"Jebadiah Springfield" <mat@yooha.com> wrote in message
news:1011ipgge2qo078@corp.supernews.com...
Funny how the War on Drugs no longer exists as if it ever did, just goes
to
show how much the government bullshits the American people. Lemmee see...
people here in this country are afraid to walk down the street at night in
fear of getting robbed, kids dodge bullits on the way to schools, old
people
getting robbed at gun point by home grown terrorist, but the U.S. breaks
there neck to go half way around the world to fight a terrorist we cant
even
see and to fix another countries so called woes. Then we have half a
million
people or more out of work, yet Bush wants to give away jobs to foreigners
that Americans dont want!? I think an American will take any job as long
as
its not just 1 step above slave labor. Why would an employer pay an
American
worker a decent wage when Bush says you can hire a mexican at a rate just
above a slave labor wage? OK bush I just offered this American worker to
pick my cotton at $2 an hour, he didnt want it so I can legally hire this
mexican to do it. Thank you George!
Hospitals along the southern borders are in danger of going out of
business
because our government says we must admit anyone even if they come from
across the border and cant pay. Now thats nice free medical care for
foreigners at tax payers expense.
Repost on the racist drug war follows:
Blacks comprise 13 percent of the drug users and 12
percent of the U.S. population. Thirty-five percent of the people
arrested for drug crimes are black. Fifty-four percent of the people
charged with drug crimes are black. And 74 percent of the people in
prison for drug crimes are black. The numbers are similarly skewed for
Hispanics though not as bad. Numbers from the ACLU, and I can back
this up.
This wildly unjust travesty occurs because of tougher laws for crack
and because the police concentrate their so-called Drug War in the
slum. What it is is a war on blacks and Hispanics.
Mark
Citations:
"According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), 13% of all
monthly drug users in America are black. (That's about the same as the
percentage of the population that's black.) But 35% of those arrested
for drug possession are black; 58% of those convicted of drug
possession are black; and 74% of those imprisoned for drug possession
are black."
http://www.aclu.org/issues/drugpolicy/DrugsRace.html
"There is a hundred-fold disparity between sentences for conviction of
possession of equivalent amounts of crack cocaine (a drug used
primarily by blacks and Latinos) and powder cocaine (a drug used
primarily by whites), despite the fact that there is no
pharmacological difference in the effects of the drugs on the body.
Crack prosecution is 96% black or Latino. The prosecution of
high-level dealers amounts to less than 5% of this."
http://www.aclu.org/issues/drugpolicy/DrugsRace.html
.
