OBAMA - TOUGH ON CRIME - NOT HARDLY

Barack Obama makes mention in his own book about his use of cocaine in his younger years. While admitting such could not be easy it clearly illustrates his belief society owes the criminal element. That society has failed these people and hence society owes them. Those views where carried to his days in the Illinois Senate and now to his presidential race for the White House.

TREATMENT OF JUVENILES

Obama believes that transferring any juveniles to adult court is wrong, regardless to the crime they committed. He believes transferring them is unwarranted because it has not shown any reduction in juvenile crime levels.

Under our laws juveniles sentenced for crimes can be held until they turn 21, at the latest, in some states and 18 in most states. They are free to walk the streets again and their records are sealed. Seldom in adult court can a juvenile’s record become part of the evidence for a jury to consider in deciding guilt or sentencing.

Keep in mind in most cases juveniles are not bound over to adult court unless the crime is so outrageous it sickens most people. Crimes like rape, home invasion, murder, armed robbery, deadly beatings, assault, shootings, and the likes are generally the only charged crimes that see a juvenile transferred to adult court.

What Obama misses is when a juvenile has been transferred to adult court the system is doing so as to remove that person from the free society. It is a matter of protecting the free society!

I would like to see Mr. Obama stand before a parent of young daughter who was raped by a seventeen year old and tell them that he thinks the fellow that committed the crime will only be sent a way for a couple of years and then turned totally free. That society made him do it!

I would like to see Mr. Obama stand before a man in a wheel chair, who no longer can walk, and tell him that the person who beat him with a club that the juvenile will be walking the streets in a year or so. That the man was part of society that made him do it!

I would like to see Mr. Obama walk into a funeral home and tell a family that the person who murdered their father that would be free to walk the streets in a year or two. That the man brought the death on himself because society made him do it!


GANGS ARE OK WITH OBAMA

Most people like the idea of a politician who votes for individual rights, but the fact that Obama could do so and still maintain the respect of law enforcement shows his political skills. Obama voted against a proposal to criminalize contact with a gang for any convicts on probation or out on bail. In 2001, Obama opposed making gang activity eligible for the death penalty. "There's a strong overlap between gang affiliation and young men of color.... I think it's problematic for them to be singled out as more likely to receive the death penalty for carrying out certain acts than are others who do the same thing." In 1999, Obama opposed mandatory adult prosecution for youth who discharge a firearm near a school, declaring, "There is really no proof or indication that automatic transfers and increased penalties and adult penalties for juvenile offenses have, in fact, proven to be more effective in reducing juvenile crime or cutting back on recidivism."
Source: The Improbable Quest, by John K. Wilson, p.146 Oct 30, 2007


OBAMA WANTS FREE COLLAGE EDUCATION FOR CONVICTS

While people who have remained outside the criminal justices system often have to take out student loans to pay for collage Obama believes convicts should get a free ride to the same education. He has made no bones about his belief in this concept since he was an Illinois State Senator in 1998! That society messed up and made the convict undertake his crimes.

His belief, because there is no evidence to support his position, is in giving a free collage education to former convicts will reduce the odds on them returning to a life of crime.

However, he still believes those of any means must struggle with maybe two jobs and loans to obtain a collage degree.

Obama continues to support his failed Illinois idea in his run for the White House. It is outlined in his own “Blueprint For Change!”

Do not believe me, do your own research on the Internet. It is there and only takes a little research to find such.