Re: candidate questionaire: US House

[Ry Jones <rjones@airgap.net>]

Duncan says:
> But, when
> the prosecutor tried to indict these white boys as adults, the same
> "tough-on-crime" Republicans went bananas; in their panic that one of
> their own might be prosecuted, many of them actually admitted to NPR
> that they voted for the law on the belief it would only be used against
> non-whites.

In the US we have a long history of doing this. Specifically, the
Florida Supreme Court threw out the conviction of a white man who had
been charged with carrying a concealed weapon, saying that the intent
of the law was to restrict what newly freed slaves could do, not
white people.

Ry