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Awaiting Real Rockefeller Reform
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This follows the high-profile case of Caroline Quartararo, a former spokeswoman on Rockefeller drug law reform for Gov. Pataki who received a similar minor sentence after being arrested with crack cocaine. Quartararo was given treatment and a $250 fine. She was arrested on Dec. 20 for possessing three rocks of crack cocaine. She pleaded guilty to seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Cheri O'Donoghue, whose son Ashley is currently serving a sentence of 7-21 years for a first-time nonviolent drug offense, said the cases of Julia Diaco and Caroline Quartararo prove that "if you are rich and privileged, you will likely receive compassion from the courts.
"While I support the notion of compassion and access to treatment for people who use and abuse drugs," said O'Donoghue, "the reality is that people of color who get caught up in the criminal justice system generally receive neither." While drug use rates are similar between blacks and whites, approximately 92 percent of the people in prison on drug charges in New York are black and Latino.
O'Donoghue's 23-year-old son, who is black, sold cocaine to two white students, who in turn sought to resell the drugs on their Hamilton College campus. The students were caught and received probation. Ashley O'Donoghue was left to languish in prison, another casualty of the draconian Rockefeller drug laws. He is one of more than 4,000 people sitting in New York state prisons convicted of B-level Rockefeller drug law felonies. The modest reforms to the state's drug laws in 2004 and 2005 have no impact on these B-level offenders.
Gabriel Sayegh, director of the State Organizing and Policy Project of the Drug Policy Alliance says New Yorkers want to see meaningful Rockefeller Drug Law reform. "Even after the reforms last year, the vast majority of people incarcerated under these failed laws are still languishing behind bars," he said. "Our elected officials in Albany need to take action to enact real reform of these laws, so that young men like Ashley O'Donoghue can receive the same compassion as those who are rich, well-connected or are employed by the governor."
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Up In Smoke
Posted by: LynnZTV on Mar 30, 2006 9:01 AM
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Isn't it time to recognize that the War On Drugs has been a longer term fiasco than the war on terror? Who is going to step up and suggest that the non-violent, aging children serving 20 years in the joint, for a joint, need an amnesty program as well? If non-violent, first time offenders were able to rejoin the outside world, the prisons would not be so overcrowded. There would be so much more room for the crooks who stole a limited future from the savings of the elderly. Now THAT'S criminal!
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Aw! Come on now.
Posted by: chasaturn on Mar 30, 2006 10:27 AM
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Does ANYONE really believe that there's such a thing as EQUAL JUSTICE under the law in this sorry excuse for a democratic society? Do you even for a minute think that our founding fathers would put up with what we're forced to live with? Wasn't arbitrary injustice what the big fight was all about? They would have already HUNG the bunch we have in congress along with the unenlightened despot living in that rat-infested house on Pennsylvania Ave. Of course, We the People aren't going to do anything. We're too busy scrambling to fill out our 1040 forms and OBEY. Obey what, I don't know. There's no law that says you have to pay tax on your labor, yet you pay it. More good ol' justice?
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The War on Freedom
Posted by: aussidawg on Mar 30, 2006 1:25 PM
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The "War on Drugs" in reality shoud be renamed the "War on Freedom I", and the "War on Terror" renamed as "The War on Freedom II." The war on drugs, in my opinion at least is unconstitutional simply from the viewpoint that Prohibition was the first and only nationally recognized legislation to outlaw what a person could or could not put into their own body. Prohibition was repealed. The war on drugs is not only illegal, but discriminatory, not only racially, but to folks (like me) who suffer from chronic pain syndrome, and people ill with cancer, glacoma and a varity of other illnesses. It seems rather hypocritical for us to have such a restricted society, and yet parade around the world promoting freedom! Freedom starts at home...stop the War on Drugs!!!
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prison business
Posted by: beausoleil on Apr 1, 2006 7:44 AM
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I would like to hear comments about the private businesses that run prisons and the various services within them. I know of several cases where legislators, judges and attornies actually own the companies that provide services to prisons. In other words, people appearing in court are seen as potential customers, as long as they end up in prison. And of course, the less violent the defendant is, the easier it is to have him as a customer.
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Dont forget the drug war is religious discrimination.
Posted by: Lauren on Apr 1, 2006 12:02 PM
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The whole thing must be fixed.
Ganja is a religious sacrament in many religions and is targeted in this country for that reason. I can tell you I sure wouldn't go to prision for my religion without raising a really big fuss.
I don't plan on prison, so I raised up the fuss first. Join the THC Ministry if you would like to assist in the endeavor or just to cover your own butt legally if you are a spiritual user of the good herb.
Borders bookstores also discriminates based on religion. They refuse to include Native American religion in their religion section. Please call them 1 800 566-6616 and tell them we are people, not animals or history.
Thanks.
Ganja is a religious sacrament in many religions and is targeted in this country for that reason. I can tell you I sure wouldn't go to prision for my religion without raising a really big fuss.
I don't plan on prison, so I raised up the fuss first. Join the THC Ministry if you would like to assist in the endeavor or just to cover your own butt legally if you are a spiritual user of the good herb.
Borders bookstores also discriminates based on religion. They refuse to include Native American religion in their religion section. Please call them 1 800 566-6616 and tell them we are people, not animals or history.
Thanks.
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Where is the antiwar movement?
Posted by: Burton on Apr 4, 2006 2:02 AM
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I'd like to get comments from activists who are organizing against the US war in the Middle East. Is the war on drugs being ignored when it comes to protest? And if so, why?
I am really curious as to why this is a dead issue.
I am really curious as to why this is a dead issue.
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Under "Drug Reporter"
Posted by: Sandlin on Apr 5, 2006 11:02 AM
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Under "Drug Reporter" is says:
For the past 15 years, lawmakers have pursued tough-on-drugs policies in an effort to create a "drug free America," plowing billions of dollars into prosecuting and imprisoning drug offenders. Is it working? Not according to many drug policy observers of each political stripe, who claim the war on drugs has been a complete, and extremely costly, failure.
comment: The war on drugs, the war on poverty, the war on terror, all these cracked-up failures did not used to be the record for the US, but now failure is the rule, not the exception. Geez, could our "leaders" be doing something wrong? Could we , as a nation, be doing something wrong to get these failure after failure results. The obvious conclusion is yes.
When are we going to wake up and get rid of , by any means, the policy makers who brought this plague of failure to our country?
For the past 15 years, lawmakers have pursued tough-on-drugs policies in an effort to create a "drug free America," plowing billions of dollars into prosecuting and imprisoning drug offenders. Is it working? Not according to many drug policy observers of each political stripe, who claim the war on drugs has been a complete, and extremely costly, failure.
comment: The war on drugs, the war on poverty, the war on terror, all these cracked-up failures did not used to be the record for the US, but now failure is the rule, not the exception. Geez, could our "leaders" be doing something wrong? Could we , as a nation, be doing something wrong to get these failure after failure results. The obvious conclusion is yes.
When are we going to wake up and get rid of , by any means, the policy makers who brought this plague of failure to our country?
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THE PRIVILEGED & CONNECTED
Posted by: picket on Apr 6, 2006 7:31 AM
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"Do the crime,do the time!!!!" or "the laws the law!!" This is true , of course, for MOST HUMANS, but not for the well connected. A few, well connected do the time, but NOT as MUCH time.....like months vs years.
Thank you, Anthony Papa, the author of this article, and activist in Prison Reform.
I have "cared for the sick" for many years and for a very short time now, have "visited those in prison" via letter writing and sending small "necessities".
Anthony Papa must know the trouble I have from the prison system just doing this small work of mercy. Those" so called" humans that feel good abusing "the least of these my brothers" must feel strongly that there is equal justice under the US Law. PEOPLE you don"t really believe that, DO YOU?
Thank you, Anthony Papa, the author of this article, and activist in Prison Reform.
I have "cared for the sick" for many years and for a very short time now, have "visited those in prison" via letter writing and sending small "necessities".
Anthony Papa must know the trouble I have from the prison system just doing this small work of mercy. Those" so called" humans that feel good abusing "the least of these my brothers" must feel strongly that there is equal justice under the US Law. PEOPLE you don"t really believe that, DO YOU?
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Set Ashley O'Donoghue free....
Posted by: albiegf13 on Apr 10, 2006 11:16 AM
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This way he can go serve our country in the Middle East and fight for freedom and democracy. Right?
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NEW BOOK ABOUT THE CRISIS LEVEL OF BLACK MEN IN PRISON
Posted by: minging on Dec 22, 2006 11:44 AM
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NEW BOOK ABOUT CRISIS LEVEL OF BLACK MEN IN PRISON!!!!
Get the book "WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK MEN IN PRISON? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men, And How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, And Incarceration Of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating The Largest Prison System In The World." by Demico Boothe AT WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM , WWW.AMAZON.COM , or WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM!!!
We are not a weak people. We will not allow traps to be set or hostile action, covert or overt, to be taken against us without proper response, and if necessary, proper retaliation. But we do need to be RE-EDUCATED because for so long we have been MIS-EDUCATED.
W.E.B. DuBois
I urge all conscious and truly intelligent Black persons to not only read but study this book. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The United States has the largest prison system in the world because of the number of Black men behind bars. This subject should be the focus of every Black politician that says they have the Black community's best interest at heart. Just a few facts:
* There are nearly 3 times as many Black men in prison in the U.S. than there are in college.
* 85% of African-American households are headed by single females, and Black females are the most unmarried sector of the American populace.
* The U.S. has more Black men in prison out of only 10.4 million Black men in its populace than China has Chinese men in its prisons out of nearly 300 million men in its populace.
* Many American prisons are privately held and traded on the stock market, almost like a modern day slave trade.
* Once a person gets a felony on his or her record in the U.S., he is by characteristic definition no longer considered a full citizen.
* A young Black male born today has a greater chance of going to prison than of holding any other occupation in life.
The list of horrendous and crisis level facts go on and on and are greatly expounded on in this book. WE ARE IN TROUBLE AS A RACE AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE OR 100 YEARS FROM NOW WE WILL BE IN NEAR EXTINCTION IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY THAT OUR FOREFATHERS SUFFERED THROUGH SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION AND DIED IN. GO TO WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM AND GET THE BOOK. UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEW MODERN DAY SLAVE TRADE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS BOOK IS GOING TO REVEAL THINGS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KEEP QUIET.
Get the book "WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK MEN IN PRISON? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men, And How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, And Incarceration Of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating The Largest Prison System In The World." by Demico Boothe AT WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM , WWW.AMAZON.COM , or WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM!!!
We are not a weak people. We will not allow traps to be set or hostile action, covert or overt, to be taken against us without proper response, and if necessary, proper retaliation. But we do need to be RE-EDUCATED because for so long we have been MIS-EDUCATED.
W.E.B. DuBois
I urge all conscious and truly intelligent Black persons to not only read but study this book. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The United States has the largest prison system in the world because of the number of Black men behind bars. This subject should be the focus of every Black politician that says they have the Black community's best interest at heart. Just a few facts:
* There are nearly 3 times as many Black men in prison in the U.S. than there are in college.
* 85% of African-American households are headed by single females, and Black females are the most unmarried sector of the American populace.
* The U.S. has more Black men in prison out of only 10.4 million Black men in its populace than China has Chinese men in its prisons out of nearly 300 million men in its populace.
* Many American prisons are privately held and traded on the stock market, almost like a modern day slave trade.
* Once a person gets a felony on his or her record in the U.S., he is by characteristic definition no longer considered a full citizen.
* A young Black male born today has a greater chance of going to prison than of holding any other occupation in life.
The list of horrendous and crisis level facts go on and on and are greatly expounded on in this book. WE ARE IN TROUBLE AS A RACE AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE OR 100 YEARS FROM NOW WE WILL BE IN NEAR EXTINCTION IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY THAT OUR FOREFATHERS SUFFERED THROUGH SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION AND DIED IN. GO TO WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM AND GET THE BOOK. UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEW MODERN DAY SLAVE TRADE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS BOOK IS GOING TO REVEAL THINGS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KEEP QUIET.
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NEW BOOK ABOUT THE CRISIS LEVEL OF BLACK MEN IN PRISON
Posted by: minging on Dec 22, 2006 11:45 AM
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Posted by: minging on Dec 22, 2006 11:45 AM
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NEW BOOK ABOUT CRISIS LEVEL OF BLACK MEN IN PRISON!!!!
Get the book "WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK MEN IN PRISON? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men, And How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, And Incarceration Of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating The Largest Prison System In The World." by Demico Boothe AT WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM , WWW.AMAZON.COM , or WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM!!!
We are not a weak people. We will not allow traps to be set or hostile action, covert or overt, to be taken against us without proper response, and if necessary, proper retaliation. But we do need to be RE-EDUCATED because for so long we have been MIS-EDUCATED.
W.E.B. DuBois
I urge all conscious and truly intelligent Black persons to not only read but study this book. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The United States has the largest prison system in the world because of the number of Black men behind bars. This subject should be the focus of every Black politician that says they have the Black community's best interest at heart. Just a few facts:
* There are nearly 3 times as many Black men in prison in the U.S. than there are in college.
* 85% of African-American households are headed by single females, and Black females are the most unmarried sector of the American populace.
* The U.S. has more Black men in prison out of only 10.4 million Black men in its populace than China has Chinese men in its prisons out of nearly 300 million men in its populace.
* Many American prisons are privately held and traded on the stock market, almost like a modern day slave trade.
* Once a person gets a felony on his or her record in the U.S., he is by characteristic definition no longer considered a full citizen.
* A young Black male born today has a greater chance of going to prison than of holding any other occupation in life.
The list of horrendous and crisis level facts go on and on and are greatly expounded on in this book. WE ARE IN TROUBLE AS A RACE AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE OR 100 YEARS FROM NOW WE WILL BE IN NEAR EXTINCTION IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY THAT OUR FOREFATHERS SUFFERED THROUGH SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION AND DIED IN. GO TO WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM AND GET THE BOOK. UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEW MODERN DAY SLAVE TRADE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS BOOK IS GOING TO REVEAL THINGS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KEEP QUIET.
Get the book "WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK MEN IN PRISON? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men, And How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, And Incarceration Of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating The Largest Prison System In The World." by Demico Boothe AT WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM , WWW.AMAZON.COM , or WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM!!!
We are not a weak people. We will not allow traps to be set or hostile action, covert or overt, to be taken against us without proper response, and if necessary, proper retaliation. But we do need to be RE-EDUCATED because for so long we have been MIS-EDUCATED.
W.E.B. DuBois
I urge all conscious and truly intelligent Black persons to not only read but study this book. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The United States has the largest prison system in the world because of the number of Black men behind bars. This subject should be the focus of every Black politician that says they have the Black community's best interest at heart. Just a few facts:
* There are nearly 3 times as many Black men in prison in the U.S. than there are in college.
* 85% of African-American households are headed by single females, and Black females are the most unmarried sector of the American populace.
* The U.S. has more Black men in prison out of only 10.4 million Black men in its populace than China has Chinese men in its prisons out of nearly 300 million men in its populace.
* Many American prisons are privately held and traded on the stock market, almost like a modern day slave trade.
* Once a person gets a felony on his or her record in the U.S., he is by characteristic definition no longer considered a full citizen.
* A young Black male born today has a greater chance of going to prison than of holding any other occupation in life.
The list of horrendous and crisis level facts go on and on and are greatly expounded on in this book. WE ARE IN TROUBLE AS A RACE AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE OR 100 YEARS FROM NOW WE WILL BE IN NEAR EXTINCTION IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY THAT OUR FOREFATHERS SUFFERED THROUGH SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION AND DIED IN. GO TO WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM AND GET THE BOOK. UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEW MODERN DAY SLAVE TRADE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS BOOK IS GOING TO REVEAL THINGS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KEEP QUIET.
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Up In Smoke
Posted by: LynnZTV on Mar 30, 2006 9:01 AM
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Isn't it time to recognize that the War On Drugs has been a longer term fiasco than the war on terror? Who is going to step up and suggest that the non-violent, aging children serving 20 years in the joint, for a joint, need an amnesty program as well? If non-violent, first time offenders were able to rejoin the outside world, the prisons would not be so overcrowded. There would be so much more room for the crooks who stole a limited future from the savings of the elderly. Now THAT'S criminal!
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Aw! Come on now.
Posted by: chasaturn on Mar 30, 2006 10:27 AM
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Does ANYONE really believe that there's such a thing as EQUAL JUSTICE under the law in this sorry excuse for a democratic society? Do you even for a minute think that our founding fathers would put up with what we're forced to live with? Wasn't arbitrary injustice what the big fight was all about? They would have already HUNG the bunch we have in congress along with the unenlightened despot living in that rat-infested house on Pennsylvania Ave. Of course, We the People aren't going to do anything. We're too busy scrambling to fill out our 1040 forms and OBEY. Obey what, I don't know. There's no law that says you have to pay tax on your labor, yet you pay it. More good ol' justice?
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The War on Freedom
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The "War on Drugs" in reality shoud be renamed the "War on Freedom I", and the "War on Terror" renamed as "The War on Freedom II." The war on drugs, in my opinion at least is unconstitutional simply from the viewpoint that Prohibition was the first and only nationally recognized legislation to outlaw what a person could or could not put into their own body. Prohibition was repealed. The war on drugs is not only illegal, but discriminatory, not only racially, but to folks (like me) who suffer from chronic pain syndrome, and people ill with cancer, glacoma and a varity of other illnesses. It seems rather hypocritical for us to have such a restricted society, and yet parade around the world promoting freedom! Freedom starts at home...stop the War on Drugs!!!
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prison business
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I would like to hear comments about the private businesses that run prisons and the various services within them. I know of several cases where legislators, judges and attornies actually own the companies that provide services to prisons. In other words, people appearing in court are seen as potential customers, as long as they end up in prison. And of course, the less violent the defendant is, the easier it is to have him as a customer.
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Dont forget the drug war is religious discrimination.
Posted by: Lauren on Apr 1, 2006 12:02 PM
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The whole thing must be fixed.
Ganja is a religious sacrament in many religions and is targeted in this country for that reason. I can tell you I sure wouldn't go to prision for my religion without raising a really big fuss.
I don't plan on prison, so I raised up the fuss first. Join the THC Ministry if you would like to assist in the endeavor or just to cover your own butt legally if you are a spiritual user of the good herb.
Borders bookstores also discriminates based on religion. They refuse to include Native American religion in their religion section. Please call them 1 800 566-6616 and tell them we are people, not animals or history.
Thanks.
Ganja is a religious sacrament in many religions and is targeted in this country for that reason. I can tell you I sure wouldn't go to prision for my religion without raising a really big fuss.
I don't plan on prison, so I raised up the fuss first. Join the THC Ministry if you would like to assist in the endeavor or just to cover your own butt legally if you are a spiritual user of the good herb.
Borders bookstores also discriminates based on religion. They refuse to include Native American religion in their religion section. Please call them 1 800 566-6616 and tell them we are people, not animals or history.
Thanks.
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Where is the antiwar movement?
Posted by: Burton on Apr 4, 2006 2:02 AM
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I'd like to get comments from activists who are organizing against the US war in the Middle East. Is the war on drugs being ignored when it comes to protest? And if so, why?
I am really curious as to why this is a dead issue.
I am really curious as to why this is a dead issue.
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Under "Drug Reporter"
Posted by: Sandlin on Apr 5, 2006 11:02 AM
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Under "Drug Reporter" is says:
For the past 15 years, lawmakers have pursued tough-on-drugs policies in an effort to create a "drug free America," plowing billions of dollars into prosecuting and imprisoning drug offenders. Is it working? Not according to many drug policy observers of each political stripe, who claim the war on drugs has been a complete, and extremely costly, failure.
comment: The war on drugs, the war on poverty, the war on terror, all these cracked-up failures did not used to be the record for the US, but now failure is the rule, not the exception. Geez, could our "leaders" be doing something wrong? Could we , as a nation, be doing something wrong to get these failure after failure results. The obvious conclusion is yes.
When are we going to wake up and get rid of , by any means, the policy makers who brought this plague of failure to our country?
For the past 15 years, lawmakers have pursued tough-on-drugs policies in an effort to create a "drug free America," plowing billions of dollars into prosecuting and imprisoning drug offenders. Is it working? Not according to many drug policy observers of each political stripe, who claim the war on drugs has been a complete, and extremely costly, failure.
comment: The war on drugs, the war on poverty, the war on terror, all these cracked-up failures did not used to be the record for the US, but now failure is the rule, not the exception. Geez, could our "leaders" be doing something wrong? Could we , as a nation, be doing something wrong to get these failure after failure results. The obvious conclusion is yes.
When are we going to wake up and get rid of , by any means, the policy makers who brought this plague of failure to our country?
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THE PRIVILEGED & CONNECTED
Posted by: picket on Apr 6, 2006 7:31 AM
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"Do the crime,do the time!!!!" or "the laws the law!!" This is true , of course, for MOST HUMANS, but not for the well connected. A few, well connected do the time, but NOT as MUCH time.....like months vs years.
Thank you, Anthony Papa, the author of this article, and activist in Prison Reform.
I have "cared for the sick" for many years and for a very short time now, have "visited those in prison" via letter writing and sending small "necessities".
Anthony Papa must know the trouble I have from the prison system just doing this small work of mercy. Those" so called" humans that feel good abusing "the least of these my brothers" must feel strongly that there is equal justice under the US Law. PEOPLE you don"t really believe that, DO YOU?
Thank you, Anthony Papa, the author of this article, and activist in Prison Reform.
I have "cared for the sick" for many years and for a very short time now, have "visited those in prison" via letter writing and sending small "necessities".
Anthony Papa must know the trouble I have from the prison system just doing this small work of mercy. Those" so called" humans that feel good abusing "the least of these my brothers" must feel strongly that there is equal justice under the US Law. PEOPLE you don"t really believe that, DO YOU?
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Set Ashley O'Donoghue free....
Posted by: albiegf13 on Apr 10, 2006 11:16 AM
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This way he can go serve our country in the Middle East and fight for freedom and democracy. Right?
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NEW BOOK ABOUT THE CRISIS LEVEL OF BLACK MEN IN PRISON
Posted by: minging on Dec 22, 2006 11:44 AM
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NEW BOOK ABOUT CRISIS LEVEL OF BLACK MEN IN PRISON!!!!
Get the book "WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK MEN IN PRISON? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men, And How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, And Incarceration Of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating The Largest Prison System In The World." by Demico Boothe AT WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM , WWW.AMAZON.COM , or WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM!!!
We are not a weak people. We will not allow traps to be set or hostile action, covert or overt, to be taken against us without proper response, and if necessary, proper retaliation. But we do need to be RE-EDUCATED because for so long we have been MIS-EDUCATED.
W.E.B. DuBois
I urge all conscious and truly intelligent Black persons to not only read but study this book. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The United States has the largest prison system in the world because of the number of Black men behind bars. This subject should be the focus of every Black politician that says they have the Black community's best interest at heart. Just a few facts:
* There are nearly 3 times as many Black men in prison in the U.S. than there are in college.
* 85% of African-American households are headed by single females, and Black females are the most unmarried sector of the American populace.
* The U.S. has more Black men in prison out of only 10.4 million Black men in its populace than China has Chinese men in its prisons out of nearly 300 million men in its populace.
* Many American prisons are privately held and traded on the stock market, almost like a modern day slave trade.
* Once a person gets a felony on his or her record in the U.S., he is by characteristic definition no longer considered a full citizen.
* A young Black male born today has a greater chance of going to prison than of holding any other occupation in life.
The list of horrendous and crisis level facts go on and on and are greatly expounded on in this book. WE ARE IN TROUBLE AS A RACE AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE OR 100 YEARS FROM NOW WE WILL BE IN NEAR EXTINCTION IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY THAT OUR FOREFATHERS SUFFERED THROUGH SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION AND DIED IN. GO TO WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM AND GET THE BOOK. UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEW MODERN DAY SLAVE TRADE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS BOOK IS GOING TO REVEAL THINGS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KEEP QUIET.
Get the book "WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK MEN IN PRISON? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men, And How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, And Incarceration Of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating The Largest Prison System In The World." by Demico Boothe AT WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM , WWW.AMAZON.COM , or WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM!!!
We are not a weak people. We will not allow traps to be set or hostile action, covert or overt, to be taken against us without proper response, and if necessary, proper retaliation. But we do need to be RE-EDUCATED because for so long we have been MIS-EDUCATED.
W.E.B. DuBois
I urge all conscious and truly intelligent Black persons to not only read but study this book. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The United States has the largest prison system in the world because of the number of Black men behind bars. This subject should be the focus of every Black politician that says they have the Black community's best interest at heart. Just a few facts:
* There are nearly 3 times as many Black men in prison in the U.S. than there are in college.
* 85% of African-American households are headed by single females, and Black females are the most unmarried sector of the American populace.
* The U.S. has more Black men in prison out of only 10.4 million Black men in its populace than China has Chinese men in its prisons out of nearly 300 million men in its populace.
* Many American prisons are privately held and traded on the stock market, almost like a modern day slave trade.
* Once a person gets a felony on his or her record in the U.S., he is by characteristic definition no longer considered a full citizen.
* A young Black male born today has a greater chance of going to prison than of holding any other occupation in life.
The list of horrendous and crisis level facts go on and on and are greatly expounded on in this book. WE ARE IN TROUBLE AS A RACE AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE OR 100 YEARS FROM NOW WE WILL BE IN NEAR EXTINCTION IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY THAT OUR FOREFATHERS SUFFERED THROUGH SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION AND DIED IN. GO TO WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM AND GET THE BOOK. UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEW MODERN DAY SLAVE TRADE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS BOOK IS GOING TO REVEAL THINGS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KEEP QUIET.
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NEW BOOK ABOUT THE CRISIS LEVEL OF BLACK MEN IN PRISON
Posted by: minging on Dec 22, 2006 11:45 AM
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Posted by: minging on Dec 22, 2006 11:45 AM
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NEW BOOK ABOUT CRISIS LEVEL OF BLACK MEN IN PRISON!!!!
Get the book "WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK MEN IN PRISON? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men, And How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, And Incarceration Of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating The Largest Prison System In The World." by Demico Boothe AT WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM , WWW.AMAZON.COM , or WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM!!!
We are not a weak people. We will not allow traps to be set or hostile action, covert or overt, to be taken against us without proper response, and if necessary, proper retaliation. But we do need to be RE-EDUCATED because for so long we have been MIS-EDUCATED.
W.E.B. DuBois
I urge all conscious and truly intelligent Black persons to not only read but study this book. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The United States has the largest prison system in the world because of the number of Black men behind bars. This subject should be the focus of every Black politician that says they have the Black community's best interest at heart. Just a few facts:
* There are nearly 3 times as many Black men in prison in the U.S. than there are in college.
* 85% of African-American households are headed by single females, and Black females are the most unmarried sector of the American populace.
* The U.S. has more Black men in prison out of only 10.4 million Black men in its populace than China has Chinese men in its prisons out of nearly 300 million men in its populace.
* Many American prisons are privately held and traded on the stock market, almost like a modern day slave trade.
* Once a person gets a felony on his or her record in the U.S., he is by characteristic definition no longer considered a full citizen.
* A young Black male born today has a greater chance of going to prison than of holding any other occupation in life.
The list of horrendous and crisis level facts go on and on and are greatly expounded on in this book. WE ARE IN TROUBLE AS A RACE AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE OR 100 YEARS FROM NOW WE WILL BE IN NEAR EXTINCTION IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY THAT OUR FOREFATHERS SUFFERED THROUGH SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION AND DIED IN. GO TO WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM AND GET THE BOOK. UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEW MODERN DAY SLAVE TRADE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS BOOK IS GOING TO REVEAL THINGS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KEEP QUIET.
Get the book "WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK MEN IN PRISON? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African-American Men, And How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, And Incarceration Of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating The Largest Prison System In The World." by Demico Boothe AT WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM , WWW.AMAZON.COM , or WWW.BARNESANDNOBLE.COM!!!
We are not a weak people. We will not allow traps to be set or hostile action, covert or overt, to be taken against us without proper response, and if necessary, proper retaliation. But we do need to be RE-EDUCATED because for so long we have been MIS-EDUCATED.
W.E.B. DuBois
I urge all conscious and truly intelligent Black persons to not only read but study this book. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The United States has the largest prison system in the world because of the number of Black men behind bars. This subject should be the focus of every Black politician that says they have the Black community's best interest at heart. Just a few facts:
* There are nearly 3 times as many Black men in prison in the U.S. than there are in college.
* 85% of African-American households are headed by single females, and Black females are the most unmarried sector of the American populace.
* The U.S. has more Black men in prison out of only 10.4 million Black men in its populace than China has Chinese men in its prisons out of nearly 300 million men in its populace.
* Many American prisons are privately held and traded on the stock market, almost like a modern day slave trade.
* Once a person gets a felony on his or her record in the U.S., he is by characteristic definition no longer considered a full citizen.
* A young Black male born today has a greater chance of going to prison than of holding any other occupation in life.
The list of horrendous and crisis level facts go on and on and are greatly expounded on in this book. WE ARE IN TROUBLE AS A RACE AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE OR 100 YEARS FROM NOW WE WILL BE IN NEAR EXTINCTION IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY THAT OUR FOREFATHERS SUFFERED THROUGH SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION AND DIED IN. GO TO WWW.BLACKMENINPRISON.COM AND GET THE BOOK. UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEW MODERN DAY SLAVE TRADE IS ALL ABOUT. THIS BOOK IS GOING TO REVEAL THINGS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KEEP QUIET.
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