Comments on: Bush Seeks To Re-Impose Mandatory Minimums

Crime Bill Would Limit Judges' Sentencing Power; Critics Call It "One Size Fits All Justice"

[gkc99]

Yes, Mandatory Minimums for Bushit, Chickenshit, and Gonzo!

These liars and traitors should serve hard time. No Pardons!

[skyhawk761]

The majority of people who use crack are white middle to lower upper class from the suburbs. The majority of people in prison for crack offenses are low income blacks who sell but do not use. Anyone else see something wrong with this picture?

[mcvet]

Now who in their right mind would believe ONE WORD that Bush or Gonzo say's? The Bush Administration has a very FASCIST view of Justice. Hard time for those of us "Common" folk out here but NO TIME for members of the Reich and the "Superior" set. Talk about Plantation Justice? These people have it down pat!!

[gil3al]

Wasn't it this silly administration (or the hard core conservatives) that railed against "legislating" justice? I may be a bit turned around on this, this gang in d.c. have been *** up so many things its' hard to keep up anymore. When the administration starts telling the judicial system how to impose justice then once again a basic foundation of America is undermined. The judicial system issupposed to be an INDEPENDENT arm of the government. Thisd administration would enslave us all.

[Keypinitreel1]

He's talking this bull mess...but watch him pardon Scooter Libby.

Bush is a real live piece of work.

[neoconrcrazy]

What hypocrisy! Bush and Speedy talk justice?

Two of our most renouned unconvicted criminals want to impose manditory sentencing?

This entire criminal administration should face manditory justice - and do real time!

[tuckerndfw]

"Mandatory" sentencing is not justice and negates one of the more important reasons for conducting trials in the first place.

A minimum or mandatory sentence does not provide for consideration of mitigating factors and would lead to gross miscarriages of justice.

The 17 year old kid in Georgia who got 10 years in prison for receiving a consensual bj from a 15 year old girl was the victim of mandatory sentencing.

But, we can expect the Bush administration to support stupid ideas, That's what they do best.

[kaliveotin]

Its BUSH and GONZALES who should go to prison. Torture, warrentless wiretaps, illegal searches, holding innocent people without due process, including not even charging them or allowing representation or visitation. These men are immoral, unamerican criminals who ignore the Constitution they swore to uphold. To Hell with BUSH and GONZALES. What they say has absolutely no credibility and should be ignored. All government officials who support thier illegal activities should be thrown into prison. The anger in this nation is rising, people are going to throw the bums out of office in 17 months, too bad it can't be sooner. AMERICANS for TORTURE, Really? AMERICANS supporting warrentless wiretaps in AMERICA, It's beginning to make my blood boil. Remember the Revolution!
It may be time for another.

[ubrew12]

"Justice officials also point to a growing number of lighter sentences as possible proof that crime is on the rise because criminals are no longer cowed by strict penalties."

When Bush pardons Libby I hope this statement is unfurled on banners across the country.

[menofoz]

Mexico has everything to make it a prosperous First World country. They have minerals, they have agriculture, oil, tourism - everything they need to rank high among First World countries. All that stands in their way is corruption.

Mexico is a corrupt nation with a corrupt government from top to bottom, and until the U.S. and President Bush stand up and point a finger - as my dad did at the evil empire - and say you have to eliminate corruption if you want to keep your people home, the corruption will continue and so will the flow of illegal aliens fleeing it.

They need to be told that the reason people are fleeing their country is the corruption that saps the very lifeblood of the Mexican economy, making it impossible for the poor to find jobs at wages that allow them to support their families or pay the ever-present mordida %u2013 "the bite", as they call bribes. Like the refugees who fled from behind the Iron Curtain to find freedom, they flee Mexico to find a living wage and escape the bondage of official bribery that condemns them to poverty.


Gonzo should be sent to Mexico where the people there could start with him.

[kansas1946]

Gotta love it. Let's fille the prisons up with non-violent offenders, then when some violent offenders are released because of jail over-crowding, lets see if we can't force judges to sentence more non-violent offenders by blaming judges for not having the violent offenders locked up. This coming from our WONDERFUlly corruput justice department headed by the head corruptor, Alberto Gonzales. I think they should just vote that any AG that lies to congress about their corrupt political practices should be sent to Devil's Island and leave the pot smokers alone.

[nottellin1]

He has lost his mind!!

Lets pardon Liddy, legalize a bunch of crimnals and tie the hands of judges. We have truly entered the twilight zone.

[sjc_1]

This is standard lock them up and throw away the key red meat for the rabid mindless right wing. The three strikes laws overflowed the prisons and then the right wing complained about taxes to pay for the prisons.

Since Junior's poll numbers are in the tank and people want Gonzo's head on a platter, they figured a bit of the old right wing base appeal would cost them nothing and maybe bring the party numbers up a bit.

[coffeehead-2009]

Good - folks like the enron thieves, Neil bush, Delay, Noel bush, Columba bush etc.... Federal felonies punishable by up to 70 years in jail MANDATORY.

sounds right - we AREN'T just talking about those privatized prisons and mass detention centers for housing our youth and poor? No more 3-offense paris hiltons out there getting candy time?