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To: PartyTime who wrote (991)	2/8/2004 9:30:49 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

Party, what bull

To: PartyTime who wrote (991)	2/8/2004 9:44:39 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 173976

freepeltier.org One tactic was to severely punish activists for relatively minor crimes. This was the fate of Lee Otis Johnson, a Texas Black Panther leader who received a thirty-year prison sentence for allegedly passing a single marijuana "joint" to an undercover police officer. sciforums.com cbsnews.com (CBS) Until Tulia, Texas became the site of one of the worst miscarriages of justice in recent memory, chances are you had never heard of the place and certainly had never heard of a man named Tom Coleman. Coleman, an undercover narcotics officer, arrested 46 people - nearly all of them black - on charges of being cocaine dealers, and sent many of them to prison for a total of 750 years. That was until Texas Gov. Rick Perry stepped in and pardoned them, and after a judge accused Coleman of being a liar who falsified evidence, a thief, and a racist. washingtondispatch.com U.S. District Judge John S. Martin, a former federal prosecutor who was appointed to the bench 14 years ago by George H.W. Bush, announced in July of 2003 that he was resigning from the bench because he could no longer participate in "a sentencing system that is unnecessarily cruel and rigid." He cited the current "effort to intimidate judges" as well as the objectionable punishments meted out to first time drug offenders. Judge Martin was highly regarded as a tough, conservative judge, with a reputation for giving stern and harsh sentences in gang and drug-related cases. stopthedrugwar.org Governor Bush's Cocaine Problem As governor of Texas, George W. Bush, Jr. supported and signed legislation increasing penalties for drug possession in that state. In one instance, Governor Bush signed legislation mandating jail time for people caught with less than a single gram of cocaine. the questions keep coming. And his answers keep changing. And try as he might to create a statute of limitations for questions about his personal life, there is no such statute for hypocrisy. Sending people to prison, increasing their sentences by the stroke of his pen for the very behavior that he now claims is irrelevant in his own history, does not speak well for the honor or the conscience of the man

To: PartyTime who wrote (991)	2/8/2004 9:45:41 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Bush got into the Texas Guard pilot program despite abysmal test scores, during a time that there was a draft on for an overseas war, and he was able to bail out early on that because he wanted to go to b-school. Today, Bush issues stop-loss orders that keep Guardsmen like Corporal Smith -- who unlike Bush, serve in an overseas war -- in the service indefinitely. And unlike George Walker Bush, son of a Representative/Ambassador/RNC chair and grandson of a Senator, the Smiths of today's Guard don't get to make it all stop just because they want to kill time at business school. dailykos.com

To: PartyTime who wrote (991)	2/8/2004 9:55:14 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

Bush says he's "wartime" President. Since there's really no war going on, other than the ones he starts, I think most Americans are going to prefer a "peacetime" President. Terrorists are a real threat, but trying to fight them with our military is like swatting flys with a sledgehammer - you might nail a few flies, but it's bound to make a mess of the house! A much better way to attack terrorists would be to tightly integrate the intelligence and police forces of the world and defeat them with information. Improve the futures of the regions that breed terrorists with an international effort, so that less of them would see glorious suicide preferable to what's ahead of them.