After a recent social injustice meeting that I attended in Durham, North Carolina I haven't been able to forget several key things discussed in the meeting. The first one is the Declaration of Independence. Once again thanks Lafonda Jones from The North Carolina FAMM division. You said you were going to send me back home with something, you did. Thanks again.

For those that don't know, I'm sure they have noticed the high rate of non violent offenders incarcerated for long cruel unjust prison sentences under minimum mandatory sentencing. In June of 2005 Congressman Danny Davis introduced a bill into Congress to revive parole and good time to federal offenders(Bill H.R. 3072). It has been stalled in The Judicary House Committee since then. Congressman James Sennsbrenner from Wisconsin believes in lock them up and throw away the key. How can we allow this when the Declaration of Independence was written to protect people from unfair treatment and abuse of power.

"This is what the Declaration says"

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Then why are we stuck with 2 million incarcarated and James Sennbrenner stalling a bill in the Judicary House Committee? Can anyone answer that after reading this portion of the Declaration of Independence?

Also the Story of Alva Mae Grove touched many of us. Alva Mae is a 85 year old Woman who was incarcerated at the age of 72 for conspiracy-she refused to testify against her daughter and know she is serving a 25 year prison sentence.
Her family is fighting to get her a compassionate release due to her health at the age of 85. What if it was any of our Grandparents locked up because of the war on drugs and minimum mandatory sentencing?