August 27, 2008
Obama: Cross Me and Go to Prison
Posted by Bill Anderson at August 27, 2008 08:11 AM
If anyone thinks that an Obama presidency will result in the scaling back of the scandalous rate of incarceration in the United States, think again. Apparently, a wealthy person in Dallas is funding some attack ads against Obama, so his camp is demanding that the government criminally prosecute the dangerous "criminal" and throw him in prison.
Obama general counsel Bob Bauer today sent a second, sharper letter to the Justice Department, directly attacking the Dallas billionaire funding a harsh attack ad, Harold Simmons.
"We reiterate our request that the Department of Justice fulfill its commitment to take prompt action to investigate and to prosecute the American issues Project, and we further request that the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Howard (sic) Simmons for a knowing and willful violation of the individual aggregate contribution limits," he wrote.
This is exactly what I have feared all along. Despite the "change" rhetoric we hear from Obama, what he and the others in this political campaign really are saying is that we are going to have "change" in the sense that government will become even more harsh and deadly, and the prison population will grow.
(And don't even get me started on McCain, the author of the abominable law on campaign financing and free speech.) |
