Politicians trying to ‘attract’ the young vote, rarely allow ‘facts to get in the way of a good story’. Obama is indeed becoming a master purveyor of blatant inaccuracies couched in progressive rhetoric to just such an end!
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in His charge of high incarceration rates for non-violent offenders is not factual. For instance, data show that only a fraction of one percent of state prison inmates are low-level marijuana possession offenders, while arrests for marijuana and cocaine/heroin possession and use were no more than 7 percent of all arrests, nationwide, in 2013.
Though critics of drug laws claim that hundreds or even thousands of prisoners are low-level non-violent offenders unjustly sentenced, the reality was shown recently by the President’s inability to find more than a handful of incarcerated drug offenders who would be eligible for commutation of their sentence because they fit the mythological portrait of excessive or unjust drug sentences…

Obama’s Jamaican Fantasy  APR 11, 2015 – BY DAVID W. MURRAY AND JOHN P. WALTERS

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