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*Hello All,
We were not able to send a tracker to today's event. However, we were able
to track the event via online streaming video. Below are the notes from
that viewing.
Big Highlights*
- Derides Supreme Court's "jarring decision" in last week's child-rapist
case
- Says Obama "may not care for this particular decision, but it was
exactly the kind of opinion we could expect from an Obama Court"
- Asserts link between "rising rate of incarceration" and reduction in
crime
- Advocates "one-way journey" out of jail; touts 2007 Second Chance
Act, community- and faith-based initiatives
- Says "we need to stay on the offensive against crime"
- Promises more federal funding to crack down on illegal aliens
- Promises to "do more" to restore funding to Byrne/JAG program, to
increasing funding for communications equipment for law enforcement at all
levels
- Promises to "get serious" against Internet predators, invest in cyber
security Laments rise in gang violence
*Indianapolis, IN: McCain Speech 07/01/08*
*Background Details*
- Introductory remarks Sheriff Webre, Pres. of National Sheriffs'
Association: mentions McCain's history as POW, Congressman
- McCain thanked Sen. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, Steve Goldsmith
(Indianapolis Mayor), Eric Estrada for being in attendance.
- Cindy stood on stage by her husband.
*FULL Remarks:*
LINK:
http://thepage.time.com/transcript-of-mccains-remarks-to-the-national-sheriffs-association/
ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain will deliver the following remarks
as prepared for delivery at the National Sheriffs' Association's 68th Annual
Conference in Indianapolis, IN, today at 11:00 a.m. EDT:
Thank you, Sheriff Webre, for the kind introduction, and thank you all very
much. I appreciate the warm welcome to Indianapolis, and I am proud to be in
the company of more than two thousand sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. I'm very
honored, and have never felt safer.
There is a small fraternity of occupations that deserve every citizen's
gratitude, every day. And sheriffs and deputy sheriffs are charter members.
Some functions of government take place far from public view, and success
and failure can be hard to measure. But that is never true in your calling.
In law enforcement, the standard is always 100 percent success, and there is
no such thing as "close enough" for government work. Protecting innocent
citizens from those who would do them harm is the most elementary
responsibility of government. Law enforcement work is often hard, sometimes
heroic, and always necessary. We are all in your debt, and I thank you for
your service.
When President Ronald Reagan came before this organization in 1984, he spoke
of a "new mandate from the American people." He described some of the social
theories of the preceding decades, and how these fashionable ideas had
fostered a permanent criminal class of violent repeat offenders. In the
1960's and 70's, violent crime had increased throughout most of our country.
In some cities, people felt as if their neighborhoods were under hostile
occupation. At the federal level, President Reagan offered a different
approach to criminal justice, focused on vigorous enforcement and stricter
sentencing. Criminal justice reform is a part of the Reagan revolution that
is often forgotten today. But over time, America became a better, safer, and
more just country because of those reforms. And you're the ones who helped
to make it happen.
*We still hear some academics and politicians speaking as if a rising rate
of incarceration and a reduction in crime were unrelated facts. But, of
course, when the most violent and persistent criminals are in prison, crime
rates will go down.* And this is exactly what happened through the 1990's
and most of this decade. The progress our country made against crime was the
result of smart policies, bipartisan cooperation, and, above all,
high-quality work by the men and women of law enforcement.
Many of our cities became safer during the 1990's, thanks to the resolute
action of city and county leaders such as my friend Rudy Giuliani and his
police commissioner Bill Bratton. During both Republican and Democratic
administrations, Congress continued to supply states and localities with new
resources. Under legislation I've supported, we have also sought to increase
penalties for repeat felons who commit crimes with a firearm, or commit
violent crimes on behalf of a criminal gang. We have worked to improve the
National Instant Criminal Background Check System for firearms purchases.
And we have sought to increase the fines criminals must pay into the Federal
Crime Victims Fund and bar all criminals from profiting from their crimes.
We also expanded public registry requirements for convicted sex offenders —
because to prevent and punish the exploitation of children, the surest
policy is zero-tolerance. When anyone is convicted of a sexual assault on a
child, they should stay in prison for a long time, and their names should
stay forever on the National Sex Offender Public Registry. When they are
released — if they are released — they should be tracked both in their
physical movements and in their Internet usage. And under a bill I have
authored as a senator, and intend to sign into law as president, we're going
to get serious against Internet predators: Anyone who uses the Internet in
the commission of a crime of child exploitation is going offline and into
prison for an additional ten years.
In protecting children and in all criminal justice policy, at both the state
and federal level, we have shown how much can be achieved when consistent
principles are applied and both parties work together. And this spirit will
be needed in meeting the challenges of our own time. The overall trends in
crime are small comfort to the more than six million victims of violent
crime in America each year, or to the more than 18 million victims of
property crime. In an enterprise measured by the standard of 100 percent
success, *there is no time to linger on the progress of the past. We ne**ed
to stay on the offensive against crime,* and especially crimes of violence.
The federal government has its own well defined set of law-enforcement
concerns, such as multi-state criminal syndicates, terrorist cells,
government corruption, and the protection of America's borders. And from the
standpoint of state and local law enforcement, often the best service our
federal government can render is to do these things and do them right.
Presidential leadership is essential in all of these responsibilities. But
nowhere is the influence of a president more critical to law enforcement
than in the power of judicial nominations.
It will fall to the next president to nominate hundreds of men and women to
the federal courts. These choices will have far-reaching consequences for
all Americans, and perhaps especially for law enforcement. When a serious
crime is investigated, prosecuted, and punished, it takes many hours and the
best efforts of police, trial courts, and juries. *Yet one *badly reasoned
opinion, by one overreaching judge, can undo it all. Just like that,
evidence of guilt can be suppressed, or a dangerous predator released
because of judge-made laws having little or nothing to do with the
requirements of the Constitution. Even worse, when such opinions issue from
the highest court, they set a precedent for many more injustices, and they
add one more obstacle to the work of law enforcement.
We saw such presumption again just last week in a matter before the Supreme
Court. In the considered judgment of the people of Louisiana and their
elected representatives, the violent rape of a small child is a capital
offense. There is nothing in our Constitution to contradict that view. But
five justices decided the people's judgment didn't take into account
"evolving standards of decency," and so they substituted their judgment for
that of the people of Louisiana, their legislators, their governor, the
trial judge, the jury, the appellate judge, and the other four justices of
the Supreme Court.
*It's a peculiar kind of moral evolution that disregards the democratic
process, and inures solely to the benefit of child rapists. It was such a
jarring decision from the Court that my opponent, Senator Obama, immediately
and to his credit expressed his disagreement. I'd like to think this signals
a change of heart on his part about his votes against the confirmation of
two of the four dissenters in the case, Justice Samuel Alito and Chief
Justice John Roberts. More to the point, why is it that the majority
includes the same justices he usually holds out as the models for future
nominations? My opponent may not care for this particular decision, but it
was exactly the kind of opinion we could expect from an Obama Court.*
*Should I be elected president, I will look for accomplished men and women
with a proven record of excellence in the law, and a proven commitment to
judicial restraint. They will be the kind of judges who believe in giving
everyone in a criminal court their due: justice for the guilty and the
innocent, compassion for the victims, and respect for the men and women of
law enforcement.*
In all of criminal justice policy, we must put the interests of law-abiding
citizens first — and above all the rights of victims. And when we formulate
criminal justice policy, words of praise for the good work of local law
enforcement are not enough. We must give active support to officers of the
peace across America, by providing the tools you need to meet new dangers.
Even as crime has diminished in some areas, including New York and other
major cities, crime is spreading in many small and mid-sized jurisdictions.
And the general numbers in crime reduction conceal one of the most
disturbing facts of all — the rise of new, better organized, and more widely
dispersed gang violence and transnational gangs. Once largely confined to
major cities, the threat of gang violence is now well known to sheriffs and
corrections officers across America. And in all cases of violent crime, in
both urban and rural areas, it's the poorest among us who are most
vulnerable.
To meet all of these challenges, and others, you will need assistance,
critical resources, and new technologies that often only the federal
government can provide. And one of the most critical of these resources
concerns the radio spectrum. So that police, fire-fighters, and other public
safety agencies can freely communicate with one another, we will build a
long overdue national, interoperable public safety broadband network. You
and all your colleagues in law enforcement need seamless communication
across every agency and jurisdiction for emergency response. For more than a
decade now, I have tried to persuade the Congress to provide dedicated radio
spectrum and funding for communications equipment to local, state, and
federal law enforcement officers. Just last year, I introduced a bill that
provided for more than twice the capacity that the FCC has currently set
aside for public safety. Special interests in Washington want the FCC to
auction off more of that spectrum than I do. But no matter what price it
might fetch at auction, it should be available for fighting crime and saving
lives.
The Congress, too, needs to get its priorities straight, and that begins by
supporting the priorities of front-line law-enforcement personnel. As it is,
funds distributed by the Department of Justice are too often earmarked
according to their value to the re-election of members of Congress instead
of their value to police. This is especially true in the case of grants
allocated under the Byrne/JAG program — many of which are urgently needed to
interdict drugs and track the movement of violent gangs. The result is that
millions of dollars are wasted every year, and a lot of good ideas and
programs in local law enforcement never get funded.
Earmark spending bills are the broken windows of the federal budget process,
and by ending these abuses we set a new tone and we set much greater reforms
in motion. Earmark spending runs against the public interest in many ways,
and especially when public safety is in the balance. And that's why, as
president, I will veto every bill with earmarks, until the Congress stops
sending bills with earmarks. It may take a while for Congress to adjust, but
sooner or later they'll figure out that there's a new sheriff in town.
Law enforcement professionals know best what they need in the field. And
today, what's often needed most are more personnel and better technologies
for tracking criminals, gathering data, and sharing vital information. We
need to make certain that every agency is working with others where
necessary, so that the miscommunications and missed opportunities before
9/11 are never repeated. To protect our energy supply, air and rail
transport, banking and financial services, we need to invest far more in the
federal task of cyber security. In this new century, and especially with the
threat of terrorist attacks, every state, local, and federal agency
concerned with public safety should have access a shared repository of
information. In the case of any suspected terrorist, we must make certain
that law enforcement knows who they are, where they are, and what they're up
to.
We know as well that tens of thousands of felons — in custody and at large —
entered our country illegally. Why has it has fallen to sheriffs and other
local officials to protect their citizens from these foreign-born felons?
Because our federal government failed to protect our borders from their
entry, and this serious dereliction of duty must end.
Our compassion for laborers who entered this country unlawfully — our
understanding of their struggles, even as we act to secure the border —
speaks well of America. But this respect does not extend to criminals who
came here to break our laws and do harm to people. Through the Criminal
Alien Program, we have made some progress in recent years. Too often,
however, states are left to deal with the high costs and excessive
regulation involved in deportation proceedings, and many local officers are
left waiting for immigration agents to show up on site. So, as president, I
will expand the Criminal Alien Program. We will require that the federal
government assume more of the costs to deport and detain criminal aliens —
because this is a problem of the federal government's own making.
As if all of these challenges were not enough, another has arisen because of
your own hard work and success these past 25 years in sending serious
offenders to prison. Many are due for release, and just last year some
750,000 inmates reentered society. Unless we change our approach over the
next four years, these released prisoners are likely to reoffend in very
high numbers, committing millions of new crimes and finding millions of new
victims. And we need to be as committed in preparing them for freedom as we
were in taking that freedom away.
Maybe you have heard the story of an ex-inmate named Don Cox, who received a
sentence of 90 years for being an accomplice to a murder right here in
Indianapolis in 1978. Mr. Cox would likely have spent the rest of his life
in prison, had it not been for the efforts of another man named Tim Streett.
In the short version of a powerful story, Mr. Streett is the son of the
victim, and had even been a witness to his father's murder. He is also a
witness to the possibilities of redemption. After years of bitterness, Mr.
Streett sought out the prisoner. In time, he even became his friend. And it
was he who asked prosecutors to seek parole for Mr. Cox. As Tim Streett
explains his change of heart, "Anger and bitterness — that can build up. But
true forgiveness says, 'I forgive you, and it's over.'"
*Across a prison and jail population of 2.3 million souls, there may be some
who will never find or even seek this path. But the way should be open to
all. This was the spirit of the Second Chance Act of 2007, a law designed to
make the walk out of prison, past the gates and razor wire, a one-way
journey.* Ex-convicts need more than a few bucks and a bus ticket out of
town. Many will need job training, a place to live, mentors, family
counseling, and much more. Beyond government, there are churches and
community groups all across our country that stand ready to help even more.
And these groups will have the committed support of my administration.
With so many sentences about to expire, and so many second chances about to
be offered, the stakes are high for our country. And nobody understands that
better than sheriffs, their deputies, and other officers of the peace. Great
challenges lie ahead of you, and you will meet them as those who carry the
badge of law enforcement always have — with courage and with honor. I thank
each one of you for the dedication you bring to a hard job. I thank all of
you for your commitment to the cause of justice. And I thank you for your
kind attention here today.
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Sara DuBois
Deputy Director of Tracking & Media Monitoring
Progressive Accountability
[email protected]
202-609-7681 (office)
410-967-7306 (cell)
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