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Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald+Sep 23 2004, 05:47 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Lanny_MacDonald @ Sep 23 2004, 05:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-nfotiu@Sep 23 2004, 03:24 PM
Ok, sure take away the right to vote from all murderers. But what happens when you are convicted of a suspect felony like marijuano posession? You have a law that makes it a felony to do what probably the majority of people have done. This law is enforced much more strictly on a certain group of the population than others. Now everyone who has been persecuted by the law has no recourse to change it. These are substantial numbers of people now. It seems like a pretty good way to stay in power, convict all your opposers of felonies by making laws that you can enfrorce on them. It leads down a bad road, if you ask me.
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Do you know how much marijuana you have to have in your possession to get charged with felony marijuna possession? Its not like you're using it for recreational purposes at that point. You are traffiking. I think that if you traffik you are not contributing to society and are actually working toward its downfall. To me, you forfeit your vote. Simple solution, don't traffik. [/b][/quote]
Says you. I'm sure everyone has an idea of who should be allowed to vote and who shouldn't. It is not out of the realm of possibility that the republican party could one day institue a zero tolerance policy on posession. I also believe that some black people have been convicted of felonies for crimes that white, rich college kids would walk on.
Pot is just one example to show that a felony is not always an absolutely evil thing. Letting the lawmakers make those decisions is a conflict of interest. They make the laws that could disenfranchise people. It is a system that opens itself to abuse.