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Sometimes I think this whole world is one big prison yard, some of us are prisoners, and the other of us are guards. B. Dylan
Rummy is not just polishing his flies, but counting all the monies he has made from pharmaceuticals. He made a mint on w's rip off of Medicare/Medicaid for prescription medicines.
Halliburton is now a Dubai Corporation after having made 60-80 billion dollars--all from the tax coffers provided by the American People. Dicky filed income tax returns for 2006 showing income of over 16 million and pooh poohing it in some grumbling manner and no one has followed this up. Remember his 'severance pay' was supposedly $20,000,000 at the time the Supreme Court made him VP.
Bugliosi is absolutely ranting that if he has anything to do with it, w will not live the 'high life' never regretting 10% of his sins. At least we know that even with a no-name biographer, w cannot sell a book right now. He has sent his book to every single Federal D.A. in the country demanding justice against w and his cohorts.
Barack could set a new precedent by allowing pardons in the beginning of his Administration to people who have absolutely nothing to do with him. Every Blue Moon, I will agree with a basic conservative sentiment. Not only should anybody in prison because of the Abu Ghraib mess be freed but I think those two border guards that fat head racist Dobson keeps talking about should also be freed.
Why not set up panels all over the ocuntry and free ten per cent of everyone in prison today? We imprison more people than China and China has 4 times our population. The Executive Branch is the only tool to get in there and do something about it.
I do not wish to free baby killers or baby rapists or serial killers. They represent a small percentage of our prison population.
But Americans imprisoned for growing or selling maryjane is laughable.
Rummy is a hundred and five and Dicky, whose cardiac history looks a lot like Redd Foxx, aint going to be around much longer.
Obama loses nothing in terms of political capital in having a panel reexamine our prison/justice system.
Republicans lover the expression: "Life is unfair." And that is because they work so hard to make it so.
