Eight Down, Thousands More to Go
December 23, 2013
President Obama has commuted the outrageously long drug sentences of eight men and women. That is a good start, but there are thousands more in prison for victimless drug crimes that should be released as well. As I have pointed out many times, the war on drugs is a war on freedom. But even with these commutations, Obama’s clemency record is pathetic compared to the other presidents.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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