Victory for women's rights: Mother wins right to end disabled child's life

[AJinNYC]

I agree with Cube here. I am anti-death penalty,

Do you believe pedophiles can be reformed?

What the hell does this have to do with anything? You know they don't execute people for pedophilia right?

But there are some criminals that can never be reformed

Life in prison would be the solution here if you are against the death penalty.

Who's gonna pay for that? Some of those bastards live up to their high nineties

If prisons weren't 70% filled with nonviolent drug offenders, funding wouldn't be an issue.

Most people in prison are violent offenders and/or have been convicted of crimes in which the offender would likely commit a violent crime.

Wrong.

48% of prisoners are non violent drug "offenders"
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1118

That leaves 52%

I'm sure there are more than 3% of "offenders" locked up for downloading unauthorized digital goods (software piracy)

You're relying on government numbers? When has the government ever released an accurate number on anything?

You see no conflict of interest in the government releasing numbers relative to their own policies?

"Hey, Yeah! All that money we printed solved everything! Look at the 5.8% employment rate that we ended up with because of our policies. The economy is doing great now because of us! We're the saviors of the world!" - US Government


Really the number of non violent drug offenders is north of 60%.

[awesome31312]

Also, white people use marijuana just as much as the blacks do, but blacks are incarcerated at a nearly double rate

The drug war is a closeted war on people of color.

Just like the war on terror is an excuse to terrorize Middle Eastern children and strip us of our civil liberties (NDAA)

[TECSHARE]

Actually its closer to 58%. If you count immigration violations that puts us at 68% of the prison population as nonviolent offenders.
hint: you were looking at jails (state) not prisons (federal)
http://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp

[stevegreer]

Also, white people use marijuana just as much as the blacks do, but blacks are incarcerated at a nearly double rate

The drug war is a closeted war on people of color.

Just like the war on terror is an excuse to terrorize Middle Eastern children and strip us of our civil liberties (NDAA)

That's not true. They just get caught twice as often as we do. Spark 'em if you got 'em, bitches! 

[awesome31312]

Also, white people use marijuana just as much as the blacks do, but blacks are incarcerated at a nearly double rate

The drug war is a closeted war on people of color.

Just like the war on terror is an excuse to terrorize Middle Eastern children and strip us of our civil liberties (NDAA)

That's not true. They just get caught twice as often as we do. Spark 'em if you got 'em, bitches! 

Ever wonder why?

It's because of police flagging black neighborhoods as "high crime" zones and patrolling them constantly

[stevegreer]

That's not true. They just get caught twice as often as we do. Spark 'em if you got 'em, bitches! 

Ever wonder why?

It's because of police flagging black neighborhoods as "high crime" zones and patrolling them constantly
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Well, obviously my attempt at making a joke to lighten the mood was unsuccessful.

There's probably a reason why some black neighborhoods are labelled as "high crime" zones. Probably because the ones labelled as such ARE "high crime" zones.

[awesome31312]

That's not true. They just get caught twice as often as we do. Spark 'em if you got 'em, bitches! 

Ever wonder why?

It's because of police flagging black neighborhoods as "high crime" zones and patrolling them constantly

Well, obviously my attempt at making a joke to lighten the mood was unsuccessful.

There's probably a reason why some black neighborhoods are labelled as "high crime" zones. Probably because the ones labelled as such ARE "high crime" zones.
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Circular reasoning