Discussion: US Prosecutors Told To Push For More, Harsher Punishments

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This man is evil.

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“Attorney General Jeff Sessions is directing federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible against the vast majority of suspects”

Hopefully prosecutors will keep this in mind as it comes time to prosecute Republican collusion with Russia to subvert our democracy, strapped to a gurney would be a good look for Sessions.

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“This policy affirms our responsibility to enforce the law, is moral and just, and produces consistency,” Sessions wrote in a memo…

A memo he’d used a few times before, to defend segregation laws.

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Sessions should be very careful what he wishes for.
As they say down in Bama, “What’s good for the goose …”

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But Clinton said, “super predators” in 1994…

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Al Gore is fat.

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How about money laundering charges? Or criminal conspiracy? Treason? and other things.

Just say’n Jeff.

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When you look at that little pinched-faced worm, you can see evil incarnate. He, like Hitler’s henchmen, enjoys the suffering of others. He claims to be a Christian but has, like so many others of his vicious ilk, perverted the “eye for an eye” admonition from its original meaning of “small crime, small punishment” to “revenge at all costs.”

Jesus would weep at this.

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Was thinking the same. These folks seem to be oblivious not only to common human decency but also to irony and to the moment in which they find themselves–or are creating for themselves.

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Beauregard doesn’t have any idea what “moral” and “just” mean. Perhaps Merriam-Webster should send him some more definitions. Not that it would get through that peabrain.

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Yeah. No plea bargaining when Jeffie is off to the Big House.

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Sessions announced new sentencing guidelines that were modeled on the Bush the Lesser color coded terrorism system.

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Which is cheaper? Reducing the budget for the Office of National Drug Control Policy by 95% and abandoning prevention or locking them all up and increasing the already overcrowded prison system?

Pretty sure we don’t need to be Paul Ryan level budget wonks to figure it out.

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hoping he keeps his promise and seeks the max penalty for himself when someone brings him up on charges of lying to Congress…

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That’s just what we don’t need for the opioid epidemic!

Treatment instead of prison. Everywhere it’s tried, it works. Jesus fucking Christ, it’s almost as if they don’t want to solve this problem.

Oh…wait a minute. I forgot. They don’t want to solve this problem.

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I hate this whole god damned administration.

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Nixon made it clear to Ehrlichman what the drug was for. Sessions is merely resuming the attack on what we will delicately refer to as a ‘certain sector of the population’.

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The question is wrong. Any good Reghuglklan would frame it as “What’s more profitable to my donors?”

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Sessions provides an excellent example of how the GOP follows the strict father family model in governance. George Lakoff describes the theory and its application to Trump and the GOP in Why Trump. (h/t again to @littlegirlblue - I refer a lot of people to Lakoff)

In the strict father family, father knows best. He knows right from wrong and has the ultimate authority to make sure his children and his spouse do what he says, which is taken to be what is right. When his children disobey, it is his moral duty to punish them painfully enough so that, to avoid punishment, they will obey him (do what is right) . . .

The strict father logic extends further. The basic idea is that authority is justified by morality (the strict father version), and that, in a well-ordered world, there should be (and traditionally has been) a moral hierarchy in which those who have traditionally dominated should dominate. The hierarchy is: God above Man, Man above Nature, The Disciplined (Strong) above the Undisciplined (Weak), The Rich above the Poor, Employers above Employees, Adults above Children, Western culture above other cultures, Our Country above other countries. The hierarchy extends to: Men above women, Whites above Nonwhites, Christians above nonChristians, Straights above Gays.

That shows compassion and understanding, which violates the sanctity of the unerring strict father.

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