First, to clarify:
There are some crimes that should have long lasting repercussions. We all know what they are: murder, rape, major assault, and the like. I'm not talking about those.
I'm talking about kids joyriding cars, pinching a case of beer, the long list of people busted for pot posession, and other felonies that simply don't have far reaching, long term consequences.
Do I approve of any of these activities? Nope. (I'm conceding pot posession = bad for the sake of this and only this argument, lest we get sidetracked.) Should they get off with a slight slap on the wrist? Most of the time, no. The punishment should FIT the crime.
Should they result in permanent loss of inalienable rights, in these lesser cases?
Nope.
There are plenty of folks who need to be come down upon HARD, but we must disciminate (in the original meaning, which is: to use sound judgement) between who is hardcore and hopeless, and who isn't.
Unless some of these ex-felons want to pony up some cash for me to offset the my costs of the above, then I will call it even and that they have repaid their debt to society.
So, the value of inalienable rights (rights revocation sorta begs the whole inalienable scene, doesn't it?) can be described in the equation:
inalienableRights = $prosecution + $incarceration + $victimRestitution?