Leniency from the Right! The New York Post today editorially advocated replacing New York State's draconian Rockefeller Laws with milder laws that draw finer distinctions between criminals and target the 'serious' criminals while going easy on the minor players. That's just wrong — and surprising in its softness on crime.
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The takeoff for this stance was that a prosecutor refused to demand jail time for a college girl who used her dorm room at NYU as a drug supermarket. Apparently the Post feels it's fine for prosecutors to refuse to prosecute drug pushers if they are middle-class girls from the suburbs.
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If the people entrusted with enforcing the laws refuse to do so, remove them for misfeasance and send them to JAIL. Don't let them nullify laws duly passed by a legislative assembly of elected representatives of the people's will.
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Drugs are a plague upon this country, and have been for a long time. The drug trade feeds huge international criminal conspiracies that have killed uncounted thousands and even dared invade the Palace of Justice in Colombia, killing 11 Supreme Court justices! Drugs kill, directly and indirectly, and ruin lives, marriages, families; cause massive financial damage and physical damage in accidents; and support terrorists in a number of countries, including al-Qaeda groups.
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Leniency on drug pushers is not the solution. An automatic death penalty and requiring prosecutors to uphold the laws or join the people they refuse to prosecute, as co-conspirators in their crimes, which they are — would handily cure the problem. Singapore doesn't have a drug problem. We could be as free of drugs as Singapore if we had Singapore's laws.
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Let's void the sweetheart deal given Julia Diaco, who sold "pot, cocaine and psychedelic mushrooms on eight separate occasions to undercover cops", indict as a co-conspirator the prosecutor who refused to prosecute her AND the judge who consented to this outrage, and send both to prison for life, until we can pass an automatic death penalty law. That would send a powerful message that we are serious about ending the unceasing assault upon society committed by drug pushers. The solution is not leniency but death.
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 2:56 PM