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A Card Carrying Civil Liberterian

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"And Mrs. Clinton opposed a moderate proposal by the United States Sentencing Commission that would have retroactively reduced the draconian penalties for possession of crack cocaine ? a proposal supported by Mr. Obama, and by liberal as well as conservative judges. The real concern about Hillary Clinton?s record on civil liberties is that her administration would look like that of her husband. Bill Clinton?s presidency had many virtues, but a devotion to civil liberties was not one of them. After the Oklahoma City bombing, the Clinton administration proposed many of the expansions of police power that would end up in the Patriot Act. (They were opposed at the time by the same coalition of civil-libertarian liberals and libertarian conservatives that Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 02, 2008 (boomark / email).