Sides and he was heavily criticized but i think he was absolutely right the last they cry foul when there is any source or negative techniques used against them but when they use the same techniques and actually go further and employ firelands to meditation and harassment on a mass scale a lot of cases using social media. That they believe that there is just if you call everyone a nazi then no one is a nazi or no one is or isnt is a genuinely negative force that she makes it more likely thought forces like fascists to rise and challenge the left isnt forcing a new order and by the new rules the gloves are off when dealing with dissidents. Well thats your global news update for this hour but i forgot you can always had to our web site for the details on all of those stories and plenty more now if youre lucky enough to be in chile or argentina you can enjoy the total Solar Eclipse of the 1st since 2017 today plunging parts of that continent into darkness if youre not in latin america not to where you can watch it live on our website r. T. Dot com. I was in los angeles it was march of 1009. 100 a great bargain ready. I understand she area is not going to pay somebody and i could prove. She had me but just to savor all the scam thats not my daughter so she wouldnt do this. And as a result they were under. Ready i could not plead guilty to everything that they accused me of. Not guilty and that alternately i was convicted for conspiracy and i received 24 year sentence theres a way in which you have to see the conspiracy law as a very important tool of Law Enforcement if the crime is selling drugs and some man in miami sells 20 kilos of cocaine to an undercover agent you want to ask who is the seller working where does the money go if the money goes back to a drug lord in colombia. Whos going to keep the proceeds hes in the conspiracy even though he actually wasnt there when this sale took place hes a conspirator and so part of the goal of the conspiracy law is to make sure that the most senior level all of those in the criminal organization are justly punished the problem is when you flip it around and the lowest level people in the criminal Organization Get punished just like they are the key. And thats the big problem in the way in which the conspiracy laws are being applied. I know end up in federal prison in dublin california i realized that i would need to spend a lot of time in the law library and i needed to film from a wise man sound my case and everything that had gone wrong if you furthered the conspiracy one step youre guilty for everything in the conspiracy no matter when you entered the conspiracy it could have been on the last day. Because i had collected some money on i technically was guilty of conspiracy was held responsible for everything that everybody else had done and my sentence my 24 years was established based on the sum total of all the acts the thing that sandy had manufactured thats where my ears came from my ears didnt. Things that came from 3700000 tablets of x. The thing that he had manufactured puts me on the chart at this lab just 24 years thats how a judge sentences you based on a chart the way the sentencing laws apply to conspiracy. Being subject to being punished for all the conduct that everybody in the conspiracy has been involved in. So the idea of proportion. Punishment can be lost if this triggers a mandatory sentence to add insult to injury while im incarcerated for 24 years he comes back to the us and goes before the same judge this sentence me to 24 years and he got 3 years probation because he cooperated and snatched out everybody. The person who comes in early and cooperates usually ends up with a lower sentence than the person in the conspiracy who walks up 2 days before the trial and tenders a plea that sentence will be different even though they may be situated the same its just plain different and those are the yangs and the sayings of the sentencing process that the court has not a whole lot of control over and the u. S. Attorneys and the prosecuting attorneys have control over but it does result in a different sentence when youre facing Something Like 20 or 30 years. You have people that are are doing things they never thought they would do which is turn in their friends testify against friends sometimes they will even make up false information to testify falsely against people just in order to get themselves out from under the terrible legal situation they are in the pressure to provide information is huge and coercive and unamerican. But thats the way mandatory minimums are set up. My mother calls man she said well i need to tell you something. And im thinking the worst just while i may is featured in my magazine shes been in prison for a number of years and why that was such a catalyst. Sadly we had something tangible to hand to people the Community Found out and my brother got involved and of course my father and senator bob byrd. And senator pryor and everyone started actually looking into the case and saying well what could have possibly happened here this just doesnt seem right my story in case started gaining momentum and we got i think up to 15 politicians wrote letters supporting my clemency when i read it i was i was sympathetic. Because i thought. Her husband was the primary driver of the if she was clearly had a subordinate role in these. And she was caught up in the way of these conspiracies. That are extremely broad ranging and you dont have to do very much to be to get yourself stuck in a case like i went to my case Managers Office and walked in the door and she said she was in a frenzy and she said you know where are you going to release to and i was like what do you mean and she said were going to live when you get out of prison and i said well i guess what my parents for a while and she said because ive got to set you up on probation and i said why and she said youre going home. And. I couldnt process that i was just right. And. My reaction was. I think i was sitting down so i stood up and i said theyre going to start and i sat down and i said what do you mean and she said you got an executive clemency president clinton has ordered you out and you have to be out today by 5 oclock the president had granted her petition and she was home that afternoon and evening they let her out that day it was really great because we always got bad news in there nobody ever got. It was really nice to have all the women walk me across the compound. There with that. In the compound of victory. It was really hard to because you have to leave you have to leave so many people behind. We can confidently say that we are finally beginning to win the war against crime now is the time to show drug users that we mean to reach our goal of a drug Free Generation in the United States you will be put away and put away for good 3 strikes and you are thank you connery mission of the drug war as stated by the Nixon Administration is to create a Drug Free Society. Thats what its all about thats why we spend billions of dollars and incarcerate millions of people is to create a Drug Free Society. And weve been at this now for good no hard for 40 years trillions of dollars into it no wind in sight really and when a reasonable person says how much closer are we to creating a Drug Free Society you begin to realize that perhaps weve been given a mission here that is impossible to achieve we saw Violent Crimes go through the roof as these. Criminal gangster organizations fought one another so were seeing that type of phenomenon today in our major metropolitan areas like los angeles the crips against the bloods and of course there are endless filings that were seeing in mexico and in places like south america as these very rich powerful cartels fight one another it lines up perfectly with alcohol prohibition when you look at oklahoma prevision the richest man in the country was ok he controlled if you tried to get in his market he would kill you there were also kinds of sub factions they trying to to manufacture it in their bathrooms and still it was once in a teary he didnt know what it was cut with sometimes that in a freeze people would drink this group of people who drink and get cirrhosis kids would die in the crossfire it sounds all too familiar to this exactly was happening on the streets today in the United States when it comes to getting violence in the drug one of the problems that we have a drug prohibition is so different of a business you make so much money in such little time and the difference between arresting someone for dealing drugs and arresting someone for committing rapes. When you arrest the rain for someone meeting burglaries you know what the rapes stop. The burglary stop when you arrest someone for dealing drugs dealing drugs doesnt stop on that corner you just create a job opportunity for someone else to come in and unfortunately when a job is filled viciously so fighting sioux name and even. The emphasis over criminal Justice System should be on violent offenses this is where most people are concerned about. They won murderers and branded they want murders and rapes solved and they want these people taken out of the community and locked away in prison so that our communities can be safe i dont know what the come out just as well to be like without the war on drugs. My only experience of it has been during the war on drugs. And i started family in 1991 war on drugs really heated up in the eightys kept rolling through the ninetys you know it sort of started tapering off and then to thousands but its still alive and well its like a pounding thunder of antidrug is styria in 1906 we must do something anything and that meant grasping at straws and not looking ahead at what the costs are going to be what might be effective while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake it was. Counterproductive and i wanted to put my energy into ending it and so in january 1989 i started the criminal Justice Policy foundation. And that is been the opportunity for me for the last 25 years to. Mobilize different kinds of strategies to end drug prohibition a lot of it has been through other organizations i helped start families against mandatory minimums in my office im still very active with students for sensible drug policy. And with Law Enforcement against prohibition. And so a lot of my work is advocacy. Strategizing you know what are the ways to change drug policy to reform from the Justice System. There are. Countless numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivably long sentences for being minor minor offenders in the drug trade these are just a handful of you know files from families against mandatory minimums. Where these people you know james life sentence. Fidel clark 35 years Timothy Tyler life sentence. Sure on the jones life sentence. This is not an aberration this is the life blood this is the typical case this is the typical Clarence Aaron whose numerous cases i mean these are all excessively long cases these are you know you see colombian drug lords here you see mexico guzman you see in the mexican drug lords here no. One else seemed wrong but. Just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out. Because etiquette and engagement equals betrayal. When something find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. I was so glad to to start to work my way out of the prison alm so going the Clinton House was a Halfway House you were half way all but you were still open. So i got the clint house already already has some experience or move out of a back row. I call my old boss so he was in a Halfway House at the time and i think someone i dont know what company happy am doing roofing and his mother came to me and next we would out by him appear shoes that he needed to do his roof and and he just bought some he just blossomed from there i was so happy to be at work and be to be have the ability to work again that i never missed a day i was always there i was always there hour early before anybody else get there. So unless i was home going i was hungry to work i was hungry to be free. And have the ability to change my life around so all those stains. Made me a good employee in the minutes when he dismayed is minus infinity and he is going to go in for you know go into business for self. Out all starting i just really felt that i had what it took to be entrepreneur and to be successful. So i quit my job and i was fully fledged into business then i had to leave i froze year business i made about 30 some 1000. 00 or more for a c. E. O. I remember a vest im back into the business im buying tools and wire ladders some go in the business or take my 2nd year i read about he somehow. 3rd year i did about 100 or so 1000 homes told he was surely progressing so now im up to half a 1000000. Next to normal to say i want to know about. The nearly 2999. 00 early 2000 my family were told of the 1000000. 00 more. That while were at home i never thought that i would hold a 1000000. 00 business. A person has to have a dream. You know they have to want to do better for themselves you can bring a person out of prison. And they can have nothing and they can make something of themselves if thats what they want. When you lived a certain way for so long in as far as he. Became a mom way. Dad needs to be put out here. Because a lot of people dont know how to break to change from Mission Creep thing thats saying get ahold to you a single hold you want to you. To be on the ball of war. For me is to be that beacon of hope oh no matter where you come from no matter what youve done you can come because the same bull i sold drugs on. Directly across the street for my office is used to set a bar called the night light. Soldier i was out of that war for a number of years inside and out so they have my bills almost became before and then to show people that yes i was that once drove deliberate up and down a street and sold drugs and did all that stuff there im now a changed person and im now on somebody that they could expire to also. Exact have come and say was a better sweet victory to be honest right there because it didnt take me very long. After i got out and the excitement the exhilaration wore off that i realized at that time i may be free. So many of my friends and other people arent and. As long as. Or not then im not really so i started the can do foundation which is clemency for all nonviolent drug offenders to try to continue to help some of the women i left behind i did time with Danielle BarbaraMary Richardson and theyve all done well over 20 years these are all guys who are serving life these are for pot hes for l. S. D. I have just got back from washington d. C. I was there for a fundraiser about the whole clemency project thats happening and in fact i took. All these guys to the front in front of the white house and anyway theres several of them that i stood out in front of the white house advocating for their clemency when i started practicing law almost 40 years ago there were about a half a 1000000 people in prison. And today there are 2300000. 00 people in prison billions of dollars have been poured into the prison expansion not only of the federal prison capacity but billions have been sent to sate local governments to expand their present capacity and during the 1990 s. We were building on average a prison a week and as soon as these prisons were built its important to emphasize that they were immediately filled up with 1st ners and even today many of our prison facilities are operating beyond their design capacity if you compare in the u. S. With other industrialized nations canada or western europe we lock up our citizens at 5. 00 to 10. 00 times the rate of those other nations its not that we have 5 or 10 times the rate of crime of those other nations but we have consciously chosen to have a much more unity to broach to crime then other comparable nations that have the notice was only seen as a cursory. Seems to me though i. Got a job. And. A lot of. Parents. As either a child. 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In october that year i decided smokes weed and i thought the worst Case Scenario if i go to the Probation Office i have to go to a program where id be urine test regularly or go to a mean well the reality the fact is dirty urine is a violation and Probation Officer i have was new and she was a stickler for the law and she violated me their own spot i wept like a little child i couldnt believe i had made all this work on my i have all this to show you look at all this i have ive done it shes that youve done a lot but youre still using drugs and its against the law. To get sentenced to 4 years for dirty youre in the houses. Its a lot watching your children grow up in issue in wave and say bye daddy as youre walking out of a visit its just it doesnt get easier you dont stand and as you get older you think you become more custom than this but never under any circumstances gets easier. For. C. N. N. 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Because of the fact that so many of us have lived for 30 years in this box of mandatory sounds and federal sentencing guidelines and you know the drug war we have to start breaking out of that box and thinking about a world away that out the outside of those confines if youre interested in reducing the injustice and do see mass incarceration you have to go to the root of the problem which is too many laws on the books and what is the primary problem there as far as prioritizing which was ought to go 1st top of my list is the drug laws because i think were in another situation where its very similar to the days of alcohol prohibition where the government has just declared millions and millions of people to be criminals and thats what theyve done with the stroke laws theyre danger of looking at one outrageous. After another can. Blind you to the broader perspective that there are so many excuses. The typical this is the system it is flawed the unjust and that it is so wasteful its so counterproductive its so inefficient wanted us to be why does it continue. Why are we going to a more modern. More efficient policy thats been going on since man if 6 months want to know so many low level was meant to be his major. That is a very deeply disturbing indictment the ability to waste so much treasure. And inflict so much more. And cause so much injustice in a society where our radios are about liberty and justice for all. To. I. Think youre going to sleep the wrong way. To me this is all i. Have to meet putin office condolences to the families of the 14 sailors killed in a submersible which caught fire in russias northwest the president ordered his defense minister to travel to the area and investigate. After 3 days of disagreement and debate the e. U. Summit finally agrees candidates for the blocks top jobs a woman is nominated for the 1st time to have the european commission. 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