“Progressive Dennis Kucinich takes over a new House subcommittee, signaling changes in national drug policy”
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“Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the Democratic leadership have effectively embargoed major crime or drug policy legislation for the next two years, to avoid looking soft on crime in the 2008 election.”
A Change in the Weather
The Los Angeles City Beat
02-01-07“Frankly, I fail to see how it protects children to make them run the gauntlet of their formative years between addict peer dealers, gangsters and social predators on one side. On the other; police, prison and mandatory minimums of anal rape tough love if the children don’t ‘just say no’. The fact is kids are not physically capable of making that decision. According to the director of the National Institutes on Drug Abuse Dr. Nora Volkow, “When teenagers fail to just say no to drugs, Dr. Nora Volkow blames their brains, not their willpower — they lack links between some crucial brain regions that won’t fully form until they’re adults.” Nancy Pelosi’s phony ‘for the children’ politics
“Like deer in the headlights most Democrats seeking the White House in 2008 are deathly afraid of questioning the status quo of America’s failed drug war policy. But it is that very policy that is fostering more crime, violence, addiction and corruption in American society.
“Over seventy percent of all crime is drug-related.” House Government Reform Committee, Chairman Dan Burton, R-IN, December 12, 2002″
Why Democrats & Speaker Pelosi are soft-on-crime
