...nickel bag offenders in jail for years? Sad sad sad sad sad day in the USA. What a joke.

obi

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We musicians always get a solid from THEMAN

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Now he knows where he can go to get a life time supply without having to pay a dime!

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These pardons are inconsequential, if interesting. The real issue is whether Bush will issue blanket pardons to his co-conspirators in human rights and constitutional violations.

Bush doesn't need to issue a de jure pardon for his accomplices, because Obama has already issued a de facto pardon. The new president will not pursue war and human rights criminals because that would implicate members of his new team, plus the husband of his secretary of state.

Bill Clinton's administration invented "extraordinary rendition," more prosaically known as kidnapping, forced disappearance, conspiracy to violate human rights and torture by proxy.

Any investigation, and subsequent prosecutions, cannot rely on a de facto statute of limitations for offenses prior to 20 January 2001, so Obama will scuttle the whole concepts of rule of law, accountability and respect for human rights. While he might halt the outrages, he will neither regain the respect of the world and the tolerance of our potential enemies by prosecuting the guilty, nor deter future wrongdoing.

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I have heard that during the Iran Contra Scandal there was a guy named George H.W. who was head of the CIA and I heard that there was a mighty exchange of drugs and money for weapons...

And George's nickname is "Poppy" and it is NOT because he has children and grandchildren...

Don't they grow POPPIES in Afghanistan?

I hear that the CIA finances many black ops by dealing drugs and maybe that is the reason why the "WAR ON DRUGS" is such a fiasco.

I wonder how much TRUTH there is to these rumors.

And why Bush wasn't willing to pardon Karla Faye Tucker, a white woman, when he was governor of Texas but readily pardoned Forte.

Maybe Mr, Forte bought the "right" brand if CIA imported cocaine?

Or maybe that is just a rumor too.

Cause if they legalized drugs, there would no longer be a profit in selling them...

Of course, none of this can possibly be true, and it is just some RUMORS I heard somewhere.

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What the fuck is Sen. Hatch's pattern of helping rescue people imprisoned on drug charges?

Here's another one...

"...Hatch assisted R&B producer Dallas Austin's release from Dubai following a conviction for drug possession. On May 19, 2006 Austin was arrested for bringing cocaine into the city, but hours after a local court sentenced Austin to four years in prison before deportation, on July 4 Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum pardoned and released him. Hatch has "good relations with the ambassador and other good people in Dubai," said his office in a statement..."

Does anybody else find this more than a little "odd" coming from a Republican, Mormon Senator from Utah?????

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