Friday, April 11, 2008

"This approach effectively exposes the War on Drugs for what it really is, a war on poor people."

"What we hear from conservatives all the time is that criminals deserve harsh sentences, because they've committed crimes. They should not expect anything else, and if they didn't want to be in jail they shouldn't have committed the crime in the first place. But this harsh stance melts into an accommodating one as soon as the lawbreakers wear suits and carry briefcases. A simpler way to say this is that they get soft as soon as the lawbreakers start to look like them."

http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/04/our-two-tiered-legal-system.html

1 comment:

Dan said...

"And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace;
It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East;
Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me" 2pac