I’m too old. I still listen to EPMD and Gang Starr. I have no idea who this dude is, but I know for sure he deserves to be free.
As this article explains, he’s been convicted only of the “offenses” of gun and drug possession and of course endless violations of probation over these offenses.
Recently he had been sentenced to years in prison, but, partially thanks to his celebrity — hey, it sure hadn’t done much for him up until this point — the new D.A. in his county is petitioning to have him released, get this, due to the unfair bias of the judge in the case.
The state is a brutal war machine here and abroad. Ask anyone you know who’s been to prison and they’ll tell you only half or less deserve to be there at all. Once caught up in the system and its endless paroles, probations, classes and violations, a bag of weed can turn into decades of pseudo-slavery. It’s not funny.
Of course race plays into it. The traditionally poor and politically powerless are easier for government employees to get away with persecuting. Again, not that money is any guarantee of liberty either.
The bottom line is that everyone should be a libertarian. Guns and drugs should be legal. Probation officers, cops, DAs and judges should all have to go get real jobs and leave everyone else the hell alone. And if you don’t think that then you’re wrong.
Oh yeah, and so check out in that article too it says that Mill and other famous rappers are now starting a project to tell the stories of other people being similarly screwed by the state. They are going to find an endless list of men and women and children to profile.
