Posted on 07/20/2008 6:10:29 AM PDT by DJ Taylor
“It’s like we’re marked as criminals,” Quinn said. “It’s like we don’t have a say.”
Boo Freakin’ Hoo. Actions have consequences.
Start at the bottom, Buddy. Sweepin’ floors ain’t glamorous, but it’ll pay your bills. And then YOUR hard-earned tax dollars can go to house other felons. See how that works?
And you forgot to thank me for your Room & Board for all of those years!
I have a cousin who was habitually criminal until he was about 30. Since then he’s been working and raising a family and turned away from the life of crime for 25 years now. So I know that some of them do change.
As a basic principle of fairness once someone completes their sentence I have no problem with them having their rights restored. Or should we do like they do in england? Allow the Govt to place people on probation who “might” commit a crime? Who makes that decision? Some FR Keyboard Warrior?
“What does he do?”
If he’s THAT motivated, he can start his own small business. Cleaning company. Trash/recycling disposal. Dog walking. Hot Dog Stand. Then he can hire all the felons he wants to come to work for him.
But somehow I doubt he will do either.
Did that criminal just say “It’s like we’re marked as criminals?”
Ok?
Specify “full sentence”. Do you mean the entire sentence they were given, but released early because of good behavior, or overcrowding? Because few, even though not in prison, served their full sentence.
Did that criminal just say “It’s like we’re marked as criminals?”- - - - - - - - - -
Yep! Doh !!!!!
Ah, yes!!
THERE is the leader of the Pack, and the “Not-Convicted
Murderer Cuz he Got Off on a Technicality” Bill Ayers himself !!!!
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His buddies were so enept they produced some of the
earliest Darwin Award Nominees ! ...
“Todd Gitlin, a former SDS member and author of “The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage,” harshly criticizes Ayers and other members of Weatherman for wanting to kill, even if they didn’t. Gitlin said in 2001 that the only reason no one was murdered was because the first known attempt resulted in members of the group blowing themselves up instead: “OK, let’s give them a medal for not killing anybody besides themselves. But they wanted to be terrorists. They planned on being terrorists. Then their bomb blew up and killed several of them and they thought better of it. They were failed terrorists.”[1]”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
Much of the controversy about Ayers during the decade since the year 2000 stems from an interview he gave to the New York Times on the occasion of the memoir’s publication.[15] The reporter quoted him as saying “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough”, and, when asked if he would “do it all again” as saying “I don’t want to discount the possibility.”[10]
Kinda hard to tell which one is Mommie and
which is Daddy in that pic, huh ???
:^D
http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/owlive/img/jan03/Sundbig012303.jpg
Not sure why that pic went away. :^O
These were not accidental detonations. There was equipment available back then, and is being used today to detonate roadside bombs in Iraq, that could detonate electric blasting caps at a distance. Known “Weathermen” terrorists who were thought to be in possession of explosives would receive a visit in the middle of the night. A van would pull up in front of the terrorist’s apartment building, and a microwave antenna would be aimed at the suspect apartment. Any terrorist inside the apartment would feel the air around him become slightly warmer, the electric blasting caps in their bombs would detonate and they would all be sent to hell where they belonged.
Disclaimer: This could be fiction. Any similarity between this account and any person living, dead, or undecided could be purely coincidental.
Booooooooooooooommm !!!!
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Good posts Meek
Obama is an admitted felon too
Just not arrested, tried, convicted
Prosecution for possession, use, transfer, sale of cocaine in Chicago is rare
Read the state felony statutes:
“A person shall be guilty of committing a felony if......”
To bad Obama was not arrested in New York state!
Wow. I am just shocked by everyones attitude here.
The person is a rehabilitated felon. He served his time for the crimes he committed. He deserves to restart his life as a citizen and that includes giving him the right to vote as well as pay taxes.
That’s called compassion and I believe it is the Christian thing to do.
Well, you should have thought of that before you committed a felony.
Believe me, you don't get hired by big companies with interesting jobs when you either have to answer "yes" and explain, or lie and get caught in a check of records. It was a blessing in disguise, as so much of God's bounty has been for me -- He works His wonders in the most awesome ways, and those things (alcoholism, for example) I thought were curses turned out to be my personal gifts, my personal blessings, from Him. They've made me a better person, which is why I am so leery of well-meaning people, conservative and liberal, who think they can interfere in a person's path to God by meddling in sins involving weakness of the flesh -- that can only ever be, and WILL only ever be, between God and the individual, no matter how much do-gooders like to pretend otherwise ...
ANYWAY, I was thinking how in a splendid way, the fact that I had to find another option than large companies for employment led me to the a wonderful career, a unique way of making money doing something that enriches commerce around me and which I enjoy very much; I wouldn't trade it for anything.
And yes you are so right -- those charity jobs you talk about are so very appropriate and right for ex Felons who've done real time for truly serious, horrible crimes (I spent a night in jail and paid a fine, that's all!), and I had forgotten all about them reading this thread until you mentioned them. YOU ARE SO RIGHT about that. I made my bed and so do the ex Felons, and the thing is, God provides a multitude of ways to lie in it with grace and comfort if you let Him.
Thanks again, Nathan, for the good reminder.
Too bad the French Foreign Legion won't even hire him.
Leon should have thought about the consequences of his crime before committing the act itself.
If Leon earnestly seeks God out, then he will find Him.
Only reading the headline I’m going to guess that this is a Democrat initiative(?)
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