American Criminal Liberties Union
Posted on October 20, 2007
The ACLU has begun a campaign to restore the rights of felons. People with felony convictions automatically lose the right to vote, run for or hold office, circulate candidate or referendum petitions, or to own, have, buy or use guns.
Which of these rights are the ACLU concerned with? The right to vote. It isn’t surprising that such a leftist organization would be concerned with this. Afterall, criminals tend to vote liberal. The way the ACLU’s argument goes is that once people have served their punishment, their debt to society is paid and they should be granted their full rights as a citizen. This is one reason they fight so hard for sex offenders and child molesters to live across the street from Elementary schools. Of course the argument is flawed. If the ACLU really believed their own argument they would be fighting just as hard for the other rights of felons, including their Second Amendment rights.
The Uninvited Obudsman nails it here:
“America is the land of second chances,” the ACLU claimed in its Fall, 2007, Arizona newsletter, “and when the gates of prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.”
That path is less than clear however. “If a person is now whole, and the right to vote is reinstated, then surely that person should have all rights intact, and be free from the disabilities that a felony conviction imposes,” said the Uninvited Ombudsman in an interview.
“If the person remains dangerous, or is not sufficiently free of the past to exercise all civil rights, then how can such people be given the vote? Can the ACLU truly justify marginalizing that group by declaring them fit for only a single civil right? Are these felons members of society or aren’t they?”
Critics charge that the ACLU’s move is a perverse attempt to tip the nation in favor of Democrats in the upcoming presidential election, by adding a new voting bloc to that party. Whether being known as the party of former felony convicts with a single civil right is a good thing is unclear, though the extra votes might swing elections, so who cares.
Then again, the ACLU don’t believe in the Second Amendment. They don’t think individuals have a right to bear arms.
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I’m afraid I think the ACLU is right on this one. It used to be that a felony meant something — originally “felony” meant “crime punishable by death.” Over the past 200 years, the distinction between felony, per se, and misdemeanor has essentially vanished for some crimes. Now, “felony” simply means something that a lawmaker wants to grandstand about. If felony meant what it did when those restrictions were passed, I’d oppose it. But frankly, when the only difference between a felony and misdemeanor is prosecutorial discretion, I think that the rest of the laws in the nation should recognize it.
Like Rome, so goes the United States. Destroyed from within by a bunch of maggots. We certainly have degraded ourselves quickly, it is taking less the 300 years before we implode.
G-d help the United States of America before the liberalists, socialists, communists, and irrationalists destroy us. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Restore the rights of Felons means that Hillary Clinton will get the votes Shu will see to it….LOL!
Mike
Like Rome and Weimar Republic…so it goes. Criminals get hero status, their victims are forgotten. You see it in the news all the time, where they ‘profile’ and tell the story of the murderer and belittle the victims…sick!