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RainDog

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3. The U.S. has more political prisoners than China
Fri Aug 9, 2013, 12:12 AM
Aug 2013

of course, maybe they just execute more people, but per capita, we have a larger prison population than China.

Most of those arrests were for drug law violations.

The law regarding cannabis and other psychotropics enacted by Congress and overseen by the DEA are political, not scientific, in nature and are the result of Nixon's desire to punish his political enemies.

Therefore, those imprisoned for those substances are political, not criminal prisoners, since the law that made such things criminal was entirely political in nature.

Nice job, conservatives!

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