This can't be real?

[Occurrence]

Wow, really? Don't these people have real issues to be dealing with? Who comes up with this crap?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1....html?ir=Crime

[firstandten]

Its a bill coming out of the house, that said it all.

[Goose]

unreal...... any congressman with their name attached to this bill should be voted out immediately, regardless of any other accomplishments......

[Patrick]

Great...now we can piss away another couple hundred billion on something useless that benefits nobody

[maxx]

Sounds like a lot of House members are investing in the prison industry . It's a growth industry.

[Bigb23]

Thank you Republicans, who hate Government involvement in private lives. The stink rises.

"Under this bill, if a young couple plans a wedding in Amsterdam, and as part of the wedding, they plan to buy the bridal party some marijuana, they would be subject to prosecution," said Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, which advocates for reforming the country's drug laws. "The strange thing is that the purchase of and smoking the marijuana while you're there wouldn't be illegal. But this law would make planning the wedding from the U.S. a federal crime."

[Bigb23]

In the meantime, massacres happen just across our borders. Thanks, DEA, [[but you have a budget to preserve).

[Bigb23]

American Teen accused of 4 beheadings, torturing gets 3 years in Mexico
28 July, 2011 | 11:52




El Ponchis, the 14 year old murder mashine

A 14 year old San Diego born American citizen has been found guilty and sentenced to 3 years in a Mexican court for kidnapping three people and torturing and beheading at least four people at Mexico Drug Wars.

[Bigb23]

The most striking thing about the skinny 14-year-old was his eyes. They looked like they belonged to a bloodied war veteran — which, of course, he was, being in prison for two killings. As I talked to him in a prison cell, Miguel Angel Cantu opened those eyes wide in a penetrating glare of hatred and anger that could strike fear into grown men. But those eyes could not hide the suffering behind them. Cantu had killed two men in Ciudad Juárez street beefs. It was low-level gangbanger stuff. But the Juárez prison's[ director of inmates, Oswaldo Hogaz, warned that the powerful cartels would soon hire adolescents like Cantu to do their dirty work. "These kids are cheap, bloodthirsty, and they know the government can't punish them much," he said.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2035819,00.html#ixzz1aOkU35v