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H.R. 1466, The Major Drug Trafficking Prosecution Act of 2009 (30 comments ↓ | 4 wiki edits)
H.R. 1466 would concentrate Federal resources aimed at the prosecution of drug offenses on those offenses that are major.
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modawg
March 26, 2009, 12:46pm (report abuse)What is wrong with some people? Why would we not want this bill to pass? As it stands, punishment does not fit the crime when it comes to drug offenders, and we need this passed. So much money is being put into the prisons that owning prisons has become big business. There are actually companies out there that run prisons FOR PROFIT!!! This is absurd and we need more legislation like this
Tabitha
March 27, 2009, 3:18pm (report abuse)Please support this bill. The numbers and cost to house non-violent criminals is unreal. There is so much more good we can do with the money. Rehabilitation is the key. Not that fake stuff that just helps them get their GED and then throw them back on the street. I'm talking about real hope, opportunities to go to college, get a good job and have a good life.
McDonough
April 6, 2009, 2:41pm (report abuse)I pray ever day that this bill will pass
Sherilyn Yeley
April 16, 2009, 2:16pm (report abuse)Please support this bill and make it retroactive there are too many people in prison now and their suppliers are out due to a unjust criminal justice system that is draining us taxpayers,the non-violent,first time offenders should be released now if they were victims of the Mandatory Minimum Sentences that was so unfairly imposed by congress
stacey
April 20, 2009, 12:08pm (report abuse)i think its about time that something is done to correct the ridiculously unfair turn that our justice system has taken in regards to first time nonviolent offenders.statistics show that its cheaper and more effective to rehabilitate than to incarcerate.
MONICA
April 25, 2009, 11:16pm (report abuse)I AM SO HOPING THIS BILL PASSES. IT IS SO UNFAIR TO HAVE THESE PEOPLE IN PRISON. THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD ROT IN PRISON ARE THESE CHILD MOLESTERS. ITS ABOUT TIME SOMEONE IS STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE. THANK GOODNESS FOR MAXINE WATERS.
Judy
(logged in user) April 27, 2009, 10:03pm (report abuse)please pass this bill.
RENITA
May 6, 2009, 3:00pm (report abuse)Its so unfair that Non-violent offenders are serving so much time and they are letting murderers go free.
MsSweety
(logged in user) May 8, 2009, 5:32am (report abuse)Please support this bill!! Please do the right thing, please represent the American people the way we want to be represented. Please do what needs to be done to help restore peace and harmony in our society.
MsSweety
(logged in user) May 8, 2009, 5:39am (report abuse)August 9, 2003 Speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy at the ABA Annual Meeting
(available at http://www.abanews.org/kencomm/amkspeech03.html) ("Our resources are
misspent, our punishments too severe; our sentences too long... the sentencing guidelines
are responsible in part for the increased terms....[and they] should be revised downward.");
Ranum, 353 F.Supp. 2d at 985 n.1 (quoting Justice Kennedy’s statement that "our punishments
[are] too severe, our sentences too long");
MsSweety
(logged in user) May 8, 2009, 5:41am (report abuse)Justice Kennedy ABA
Speech of 2003 ( “I hope too, that the Bar will give consideration to ways in which we might
Reinvigorate the pardon and the clemency process. It's use has become most infrequent because
Of the soft on crime charge that's always made. And in all too many instances the pardon power
Has been drained of its moral force. It should be reinvigorated. A country which is secure in its
Institutions, confident in its laws should not be ashamed of the concept of mercy. As the
Greatest of poets has said 'mercy is the mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes the throned
Monarch better than his crown.'”)
MsSweety
(logged in user) May 8, 2009, 5:45am (report abuse)Samuel T. Morison appearing in The Politics of
Grace: On the Moral Justification of Executive Clemency, 9 Buff. Crim. L. Rev 1 (2005) (“[T]he
Reluctance of recent presidents to exercise the clemency power more generously perhaps can be
Criticized for displaying a certain lack of moral imagination and political courage, particularly
Given the advent in the last twenty years of strict mandatory minimum statutes and rigid
Sentencing guidelines, together with a burgeoning federal prison population.”).
MsSweety
(logged in user) May 14, 2009, 1:34am (report abuse)Please pass this bill!! This is the best one like it so far, but there should be a cap off on the maximum! And it should be retroactive. This is the right thing to do. We need to restore peace of mind and trust back in the government. This is the way to *begin*. Thank you.
Margrita
June 9, 2009, 11:48pm (report abuse)please pass this bill to many young people are doing to much time and dont know what to when they come
Mr Gee
July 15, 2009, 11:42am (report abuse)Please pass the bill these young men and women needs be home with familys who love them.
MS.LATOYA
July 20, 2009, 3:49pm (report abuse)I PRAY THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE BILLS THAT GET PASSED I AM SO WITH EVERYONE ELSE WHEN IT IS SO UNFAIR THAT NON-VIOLENT CRIMINALS ARE SERVING AS MUCH TIME AS MURDERS AND I DONT THINK THAT IT IS FAIR TO THEM OR THEIR FAMILIES
anette mrozinski
July 31, 2009, 2:38pm (report abuse)please pass this law. this is cruel and unusual punishment and causes much hardship for the families.
TraceyW138
July 31, 2009, 4:22pm (report abuse)This bill NEEDS to pasted.... many people are incarcerated under false accusations!! It's time to do away with the Manditory sentencing.
Sareena
July 31, 2009, 4:50pm (report abuse)Please let this bill pass. I think its so unfair that Non-violent offenders are serving as much time as murderers. Its not fair to them or their family. Some people do it just to support their family.
Sareena
July 31, 2009, 4:58pm (report abuse)Please let this bill pass. I think its so unfair that Non-violent offenders are serving as much time as murderers. Its not fair to them or their family. Some people do it just to support their family.
JoeyWhite
July 31, 2009, 8:35pm (report abuse)Please pass this law. My sister & I miss our father.
JordynLemos
July 31, 2009, 8:36pm (report abuse)Pass this bill please !!
alexAmaro
July 31, 2009, 8:37pm (report abuse)I would appreciate if you pass this bill. It would mean alot to my family & I
KelseaRondeau
July 31, 2009, 8:38pm (report abuse)I pray every day hoping the law will pass.
Gina48973
July 31, 2009, 8:44pm (report abuse)It is unfair that the mandatory sentence is in a affect even though some people have been innocent. This law needs to change now.
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November 3, 2009, 4:35pm (report abuse)There is nothing wrong with the law. And this protestation about innocence is plain bullcrap.
Do the crime - do the time. It should be life without parole for drug offenses.
joszeta
November 26, 2009, 2:42pm (report abuse)Congressman Barton R Texas is helping to hold this Bill up in the commerce committee. He is your typical drug warrior...full of self rightous dogma. Call his office and tell his aide where you stand on this Bill. .
Joszeta
November 26, 2009, 2:48pm (report abuse)The Zeta's will be eyeballing our southwestern border towns once they have finished decimating the Mexican Government. Ggggle Zetas...a CIA trained drug cartel made up of former special forces elements of the Mexican Government trained at the School of The Americas for fighting drug traffic on the border...Once out of school and back with their units they deserted to a man and formed the Zetas. They now own several cities along the border where even the Mexican Army won't venture. And they recruit. And we are going to have a lot of qualified candidates returning to the States from overseas adventures in Iraq and Afganistan. Our DEA and Federal Marshalls may be good at shooting mothers with babes in arms and burning out any non State approved religious groups but should they ever face a military trained company sized squad of Zetas instead of the peacefull pot smokers they imprison in this country they will pee themselves
Joszeta
November 26, 2009, 3:06pm (report abuse)If you don't believe me...http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/06/mexico.drug.cartels/index...
Joszeta
November 26, 2009, 3:09pm (report abuse)http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/06/mexico.drug.cartels/index.html