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It's all banalities. Standard lefty talking points. And of course, it's a lie. "100 to 1"? http://politics.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/10/01/crac

It's all banalities. Standard lefty talking points. And of course, it's a lie. "100 to 1"? http://politics.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/10/01/crack-vs-powder-cocaine-a-gulf-in-penalties.html http://politics.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/10/01... In 2006, crack cocaine sentences were 43.5 percent longer than powder cocaine sentences; the average length of imprisonment for powder cocaine offenders was 84.7 months, while crack cocaine-related imprisonments averaged 121.5 months.

neilk 16y ago
Conrad Black would be amused at your description of him as a lefty. This guy founded a newspaper specifically to combat what he called "soft, left pap" in the Canadian journalism scene. He and his wife are so retrograde they are open admirers of the monarchy and nostalgic for the British class system. There is a disease in American politics of attacking the position for potentially being consonant with a particular ideology. Call it the ad ideologicem fallacy. Like, if this statement could be said by a left-winger, it must not be true, even if it's made by someone with actual experience or data. Maybe his 100 to 1 statement is factually wrong, or perhaps that was just hyperbole. The main issue is that there's any disparity at all between drug sentences.
MaysonL 16y ago
The 100 to 1 sentencing disparity is in the amount of drug which triggers the five year mandatory minimum sentence: 5 grams in the case of crack, 500 grams in the case of powder. See http://www.drugpolicy.org/drugwar/mandatorymin/crackpowder.cfm http://www.drugpolicy.org/drugwar/mandatorymin/crackpowder.c... for more.
electromagnetic 16y ago
If Conrad Black is a 'standard lefty' in the US, you poor bastards must have the most nihilistic hegemonic fascist right-wing government to ever exist. Frankly, if Black is a lefty, it must have taken all of the gods recorded in human history working to their max to suppress the rightist powers in the American system from going supra-Nazi-fascist-zombie-monster and destroying all non-Aryans. Seriously, Black is a super-right wing nut job. Please, check your own facts before making outright ludicrous claims as calling him a lefty. Seriously, I hope Canada doesn't take him back because we've already got enough right-wing fraudsters running our country, we don't need another one to come back and help bolster their ranks.

neilk 16y ago

Conrad Black would be amused at your description of him as a lefty. This guy founded a newspaper specifically to combat what he called "soft, left pap" in the Canadian journalism scene. He and his wife are so retrograde they are open admirers of the monarchy and nostalgic for the British class system. There is a disease in American politics of attacking the position for potentially being consonant with a particular ideology. Call it the ad ideologicem fallacy. Like, if this statement could be said by a left-winger, it must not be true, even if it's made by someone with actual experience or data. Maybe his 100 to 1 statement is factually wrong, or perhaps that was just hyperbole. The main issue is that there's any disparity at all between drug sentences.

MaysonL 16y ago

The 100 to 1 sentencing disparity is in the amount of drug which triggers the five year mandatory minimum sentence: 5 grams in the case of crack, 500 grams in the case of powder. See http://www.drugpolicy.org/drugwar/mandatorymin/crackpowder.cfm http://www.drugpolicy.org/drugwar/mandatorymin/crackpowder.c... for more.

electromagnetic 16y ago

If Conrad Black is a 'standard lefty' in the US, you poor bastards must have the most nihilistic hegemonic fascist right-wing government to ever exist. Frankly, if Black is a lefty, it must have taken all of the gods recorded in human history working to their max to suppress the rightist powers in the American system from going supra-Nazi-fascist-zombie-monster and destroying all non-Aryans. Seriously, Black is a super-right wing nut job. Please, check your own facts before making outright ludicrous claims as calling him a lefty. Seriously, I hope Canada doesn't take him back because we've already got enough right-wing fraudsters running our country, we don't need another one to come back and help bolster their ranks.