August 10, 2003
Justice Kennedy And Minimum Sentences
Kennedy: End minimum sentences
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called on Congress Saturday to end mandatory minimum sentences, which he says are unwise and unjust, jamming U.S. prisons with young people who lose all hope.
Wow! Wow, wow, wow! This justice has been on a hot streak lately. :)
These judges can't be trusted to act in the public interest, because they have absolutely nothing to lose by decreeing insane decisions.
Don't be surprised if the final result of a 'review' of mandatory minimum sentences is an imposition of mandatory maximum sentences for activities that are either minor crimes like shoplifting or things that shouldn't even be considered crimes in the first place, like smoking weed or downloading MP3 files.
Giant publicly-traded prison corporations like Wackenhut and Corrections Corporation of America need a continous and ever-growing stream of new raw material (i.e. working class young people) to feed the American Gulag and keep their profits and stock price up. Expect them to be constantly lobbying to get ordinary activities classified as crimes, after all, they get all of the profit and the middle-class taxpayers pick up all the tab.
In 1703, slavers bought millions of Africans from East Africa and brought them to North America for enslavement and profit of southern white people. In 2003, police are rounding up millions of African-Americans from inner city ghettos and confiscating their possessions and bank accounts for enslavement and profit in the American Gulag (which is run by southern white people).
'Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose' as the french say. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Slavery never really ended in America, only the legal justifications have changed over the years.