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My biggest concern would be both the bureaucracy and liberal bent any kind of tribunal or board hearing it would take. I fear it would be a rubber stamp. It would be a governmental jobs program for more liberal losers with degrees in psychology.

But I do feel there should be a way.

Someone very close to me got hooked on heroin, and his life spiraled out of control. His older brother had been beaten by a gang of neighborhood guys, and he went to the house they were at with a baseball bat and yelled for them to come out. (He was and is an extremely muscular guy) When they did, he beat a couple of them severly with the bat, putting one in the hospital. He was convicted and spent several years in jail for it. They guys he beat were scum. He wasn’t an evil guy, and I always had a great relationship with him. He was weak, like many of us are, and he paid for it nearly succumbing to the drugs and letting his emotions get control of him.

But he took full responsibility for what he did, and vowed to turn his life around.

When he got out of jail, he worked hard to turn his life around. He opened his own business and works like hell at it. Tries to raise his kids without a psychotic and criminal mother and give them the best chance and discipline to succeed. He has kept his nose clean and to the grindstone.

It is people like him (and from what I have seen of the posts on FR, knarf) who should have a pathway to restore their full rights.