The LA Times story begins:
About 6,000 drug offenders will be released from federal custody over the next few days, but some legal experts warn that the government has done too little to help many of them successfully reintegrate into society.
Note the assumption that responsibility rests with the government to "reintegrate" those released, rather than upon them to lead normal, honest lives.
Still, moving right along. let me ask this: When these people start up with a criminal life again, as we know in advance many and very likely most of them will, who will be accountable for the release decisions, and who will pay the price for the harm then caused?
My prediction is nobody and nobody.
Hold me to it.
Was Obama ever held accountable for the crimes that happened because he decided not to deport people back to Haiti after the earthquake. His policy, of course, was humanitarian, but the self-described Con Law prof forgot about Zavydas v. Davis when making his policy, and he didn't exempt criminals from that policy, which meant that they had to be released. Three people were murdered in Florida because of Obama's ignorance of the law (or he just didn't care, either way, he's culpable).
Bill, when will you learn? Society is to blame--I have grown tired of your constant insistence on personal responsibility and accountability. Don't you know there are criminals to be released? Don't you know that criminal victimization is just something we all deserve because we live in an evil society and we don't invite criminals into outr lives (Deputy AG Yates) and we don't scream about how harsh criminal penalties are (Justice Kennedy). Honestly, your insistence on these things shows yourself to be one of those big meanies, and I wish you'd stop.
federalist,
As you note, you just can't get through to some people. I should indeed sit in the corner.
Oh..............wait............sitting in the corner is too punitive! I need rehab!!
Bill,
You need to define "accountable" with much more precision. In DC culture, merely saying "I take responsibility" for an action without ever facing actual consequences for it is more than enough.
See: Obama, Barack Hussein & Clinton, Hillary
Would it not be possible to submit a FOIL request for the names of all 6,000 people, and then another one a year later for any of them convicted/incarcerated after release?
-Jihan
had they never been arrested they would not have to reintegrate if drug charges are their only crime they have not committed a crime drug use does not meet criteria of something actually criminal prohibition is wrong outdated backward thinking and just stupid to lock people up behind bars for using drugs is as ignorant as you can possibly be act as though smoking pot makes you a threat to society my grandmother is not a threat to anybody methamphetamine is bigger threat to world hunger than the general public starving Ethiopians instead of walking around wishing they had a bowl of rice they would be running around learning to grow rice in the dessert!!!!!!