Obama leads with Felons

[melensdad]

Obama's Philadelphia campaign office has been displaying signs in their windows that say "FELONS CAN VOTE - REGISTER TO VOTE". This is a new low in voter turnout efforts. While in some states it is legal for felons to vote after their sentences have been served, do we really want to actively encourage felons to take a bigger role in deciding how our government works? The Obama camp is implicitly stating through its actions that criminals are far more likely to vote for Obama than McCain.

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[K_W]

That is pretty low.

However, while I don't really feel to good about letting felons vote, I know a few ex-felons who have turned there lives around and are decent people today. I think there should be a way for ex-felons to regain their voting rights.

 

[right winger]

Also with terrorists.

 

[Paul]

I have no problem with felons voting. They served their time, and shouldnt lose their rights forever.

 

[Justus]

I have no problem with felons voting. They served their time, and shouldnt lose their rights forever.

I didn't realize that they could get their voting rights re-instated!


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[mar_2343]

It should be a case by case re-instatement of voting rights. I wouldn't really care to ever see any convict that served time at USP Marion or USP Florence(admin max) ever be allowed to vote

 

[Bill of Rights]

It should be a case by case re-instatement of voting rights. I wouldn't really care to ever see any convict that served time at USP Marion or USP Florence(admin max) ever be allowed to vote

Voting "rights" is a misnomer. Voting is a privilege of citizenship, not a human right, which, by definition, would come from our Creator. The vote is a privilege extended to our citizens, created by our citizens as a means to form our government which we, the people, instituted.

That said, I think that if someone is free, s/he should have his/her rights and privileges of citizenship restored. All of them. If that person cannot be trusted with those, then that person should remain in custody or should be executed. I think our legal code has been misused to classify things as "felonies" that should not even be misdemeanors, and this should change. What you do to yourself should be no one's business legally. A violent crime against another person should be met with the full weight and force of the law. If that's what the inmates at Florence or Marion have done, the question I would ask is, "Why are they still breathing?"

Blessings,
B

 

[mar_2343]

because of legislators have no will to allow fed prosecutors and the courts to bring the full weight and force of the law. USP Marion and USP Florence(admin max) exist only to house the most dangerous inmates in the country, Marion was the first Super Max in the country, Florence was the second in the Federal system

 

[Bill of Rights]

because of legislators have no will to allow fed prosecutors and the courts to bring the full weight and force of the law. USP Marion and USP Florence(admin max) exist only to house the most dangerous inmates in the country, Marion was the first Super Max in the country, Florence was the second in the Federal system

If they are that dangerous, they should never leave those walls and the point is moot. If they're not that dangerous, it sounds like they don't belong there in the first place. From your description, it sounds like the former case applies.