Re: Another Motivation for the CDA (Federal Sentencing Guid

In a message dated 96-03-09 04:05:26 EST, you write:

>At  9:59 PM 3/8/96 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>The pizza guy was a thug, but twice as many third-strikers got
>>their third strike for marijuana as for all violent crimes combined.
>>I assume most of these had large quantities, possibly intended for sale,
>>and a number of them had real crimes as their previous felonies
>>rather than Prohibition-related offenses.  But you can get legally
>>serious quantities of marijuana by just growing a couple of plants.
>
>I wonder how many of these drug dealers previous "real crimes" were related
>to using violence to protect their drug business, defense which would have
>used the courts and police had drug dealing been legal.

What difference does that make?  If you are deranged enough to murder someone
because they are selling crack in your territory, you are deranged enough to
shoot your manager after getting fired from McDonalds, or to do any number of
heinous things that ahve nothing to do with drug laws.  Sick people will
still do sick things, even if some of them are legalized.

Jonathan Wienke

WARNING: The word "crypto" appears only once in this post.

JonWienke@aol.com wrote:
> What difference does that make?  If you are deranged enough to murder someone
> because they are selling crack in your territory, you are deranged enough to
> shoot your manager after getting fired from McDonalds, or to do any number of
> heinous things that ahve nothing to do with drug laws.  Sick people will
> still do sick things, even if some of them are legalized.

Did someone say "deranged"? ;)

If you're involved in the crack trade, chances are low level dealers
are supporting your habit.  Crack tends to make people deranged, and
the pressure of the competition and illegality don't do much for one's
paranoia.

The character who shoots his boss at Micky D's may well be speeded out
or coked up too.  The drugs tends to make one muy loco.

Then again, people don't see much wrong with executing criminals or
going into another country and killing off the civillians because their
petty dictator president would suck the cocks of US/European corporations
so what do you expect?  The derangement is pretty widespread in America.
You got Waco wackos hiding from black helicopters enforcing the Zionist
conspiracy to make Amerikkka part of the one-world government run by
a cabal of Jewish lesbians from the Andromeda galaxy.

I think the crackheads shooting each other on street corners are quite
down to earth in comparison.

ObCrypto: None.

--Rob