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I would like to believe that if we had a freer society it will take care of blacks and whites and everybody equally because we’re all individuals and to me that it so important. But if we had equal justice under the law I think it would be a big improvement…if we had probably a repeal on most of the federal laws on drugs and the unfairness on how blacks are treated with these drug laws it would be a tremendous improvement.

A system designed to protect individual liberty will have no punishments for any group and no privileges. To day I think inner city folks, minorities, are punished unfairly on the war on drugs. For instance blacks make up 14% of those who use drugs, yet 36% of those arrested [for drugs] are blacks, and it ends up that 63% of those who finally end up in prison [for drugs] are blacks. This has to change. We don’t have to have more courts and more prisons. We need to repeal the whole war on drugs; it isn’t working. We have already spent over $400 billion since the seventies and its a wasted money prohibition didn’t work; prohibition on drugs doesn’t work. So we need to come to our senses and absolutely… it’s a disease. We don’t treat alcoholics like this.. this is a disease and we should orient ourselves to this. That is one way you could have equal justice under the law.

You know over the years I’ve held pretty ridged all my beliefs, but I’ve changed my opinion about the death penalty. For federal purposes I no longer believe in the death penalty. I believe it has been issued unjustly. If you’re rich you get away with it. If you’re poor or from the inner city you’re more likely to be prosecuted and convicted and today with the DNA evidence there’s been too many mistakes so I am now opposed to the federal death penalty.

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