The Real Inequality and Injustice - Freedom is Scary Ep. 11

Freedom is Scary: The Civil Rights Lawyer

Sep 2 2020 • 44 mins

Kamala Harris is now the VP candidate. You may have heard her bring up the topic of systematic inequality, or injustice. Look no further than her achievements as a career prosecutor, and many others like her across the nation, to find evidence that those things indeed exist. They really do. As a country, America is OVER-CRIMINALIZED. Let's take a look at the prosecutors and thousands of criminal laws.   Harris was a district attorney in San Fransisco from 2004 to 2011. She served California Attorney General from 2011 to 2017, where at least 1,560 people were incarcerated for marijuana related offenses in those years.   The Constitution was initially ratified in 1788. By 1790, we had only 30 federal crimes in existence, which consisted of the basics: treason, piracy, counterfeiting, murder, and so on. At that time, there was no concept in our law of the possession of an object being illegal in and of itself. That was imported from Sharia Law and Far-East authoritarian regimes, such as you see in the laws of Singapore.   Read more at my blog at thecivilrightslawyer.com https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2020/09/02/to-find-systematic-injustice-and-inequality-look-no-further-than-the-prosecutors-and-the-criminal-laws/

You Might Like

India’s Reforms Story
India’s Reforms Story
Mint - HT Smartcast
Interpreting India
Interpreting India
Carnegie India
Legal Talks by Desikanoon
Legal Talks by Desikanoon
Suyash Verma, Saurabh Kumar
Labor History Talks
Labor History Talks
Labor History Talks
The Burnside Brief
The Burnside Brief
burnsidebrief
The FoCo 15
The FoCo 15
Forsyth County, Georgia Government
$100 Plus Mileage
$100 Plus Mileage
OneHundredPlusMileage
Soft Power Cymru
Soft Power Cymru
Wales in Canada
Not A Day For Soundbites
Not A Day For Soundbites
notadayforsoundbitespodcast
County Conversations
County Conversations
NYS Association of Counties
מלכוד 99
מלכוד 99
Lobby 99 לובי
District B-Sides
District B-Sides
districtbsides