Posted on 07/01/2004 9:08:04 AM PDT by 7thson
I got a question for all of you learned Freepers. I just listened to a Paul Harvey segment where he told of a 70+ year old guy who decided to be a bank robber. Went to the bank, pulled a rag over his face with no eyeholes, proceeded to bump into people, left in disgust, and the police pulled him over later. That was the Readers Digest version.
Question - what are the voting patterns of criminals and would be criminals? Does anyone know of any research of those in prison and what political party they associate with or relate to?
I listened about this stupid old guy and just wondered if he voted for Gore, Clinton, Mondale, Dukakis, et al.
Anyway, I am throwing this out for debate.
Criminals normally think they're owed things. So who does that remind you opf?
Criminals normally think they're owed things. So who does that remind you of?
If he were blinded and bumping into people, he was probably a registered Libertarian.
They vote Democrat, early and often. Case in point: felons in Florida voting - Democrat, of course - though felons are not allowed to vote.
Well, it seems like it is only democrats pushing to give the right to vote to convicted felons...
G'day!
Look up Canada Statistics. During last weeks election the Canada Supreme court ruled that incarcerated felons had a right to vote.
Despite only having to shuffle to a voting booth. I believe that the voting rate was about 20%.
Which party caters to cons? Which party fights for felons to have voting rights? Which party hires excons (rapists, robbers, murderers) to go door to door to register new voters? Which party has the largest number of ex-offenders as candidates and office holders? If you know the answers to those questions, you know which party the majority of criminals vote for.
Here was the following party breakdown:
Democrat..........33
Republican........ 4
No Party.......... 1
Here is my next question. If someone did a study and discovered that an overwhelming majority of convicts were raised as dems or voted as dems, what would the response of the Alan Colmes of the world be?
That it's inhumane to disenfranchise felons. The ACLU will file suit. The SCOTUS will bend to the Dem's will.
Colmes and the rest of the Left's response would be: No one is perfect, and individuals shouldn't have to lose their voting rights just because they made a mistake. Unlike the Republican Party, the Democrat Party is all inclusive. We accept those who have been victims of society's class system and racial biases, those that didn't have the same opportunities as the rest of us, and those who are looked upon as outcasts by the Right. Why wouldn't convicted felons search us out? We are the party of equal rights afterall.
Criminals vote democrat. If they didn't, the DNC wouldn't continually make a push for felons to be given the right to vote, and Jesse Jackson and his buddies wouldn't run voter registration drives in prisons.
I have on more than one occasion been in a discussion (online and in person) with a liberal who has the "paid their debt" rationality for returning the right to vote. When asked if all their rights should be returned they always say yes, failing to move ahead a step to see what they agreed too. When I ask about firearms they get flubbered.
Why do you think the rats are pushing so hard to get voting rights back for convicted felons? This is not rocket science stuff.
Having worked over 23 years in the New York State prison system (uniformed staff) and knowing that most felons are not one-time offenders, but offend multiple times, and that most cons never do the actual time for the crime they committed because of the plea-bargaining system in the state, and that most felons have a record an arm's length, having been arrested numerous times prior to their ever doing any time in a state prison, I can't agree with you that they should be given any of their rights back...voting or otherwise.
That the criminal justice system unfairly targets democrats, of course. (See similar statements about the number of blacks in prison.)
Did I say they should get all their rights back? If I did, I did not mean too. I was pointing out an excellent tactic I use on liberals who call for felons to get their rights back.
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