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Senate Says No To Ending ? Disparity.
LOL @ the bolded part.
Black crackheads lose again...goes to show you the Senate likes the inequalities in the justice system.
-- A. SerwerEarlier this morning, Sen. ? Durbin announced that he and Sen. Jeff Sessions had reached a "compromise" in the Senate gym over Durbin's bill, which would have eliminated the 100 to 1 sentencing disparity for ? vs. powder ? .
"If you ever wonder if anything good ever happens there, it appears something good might have happened there," Durbin said, which may or may not have been an oblique reference to former Congressman Eric ? 's tale about being lobbied by Rahm Emanuel in the House gym. "Senator [Orrin] Hatch was there to witness it."
The compromise was that Durbin would accept Sessions' amendment to change the disparity from 100 to 1 to 20 to 1. In return, Sessions offered to withdraw his amendments that would have narrowed the circumstances under which a judge could reduce penalties for offenders who acted with "fear, impulse or affection," and would have imposed a 10-year mandatory maximum for simple possession rather than eliminating the five-year mandatory minimum for simple possession entirely.
"My position is for one to one, equity and equality in sentencing, but in order to get things done you have to be prepared to make mutual concessions," Durbin said. "That's what we have done."
In a statement, the ACLU Legislative Counsel Jennifer Bellamy urged Congress to eliminate the disparity entirely, saying, "We finally have the political will and momentum to end this unconstitutional disparity. We should not miss this opportunity to effect real change and ensure fair sentencing for all Americans."
The Judiciary Committee passed the bill, which will go to the full Senate for a floor vote. Instead of eliminating the ? /powder disparity, which practically everyone in the committee acknowledged disproportionately affects black Americans, the senators opted to make the law one-fifth as racist as it used to be.
The senators on the committee spent the rest of the markup complimenting each other on all they had achieved with their bipartisanship.
LOL @ the bolded part.
Black crackheads lose again...goes to show you the Senate likes the inequalities in the justice system.
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DarcSkies777 wrote: »Senate Says No To Ending ? Disparity.
-- A. Serwer
LOL @ the bolded part.
Black crackheads lose again...goes to show you the Senate likes the inequalities in the justice system.
Smh, another win for institional racism..
Hi kids... Just dont do ? .. and you wont have to worry about it..its pretty ? up but its completely avoidable.. If it was a parking ticket then i could see.. -
anybody will tell you that smoking ? causes more problems then sniffing powdered ? . now it shouldnt be 100 to 1 but it you defintly should get more time for ? . I know people who sniff coke who are CEO's and lawyers most crackheads i know are sucking ? for five dollars on the corner. tell me which one is worst. also this gives judges more flexibility to sentence since there is no more mandatory sentening. plus the bill only just came out of commitee. it can still be amendent on the floor. and with a majority democratic congress it could probably end up being 10 to 1. also white people who do ? get just as much time as blk crackheads.
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The government intentionally engineers the creation of ? ? to control the ghetto, and control territory.
Get money for drugs, bust unwanted dealers and users, take the drugs for crooked spending and investing, repeat.
This is merely a conspiracy theory as of now, but it wouldn't surprise me. -
smh @ mandatory maximums
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in the article they said the republican elimated the maximum in return for durbin(illinois) agreeing to 20-1 from a 100 to 1 for sentencing.
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I thought this thread was gonna have worse news than that. If I'm reading correctly, this compromise means that the draconian 5 year mandatory minimum will mercifully die.
Also, the deal ensures that the ? will pass the ? wack-ass Senate. I kinda took it as a given that the Senate would murk any ? law reform, just like they've done to ? knows how many other bills that passed the House. -
People should not be getting felony time for simple ? possession.
I DO agree that ? is more damaging than Coke. But if hood dealers are gonna get locked up then they need to lock up the government officials that shipped that ? in as well. And give THEM just as much time. (Iran Contra)
Either be fair or make it all legal. -
politicalthug202 wrote: »in the article they said the republican elimated the maximum in return for durbin(illinois) agreeing to 20-1 from a 100 to 1 for sentencing.
Which is why I highlighted the other point.
Less racist is still racist. -
DarcSkies777 wrote: »Which is why I highlighted the other point.
Less racist is still racist.
? Sentencing Laws:
Now with 80% Less Racist! -
lmao @ swiff
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crackheads are in the streets bothering people and stealing ?
coke users go to work and bolster the economy
legalize all drugs though -
Swiffness! wrote: »? Sentencing Laws:
Now with 80% Less Racist! -
BOSS KTULU wrote: »crackheads are in the streets bothering people and stealing ?
coke users go to work and bolster the economy
legalize all drugs though
this i agree with -
who the ? smokes ? anymore?
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politicalthug202 wrote: »anybody will tell you that smoking ? causes more problems then sniffing powdered ? . now it shouldnt be 100 to 1 but it you defintly should get more time for ? . I know people who sniff coke who are CEO's and lawyers most crackheads i know are sucking ? for five dollars on the corner. tell me which one is worst. also this gives judges more flexibility to sentence since there is no more mandatory sentening. plus the bill only just came out of commitee. it can still be amendent on the floor. and with a majority democratic congress it could probably end up being 10 to 1. also white people who do ? get just as much time as blk crackheads.
Your not serious are you? More time for the same drug, with additives, lol. So people should get more time for kush than some seedy comercial too. For the record white people who do ? are already dead, lol. -
perspective@100 wrote: »Your not serious are you? More time for the same drug, with additives, lol. So people should get more time for kush than some seedy comercial too. For the record white people who do ? are already dead, lol.
? isn't Kush though. ? is the damn devil. Crackheads are on another level.... -
tangible thoughts wrote: »who the ? smokes ? anymore?
people without lobbyists, apparently -
the war on drugs will never end, and we have no solution other then to lock up those who sell drugs. They should either legalize it already or actually start trying to fix the problem. Drug addicts need to be rehabilitated, not imprisoned
ironically, we seem to have a bigger growing problem with people and their medicine cabinets -
I don't think legalizing drugs is going to happen if even the government is pushing it just as much as the streets are. Legalizing it would just expose officials that are buying off the streets. Now if there is a way of doing it without damaging a politician's image, they are all for it.