My heart is bursting. On the eve of my first child's birth, my dad - who's been in prison nearly my entire life - was granted clemency. He never intended harm, yet his crime devastated many families. My heart breaks for the families that can never get their loved ones back.
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Replying to @chesaboudin
The three people your father helped murder when he was a leader in a communist terrorist group never got to see or hear their loved ones again.
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Where was the mercy for those he killed.
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Absent. But today is today, and before merciful God and a tormented world I choose mercy.
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Replying to @Thndrbolt @john_00011 and
Imagine appealing to the good nature of others but having none of your own. Bob you are bad on the inside.
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Replying to @ezralbntseliot @Thndrbolt and
Bob is the kind of person who calls for empathy for those on his political side, but none for his opponents. This is especially egregious when you consider that lefty terrorists like the Weather Underground tend to fall into very cushy and influential jobs after they get pardoned
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Replying to @AfBanished @Thndrbolt and
But isn't that the way most of us, right or left, are? Does that mean most of us are "bad on the inside"? Maybe so. But that doesn't mean Bob doesn't have a point, and maybe the way to stop being "bad on the inside" is to start showing mercy to our opponents as well?
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Replying to @ezralbntseliot @Thndrbolt and
Not if you're saying it in bad faith.
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The point itself is a good point--assuming it IS a good point--whether it's said in good faith or not. Sure, it's legitimate to condemn the hypocrisy of someone who advocates it but doesn't abide by it, but that's irrelevant to an assessment of the point itself.
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Replying to @ezralbntseliot @Thndrbolt and
No it's not. It's someone else holding me to a standard they have no intention of living up to for thier own gain.
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