and 2.) isn't it morally worse to vote for it when he fully realized that the bill was "dooming tens of millions of young people to a future of bitterness, misery, hopelessness, drugs, crime, and violence."?

That's fcuked up.


>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luxkUPezssM
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>https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-voted-for-1994-crime-bill-to-support-assault-weapons-ban-violence-against-women-provisions/
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>FLINT, Mich. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager
>on Thursday reiterated the senator’s reasoning for voting in
>favor of the Clinton administration’s 1994 Crime Bill
>despite serious reservations. The House version of the bill
>included a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons. Sanders had
>supported the ban since 1988. The conference committee version
>included not only the assault weapons ban but also the
>Violence Against Women Act provisions. Sanders supported these
>efforts to protect women.
>
>In Sanders’ statement at the time, he criticized the mass
>incarceration and death penalty provisions in the bill,
>saying:
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>“…it is also my view that through the neglect of our
>Government and through a grossly irrational set of priorities,
>we are dooming tens of millions of young people to a future of
>bitterness, misery, hopelessness, drugs, crime, and violence.
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>And Mr. Speaker, all the jails in the world, and we already
>imprison more people per capita than any other country, and
>all of the executions in the world, will not make that
>situation right. We can either educate or electrocute. We can
>create meaningful jobs, rebuilding our society, or we can
>build more jails.
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>Mr. Speaker, let us create a society of hope and compassion,
>not one of hate and vengeance.”
>
>During consideration of the bill, Sanders voted six times to
>weaken or eliminate the death penalty provisions and voted
>separately against creating new mandatory minimums. Then-First
>Lady Hillary Clinton spoke strongly in favor of increased
>incarceration, labeling at risk youth as “super-predators”
>who had to be “brought to heel.”
>
>“When this so-called crime bill was being considered, Bernie
>Sanders criticized its harsh incarceration and death penalty
>provisions,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager.
>“Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, resorted to dog whistle
>politics and dehumanizing language. Bernie was right then and
>he’s right now. We need to invest in those communities that
>have been neglected in this country. Poor communities – more
>often than not, communities of color – deserve the same
>opportunities and education that other communities have.
>Bernie Sanders has always known jails and incarceration are
>not the answer. Nor is heated rhetoric against young people of
>any race. You can’t throw vulnerable people under the bus
>just because it’s politically expedient.”


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