Bill Otis was once a hard-ass, hard-right prosecutor, we are told… many, many decades ago. Like in Reagan’s “zero tolerance” for non-violent drug offenders’ era. He was an AUSA.
He doubtless put hundreds of peaceful old hippies, pot heads, mostly… away in federal prisons for decades. Sure they broke a law. But he and his buddies regularly would not bargain for anything short of the max, on any case involving drugs… because… Nan Reagan “Just Say No!”… or sumthin’.
So you’ll forgive me… if I look askance at his now decades out of date view of (a plainly racially discriminatory) criminal justice / prison industrial complex system — even at the federal level.
They both are willfully blind to racial disparities — and the need for productive members of society, once an incarcerated person has paid their debt in full (whether Paul or Bill disagrees with the sentencing judge, or not).
They complain about immigration, but in part we need immigrants in the labor force, precisely because we’ve locked so many young men (primarily Brown and Black men) up for countless decades. If we’d address this for non-violent offenders, in a meaningful way… perhaps I could see an argument for reducing immigration… but at the moment, the nation’s economy is being slowed (in no small part) by a lack of available labor, in ordinary jobs.
You could look it up, boys.
Out.
Powerline Lies... 
Key quote: “The Left has long viewed the criminal as the real victim, and, say, the dazed young lady who was left with a broken arm and no purse as human garbage — someone to be pushed over there, out of sight.”
Maybe someone should ask him about Christine Blasey Ford.
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Don’t confuse his opinions… by offering actual… facts!
Hah!
Such sad, bitter old geezers.
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