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Here comes the "War on Drugs" again!

Posted on: April 10, 2017 at 10:09:29 CT
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When the Obama administration launched a sweeping policy to reduce harsh prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, rave reviews came from across the political spectrum. Civil rights groups and the Koch brothers praised Obama for his efforts, saying he was making the criminal justice system more humane.

But there was one person who watched these developments with some horror. Steven Cook, a former street cop who became a federal prosecutor based in Knoxville, Tennessee, saw nothing wrong with how the system worked - not the life sentences for drug charges, not the huge growth of the prison population. And he went everywhere - Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox News, congressional hearings, public panels - to spread a different gospel.

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Law enforcement officials say that Sessions and Cook are preparing a plan to prosecute more drug and gun cases and pursue mandatory minimum sentences. The two men are eager to bring back the national crime strategy of the 1980s and '90s from the peak of the drug war, an approach that had fallen out of favor in recent years as minority communities grappled with the effects of mass incarceration.

Crime is near historic lows in the United States, but Sessions says that the spike in homicides in several cities, including Chicago, is a harbinger of a "dangerous new trend" in America that requires a tough response.

"Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs is bad," Sessions said to law enforcement officials in a speech in Richmond last month. "It will destroy your life."

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/ag_jeff_sessions_wants_to_brin.html

Edited by tigerspy at 10:10:54 on 04/10/17
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Here comes the "War on Drugs" again! - tigerspy MU - 4/10 10:09:29
     Job security. F*ckin leech * - Hbombtiger STL - 4/10 10:33:38
     Sessions - mizzoumurfkc MU - 4/10 10:31:41
          Not to mention purjoror - JG MU - 4/10 10:34:52
               isn't everybody - SwampTiger MU - 4/10 10:44:17
                    No, but you are lying here - JG MU - 4/10 10:45:41
                         it was a question, what's the lie? (nm) - SwampTiger MU - 4/10 10:47:33
                              You know - JG MU - 4/10 10:53:29
          you just know it's going to come out that he's popping Oxy - cnk ATL - 4/10 10:32:23
               Well he did say heroin and marijunana are equally as bad (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:42:05
               but toss me some of dem pills - Sal KC - 4/10 10:33:57
                    hell yes(nm) - cnk ATL - 4/10 10:39:36
     Tyranny, fascism, and war - pickle MU - 4/10 10:22:46
          Lions, Tigers and Bears... oh my(nm) - MizSecZou MU - 4/10 11:16:38
     Mandatory minimums for gun offenses is fine by me - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:22:41
          The important difference between guns and drugs being....? (nm) - ummmm MU - 4/10 10:27:24
               he whiffed on it (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 4/10 10:32:09
               Mandatory minimums for people who are found - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:31:30
                    But why guns and not drugs? (nm) - ummmm MU - 4/10 10:32:00
                         drug user is more often than not only - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:33:54
                              Also, isn't this about possession of guns? Not use? - ummmm MU - 4/10 10:37:01
                              What about drug manufacturers and dealers? (nm) - ummmm MU - 4/10 10:35:25
                                   Decriminalize all drugs. (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:35:55
                                        Decriminalize all guns (nm) - pickle MU - 4/10 10:39:08
                                             Yes. I want a tank - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:39:50
                                                  Ok. You have the right to own them. (nm) - pickle MU - 4/10 10:40:57
                                                       And I have the right to suffer the legal consequences too(nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:41:28
                                                            Incorrect. (nm) - pickle MU - 4/10 10:42:44
                                        You're inconsistent (nm) - ummmm MU - 4/10 10:37:16
                              How did you come to the conclusion of just guns - Sal KC - 4/10 10:34:48
                                   2/3 of all murders are committed with guns (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:38:46
                                        That is not the point (nm) - Sal KC - 4/10 10:53:12
                                             It is absolutely the point - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:55:50
                                                  Did harsher sentences for drug violations - Sal KC - 4/10 10:59:27
                                   Are their other weapons that people can lose their - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:35:32
                                        No. People don't lose rights (nm) - pickle MU - 4/10 10:41:40
                                             Yes they do pickle. In the United States there are - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:42:43
                                                  You're missing his finer point - Mormad MU - 4/10 10:45:21
                                                       No, I'm not missing his point at all - pickle MU - 4/10 10:54:23
                                                       I understand his position. And as a theory it - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:50:52
                                                            It's not theory (nm) - pickle MU - 4/10 10:54:41
                                                                 My response was to him - Mormad MU - 4/10 10:59:43
                                                                      Ah - pickle MU - 4/10 11:51:42
                                                  That's incorrect. The right was not taken away - pickle MU - 4/10 10:43:44
                                        That's avoiding the question (nm) - Sal KC - 4/10 10:35:58
          what's a gun offense? (nm) - SwampTiger MU - 4/10 10:24:37
               Maybe I should have been more specific - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:28:58
                    what's the relevance of the gun? - SwampTiger MU - 4/10 10:30:58
                         RE: what's the relevance of the gun? - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:39:15
                              so? - SwampTiger MU - 4/10 10:45:30
                                   I didn't say the penalty should be different - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:51:56
                    Why just guns? - Sal KC - 4/10 10:30:41
                    Property rights are neither given nor taken away - pickle MU - 4/10 10:30:34
                         But they are, pickle. Whether or not your worldview - MrBlueSky MU - 4/10 10:41:04
                              They aren't. They may be infringed upon - pickle MU - 4/10 10:42:29
          Of course it is (nm) - pickle MU - 4/10 10:24:03
     The funny thing about law & order types - Mormad MU - 4/10 10:12:24




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