminals convicted in the 50 States. That is the duty and province of the people.
We elect Congressman and Senators to write legislation as we direct.
We then elect Judges and Senators to preside over trials for us as other citizens set on the juries that decide guilt or not guilt in the criminal cases
Way to complicated for the man child to understand, representative republican government is foreign to him. He graduated from Harvard, don’t you know, as a Constitutional scholar at that.
Heh. This is the first I’ve seen that Zero is a brazen race baiter.
Wow. Socialist scumbag I knew, but a lowly lying race extorionist, no better than Sharpton and Jackson?
Pee yoo... Like dear old Dad always said, “Class will tell.”
In his book, Messiah equates to judge, jury and executioner. He wants all 3 branches of government.
I completely agree with ending the disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine. There’s no reason for this disparity, and is a major reason why blacks think the justice system is unfair. On this ONE issue, I happen to agree with them.
Its Obama who wants to keep The Man down.
For Obama to rule, he needs people who he can depend upon to be willing to commit violence to keep the Middle Class in line. He can't rely on the military, so he must have a pool of thugs he can recruit for the Great Plan.
“I completely agree with ending the disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine. There’s no reason for this disparity, and is a major reason why blacks think the justice system is unfair. On this ONE issue, I happen to agree with them.”
The crack-cocaine guidelines were put in place because crack was fueling crime waves across the country, in particular with respect to street violence, and it is clear that crack cocaine and white powder cocaine had a very different impact in terms of not only the lives of the users but the impact on the community. - CNN Report (of all places)
No contest between these two drugs - coke was a monkey on the back, crack was a rabid gorilla. I was a drug counselor in the ‘80’s and this scared the crap outta some VERY tough guys.
I copied above because a) it was CNN and i smiled that they got something right b) because it most closely summarizes the way I saw the issue. I don’t believe fairness is the issue - I think it is like “economic fairness” that it sounds a lot better than it really is. It’s always easier to work up unfairness against “rich guys” drug use, etc.
Crack is the most viciously and aggressively addictive substance we have ever seen - rapid and complete addiction.
True, Coke a la lawyers and stockbrokers is seen as the BIG unfairness issue, but the devastation in the cities in the craked out ‘80’s was no joke. The crime was unbeievabe - and especially VIOLENT crime. And I mean VIOLENT. I don’t know if the reduction in the use is attributable to law enforcement or societal push - but that is not an epidemic we want to creep back in. It was ungodly.
Watch for the pardon for Mumia Abu Jamal. The system is so unfair to black panthers
Crack for Larry and blow for Barry, or was it the other way around? What am I thinking, it was certainly blow for Barry!
“What am I thinking, it was certainly blow for Barry!”
And that was what he admitted to...I think the “lost years” in NYC were probably VERY interesting...
The natinalitline shuld show “Not Sayin!” in place of U.S.A, IMO.
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