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3 Strikes??
Hittman:
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i agree with not bein able to try a person twice for the same crime. the reason that law was established was to make sure prosecutors couldnt just keep trying a person over n over...until they eventially found the jury that find them guilty. No matter how innocent someone is...therelly be SOMEONE who will think theyre guilty. And u could just keep trying someone...and hope that u find tha right jury.
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Thats Another Thing That Annoys Me....The Jurys. If You Get Some Dumb Fucks Then You Can Have People Getting Off For Crimes They Quite Obviously Commited.
ToNe1904:
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Thats Another Thing That Annoys Me....The Jurys. If You Get Some Dumb Fucks Then You Can Have People Getting Off For Crimes They Quite Obviously Commited.
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and u can also have people go to prison who are innocent. Which there are ALOT of in America. Its far worse to send an innocent person to prison, then it is to let a guilty person go free. Tha whole "justice system" iz pretty fuked up, racist, and very influenced by money. No one expects it to be PERFECT, only fair. It iz better then what it USED to be, but...thas not sayin that much.
Political Gangsta:
Darth's post was full of sound theories that brought new music to my ears previously unheard. I enjoyed the song he was singing. His idea's of prisoners as a proxy for immigrant labor would liberate America from the burden of more prison taxes.
In the same vien I flow with Tone and Criminal909 in that cases should be dealt with individually. I think we are correct in wondering aloud if the 3 strikes law has racial overtones. White criminals, such as inside traders receiving light sentences for nearly wrecking the economic system. Examples being the B.C.C.I. and S&L, an ignored drug smuggling scandel, infact the S&Lers will never come to trial. Those involved with the Enron scandel, will recieve lighter sentencing then that cat that stole golf clubs. This is an obvious criminal injustice.
Another example of racial disharmony in the criminal justice system is crack cocaine (sold predominately by blacks) recieving harsher penalties then the white counterpart party drug of powder cocaine.
The only advantage I see to the 3 strikes law is the movie produced by DJ Pooh that came out on video in early 2000. A movie capable of penetrating so profoundly into ones own little world, that I had to buy it as soon as it was released on DVD. This movie could not have been possible if it wasn't for the 3 strikes law. Correspondly the "3 Strikes" soundtrack featured a Ras Kass joint that spoke knowledgably on the wonderfully ironic social symptons plaquing today's hip-hop generation.
ToNe1904:
sorry
--- Quote ---Darth's post was full of sound theories that brought new music to my ears previously unheard. I enjoyed the song he was singing. His idea's of prisoners as a proxy for immigrant labor would liberate America from the burden of more prison taxes.
In the same vien I flow with Tone and Criminal909 in that cases should be dealt with individually. I think we are correct in wondering aloud if the 3 strikes law has racial overtones. White criminals, such as inside traders receiving light sentences for nearly wrecking the economic system. Examples being the B.C.C.I. and S&L, an ignored drug smuggling scandel, infact the S&Lers will never come to trial. Those involved with the Enron scandel, will recieve lighter sentencing then that cat that stole golf clubs. This is an obvious criminal injustice.
Another example of racial disharmony in the criminal justice system is crack cocaine (sold predominately by blacks) recieving harsher penalties then the white counterpart party drug of powder cocaine.
The only advantage I see to the 3 strikes law is the movie produced by DJ Pooh that came out on video in early 2000. A movie capable of penetrating so profoundly into ones own little world, that I had to buy it as soon as it was released on DVD. This movie could not have been possible if it wasn't for the 3 strikes law. Correspondly the "3 Strikes" soundtrack featured a Ras Kass joint that spoke knowledgably on the wonderfully ironic social symptons plaquing today's hip-hop generation.
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Whether theres racial overtones or not, is hard to say. But theres DEFINETELY injustice in this law towards the poor. Which, unfortunately in this country...goes hand in hand with minorities. So u cant tell whether this law is aimed at minorities, or aimed at the poor. But either way, its wrong. Which is why its being appealed now, as cruel and unusual punishment. Is it a surprise that this law was developed in California? A state where the difference between rich and poor is probably one of...if not THE biggest in country. California (just like the rest of the country) isnt a stranger to racist laws n policies (Prop 187 possibly being one of the most racist policies in recent history). So if anyone wonders why these laws get questioned, blame the law makers.
Political Gangsta:
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Whether theres racial overtones or not, is hard to say. But theres DEFINETELY injustice in this law towards the poor. Which, unfortunately in this country...goes hand in hand with minorities. So u cant tell whether this law is aimed at minorities, or aimed at the poor. But either way, its wrong. Which is why its being appealed now, as cruel and unusual punishment. Is it a surprise that this law was developed in California? A state where the difference between rich and poor is probably one of...if not THE biggest in country. California (just like the rest of the country) isnt a stranger to racist laws n policies (Prop 187 possibly being one of the most racist policies in recent history). So if anyone wonders why these laws get questioned, blame the law makers.
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Yes. The globalization of the 80's and 90's combined with company mergers of the 90's have opened up a Nazi like whole, ditch, or rut, the size of a mack truck, dividing the omnipotent administrators, the ruling class from the supermasculine menials of the underclass. I was wrong in describing it as a black-white issue when in truth it is a rich-poor phenomenon.
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