Illinois Governor Issues Pardons For Thousands With Pot Convictions | MSNBC
As criminal justice reform continues to drive policy in 2020, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is pardoning 11000 people for low-level pot offenses. MSNBC analyst …
Go Governor of Illinois! This was no War on drugs. It was a War on the Black man and poor people.
YAY!!! More Democrat votes so Illinois can get even more train-wrecked.
These pardons were in fact in service of justice. They were exactly what he was supposed to do. If he'd done nothing, or if he'd just had their sentences commuted, they'd still have criminal records and be subject to all kinds of unfair restrictions.
But for a very very specific example of their restored freedoms, 11017 people can register to vote now! And guess who they're likely to vote for! This Illinois Democrat has undeniably done the right thing by these people. And it's just as undeniable that doing it made it more likely that he personally, and more Democrats generally, will win elections in Illinois this year.
Finally, the jackasses.
Now lets have mandatory drug tests for receiving ANY Public Assistance.
People do not die from marijuana
What a great man!
About time.
That's awesome. I believe that it takes a victim for there to be a crime and that the law should only apply when your actions affect another. What people choose to do with themselves is not a crime. The law is intended to mediate between people not dictate the course of their lives. To punish someone for "victimizing" their self says that you are not truly free to choose and I believe is unconstitutional. How can we claim "my body my choice" when it comes to abortion but not when it comes to drugs? Total hypocrisy! To impose one person's standard on another is more of a crime than to impose it only on yourself. In that case only one party can claim to be a victim of the other. Law by definition is a standard of conduct agreed to by multiple people so how then does that standard apply to one person's dealings with their self? If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to see or hear it does it make a sound? Not one that anyone can claim to have known about. I find some people's sexual conduct far more offensive than some people's drug use but just because I don't agree with it doesn't mean I have any reasonable claim at being a victim of it. Am I not property of myself? If so I can freely destroy that property if I so wish. If I am not considered to be property of myself then in what way am I free? It's sad when you have more liberty to do what you wish with your material property than you have over your own body.
Yay! Well done to those States making changes
now a bunch of blacks thinks they have clean records ..
Everyone: Them Me:come at me with a PHILLY CHEESESTEAK instead
Wow love it
The 51 people who down voted this are drunks who think that it's safer to drink and drive than to smoke a joint
How will telling police to not use deadly force encourage police to keep the peace, especially with the rise of mass shootings.
Meanwhile Virginia decided not to legalize it 😫😫
And while you are doing that,,make sure they can get jobs and housing,, otherwise there will just be more problems
A sign of the times?..omg an actual person who's using reasonable sence?..please tell me I can fly now..I might be dreaming.
Jelani YAY!
The funny thing is that politicians and the corrupt system who could force people onto marijuana are not punished but the poor people who use them are.
He pardons people who smoke pot but Trump pardons a women and children murderer that the Seals wanted rid of. Says it all really.
Does anyone else smell a class action
Every state that legalized pot should have done this too but why haven't they? it's painfully hypocritical to say pots ok for everyone NOW, after you've already destroyed so many lives for years and years ,just to turn around make so much tax money off the stuff while continuing still to punish/ostracize people who never should have been in the first place. They should be compensated for the years you wasted of their lives in jail and outside when their record will continue to effect them the rest of their life… it's so wrong I'm not sure everyone realizes the gravity of punishment the legal system inflicts for many crimes because if they did they would think of these people the same way they think of wrongful imprisonment lawsuits.
There only doin it cuz everyone's leaving IL
I wish West Virginia had the same good sense to follow up on this.
There’s a special place in heaven for this AWESOME 😎 governor great 👍🏻 job!!!
Go Governor of Illinois! This was no War on drugs. It was a War on the Black man and poor people.
YAY!!! More Democrat votes so Illinois can get even more train-wrecked.
These pardons were in fact in service of justice. They were exactly what he was supposed to do. If he'd done nothing, or if he'd just had their sentences commuted, they'd still have criminal records and be subject to all kinds of unfair restrictions.
But for a very very specific example of their restored freedoms, 11017 people can register to vote now! And guess who they're likely to vote for! This Illinois Democrat has undeniably done the right thing by these people. And it's just as undeniable that doing it made it more likely that he personally, and more Democrats generally, will win elections in Illinois this year.
Finally, the jackasses.
Now lets have mandatory drug tests for receiving ANY Public Assistance.
People do not die from marijuana
What a great man!
About time.
That's awesome. I believe that it takes a victim for there to be a crime and that the law should only apply when your actions affect another. What people choose to do with themselves is not a crime. The law is intended to mediate between people not dictate the course of their lives. To punish someone for "victimizing" their self says that you are not truly free to choose and I believe is unconstitutional. How can we claim "my body my choice" when it comes to abortion but not when it comes to drugs? Total hypocrisy! To impose one person's standard on another is more of a crime than to impose it only on yourself. In that case only one party can claim to be a victim of the other. Law by definition is a standard of conduct agreed to by multiple people so how then does that standard apply to one person's dealings with their self? If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to see or hear it does it make a sound? Not one that anyone can claim to have known about. I find some people's sexual conduct far more offensive than some people's drug use but just because I don't agree with it doesn't mean I have any reasonable claim at being a victim of it. Am I not property of myself? If so I can freely destroy that property if I so wish. If I am not considered to be property of myself then in what way am I free? It's sad when you have more liberty to do what you wish with your material property than you have over your own body.
Yay! Well done to those States making changes
now a bunch of blacks thinks they have clean records ..
4:43 tell em✊🏿
You got drug dealers coming to you with drugs.
Everyone:
Them
Me:come at me with a PHILLY CHEESESTEAK instead
Wow love it
The 51 people who down voted this are drunks who think that it's safer to drink and drive than to smoke a joint
How will telling police to not use deadly force encourage police to keep the peace, especially with the rise of mass shootings.
Meanwhile Virginia decided not to legalize it 😫😫
And while you are doing that,,make sure they can get jobs and housing,, otherwise there will just be more problems
A sign of the times?..omg an actual person who's using reasonable sence?..please tell me I can fly now..I might be dreaming.
Jelani YAY!
The funny thing is that politicians and the corrupt system who could force people onto marijuana are not punished but the poor people who use them are.
He pardons people who smoke pot but Trump pardons a women and children murderer that the Seals wanted rid of. Says it all really.
Does anyone else smell a class action
Every state that legalized pot should have done this too but why haven't they? it's painfully hypocritical to say pots ok for everyone NOW, after you've already destroyed so many lives for years and years ,just to turn around make so much tax money off the stuff while continuing still to punish/ostracize people who never should have been in the first place. They should be compensated for the years you wasted of their lives in jail and outside when their record will continue to effect them the rest of their life… it's so wrong I'm not sure everyone realizes the gravity of punishment the legal system inflicts for many crimes because if they did they would think of these people the same way they think of wrongful imprisonment lawsuits.
There only doin it cuz everyone's leaving IL
I wish West Virginia had the same good sense to follow up on this.
There’s a special place in heaven for this AWESOME 😎 governor great 👍🏻 job!!!
Great job Governor!!🎉