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Lions_fan

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January 21, 2016

'I would like to clarify that the mandatory minimum sentencing was not invented for the Hammonds...'

Yesterday at the Harney County town hall meeting a brave woman by the name of Isabelle stood up and told the people of Harney County a harsh truth they needed to hear.

I would like to clarify that the mandatory minimum sentencing was not invented for the Hammonds a few years ago. It has been around for 20 years and it was the Republicans who put them in place. For 20 years mostly innocent minorities men have been unjustly jailed for endless sentences. For 20 years the Democrats have been trying to get rid of mandatory sentences. So tell Greg Holder to go across the aisle and talk to his Democratic peers who will help him get rid of minimum mandatory sentencing because they are unfair and they are wrong but they were not invented for the Hammonds. And the Hammonds committed a crime and they got the sentence that wasn't appropriate for that crime. And it is very sad for everybody in America who has an unfair sentence, not just the Hammonds. Not just because they are your neighbors and you know them. And we need to start realizing that the rest of the world, especially the rest of the united states, people work hard, even if they're environmentalist, even if they're Democats, even it they're liberals, even if they love their national parks, yes they're national monuments. Even they get up in the morning work hard take care of their children. Raise their children. And serve their country. So instead of invading our wildlife refuge and then daring to come here in our public school while our children are practicing their sports you should just go home and hope somebody catches you on the way and you go to jail where you deserve to be!


Her speech starts at 1:10:38

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