Re: Supreme Court releases 46,000 California Inmates due to overcrowding

How about pardoning all the non-criminals (such as non-violent, drug
war victims) and ENDING the inane drug war?
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they are criminals and should repay their debt to society

drug war victims? Are you implying they didn't know what they were
doing was wrong?

On May 24, 8:24 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> How about pardoning all the non-criminals (such as non-violent, drug war victims) and ENDING the inane drug war?
> Regard$,
> --MJ
> Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.
> Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.
> Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
> In vices, the very essence of crime  that is, the design to injure the person or property of another  is wanting. It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another....
> Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property.... For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood truth. -- Lysander Spooner, Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication Of Moral LibertyAt 09:14 AM 5/24/2011, you wrote:put the prisoners to work building new prisons
> every surrounding state should prevent their entry ... they should be
> treated like illegals
> On May 23, 6:56 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Put them all on busses and ship to DC.  They would fit right in with the
> > criminals on the hill.
> >

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