Reply #22: Nice to see that you're more than willing to throw traditional American values [View All]

[MadHound]

And a couple of centuries worth of jurisprudence overboard.

Your smug sentiment sounds like one that has no basis in reality. You do realize that many start up businesses require a background check don't you. Oops, there goes a significant portion of start up businesses. And honestly now, how many banks are going to loan money to a convict? And regulating people to "day labor" is simply wrong. Not everybody can work day labor, especially the disabled and aging. Hell, I'm a big guy, in good shape and forty five years old. I find that my capacity for doing physical labor has diminished significantly, yet here you are, excpecting a convict fresh out after a twenty five year stint to tote and haul in day labor for the rest of their life? Please.

So will also welcome drug dealers, and other ex-cons being ankleted for life? This is, after all, where we're headed. I clearly remember when this whole issue began that many, many individuals thought that it was only going to be limited to sex offenders, while they were on parole. Now here we are, with sex offenders ankleted for life, and the rest of the convicts next in line for that.

Sorry, you might be more than willing to throw away such conventional ideas as "having paid one's debt", but frankly I find such Un-American actions to be repugnant, and another sign that this country is morphing into a fascist regime that I no longer recognize. When are you going to wake up, when they come and anklet innocent citizens such as yourself? By then it will be far too late.