Toxick
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Ken King said:You got a link to the "aforementioned article"?
Sorry.
Millions Blocked from Voting in U.S. Election
Maybe some repub can explain this to me
- Thread starter J.South
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Sorry.
Millions Blocked from Voting in U.S. Election
J.South said:
That's because the only reason it gets brought up in the press is because, Democrats are whining about it, because they think it cost them votes. And many on here try to stay abreast of political issues.
The main reason that I've come across is, that unlike other rights spelled out specifically in the Constitution - and in the literature of the day and in the Declaration - rights such as freedom of speech, religion, press and so on being granted to men by God - the right to vote has transitioned from a right of a privileged class of persons, to more and more persons. Thus it was extended to include blacks, women, non-property owners, those over 18, those unwilling to pay a 'poll tax' and so on. We call it a 'right' but it has been one granted by the government, rather than an existing one recognized by the government.
(I bring that up because, that's the way most of our rights work - Congress is not allowed to make laws abridging these rights, and so on, because they are understood to exist already).
Historically, criminals were denied these basic rights. They simply haven't been 'recognized' as deserving of them, and I doubt any candidate wants to go about with a platform of restoring felon's rights to vote.
BuddyLee
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Ken King said:
Seems like a socialistic democrat.Check out his site. http://www.alanelsner.com/index.html
I still can't believe he got elected again
You'd think it would embarrass Democrats to be so popular with the criminal set, wouldn't you?
Or better yet, go to a Democratic Senators meeting and ask for a show of hands from all KKK members.Sparx said:
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Good question South...
...the answer is quite simply actually; defense mechanism.
Modern liberalism shuns personal responsibility (unless you skipped a few days of National Guard duty).
The mindset of modern liberalism is very prevelant throughout our court system and results in all sorts of insanity in judgment and rulings that results in an average sentence for murder of 7 years and in our nations Capital, a 60% unsolved rate for homocides.
People have grown to fear criminals as people who get away with murder and we've grown away from respecting a con as someone who has done their time and are only looking for a chance to do right.
We all know the stories of jails becoming finishing schools for crooks. They learn, at societies expense, how to get away with more crime. We make them harder, stronger and smarter.
This is the result of the intersection of modern liberalisms desire to tell everyone else what to do, so they become judges and lawyers, and their inante inability to pass proper judgment.
Hell, 51% of US citizens think we deserved 9/11 so how tough can it be to tell a murderer that society, through his victim, had it coming?
So, as a defense mechanism, people want SOMETHING to be done, so, restirctions of voting rights sound good when you don't believe the parolee has paid his debt in the first place.
To me, we MUST reform our jails into places of punishment and rehabilitation. You don't get with the program, be civilized, you die in jail.
And we must reward a con who has paid his debt, a real debt, with re-establishment of full citizenship including the right to keep and bear arms and the right to vote.
Of course, if you murdered, you should never see the light of free day again.
Modern liberalisms value system and judgement is all ####ed up. Kill an unborn child all you want. Criminals? Why, we must CARE about their rights!
...the answer is quite simply actually; defense mechanism.
Modern liberalism shuns personal responsibility (unless you skipped a few days of National Guard duty).
The mindset of modern liberalism is very prevelant throughout our court system and results in all sorts of insanity in judgment and rulings that results in an average sentence for murder of 7 years and in our nations Capital, a 60% unsolved rate for homocides.
People have grown to fear criminals as people who get away with murder and we've grown away from respecting a con as someone who has done their time and are only looking for a chance to do right.
We all know the stories of jails becoming finishing schools for crooks. They learn, at societies expense, how to get away with more crime. We make them harder, stronger and smarter.
This is the result of the intersection of modern liberalisms desire to tell everyone else what to do, so they become judges and lawyers, and their inante inability to pass proper judgment.
Hell, 51% of US citizens think we deserved 9/11 so how tough can it be to tell a murderer that society, through his victim, had it coming?
So, as a defense mechanism, people want SOMETHING to be done, so, restirctions of voting rights sound good when you don't believe the parolee has paid his debt in the first place.
To me, we MUST reform our jails into places of punishment and rehabilitation. You don't get with the program, be civilized, you die in jail.
And we must reward a con who has paid his debt, a real debt, with re-establishment of full citizenship including the right to keep and bear arms and the right to vote.
Of course, if you murdered, you should never see the light of free day again.
Modern liberalisms value system and judgement is all ####ed up. Kill an unborn child all you want. Criminals? Why, we must CARE about their rights!
