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Thanksgiving is a Time for Caring, for the Children of the Incarcerated
Townhall.com ^ | November 26, 2015 | Timothy Head

Posted on 11/26/2015 8:08:37 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 11/26/2015 8:08:37 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Sorry, I’ve run out of room for another guilt trip. The responsibility lies with the two who got naked and produced the babies.


2 posted on 11/26/2015 8:13:38 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: I want the USA back

Maybe they should have thought about their children before they committed their crimes.


3 posted on 11/26/2015 8:14:12 AM PST by dfwgator
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A great article and spot on. Too many NONVIOLENT offenders are sitting in cages. That space should be better used for VIOLENT offenders. But alas, the profitability is in locking up drug offenders and drunk drivers. Not the murderers and sex offenders.

Arm the populace, use prisons for the violent scum amongst us, and watch criminality plummet.


4 posted on 11/26/2015 8:14:35 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Look closely at any evil and most times you'll find the unmistakable handprint of caesar.)
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To: Kaslin
Maybe that seat being empty is not such a bad thing. What would that absent person be teaching his children if he was there?

I remember a child being late for school and when asked by the teacher why he was late, his response went like this.

“The car wouldn't start so I had to wait while daddy went out and stole a battery”!!!

5 posted on 11/26/2015 8:14:42 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Kaslin
Moronic commentary.

(1) We incarcerate more people than "authoritarian countries" by definition because those countries are themselves large prisons. Any prisoner in the US would rather be where he is than out of prison in North Korea or Zimbabwe.

(2) One ethnic group makes up such a large percentage of our prisoners that, if they were left out of the equation, our rate of incarceration would be pretty low.

6 posted on 11/26/2015 8:17:50 AM PST by wideawake
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As usual, THANK A DEMOCRAT for the mess we’re in. Destroy the Black American Family, and THIS is the end result; generational incarceration, millions of children without fathers in the home, millions of women DEPENDENT upon Mother Government for their three hots and a cot, etc.

All. By. Design.

But, I’m preachin’ to the choir...

I’m NOT heartless; I just think the FACTS of the matter need to be out there before SOLUTIONS can be implemented.


7 posted on 11/26/2015 8:18:31 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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Well, they didn’t. So what are we supposed to do now? If it’s a nonviolent offense, they should not be in prison. It serves no ones interests. Except, of course, the interests of the judicial/prison industrial complex.


8 posted on 11/26/2015 8:18:47 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Look closely at any evil and most times you'll find the unmistakable handprint of caesar.)
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I assume you're taking the laughable position that drugdealers are nonviolent.
9 posted on 11/26/2015 8:21:33 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Kaslin

We pay for the children of baby daddies whether they are in jail or they have not been caught yet. What’s new.


10 posted on 11/26/2015 8:21:48 AM PST by DeWalt (Times are more like they used to be than they are today.)
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To: Ditter

So then who is going to fill that seat? Some militant lesbo from child “protective” services? The wandering mobs of ghetto rats?

Or are you volunteering?


11 posted on 11/26/2015 8:22:02 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Look closely at any evil and most times you'll find the unmistakable handprint of caesar.)
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To: Kaslin

If the incarcerated were more responsible to their families they wouldn’t be incarcerated.


12 posted on 11/26/2015 8:26:01 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: RKBA Democrat

Then how should nonviolent offenders be punished?


13 posted on 11/26/2015 8:28:40 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I support anything which diminishes the Muslim population.)
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To: wideawake

I’m taking the not so laughable position that drug dealers are usually funding their own habit and that it would be far cheaper to legalize the substance in question than fill jails and provide profitability for the cartels. I also favor getting the people who are sitting in jails and consuming resources out of jail when they pose minimal risk.

Unfortunately, a lot of so called conservatives are of the persuasion that mama government needs to step in to protect people from their own folly.


14 posted on 11/26/2015 8:29:28 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Look closely at any evil and most times you'll find the unmistakable handprint of caesar.)
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To: Kaslin
In all too many homes, there will be an empty seat at the Thanksgiving table.

Indeed.

15 posted on 11/26/2015 8:32:07 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin

let’s do it for our children this Thanksgiving season.....For the CHILLRUNNNN. Good Lord! Stop it already!!! Conform to the laws of the land, stop screwing everything that walks and MAKE A LIVING.


16 posted on 11/26/2015 8:33:16 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Kaslin

Do “those with authoritarian (or worse)governments” execute rather than incarcerate? Just wondering.


17 posted on 11/26/2015 8:34:30 AM PST by a.c.t.32
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To: Kaslin
In too many homes there will be an empty seat at the Thanksgiving table.

Indeed.

18 posted on 11/26/2015 8:35:27 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin

Townhall should be renamed Downhill.

More liberal blather. The missing parent is most likely where he or she belongs, and it’s no one’s fault but their own.


19 posted on 11/26/2015 8:39:05 AM PST by euram
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No I am 75 and I have already adopted 3 children. Have you?
The fathers place will probably be taken by another bum but we can always hope not.


20 posted on 11/26/2015 8:42:44 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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