Giuliani: The stuff we are in possession of contains 1000+ photos that are from highly, highly inappropriate to illegal...Everything that the American people are going to look at over the next 5 days, China has been looking at for a LONG time.
— TheSharpEdge (@TheSharpEdge1) October 14, 2020
This is a National Security threat. pic.twitter.com/MwG4GzJSBW
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Dale, you touched on why I disapprove of parole. Parole ends up being a penny-pinching action placing society at risk (if you assume the virtues of sentencing). If the sentence is so excessive it rates shortening, then have the sentence commuted to time served by review. But the idea of reintroducing an individual "not quite imprisoned for societies sake", yet "not quite free to assume the rights, freedoms, and liberties of a citizen", just the burdens, STINKS!
It promotes our viewing with lazy selfishness, others civil liberties.
It also affords more working room in our justice system, for jaded culprits to evaluate the costs/benefits of offending society.
Law enforcement is more of a business than it is a public service. Crime does pay, and it pays big, Keep the jails full and then cry for more jails. With full jails more guards are required, more officers on the streets making more arrests, generating more money from citations and justifying more courts and judges. All cops are traffic cops. Why? Easy money, that is why. And they damn sure do have quotas to meet every month.
It is the small people who are arrested. The drug users and petty thieves. All of it promoted by the big and the powerfull, who rarely, if ever, are arrested, indicted, and sentenced to confinement. Drugs pour into this country virtually non stop, children disappear and are sold as sex toys, persons are kidnapped, tortured and killed, and all is filmed for sale to those who market it on the internet for big bucks, or secret showing for the viewers enjoyment. Professional people, Doctors and Lawyers and such are behind the scenes drug dealers and sick freaks engaged in all sorts of deranged money making schemes involving the young and the ignorant.
It is worse than anyone can imagine. We even vote for known criminals now. KNOWN criminals. The teaching profession attracts "gays" so that they have easy access to the kids. Our Churches have pedophiles as minister, preachers, Pastors, and evangelists. Not all, of course. But one is way too many.
We do have good cops, good Doctors, maybe even occasionally a decent lawyer, good teachers, good preachers, and once in a blue moon, a good politician. But. yeah, but. Look what they have tried to do to Trump. Look at all the liars we have, and all the lies being constantly told, over and over again. Abortion is a business. How sick is that?
Touching on parole has opened the door for me to touch on many things. Sorry folks. I'll stop.
I tend to agree. Involuntary servitude upon conviction is supposed to be remedial, both to the sentenced as well as to society. Yes the felon has time to reflect and reorder priorities (nothing but!).Society also needs to believe the outcome of ""sentence served" is at least the promise that the released ex-felon back into society has gained a sobre perspective, and will again undertake his own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Otherwise, why bother except for satisfaction in torturing. If so, better to banish or send into that good night anyone who cannot be restored. IMHO
This child killer is sure lucky he did not have me as a judge here in sunny California. We have an idle green gas chamber at San Quentin that I was taught to respect in the 1960s as a child. Cyanide aromatherepy cures all evils in murderers and traitors. IMHO
Parole serves more than as a money pinching proposition... it helps to provide the incentive to improve one's self and too maintain order in prison. The privilege of parole is often the motive to obtain vocational training, to enroll in drug and sexual abuse rehab, and to perform one's prison term without burning down the prison. I support parole for most prisoners... less the more violent criminals and repeat offenders... no-repeat offender or dangerous violent offender deserves parole... They have proven to be career criminals and dangers to society.
The several States are charged in Article 1, Section 4 Elections... to regulate federal elections in their respective States... Here is the authorizing clause: "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but Congress may at any time make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of chusing Senators."
The Elections Clause is the primary source of constitutional authority to regulate elections for the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. The Clause directs and empowers states to determine the “Times, Places, and Manner” of congressional elections, subject to Congress’s authority to “make or alter” state regulations. It grants each level of government the authority to enact a complete code for such elections, including rules concerning public notices, voter registration, voter protection, fraud prevention, vote counting, and determination of election results. Whenever a state enacts a law relating to a congressional election, it is exercising power under the Elections Clause; states do not have any inherent authority to enact such measures.
The power of states and Congress to regulate congressional elections under the Elections Clause is subject to express and implicit limits. Fundamentally, neither entity can enact laws under the Elections Clause that violate other constitutional provisions. For example, the Constitution specifies that anyone who is eligible to vote for the larger house of a state legislature may vote for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate as well, there can no be two sets of laws... one for the State and the other for the Federal Government. The Elections Clause does not permit either the states or Congress to override those provisions by establishing additional qualifications for voting for Congress.
Congressional and Presidential elections are conducted under a complicated mix of state and federal laws, reflecting the Elections Clause’s division of authority between state legislatures and Congress.
My understanding is that voting is more than a mere priviledge. In a Representative Republic form of government it is a duty. Now, some people, for a number of reasons, may determine not to perform that duty, refrain from voting at all, and if we truly do love liberty as we claim we do, then there is nothing wrong with that.
I have refrained from voting in some elections because I could not stomach the candidate choices put before the public. Sometimes it is hard to determine which pile of puke is preferrable.
In regard to the current Supreme Court nominee, I like her. A lot. Not only is she absolutely qualified she is also apparently (judging from her family) a very good Christian woman. I do not agree at all with her religion, but she lives Christian principles and shows it. And that is what matters. She is much better than me, I can assure you of that.
Earlier I stated my personal view regarding a felon voting again. That view hasn't changed. In fact, I would rather have felons voting rather than the stupid. By that I mean the people who are so stupid or ignorant that they knowingly vote for felons that have not been indicted. Wouldn't you? These are the people who are a danger to the nation, not a felon who has competed his sentence.
The Constitution is written to form a more perfect Union, and establish Justice. Is it Just to continue to restrict one after they have paid the cost? We say that part of that cost is losing the duty to vote, or not to vote, forever, for life? If those who believe that is the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, I say that you are wrong. And if ACB believes that, she is wrong as well.
I do not read either founding document the same way that some people apparently do. Anyway, that is my view.
Rights may not be limited or placed under government regulation... the minute a right is regulated it is no longer a right. Elections are regulated as to who may vote, when, where, and how. One's right to vote is more a privilege granted by the State to qualified citizens. Non-citizens, felons, the incompetent, and those failing to meet residency requirements, are excluded from voting. Therefore any implicit right to vote is at best a regulated privilege extended to a select group of individuals BY LAW...
"The minute a right is regulated it is no longer a right." Really? And in the same post you talk about the right to vote. That's very funny. I am starting to think that you are a funny guy.
Newsflash for you. ALL rights are regulated in any society, and they are still rights. - Nah. Disregard that statement. Instead, tell us one right that is NOT regulated.
The terms right to vote... is commonly misused to describe the privilege to vote... Not everyone has the privilege to vote. The privilege to Vote is GRANTED by the state to individuals who QUALIFY based on many factors... age, citizenship, mental competency, address/residency, criminal record, and other registration requirements, Individual Rights are not granted by the state they are the product of natural law and God's ordinances. Substituting the term 'Privilege' for 'Right' is most appropriate when discussing voting privileges, as the law restricts the privilege to vote to specific classes of citizens and other conditions... a few mentioned above.