Editorial Opinion
Finally, Justice for
Those Convicted of Dealing
Crack Cocaine Will Equal Sentences for Powder
The racist way in which our
federal legal system has implemented a partial response in the phony
“War on Drugs” has been finally corrected by the United States
Supreme Court.
For far too long, the
ignorant and greedy black street corner drug dealers, who have been
too stupid to come in out of the rain, have been victims of federal
prosecutors building silly resumes as they advance in their legal
careers by locking up these petty hoodlums and throwing away the
key.
The same federal system that
can’t secure our nation’s borders against drug cartels and illegal
immigrants managed to find a way to incarcerate these black street
dealers for lengthy sentences while the white drug dealers served
minor amounts of time.
A case in point is the
Leonardtown seafood market owner, Mike Simmons, who was selling
powder cocaine by the kilo. This drug dealer got what? About 18
months in prison. The fact that he was dealing drugs with his
girlfriend, who flipped him in order to get out of a DWI arrest,
showed that both were culpable, but neither really paid a heavy
price while they were making big bucks off of drugs. Compare that
drug dealing to the prison sentence given Knoxie Carson, a big black
drug dealer, big in size and not so big in quantity of drugs, and
ask where is Knoxie today. Why he is still in prison of course.
The new Sheriff has gotten
off to a good start at snaring white drug dealers. More needs to
be done.
Too often some of our white
businessmen have financed the drug dealing of both races and never
touched the drugs and the cops involved in tracking narcotics
trafficking have been too damn dumb to follow the money.
Prosecutors have been worried
about making the easy cases and since so much of the legal
establishment have been recreational drug users, the winking,
blinking and nodding on this issue over the past 25 years has been
criminal, in that the complicity between the stupid government
running the “War on Drugs”, the silly criminal justice system, which
makes the system work only for those who actually work in the system
and many defense lawyers who never really represent their clients
but simply unload riches from them in return for plea bargaining;
all makes for a sad, sad tale of how this nation is going down the
toilet.
What we have needed from the
Supreme Court was what they delivered this past week. Equal Justice
Under the Law, just as is inscribed overtop of their front door.
God Bless and keep the Supreme Court for they have finally made the
law relevant for the black population of this country.
Blacks, as a group, have been
misled for a long time, after never actually getting the 40 acres
and a mule. The pomposity of the Republican Party in their baloney
of No Child Left Behind and the skullduggery of the Democratic Party
in becoming the new slavemasters by pandering, bribing and tricking
blacks in return for their votes belies the truth: that in America,
people of all creeds, colors, races and ethnicity can lift
themselves up by their own bootstraps as this is truly the land of
milk, honey and opportunity.
In spite of all the
shenanigans of schemers and dilettantes, getting an education is as
close as the free neighborhood library, if one wants it.
One of America’s premier
writers used the public library in Prince Frederick as his principal
place of research for a startling successful series of best selling
books.
That local fellow, Tom
Clancy, went from being an insurance agent with a Walter Mitty bent
to the top of his talented field.
For blacks, opportunity is
what they want to make of it. There is a chain of franchise fast
food joints in Southern Maryland and they are all owned by a black
entrepreneur. This success didn’t fall out of the sky. Hard work
went into building it. The explosion of successful Mexican
restaurants in the area, all owned by Mexicans, has come about by
ethnic networking, family commitment and hard work.
Those who sit around and
expect the government to give you a living are going to be
disappointed. Those who deal drugs should sit in prison. But the
huge disparity in sentencing for crack and powder was ridiculous and
all those in the justice system knew it.
Prison has been a handy place
to warehouse all of these black males who won’t study and won’t
work. |