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Originally Posted by roachboy
ustwo:
that is a ridiculous article.
how about you lay out YOUR logic, if there is any?
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I'm glad you found it ridiculous, I don't think it is, I might be worried if you found it logical.
My logic is they have forfeited their right to participate in electing people to office by their obvious 'bad' choices.
Seen in this light, disenfranchisement seems a particularly appropriate punishment for felons. The murderer, rapist, or thief has expressed contempt for his fellow citizens and broken the rules of society in the most unmistakable way. It’s fitting that society should deprive him of his role in determining the content of those rules or electing the magistrate who enforces them.
I have no problem with this.
I know thats MILLIONS of disenfranchised democrats out there, but really you will have to forgive me for not caring
'Convicted Felons for Obama' has a nice ring to it of course.
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Originally Posted by willravel
America would survive without a conservative vote, too, but it's not about survivability at all. It's about the right to vote. When felons are released, are they allowed free speech? Are they allowed free religion? Of course.
The theft of their right to vote is an injustice and sets dangerous precedent.
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Precedent? This isn't something new, their is no 'slippery slope' here. This is democrats trying to get more of their supporters voting. If in some bizzaro world convicted felons voted republican I don't think anyone supporting this wold be talking about 'basic' rights.
Now me, I can't imagine such a world as its obvious that felons really feel kinship with the democrats, but if they for some reason started to vote republican I'd like to think I'd stick with my principles.