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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 09:55 AM
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56. Does anyone like
The idea of judges being judges, not the executors of the will of the cops and DAs?

All sentencing enhancements just feed Prisons, Inc. The "kingpin" statute is a domestic holocaust.

A judge is supposed to determine whether the person before him is a person who made a mistake or a violent, racist scumbag who is likely to commit more crimes. Now judges have no choice but to "throw the book" at anyone because almost every situation has an "enhancement" on it, unless the defendant is rich and white.

I don't consider myself a democrat anymore (I still vote democratic) because of Bill Clinton and Gray Davis playing into the hands of the police.

We wonder why the poor support Republicans? Because Republicans say they are anti-government. The only government the poor know directly are cops and DAs, and the only thing cops and DAs do is lie to advance their careers, destroying lives in the process.
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