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Obama Shows Mercy on 231 People 2016-12-20 02:51:41 Post No. 93370
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/us/politics/obama-commutations-pardons-clemency.html
>WASHINGTON — Just weeks before leaving office, President Obama on Monday issued 78 pardons and commuted the sentences of 153 prisoners, extending his acts of clemency to a total of 1,324 individuals, by far the largest use of the presidential power to show mercy in the nation’s history.
>Of the 231 people who received a pardon or a reduced sentence from Mr. Obama, virtually all had been serving sentences under tough antidrug laws, including those convicted of low-level, nonviolent crimes like possession of cocaine.
>Those who received pardons had completed their sentences and are, in the words of Neil Eggleston, the White House counsel, now leading “a productive and law-abiding post-conviction life, including by contributing to the community in a meaningful way.” The pardons wipe away any legal liabilities from a conviction.
>Commutations are different. They typically shorten the sentences of people in prison, often by many years, but do not eliminate a conviction or restore rights lost, such as the right to vote. In many cases, the people selected to have their sentences commuted have participated in drug treatment, or educational or vocational technology courses while in prison.
>One example: Anthony DeWayne Gillis of Supply, Va., was convicted in 2005 of possessing cocaine, making false statements and possessing a firearm in “furtherance of drug trafficking.” He was sentenced to 145 years in prison. Mr. Obama’s grant of commutation reduces the sentence to 20 years.
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Liberals pandering to the druggie crowd.
It's not even Jan 20 and Obama has abused this presidential power more than any others.
The FOUNDING FATHERS intended the pardon to be used only during rebellion to give the president the ability to forgive rebels in order to stop a rebellion. SEE WHISKEY REBELLION.
PArdons were not meant to excuse people for being FELONS
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>>93402
>Liberals pandering
It's one guy Anon, The President, not "liberals".
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>>93402
>and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
only place in the constitution that mentions presidential pardons
>Doesn't even use the word rebellion
>constitution written to be vague and open to interpretation
>fuckwit who thinks he knows anything about what the founding fathers intended
>talking out ass
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Bradley Manning? Ed Snowden?
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>>93370
>possessing cocaine, making false statements and possessing a firearm in “furtherance of drug trafficking.” = 145 years in prison
I'm not from US, is this normal? Or did he have a truck load of cocaine?
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>>93486
30 years ago when Reagan was president they started making the penalties for selling/possession of crack cocaine worse than the penalty for murder. Then under Clinton 20 years ago it was expanded to include heroin and regular cocaine. Then 10 years ago under Bush/Cheney all the prisons were privatized at the state and national level. This has led to a prison-industrial complex of free labor that many are now criticizing on both sides of the partisan divide.
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>>93455
Thanks, anon. I needed a laugh.
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>>93402
And conservatives are any different? Trump doesn't pander? The issue isn't political ideology; it's a divided electorate that buys into cheap promises across the spectrum.
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Hidden among these people is the hitman who will assassinate Trump.
You heard it here first.
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>>93497
Cocaine usually still gets less time than crack-cocaine even though cocaine is more potent.
Also, mandatory minimums are in play here, something that the prison-industrial complex and the republicans pushed for.
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>>93402
>the country should forever be run like it was in the 1700s
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>>93497
>Private Prisons
When will America finally end this meme? Why are they even allowed to exist?
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>>93402
You don't deserve to be in jail for having a fucking drug problem. It doesn't fix shit and the shit drug users are on is the same shit your doctor prescribes to you.
Should your doctor go to jail, anon?
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>>93647
Federal level prisons are being de-privatized already because they found they save zero dollars compared to government-run prisons in a report released just this year. State level prisons are going to take longer, because that's a state by state decision.
>Why are they even allowed to exist?
Because people fell for the idea that privately-run institutions are always more efficient than publicly-run institutions, when the reality is there are some things the public sector is still more efficient at. Even more comical is that privatizing public sector jobs doesn't even pass on the savings to the tax payer because the corporation pockets the savings and everything ends up costing the same. So keep in mind when politicians want to cut the bureaucracy, they really just want to transfer those functions to a private holding to deepen someone's pocketbook.
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>>93402
This is bait, boys. Stop responding
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>>93638
In matters of principle, stand like a rock, in matters of style, flow like the river.
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Jail is not the answer unless people are offensively dangerous in which case they should "never" be let out of cages, but I have no idea who lies and who doesn't and sanely we can't believe most cop stories, judges, coroners, reports, tests...
We need a solution with people not wanting drugs rather than trying to stop the source.
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i wonder how many of them were pedos. This is most likely a real good thing he did (they do that to cover up the bad shit) but i bet there's some real nasty dudes in that list
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