person who sells drugs... a illegitimate businessman (as classed by the government) whos crime is to sell a substance that gives people an 'effect'........................(heh - tea, coffee, alcohol, Adrenalin all being perfectly acceptable) down for more time that they would rape or murder.

i think thats rather funny that you are punished less for rape/murder that you are for selling stuff.

Sale = life! , taking life = 10-20 years.

would you would have been more than happy with people who sold alcohol during Prohibition to have been given a life sentence or executed?

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dealing aside...i mean, one year in prison if you try it? i mean really!!! that just doesn't compute! you get more time for getting high (again alcohol...a-ok!) than you do for breaking into someones house and robbing them.

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I am a stone, I do not move. I take my time, I let him come closer. I have only one bullet. I aim at his eye. I do not tremble, I have no fear.

It makes absolutely no sense to me! Murder sentences are far too short in this country. What I find despicable is the sentences for the death of children. If you look at some of these sentences you get the feeling this country puts NO value at all on our young.

There’re at least a half a million inmates nationwide that work in a variety of public and private enterprises that generate over a billion dollars from using inmates for ultra-cheap, captive labor…and no those inmates aren’t those who’ve been convicted of rape or murder.

As humans, I guess it is natural to have someone to dislike! In the past ethnics were our source of disgust, along with any culture that couldn't/wouldn't make the best use ($) of the land or resources they might control. With civil rights and the PC police controlling our thought process it is slim pickens to find a socially acceptable punching bag. Still over thousands of years the peasants/poor has been and is still the #1 target for this release, but as of the last century mankind has found a new non-descript target, the druggies! Everybody hates the druggie! You realize they are responsible for all societal problems, don't you? Uh except for the ones those lazy poor people cause. Another side effect for this uncontrollable instinct to have someone to look down upon. Even the druggies in conversations as this, are repulsed by those (other) druggies? Why would he do such a thing? Must be on drugs or somethin? Was it JP5 in the other thread where it wasn't a couple lowlife scumbags that robbed her exclusive gated community, it was DRUG CRAZED, thieves that robbed the homes. The act of theft was almost a second thought to her description of what took place, when the emphasis should be on the actual crime that took place. THE THEFT!!! People from all walks of life steal, and they steal because they have found a way to expedite their cash flow. Whether it is to buy drugs or stocks it really is irrelevant, they are both thieves! Of course the government has done it's fair share of creating this monstrous image of a crazed druggie, and even created an incentive program to find, arrest, and prosecute drug offenders, or you won't get anything from the government's till. I doubt very seriously if there would be mandatory seatbelt laws in many states if not for the fact that this is a excellent tool in the war on drugs. Everyone who has tried drugs are effected differently. Do you know anyone who gets drunk on a half a beer? Or maybe someone who can drink beer and/or whiskey all night but take a shot or two of 'ta-killya', and they try to pick a fight with everyone in the room? Everybody's different when it comes to any type of stimulant, but all we hear about is the worst case scenarios. Some can't even drink coffee or candy because it effects them so differently than others. A large majority of the people who have tried cannabis do not like it because it just puts them to sleep, while others can't get moving until they have that first hit in the morning. Cocaine for some is just an expensive 15 minute buzz, while others succumb to the addictive nature of the drug we hear so much about. I like what Bill Cosby said; He asked a cocaine user why he used the drug and the individual replied that it intensified his personality. Cosby's response was: But what if your an a**hole?

Drugs are just an excuse, people (learned hatred) is the real problem!! JMHO!!

Buck S. N.

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There are only two things wrong with this great nation of ours, democrats and republicans!

Not necessarily in that order.