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Charles Koch is a Racist who Supports the Police State...Or Not
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:15 pm
Koch on the criminal justice system
racist arse racists
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Ten years ago, he began giving money to support efforts by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to help train defense lawyers and reverse what some see as a national trend to get tough on crime, which has resulted in the tripling of the incarceration rate since the 1980s and has stripped the poor of their rights to a legal defense.
He’s going to give more to that effort, he said.
“Over the next year, we are going to be pushing the issues key to this, which need a lot of work in this country,” Koch said. “And that would be freedom of speech, cronyism and how that relates to opportunities for the disadvantaged.”
The nation’s criminal justice system needs reform, “especially for the disadvantaged,” Koch said, “making it fair and making (criminal) sentences more appropriate to the crime that has been committed.”
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Holden said legislators in recent decades drifted into a habit of adding more laws every year and taking stands to show themselves as “getting tough on crime.” It has gone too far, Holden said.
The weight has fallen most heavily on minorities, Holden said.
It has festered in neighborhoods and fostered the anger of people protesting against police actions in Missouri and New York. And, Holden said, “It definitely appears to have a racial angle, intended or not.”
racist arse racists
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:18 pm to SlowFlowPro
Doesn't fit the narrative so it is all lies. And you are racist for spreading the lies.
And I am racist for bumping the thread.
And I am racist for bumping the thread.
This post was edited on 12/29/14 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:21 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Koch on the criminal justice system
I applaud his efforts in this. But I have to ask you...do you agree with him on this topic? Does the board agree with him on this topic?
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:30 pm to SlowFlowPro
The excessive use of Koch ads may have turned folks against the dems up in the last frontier state
Posted on 12/29/14 at 12:35 pm to SlowFlowPro
The Koch brothers, my personal heroes, are libertarians. So of course they are against the police state.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:05 pm to SlowFlowPro
The Koch brothers are great Americans.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:30 pm to SlowFlowPro
They give out a large sum every year to organizations like Cato and the American Enterprise Institute and sponsor several interns in DC every semester who all support reforming the CJ system in our nation.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 2:52 pm to SlowFlowPro
People interested in this topic might enjoy reading this book. I haven't had the chance to yet, but I heard him interviewed on the radio and he had some interesting and controversial ideas.
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For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers’ poignant circumstances should lead us to mercy; others show clearly why they should die. After thousands of hours over twenty-five years inside maximum security prisons and on death rows in seven states, the history and philosophy professor exposes the perversity of justice: Inside prison, ironically, it’s nobody’s job to punish. Thus the worst criminals often live the best lives. The Death of Punishment challenges the reader to refine deeply held beliefs on life and death as punishment that flare up with every news story of a heinous crime. It argues that society must redesign life and death in prison to make the punishment more nearly fit the crime. It closes with the final irony: If we make prison the punishment it should be, we may well abolish the very death penalty justice now requires.
Posted on 12/29/14 at 3:10 pm to SlowFlowPro
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The weight has fallen most heavily on minorities, Holden said.
It has festered in neighborhoods and fostered the anger of people protesting against police actions in Missouri and New York. And, Holden said, “It definitely appears to have a racial angle, intended or not.”
According to a sizable collection of posters that is, in fact, racist.
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