Biden Family Values: Leniency for us, stern prohibition for the mundanes
Asked by Time magazine last February about the possibility of decriminalizing marijuana nation-wide, Vice President Joe Biden insisted that “smarter enforcement” of federal drug statutes was a better idea.
For “smarter” he apparently means “selective and self-serving.” If this weren’t the case, Biden’s pampered and dim-witted son Hunter would be facing the prospect of prison time.
In 2012, Hunter Biden decided he wanted to join the US Naval Reserve as a direct-commission public affairs officer. Because of a drug-related incident in his background, he was given a special waiver. Last year his dilettante military career was ended when he was discharged after a drug test turned up evidence of cocaine use. A few months later, perhaps as a consolation prize, Hunter was made a board member of Ukraine’s largest oil company, an appointment that doubtless had a great deal to do with the fact that the company is owned by the U.S.-installed regime in Kiev.
Biden, who does not face prosecution, told Fox News that he was “moving forward” with the support of his family. That includes his sister Ashley, who was arrested on drug charges in 1999 but never prosecuted – and is now employed as a “child welfare” bureaucrat in Delaware, where she is probably involved in stealing children from parents who occasionally use proscribed substances but aren’t part of a politically protected clan.
During his decades in the U.S. Senate, including a long stint as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Vice President Joe Biden distinguished himself as among the most militant drug warriors in Washington. He proudly recalled to Time that he is “the guy who did the crime bill and the drug czar.” He also promoted the widespread practice of asset forfeiture, the use of the RICO law to turn petty drug offenses into federal conspiracy prosecutions, and supported military aid to wage the drug war overseas.
Biden obviously does support decriminalization of drugs, but only on a case-by-case basis. He has done more than his share to ruin countless lives in the name of drug prohibition. Thanks in no small measure to Joe Biden’s efforts, millions of people who have done no harm to anyone but themselves have been fed into the prison and parole system. Hunter and Ashley Biden would be among them, were they not the glorious outpouring of privileged loins.
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2 comments:
I don't know how I missed your "don't vote" treatise of four years ago, but I just read it for the first time. Jim, the instant Obama picked Biden, the warmonger for his running mate, I resolved never again to vote in a national election and I never have. I do vote locally, but for the sociopaths in D.C.? I'd consider myself complicit.
Oh,the Biden thing. If I could still get all worked up about the gross, constant, obscene difference between the elite and everybody else, I would about this. But I'm numb; I just note it, then move on.
Jim, I've been reading over some of my old blog posts, many of which elicited comments from you. I always welcomed them, as they were pithy and to the point.
As for your blog, I check it several times a week, but you seem to have given up on it. Too bad for me; your posts were a source of information, as well as pacifist inspiration.
Just wanted to let you know I miss your insight, your humor, and your evident reverence for human life.
All the best.
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