Posted on 11/20/2010 9:57:24 PM PST by shibumi
Just summon the Death Panels.
Every one has their second chance in Heaven.
Problem solved.
“blacks’ criminal records”? Really? I didn’t know they engaged in crime.
That requires legislative approval at the state level.
Good luck with it. No politician wants to be accused of being “soft on crime.”
And it doesn’t address why so many black males wind up in prison in the first place. Expungement is akin to treating the symptom without addressing the underlying cause.
No that is not a long term solution.
incredible
where do I sign up?
I better get to the tanning bed.
Be careful.
I don’t think orange guys qualify for expungement. :)
vaudine
This is ALL about voting rights.
They taxed the tanning industry out of existence just so we couldn’t fake it.
I suspect you are correct.
I’m in favor of letting only taxpayers vote - as it was in the beginning.
Me too but expungement without merit ain’t right.
and I am the kettle calling the pot tan honestly..I was a wild buck in my yute
folks should be able to prove they are reformed and have all their rights restored..voting...guns etc
hell...i think Illinois lets them vote from prison even via absentee
it’s ironic that the black angle may ultimately renfranchise many folks ...one in seven people cannot own guns now
but this is not the right way to go about it
and doing it by race would not withstand even the most Ginsburg court btw
we have let not dealing with race candidly handicap us beyond even what my ancestors feared
Right now, employers can generally only ask about convictions (and not arrests) since blacks are arrested disproportionately. However, if a conviction is expunged, a job applicant can legally say that he/she has never been convicted.
Sucks to be an employer.
In an egregiously stupid and moronic period in the nation’s history, during which the leaders of America have proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that they are mentally defective relative to those who have gone before, this is without a doubt the most pathetically weak-minded and idiotic notion I, personally, have ever heard.
And that is, indeed, saying something.
“....This might be more about petty thefts, petty vandalism, littering, pot smoking, and that sort of thing.......”
OK, you’re covered the under 13 crowd. What are your thoughts on the older folks.
At least in Indiana this would require a change in state law to accomplish. Since the Republicans took over the State house earlier this month there is absolutely no chance this is going to happen. It’s a non-starter.
Notice that the article makes no mention of the primary losers under this proposal: young black men with clean records. By significantly reducing the utility of a criminal records check as a screening device, the kid from the ‘hood who has kept his nose clean would be treated as a member of a presumptively criminal class.
So to get around that, they just give a committee the power to approve expunging records, and it just so happens that the committee practices affirmative action. You think any administration will give them a hard time about it?
OTOH, I would not mind sealing records for minor felonies if the guy goes five years being employed at something and has no further trouble with the law.
This is already the point of schools' "zero tolerance" policy: get enough white kids busted for making pictures of guns, and you can bust black kids for actual violence without your statistics showing anything that you can be accused of racism for.
Very good point. If they are expunged, then the employer has no way of knowing who is clean and who is not.All that I can say is that ANYONE hiring a black, under policies like this, should have their head examined. The economic damage of policies like this cannot be underestimated.After all, why not expunge sex offenders, so that they can get jobs back in where they like to work with their prey (i.e., schools, day care, etc.).
50 posted on 11/20/2010 11:22:15 PM PST by BobL
In fact, even if they only do this in Chicago, how do you then know if the black applicant is actually not himself from Chicago?The bottom line is that this conceit increases the cost of knowledge (as Thomas Sowell put it in Knowledge and Decisions). And that increases the risk of economic transactions. So those transactions become fewer.Ghastly idea.
In almost all Presidential elections, Indiana is one of the first reporting results.
An “oddity” happened in 2008. The results were very late.
Lake county, northwest Indiana, outside Chicago results were delayed. Indiana was called for Obama.
No doubt in my mind massive voter fraud threw the election to Obama in Indiana.
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