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Justice Department program to no longer use ‘disparaging’ terms ‘felons’ and ‘convicts’
Washington Times ^ | 5/4/2016 | Andrea Noble

Posted on 05/06/2016 9:37:36 AM PDT by Syncopated

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They couldn't make this up in a satirical novel on a dystopian "free society." This has to come from the minds of
1 posted on 05/06/2016 9:37:36 AM PDT by Syncopated
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..from the minds of this New Left festering in the halls of the craziest of crazy undergraduate programs.


2 posted on 05/06/2016 9:38:57 AM PDT by Syncopated
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I guarantee you the term “gun felon” will remain in their lexicon.


3 posted on 05/06/2016 9:39:03 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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Because they're just like the rest of us.
Well, it's true in Washington anyway.

4 posted on 05/06/2016 9:39:06 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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A long time ago, when I worked at Yale University, I was written up with a very formal “you’re almost fired” sort of disciplinary act because I described a student as “oriental”.

Now, many years later, I’m not written up (Because I own the business) but I was sternly corrected to no longer use the term “Skip” or “Fugitive” and instead report as “defendants” and “Defendants on the run”

I used to call them “skips” and “Potential skips” just as a PC joke. But my joke doesn’t go as far as reality I guess.


5 posted on 05/06/2016 9:40:14 AM PDT by Celerity
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They should replace the terms with “Senator,” and other polite society honorifics.


6 posted on 05/06/2016 9:40:33 AM PDT by Syncopated
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In lieu of “prisoners”, the next new term will likely be “non-voluntary guests.”


7 posted on 05/06/2016 9:42:42 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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“Fellow Democrats” is the new preferred term.


8 posted on 05/06/2016 9:45:41 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Ted Cruz was the man!)
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“The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs is eschewing the terms “felon” and “convict” when officials refer to individuals convicted of crimes, opting instead for less “disparaging labels,”

I wholeheartedly endorse replacing “felon” and “convict” with “Democrat Voter”.


9 posted on 05/06/2016 9:47:12 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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They will start calling life sentences a trip to the Hotel California.


10 posted on 05/06/2016 9:50:48 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (United we stand, divided we fall. I think the establishment has divided us enough.)
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Orwell is smiling in his grave.


11 posted on 05/06/2016 9:53:11 AM PDT by aquila48
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INJustice Department program to no longer use ‘disparaging’ terms ‘felons’ and ‘convicts’

There. Fixed it.

12 posted on 05/06/2016 9:54:44 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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1984


13 posted on 05/06/2016 9:54:50 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you)
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President Trump is going to have a task much like Hercules cleaning out the Augean stables when he is inaugurated! This bunch needs to be removed and cleaned out.

God help us hold this thing together long enough to have this one more peaceful transfer of power!

The story of the Augean stables:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/stables.html


14 posted on 05/06/2016 9:55:26 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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Give em a band aid and 2 aspirin. Next!!


15 posted on 05/06/2016 9:56:47 AM PDT by MarineMom613 (RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 ~ 7/2/2010 - See you on the other side!)
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Why even send them to prison in the first place? It might hurt heir feelings- They might feel stigmatized- they might get depressed- Better to just say “Tsk Tsk” and let them go- On second thought, we shouldn’t even say that- they might take offense to it- Better to hand them money- high five em- and remove all security measures we have inplace to prevent crimes from happening- so they don;t have to work so hard committing crimes- we wouldn’t want them to become exhausted committing crimes now would we?


16 posted on 05/06/2016 9:59:10 AM PDT by Bob434
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The Cultural Marxists knew what Wittgenstein stated in 1900-—and Eddy Bernays used to actually FLIP 2000 years of Christian Ethics to Satanism.

The Left knows that the control of Words (Language) will control concepts and desires of the masses and why they took total control of information/schools and universities/publicshing companies and magazines and mainline “churches” by 1930. (CIA created the Feminist movement/Gloria Steinam and MS magazine for mind control-—esp of little girls (to determine Marxism-—hate of males and self (body/God’s Design)..

Hitler studies Eddy Bernays book of 1915 or so-—”Propaganda.”

Our “skools” were taken over by Fichte/Wundt/Pavlovian Marxists in 1930 and textbooks were rewritten and forced a “marxist, immoral, irrational worldview in the masses.”.

Lies and Misinformation is ALL that Common Core “teaches” which deliberately DESTROYS critical thinking and virtue formation in ALL CHILDREN. It will collapse civil society and create dependent slaves for the State.

There is no “critical thinking” without Classical Christian Curricula-—which created the Age of Reason and Minds of Newton and Tesla. Only Christianity embraced Free Will (choice) and Individualism (thinking outside the box). AND IS WHY the Postmodernist/Progressives/Marxists needed to “kill God”-—destroy the Christian Worldview in children to make “group” (collective” (non) thinkers for the totalitarian Orwellian State..


17 posted on 05/06/2016 10:04:19 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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Trump will have a full time job writing Executive orders to rid our government of the all the Pc junk. It would be fun for him to issue one orderingt he Justice Dept. to say criminal, convict, and felon.


18 posted on 05/06/2016 10:04:50 AM PDT by taterjay
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We *have* to get these people out of positions of power.


19 posted on 05/06/2016 10:05:25 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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I was at a concert twenty years ago when the artist (forgotten) talked about a friend who had “undergone a prison experience.” I guess like a con.


20 posted on 05/06/2016 10:11:06 AM PDT by budj (beam me up, scotty...)
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