Apply Fair Sentencing Act Retroactively

New attorneys are being hired for Obama's "pardon push" -- Instead of pardons, please apply the Fair Sentencing Act retroactively like the United Nations​ recommends. For the U.S. to acknowledge that Blacks were sentenced 100:1 under racist sentencing laws but REFUSE to reverse harsh sentencing retroactively has left tens of thousands of young men and women languishing in America's #prisons for the "sin" of being black people. Pardons selectively release inmates as administrators see fit, whereas applying the Fair Sentencing Act indiscriminately would release prisoners who have served their time and some who have already been incarcerated substantially longer than they should have been. The "Daily News" reports:

"The Justice Department will drastically increase the number of attorneys it has on staff to deal with what is expected to be a massive push by President Obama to grant clemency to federal prisoners before the end of his term. The Office of the Pardon Attorney, which handles the federal government’s clemency cases, posted a job listing for 16 attorney advisors on the Justice Department’s website on Tuesday." http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/06/justice-department-plans-attorney-hiring-spree-to-keep-pace-with-obamas-pardon-push/

The term "pardon" implies an exception; a gift. It should not be exceptional for people to live free of racism imposed by their governments. It was wrong of Eric Holder to appeal the federal judge's decision to make the Fair Sentencing Act retroactive. Please correct that.

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Historic Clemency Drive a Dud

The Justice Department's promises about clemency reached a snag. This seems to be another case of, "Give us credit; we tried to do the right thing." And the crowds cheer in their mass hypnosis. Al Jareeza reports "Ambitious effort to extend presidential clemency to thousands of inmates is at risk of stalling because of a legal snag." "I tried" and a dollar won't buy a bag of chips. Never has any presidential administration "tried" to do so much for Americans, particularly blacks, and actually accomplished so little. It is incredible. See an excerpt below.

Federal defenders potentially excluded from historic clemency drive

Six months after the Justice Department called on defense lawyers to help it identify and vet candidates for its clemency drive, there is concern that the federal defenders — whom the DOJ invited in as key partners — might never have been authorized to participate in the first place. This could leave the initiative without the manpower it needs.

A high portion of the potential pool of inmates is represented by the federal defenders, and they have been critical in the formation and operation of Clemency Project 2014, a coalition of defense lawyers and advocates created in the wake of the DOJ’s call. (The vast majority of those prosecuted in federal courts receive court-appointed lawyers; in districts where there is a federal defenders’ office, they generally handle 60 percent of those cases.)

"Federal defenders include some of the best courtroom and appellate advocates in the United States. Having them work with the Clemency Project 2014 has been important to the work we are doing,” said Mark Osler, director of the Federal Commutations Clinic at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, who has been training lawyers for the Clemency Project. “Losing them as a part of the coalition would be a significant challenge.” Read the entire article:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/25/federal-defenderspotentiallyexcludedfromhistoricclemencydrive.html

"I Tried"
http://youtu.be/q4EiBFUpFXg

Repeat of paragraph 1: The Justice Department's promises about clemency reached a snag. This seems to be another case of, "Give us credit; we tried to do the right thing." And the crowds cheer in their mass hypnosis. Al Jareeza reports "Ambitious effort to extend presidential clemency to thousands of inmates is at risk of stalling because of a legal snag." "I tried" and a dollar won't buy a bag of chips. Never has any presidential administration "tried" to do so much for Americans, particularly blacks, and actually accomplished so little. It is incredible.

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The Truth About Clemency

The video embedded below was surreptitiously removed from my "Legal Victories" group at Facebook. It was also substituted in my "Legal Victories" blog with a video of Eric Holder discussing the Voting Rights Act. When Holder made the announcement at the April 21 speech (YouTube link http://youtu.be/GRy2bsUMuoE ) about clemency being considered for possibly thousands of inmates, threats to recall and prosecute the attorney general increased significantly.

"Attorney General on Expanding Clemency Criteria for Drug Offenders in Federal Prison"



See the redirected link in the last paragraph of "Legal Victories Expected re Clemency" at http://legalvictories.blogspot.com/2014/04/legal-victories-expected-re-clemency.html . Holder recently stated that 23 months would be cut from qualified inmates' sentences. That seems to be a Change from the expectations raised regarding clemency by Attorney General Holder in this video, and perhaps that explains why the video of his April 21 speech was removed from Facebook where I placed it and the link to this speech was redirected in my "Legal Victories" article to a speech about Voting Rights. Cyberstalking Mary Neal happens often. I am "America's Most Censored - Mary Neal" (Google it).

Thousands of America's inmates were sentenced under the 100:1 crack to powered cocaine law that the government later declared to be unjust and racist. The disparity was REDUCED but not eliminated under the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act. The present disparity is 18:1. Last year, President Obama granted clemency to eight victims who were unjustly given long sentences including life in prison for crack cocaine offenses under the old law, which was never applied retroactively to inmates who were sentenced before 2010. To cut only 23 months off the sentences of such individuals seems minuscule.

The United Nations made a recommendation in March 2014 that the Fair Sentencing Act should be applied retroactively to inmates who were sentenced under the unjust 100:1 law, which was admitted to have been racist. The federal mandatory sentencing law keeps thousands of individuals contained at great expense to taxpayers - people who would otherwise already be free if not for the racism in America's injustice system.

Referring to the United Nation's assessment of human rights in the United States that was issued in March, Al Jazeera reported, “[The] committee continues to be concerned about racial disparities at different stages in the criminal justice system, sentencing disparities and the over-representation of individuals belonging to racial and ethnic minorities in prisons and jails.”

"The U.N. body calls on the U.S. to retroactively implement the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act and close a loophole that allows thousands of nonviolent offenders to languish in federal prisons as a result of draconian drug laws."

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Pushing Black Youths to the Drug Culture

"Move That Dope" is a rap song that presently has roughly 10,700,000 views at Youtube. Listening to such music negatively influences youths by glamorizing drug pushers and fast money, particularly in African American communities. See the opening lyrics below:

Real dope dealers for real!
Haha! Hahaha

Young nigga move that dope
Young nigga move that dope
Aye move that dope, aye move that dope
Young nigga move that dope
Young nigga, y'all nigga move that dope
Young nigga move that dope
Aye move that dope, Aye move that dope
Young nigga move that dope

"Move That Dope" was sung by Casino, Pharrell Williams and Pusha T. It was produced by Mike WiLL Made It. The video on Youtube opens with a police chase. Drug dealers fleeing to escape prosecution have zero chances of escaping and add years to their prison sentences. The song speaks to young people about owning a Maserati and being their on bosses by chopping up drugs "straight off the boat" and "moving that dope." Actually living that lifestyle leads to long prison sentences and decades of slavery, if not death during arrests or while incarcerated.

Felony drug charges and convictions prevent hundreds of thousands of people from voting, obtaining government subsistence assistance, grants and scholarships for college educations or trade schools, and create a barrier to employment even as minimum wage earners. Many "young niggas" who are ensnared in the very criminal justice system have never graduated from high school or held a job, in part because they spent much of their teen years behind bars. Juvenile detention is their "preparatory course" for serving hard time in federal prisons later, but not much later. Although it can be done, few drug pushers escape becoming drug users and eventually addicts, depending on the drugs being handled. Drug addiction shatters people's lives and can destroy one's physical and mental health. It also destroys families and communities. 

Young people have an unfortunate tendency to choose their heroes from among those who are accomplished singers, dancers and actors. It is not unusual for youths to imitate what they perceive to be their heroes' lifestyles to the degree that they are able. Impressionable children also copy their heroes' mode of dress and mannerisms. Despite their inclination to deny it, starstruck children want to look and act like people they admire in movies and on music videos, even if the images are frequently inaccurate portrayals of the stars' real lives.

Pharrell Williams, 41, is a singer and fashion designer from Virginia Beach. He is the oldest of three sons of Pharaoh Williams, a handyman, and Carolyn, a teacher. He is an accomplished man from a middle class background who looks years younger than his actual age. He and other rappers who glorify drug dealing, promiscuity, and daring escapes from the police contribute to drug addiction, mass incarceration, and early deaths of impressionable black youths. After listening to such lyrics repeatedly, young men dream of owning Maserati cars, wearing heavy gold chains, and attracting many pretty "hoes" to twerp for them. They seek to become successful entrepreneurs who risk their freedom and lives to "move that dope."

Pharrell's most successful recording is "Happy." In November, the DC ONE.org office was seriously obsessed with an interactive video for “Happy,” the first 24-hour music video ever made. This prisoner activist believes that no matter how catchy the lyrics and beat are to the song "Happy," Ferrell Williams and other such rappers forfeited the right to be honored by invitations to the White House, as such an honor can only advance their hero status in the minds of impressionable children and young adults.

Some people deny that children are negatively influenced by seeing and hearing people they admire selling drugs and fleeing to avoid arrest on videos, living elaborate, promiscuous lifestyles, and yet being honored by the highest levels of government. However, businesses spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually to advertise their products, goods and services precisely because advertising really does work. Whether or not it is intentional, songs like "Move That Dope" attract prison commodities, which the prison industrial complex uses to extract more than $80 billion per year from taxpayers for warehousing 2.3 million American inmates. Prison profiteers are further enriched when inmates are used as inexpensive or free laborers to work jobs that were removed from the public workforce because using prison slavery is substantially cheaper. Inmates may work for many years behind bars doing jobs that their felony convictions prevent their eligibility for upon gaining prison release.

White youths listen to the same music and are also negatively influenced by it, but there are safeguards in place to protect them from enduring criminal prosecution and lengthy prison sentences. Even though Caucasians use and sell drugs to the same or a greater degree than blacks, several U.S. Drug Enforcement Agents revealed that they were told not to enforce drug laws in white communities. Racist laws were also passed that favor whites by targeting drugs blacks prefer for seriously longer sentences, including the old cocaine sentencing law (100 to 1) as well as sentences under the so-called Fair Sentencing Act (18 to 1). Furthermore, police, prosecutors and judges tend not to arrest or fully prosecute and sentence white youths to the same degree as young black people. Unlucky whites who are sentenced to prison despite the safeguards are less likely to be denied jobs and relegated to lifelong poverty after prison release because of family members and friends who are in a position to hire them, even without a drug test or background check. In fact, a recent study showed that white felons are more likely to be gainfully employed than black people are who have no criminal backgrounds.

Considering all of these factors, this prisoner rights advocate objects to songs like "Move That Dope" and the celebrities who push unwholesome lifestyles onto African American youths with particularity. We object to such persons entertaining or being entertained at any government-sponsored events, even if they do also produce acceptable songs like "Happy" that have wide appeal. Such celebrity is potentially ruinous to scores of young, black observers. We hereby request an immediate cessation of public invitations to entertainers whose music advances lawlessness among black children and young adults, especially recordings that advise "young niggas" to "move that dope." See information and videos at the eight(8) links immediately below:

1.  The DC ONE.org office was seriously obsessed with video for “Happy,”
http://www.one.org/us/shareworthy/dc-one-staffers-dance-to-happy-by-pharrell-williams/

2.  All the lyrics to "Move That Dope" are available at this webpage:
http://rapgenius.com/Future-move-that-dope-lyrics

3.  A Youtube video for "Move That Dope" is at this link:
http://youtu.be/wHguy4xHGSg

4.  DEA agent told not to enforce drug laws in "white" areas, really
http://youtu.be/72Lf9ZQK8t0

5.  Is Hip Hop Destroying Black America?
http://raprehab.com/is-hip-hop-destroying-black-america/

6.  Study: Whites More Likely to Abuse Drugs Than Blacks
http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/study-whites-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-than-blacks/

7.  Employers Prefer White Felons Over Blacks With No Criminal Record
http://rollingout.com/politics/employers-prefer-white-felons-over-blacks-with-no-criminal-record-so-how-will-blacks-feed-their-families/

8.  Teen Dead After Alabama Police Cut His Throat to Remove Drugs (none found) 
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2014/04/city_of_huntsville_denies_wron.html

First paragraphs repeated: "Move That Dope" is a rap song that presently has roughly 10,700,000 views at Youtube. Listening to such music negatively influences youths by glamorizing drug pushers and fast money, particularly in African American communities. See the opening lyrics below:
Real dope dealers for real!
Haha! Hahaha
Young nigga move that dope
Young nigga move that dope
Aye move that dope, aye move that dope
Young nigga move that dope
Young nigga, y'all nigga move that dope
Young nigga move that dope
Aye move that dope, Aye move that dope
Young nigga move that dope

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Angola Prison, 21st Century Slavery
My Facebook friends had interesting comments and differing viewpoints
about this photograph of prison slaves at
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2972705133320&set=a.1582554220416.46459.1732555634&type=1&theater&notif_t=photo_comment