Down Home Terrorists

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I think those Hammond (another article referred to them as having the name Hammonds) boys are getting the royal treatment. They're getting screwed by a gov't that's too damn full of itself.

Ironically, it sounds like the government got too damn full of itself here because of the "get tough on crime" mandatory minimums set up by mainly right wing politicians. That's why the Hammonds are going back to prison.

I am personally against mandatory minimums and it sounds like the mandatory minimum here really are unfair, as they so often are. The courts' hands are tied though. If a person is found guilty of violating a law and there is a mandatory minimum, then you have to follow the minimum.

I hope the lesson that conservatives learn from this is that mandatory minimums are dumb. But I think they will choose to learn the lesson they already "know," which is that Obama and his administration are the devil.