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<blockquote data-quote="Fred&amp;#039;s Myth" data-source="post: 4792975" data-attributes="member: 55587">&quot;A scientific survey of State prisoners conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice found that 62 percent of the prison population has a history of violence, and 94 percent of our State prisoners committed one or more violent crimes or served a previous sentence of incarceration. Between 1994 and 1996, over 90 percent of all State prisoners were violent offenders or recidivists.&nbsp; &nbsp; The closer one looks into the criminal conviction history of prisoners, the clearer it becomes that there are almost no petty, nonviolent, or first time felons behind bars who pose no real threat to our public safety and who simply do not deserve to be incarcerated.&quot;...&quot;During the 1960&#039;s, I saw a great change occur in our society. I saw young people become involved in the use of all types of drugs, originally the so-called soft drugs--marijuana, hashish, hallucinogenic drugs--and there became almost a cultural divide between my generation and the generation that followed.&nbsp; &nbsp; Unfortunately, I watched as leading people in many of our universities and opinion leaders started to address narcotics and the use of narcotics as if it was a rite of passage, and in many ways that it was something that was a civil right, that people could do what they wanted with their own bodies. The availability of drugs in so many segments of our society over the last 30 years has created profound damage, I believe, not only to individuals, families, neighborhoods, but entire cities and sometimes our entire society.&quot;[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg64343/html/CHRG-106hhrg64343.htm[/URL]You are a proponent of the end of civilized society. May you be the first to experience the effects.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fred's Myth, post: 4792975, member: 55587"] "A scientific survey of State prisoners conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice found that 62 percent of the prison population has a history of violence, and 94 percent of our State prisoners committed one or more violent crimes or served a previous sentence of incarceration. Between 1994 and 1996, over 90 percent of all State prisoners were violent offenders or recidivists. The closer one looks into the criminal conviction history of prisoners, the clearer it becomes that there are almost no petty, nonviolent, or first time felons behind bars who pose no real threat to our public safety and who simply do not deserve to be incarcerated." ... "During the 1960's, I saw a great change occur in our society. I saw young people become involved in the use of all types of drugs, originally the so-called soft drugs--marijuana, hashish, hallucinogenic drugs--and there became almost a cultural divide between my generation and the generation that followed. Unfortunately, I watched as leading people in many of our universities and opinion leaders started to address narcotics and the use of narcotics as if it was a rite of passage, and in many ways that it was something that was a civil right, that people could do what they wanted with their own bodies. The availability of drugs in so many segments of our society over the last 30 years has created profound damage, I believe, not only to individuals, families, neighborhoods, but entire cities and sometimes our entire society." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg64343/html/CHRG-106hhrg64343.htm[/URL] [B]You are a proponent of the end of civilized society. May you be the first to experience the effects.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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