As someone who is acutely aware of the trauma caused by having a loved one in and out of prison, I am dedicated to fighting to change a criminal legal system that is fundamentally unjust:
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My dearly departed USMC father - who suffered from PTSD and heroin addiction when he returned from Vietnam - was often in and out of prison, because when you're Black the system sees a criminal and not a war hero who was suffering and needed help.
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I say that to say he had rights, they all have rights, even the murderers and terrorists. The punishment is the incarceration, its not supposed to strip them of their humanity. And if we intentionally use those who do not garner sympathy as the bar for the rest, we are failing.
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He DID. I'm so sorry for what he went through. I'm so sorry for how he was treated. I'm so sorry for your loss. There is a crime on our end.
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Thank you
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Holding up one individual’s despicable acts as a standard that others should have to abide by is reckless. Wrongful convictions are a thing too, you know.
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The number of wrongful convictions revealed by The Innocence Project is a good argument against anything that would add to the deprivation of rights--beyond freedom of movement and the freedom to set one's own daily schedule--that prisoners endure.
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Good thread. This is a counterintuitive and controversial but absolutely necessary fight to have. Nice to see someone resist the political cowardice in the Democrat Party
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That’s my Congresswoman!
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I’m jealous she isn’t mine!!
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As a Boston native it saddens me that Ms. Pressley has chosen to stand with terrorists who attacked our city and not with the vast, vast majority of us who would never give him the right to vote. America, this fool does not speak for us.
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Uh. We are talking about American citizens here aren’t we? 9/11 attackers were foreign nationals with no Constitutional right to vote.
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The moment you start deciding who can and can't vote or feel you're somehow entitled to make these decisions on others behalf, like your life is somehow superior to another, it's not democracy that's your peak concern, it's power...
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Victims of murder can NO LONGER vote, neither should their murderers. Non-violent criminals, maybe, but murderers, rapists, terrorists, etc., H#LL NO!!
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Victims of lung cancer can’t vote, should tobacco executives be barred from voting?
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go back to bed
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Troops and cops kill people, why should they be allowed to vote?
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see above
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So that’s a yes? People who cause people to die shouldn’t be allowed to vote?
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