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Dirt bag or not rights are supposed to be "inalienable" if he is out and walking around he should have his "rights".
+1 SVG. Thats a big complaint of mine too.
1) We have way to many laws, it is way to easy to become a criminal should the powers that be choose to make you one.
2) If a criminal is so bad that we must monitor, track, remove rights, parole etc. then why the hell are they out of prison or even alive. We need to keep criminals either locked up or eliminated. - Due Process must apply here and be filtered through the bill of rights.
3) If a person has committed a crime, finished the punishment, and been evaluated as safe to release, then they should have all rights restored and allowed to go about their business. - Keep Records? Yes of course, if they re-offend you will need and want that as part of an evidence package to ensure they are fairly (and correctly) judged.
- We as a society have allowed the entire legal continuum to encompass our lives in an entirety. We must break free of this type of thinking and reject further encroachments upon our civil liberties. The legal, judicial and enforcement system has become a stand alone entity where the individual is viewed as a potential problem and must be controlled with a series of switchback loopable laws. In effect, if your not 100% sheeplized, you may be viewed as a thorn and removed. Individualism will become increasingly more difficult and more dangerous if we do not start rolling back the trend.
- What to do? - Make it easier for local and federal government to remove and delete old laws, and insist that they do so regularly. Currently, it is easier to make a law than to remove one. In Tacoma Wa, there are still several laws regulating horses and buggies, how and when they can be parked etc. - Why? It's to hard to remove them, so they leave them on the books. - Also, Lawmakers and enforcers should be held accountable with the exact same consequence and punishments or immunities and impunities that you and me have. Humans are Humans, no matter they wear a badge, gun, or have broken a law, and must be held to an equal, and simple standard. By that i DO mean Standard... NOT Regulated ... -- The current ruling regarding police and warrantless entries is a shining example of how we are slowly sifting off the edge... yet no one seems notice.
:dude: Figured I'd rant a minute... Thats one topic that gets my fur fluffed.