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- 9121: Is the US Policy on Drug Prohibition Effective?
- ... the issue is, at least, scary. If the fact that enforcement breeds poor international relations, undue cost on public health, crime, and racism is bad, the fact that the government is infringing our rights every day because of Drug Prohibition is atrocious and threatens our freedom. Drug users are not the only ones crying out for their rights in this war. Even Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall called many polices "the ...
- 9122: The Push For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inner-city problem, but in reality they affect all of us - users and non-users. The current drug policy of our government is obviously failing. After ...
- 9123: Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson
- ... of 4 8 Cuban and Cuban-American prisoners in 1987. He was the first to bring hostages out of Kuwait and Iraq in 1990. In 1990, Jackson was elected the U.S. Senator of Washington, D.C., a position also known as "Statehood Shadow Senator" since the District of Columbia has no voting representatives in Congress. From humble beginnings came Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, somebody known by the nation and the ...
- 9124: The Issue Of Gun Control
- ... a very swift and deadly manner. Granted, the musket could kill, but if you asked any semi-sensible person if they would rather use a musket or a handgun, they would take a handgun any day of the week. This is why, in my opinion, we need to radically change the way we go about handling these problems. With the rising crime rate, the best way to send this trend in ...
- 9125: Internet Censorship Laws
- ... the information from getting to us? I myself was the victim of such censorship. Some time ago I used to have an online journal on the security issues. I had a lot of visitors every day, and a lot of people were getting valuable information. Many of those people downloaded and installed updates to the software products they used, and protected themselves from losing valuable information. Who was it hurting? Apparently ...
- 9126: Treatment of Drug Offenders is Dysfunctional
- ... become a much harder drug user. And it does happen! One must live in fear and always watch their back. Homosexuality is very predominant in the prison population. The prisoner is faced with this every day. While incarcerated your life is put on a temporary hold, while the rest of the society sources ahead. Along with prison life comes family turmoil. Many families have fallen apart because of drug convictions. Over ...
- 9127: Speeding Tickets As A Form Of Discipline
- ... A ticket can be outrageously expensive depending on how fast you were speeding. Some states charge ten to twenty dollars per mile an hour over the speed limit. The somber-faced officer assigns you a day to appear in court, if you choose to fight the ticket rather than pay the fine. Waiting in the gloom of the sun-vanquished courtroom to see the judge can be very close to a ...
- 9128: Crime - A Game You Cant Win
- ... have been based on the belief that harsh sentencing laws will deter people from committing crimes. In 1997, armed criminals in Florida committed more than 34,000 crimes, victimizing in excess of 93 people a day. These victims receive a life sentence of pain, fear, and often death. The perpetrators who impose these sentences must be punished and removed from society to protect innocent people. Florida incarcerated a total of 66 ...
- 9129: Gun Control and Why People Think It Is Unfair
- ... in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition gun control has been seen as necessary because of the violence by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of social ...
- 9130: The Death Penalty
- ... were made 3,214 executions. Twelve of them were made by US Government, and nine by US Military. From 50 states in United States just 12 of them do not have death penalty at all. D.C also do not have it but this is not a state. Many people think especially black that there is more executions on black people than on white people. But the truth is that in ...
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