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Bernie on THE CRIME BILL and getting tough on crime. (Original Post)
thereismore
Feb 2016
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He signed it to save women's lives, not because he thought AA kids were "super predators".
beam me up scottie
Feb 2016
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George II
(67,782 posts)1. That video is from 1991, why did he wind up voting for it a few years later?
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)2. To save women's lives:
thereismore
(13,326 posts)3. Thank you! nt
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)4. Don't mention it!
He also voted for it because of the assault weapons ban.
Sanders opposed the Violent Crime Prevention Act of 1991 during his first year in the U.S. House of Representatives.
"All over the industrialized world now, countries are saying, let us put an end to state murder, let us stop capital punishment," Sanders said in a 1991 speech on the House floor. "But here what were talking about is more and more capital punishment."
The bill, which included provisions to authorize the death penalty as appropriate punishment for crimes involving the murder of a law enforcement officer, terrorism and drug trafficking, never reached the desk of President George H.W. Bush.
In 1994, however, Sanders voted in favor of the final version of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, a bill that expanded the federal death penalty. Sanders had voted for an amendment to the bill that would have replaced all federal death sentences with life in prison. Even though the amendment failed, Sanders still voted for the larger crime bill.
A spokesman for Sanders said he voted for the bill "because it included the Violence Against Women Act and the ban on certain assault weapons."
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/sep/02/viral-image/where-do-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-stand-/
"All over the industrialized world now, countries are saying, let us put an end to state murder, let us stop capital punishment," Sanders said in a 1991 speech on the House floor. "But here what were talking about is more and more capital punishment."
The bill, which included provisions to authorize the death penalty as appropriate punishment for crimes involving the murder of a law enforcement officer, terrorism and drug trafficking, never reached the desk of President George H.W. Bush.
In 1994, however, Sanders voted in favor of the final version of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, a bill that expanded the federal death penalty. Sanders had voted for an amendment to the bill that would have replaced all federal death sentences with life in prison. Even though the amendment failed, Sanders still voted for the larger crime bill.
A spokesman for Sanders said he voted for the bill "because it included the Violence Against Women Act and the ban on certain assault weapons."
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/sep/02/viral-image/where-do-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-stand-/
George II
(67,782 posts)5. So he was against it before he was in favor of it?
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)6. He signed it to save women's lives, not because he thought AA kids were "super predators".
Your candidate supported mass incarceration and promoted that part of the bill, mine opposed it but finally decided that women's lives were at risk and voted for it.
Get it now?
thereismore
(13,326 posts)7. He was for an important part of it and spoke against the other part of it.
Hillary loved it, loved it, loved it all.