08-25-2021, 10:22 PM
(08-25-2021, 12:48 AM)DuckforcoveR Wrote: Only thing I'll object to is some blanket determination that Felons somehow shouldn't be able to vote. Not commenting towards the meat (i.e. accusations of fraud), but I hate that "felon" gets turned into some target board for folks that are somehow lesser and shouldn't have rights and privileges.
This hits personal so I'll just leave it at that
I'm with you on that. I have always said that taking a felon's citizenship rights for life amounts to a life sentence, and turning a felon loose on the population while at the same time embittering him by taking away his rights is madness.
If they are still too dangerous to exercise their citizenship rights, then they are also still too dangerous to turn out into the general public. Either keep them in prison or set them completely free after their sentence is served. One or the other, but not a half assed "both".
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’