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Posted by FoM on December 28, 2000 at 20:58:26 PT Editorial Source: Virginian-Pilot 
President Bill Clinton acted with both compassion and common sense when he freed Kemba Smith from a federal prison last week. A grateful Smith, a Richmond-area native who served more than five years of a 24 1/2 -year term, said after her release that she would ``urge revision of tough, mandatory sentences that require long periods of incarceration for nonviolent offenders.'' Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #1 posted by dddd on December 29, 2000 at 01:57:07 PT |
"Thus, we'll all see just how ``compassionate'' the conservative Bush will be." President select Bush will completely avoid this issue,in the same way clinton did.You will have the same silence as in the campaign.The President select is nothing more than a puppet.The people pulling his strings will be all the good ol' boys,who installed him in the office.He could have never pulled it off without them,and they are not going to let him do anything detrimental to corporate interests.The prisons will continue to fill up just as long as he can get away with it.The same with Plan Colombia.He will be silent,and pretend to be unaware of any "problem" with the drug war. Mandatory minimums may eventually get on the list of important reforms for congress,and the bush regime....yup,,,they will be on the list,right below campaign finance reform.
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