[TLI]

Needless to say, Democrats are neurotically obsessed with restoring the right to vote to felons. But the ex-cons themselves rarely express any interest in regaining this particular right. What ex-cons want is the right to own a gun. "Felons," Lott says, "who frequently live in poor, high-crime neighborhoods, want to be able to defend themselves."

So the evidence is in on that one, too: Preferring the right to bear arms to the right to vote (for choice), convicted felons have a superior value system to liberals.

You know, I just can't argue with that. It isn't like the former prisoner has a life sentence. If you can't trust them they should not be on the street. If they ARE on the street do we have the right to say "oh no, you can't defend yourself equally to that person over there, therefore you will die?"

Constitutional Rights ya know. You can't cherry pick which ones you would like for a specifice citizen to have lest someone cherry pick YOUR rights.

[scrabblehack]

Oh, but that’s because liberal pols do not see the felon’s potential vote as his property, but their own.

At a club I used to belong to (you might guess which one), I made a speech in defense of poll taxes. I pointed out that no one could vote in club elections unless they had paid their dues. In fact, the College Democrats was run the same way. (No, the club in question was not College Republicans). I had seen a news report recently where several black families had lost their houses, vehicles, etc. for inability to pay taxes. I pointed out that they would have preferred to keep their houses and vehicles but lose their vote.

After the speech, three black women came up to me and told me I had raised some excellent points.

[Clint Williams]

Constitutional Rights ya know. You can't cherry pick which ones you would like for a specific citizen to have lest someone cherry pick YOUR rights.

Suggest you go to google.com, select "News" and enter the search term "sex offenders." You'll be shocked out how many of our rights are being given up willy-nilly through such cherry-picking. And I'm not talking about rights lost upon conviction -- I'm talking about rights taken away AFTER conviction. And SCOTUS is upholding all this.

You have already lost more rights than you know.

"Your papers, please?"