Sep 02 Felons Are People, Too....

What is it with modern day felons? Have they got balls or what?

There used to be a day when criminals were viewed as the “bad apples” of our society, a day when we locked these guys up so that the rest of us could live in peace. It was a time when spending 20 years behind bars was an unpleasant, life-altering experience, something that kept the average citizen on the straight and narrow. Even going to jail for a night was humiliating.

Now, celebrities like Lindsay Lohan think of jail as a “cute” PR move- and a way to make a fashion statement. What you wear to and from the prison is much more important than what you did wrong.

We now live in a world of gray, a world where right and wrong are just relative terms.

The felons of today are fighting for their rights. Big time. They not only want their free health care, free dental, free “housing”, free meals, and free legal representation, they also want the right to vote, the right to have a sex-change operation, the right to legally change their name, the right to have plastic surgery…..

I opened up the Washington Times and read the headline: “Former felons feel boxed in by crime question.”

Huh.

It seems that felons would rather not face the consequences of their prior actions. They’re feeling “discrimination” because employers and landlords are “judging” them on their past when they apply for jobs or housing.

Hmmm…. let’s see. Let’s say that I have a small business and I’m looking for hired help….do I hire the clean-cut college grad or do I hire the guy who just did 20 years for armed robbery?

Tough decision.

We’ve got criminals like American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh suing the Indiana State prison for his right to “pray in a group” with another Muslim inmate. Lindh is in a cell block that is “restricted” so his contact with other inmates is limited. According to Yahoo, he’s claiming that “his religion requires him to pray five times a day, preferably in a group” and the prison is taking away that right from him.”

“Praying in his cell is not appropriate, he said, because the Quran requires a ritually clean place for prayer and he is forced to kneel “in close proximity to my toilet.”"

I wonder if the Bible lets you pray near a toilet…

The ACLU completely agrees with Lindh.

Shocking.

Then we have Rhozier “Roach” Brown, the convicted murderer who was serving a life sentence when Gerald Ford decided to commute his sentence. Roach has become a strong advocate for those who have been incarcerated and fought successfully to get back the voting rights for released criminals in DC. He’s now trying to get criminals legitimized as a “protected class” in society, folks who can’t be turned away from a job or housing simply based on their felon status.

Basically, he’d like to see us do away with backround and credit checks.

Roach claims, “If you can’t get a job, you can’t get a home, and if you can’t either, you can’t break the dependency. They can’t care for themselves or their families.”

Here’s the question: How does that help the rest of us who are law-abiding citizens? Do we not have a right to know that the guy in the next cubicle was a convicted rapist? Do we not have the right to know that our kids’ bus driver was once a child molester? Shouldn’t we be aware of the fact that the guy in the next apartment has a history of armed robbery?

When do honest people get rewarded?

This is especially important when we see the rash of illegal CRIMINALS breaching our Southern borders. As suggested by a new documentary, “Southern Exposure: Battle for the Border”, tens of thousands of felons- including murderers and sex offenders- are making their way to our country. The video, which was filmed near Tucson, Arizona, portrays the dirty little secrets within illegal immigration that our mainstream media won’t report.

WND reports “that in fiscal year 2008-2009, there were 378,000 apprehensions by the Border Patrol in the Tucson sector alone, which is only 262 linear miles. In the documentary, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Michael Scioli says the USBP estimates that agents apprehend one out of every three or four illegal migrants. He says that 15 percent of the aliens caught in the Tucson sector are convicted felons. That’s 57,000 convicts.”

“I’m talking about major things: homicides, sex offenders is one of the top three – hugely sex offenders,” Scioli says.

Should these guys get rights when they’re incarcerated? Should we give them mental health care and special prayer privileges?

In my home state of Minnesota, felons don’t have voting rights, yet in the 2008 election, it seems that many didn’t follow the law. An organization called the Minnesota Majority decided to investigate the number of convicted felons who voted and found that in 2 counties alone, there were a couple of hundred ballots cast by convicted criminals.

It is possible that these illegal votes gave Al Franken the 60th Senate seat.

It also means that illegal votes gave us the Health Care Law.

When initially alerted to the possibility of felon voter fraud, our Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie- who was heavily funded by George Soros in the last election- didn’t see a problem and turned a blind eye. This is the guy in charge of our elections, the guy who’s sworn to uphold the law.

When will the insanity stop? When will liberals start to identify the “good guys” and the “bad guys” in our society and realize that those of us who follow the law need to be protected from those who don’t? When will we learn that criminal activity has consequences?

Do a google search of sex molesters in your area and look at the pictures and profiles of those who come up on the screen. Look at their rap sheets. Most are repeat offenders. Do we want those guys sharing an apartment building with our college-age daughters?

Really?

Do we want them to vote to determine our laws, our judges, our legal system?

Do we want to give them the rights of a “protected class” ?

And should we have to tolerate and fund their every whim while incarcerated? Does the Quran get to determine how they live in jail- what they eat, where they pray? Isn’t this just a slippery slope that could ultimately get Shariah Law into our legal system?

When does the insanity end?

Cross-posted at Awaken the Elephants