ACLU Re-arming Felons?

The lamestream media told you:
Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The ACLU has begun a campaign to restore the rights of felons. In Arizona, the "civil rights" groups claims it would add 166,000 new voters to the rolls. People with felony convictions automatically lose the right to vote, run for or hold office, circulate candidate or referendum petitions, or to own, have, buy or use guns.

The current plan is to only restore the right to vote however, treating these people as half citizens whose rights are not really restored, but who, it is believed, will tip the voting balance in the country.

Felons, or so the thinking goes, will vote largely with the various takings coalitions, and the people running the restoration effort, who are essentially Democratics.

"America is the land of second chances," the ACLU claimed in its Fall, 2007, Arizona newsletter, "and when the gates of prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."

That path is less than clear however. "If a person is now whole, and the right to vote is reinstated, then surely that person should have all rights intact, and be free from the disabilities that a felony conviction imposes," said the Uninvited Ombudsman in an interview.

"If the person remains dangerous, or is not sufficiently free of the past to exercise all civil rights, then how can such people be given the vote? Can the ACLU truly justify marginalizing that group by declaring them fit for only a single civil right? Are these felons members of society or aren't they?"

Critics charge that the ACLU's move is a perverse attempt to tip the nation in favor of Democrats in the upcoming presidential election, by adding a new voting bloc to that party. Whether being known as the party of former felony convicts with a single civil right is a good thing is unclear, though the extra votes might swing elections, so who cares.

Tags: ACLU

Comments

[Aaron]

When the ACLU stood up for Larry Craig, I missed the outrage. The ACLU stands up for Constitutional rights, regardless of how unpopular the person or group they are defending. I often disagree with the person they are defending but I agree with their intended goal to defend the rights we are supposed to have. The title of this article is very deceptive and kudos to you for using it to getting more page views. But in the end, the ACLU is working to defend the rights of people who served their sentence. I get the impression that your stance is that people who go to prison can't be productive when they get out and shouldn't be allowed to vote, ever. If you get busted for a drug offense, does that mean you're a drug dealer for life? Let's see the forest for the trees here.

[Gregg]

Aaron,
That was not the point of the article at all. Did you actually READ the article?

The ACLU is NOT working to defend ALL Constitutional Rights, just the ones that they agree with.

The point being made is that while the ACLU is working to restore voting rights to ex-felons they are doing nothing to restore the right to keep and bear arms to ex-felons. Do you agree with them that it is better for a woman to be raped and murdered than to have the ability to defend herself?