Progressive Activists want to release a million criminals into the civilian population.
Spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union and bankrolled by radical speculator George Soros, the “end mass incarceration” movement wants to reduce the U.S. prison population by 50 percent within the next 10 to 15 years.
“We have the largest incarcerated population in the world despite the fact that we’re a democracy and that we value individual freedoms,” Alison Holcomb, national director of the ACLU Campaign to End Mass Incarceration told public radio station KUOW in Puget Sound, Wash.
(Holcomb) doesn’t want thieves and robbers jailed even briefly. If someone steals property, “why is the response to put that person in a cage?” she said.
The thing is, since considerably less than 50% of the prison population is “non-violent,” their plan would necessarily release violent criminals into the population.
It wouldn’t be the first time the Progressive Left has done this.
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported there are 156 criminal aliens who were released at least twice by ICE since 2013. Between them, these criminals had 1,776 convictions before their first release in 2013, with burglary, larceny and drug possession. In total, ICE has revealed that 124 illegal immigrant criminals released from jail by the Obama Administration since 2010 have been subsequently charged with murder.
So, release a million criminals into the civilian population while denying innocent people the right to defend themselves with firearms. What could go wrong?
Pretty much everything the average leftist thinks he knows about prison comes from watching ‘Orange is the new Black.’
The people that whine about the number imprisoned in the US are ignoring at least two basics.
-With greater freedoms & individual responsibility, without oppression, humans are going to break more laws. Reiterating this nowadays gets scoffs & huffaws, but it’s a fact that needs repeating when the general whine about incarceration is repeated.
-If people aren’t punished & put away, even for a brief period; people will take the law into their own hands within the mindset of freedom & expression that thrives in the US.
Under-punishment is a bad thing, as witnessed over & over in Europe, Over-punishment in Europe over violations of their repression of expressive freedoms is a bad thing also. However; to be fair, excessive punishments in the US do need to be addressed on an individual basis with informed analysis. It’s the over-punishment of offenders in the US that fuels the continued whine about incarceration, in general.
Prison inmates in this country are convicted felons. They had a fair trial and were proven guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt, of serious crimes that violated their victims’ rights: murder, rape, robbery, assault. Many were sentenced to imprisonment only after lesser sentences (fines, probation, community service) failed to rehabilitate them.
Yet Progressives talk about them as if they were political dissidents being persecuted by the KGB or Gestapo.
In other countries, there are political prisoners being deprived of their basic human rights: Arab women punished for not wearing veils or burkas, Iranians executed for being gay, Cubans and North Koreans imprisoned for criticizing their government. That is completely different from the USA imprisoning violent sociopaths who have violated the rights of innocent victims.
Of course, when the released criminals commit more crimes, the Progressives will blame it on the NRA.
In the War on Drugs all American citizens are POWs.
Here in California we’ve seen this type of thing, but mainly due to over-crowding (which is caused by liberals’ refusal to build prisons). Between the illegals (many of whom are gang-affiliated) and the mass releases from over-crowding we’re seeing spikes in property crime. Of course, the mainstream media here is in total blackout mode. But MOST crime is “non-violent” crime, i.e., property crime. Every time some liberal whines about being the victim of a non-violent crime (auto or home burglary, vandalism, theft, etc.) I now laugh in their stupid faces! “So, how’s that Prop 47 workin’ for ya, eh?” “So, howz them furloughs workin’ for ya, eh?” There are a million well-deserved comebacks that we should be dishing up to these advocates of cultural suicide.
The same people who want to free all these felons also want to disarm the law abiding population. After all Thugs Lives Matter.
Speaking of “Fill in the Blank” Lives Matter, black lives matter will be the grand Marshall at this years San Francisco pride, whatever that means.
http://sfist.com/2016/03/11/black_lives_matter_named_as_grand_m.php
The vast majority of these people are in jail because of drug, gambling and prostitution laws that allow gangsters control over the black market. Without drug/gambling/prostitution they wouldn’t be in jail.
We cannot have a civilian army of batmerdecrazy and violent borderline confrontational 2%ers without releasing the batmerdecrazy from prison. You gotta love our present day batmerdecrazy 2%er national socialists/communists/progressives and the libertarians that aid and abet them.