should ex felons be restricted

[Fletchette]

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In this country we go by the rule of law, not perfect but its better than no law at all.
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Unless, of course, the law is immoral, tyrannical, or unconstitutional, in which case we have a moral duty to not abide by the law...

ditto

 

[GhostRider-Nine]

Losing your rights over breaking a Malum in Se law is one thing....but over a Malum Prohibitum is quite another.

 

[telewinz]

Unless, of course, the law is immoral, tyrannical, or unconstitutional, in which case we have a moral duty to not abide by the law...

This statement is sooo lame. Something an outcast/non-conformist might WISH to believe to justify their anger.

 

[GhostRider-Nine]

Unless, of course, the law is immoral, tyrannical, or unconstitutional, in which case we have a moral duty to not abide by the law...

This statement is sooo lame. Something an outcast/non-conformist might WISH to believe to justify their anger.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams, 1776 (Who was no doubt labled as an outcast/non-conformist)

I couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[Molon Labe]

This statement is sooo lame. Something an outcast/non-conformist might WISH to believe to justify their anger.

I can only assume you believe Rosa Parks was an angry outcast/non-conformist for (gasp!) breaking the law.

And what about those minutemen of 1776? I can only assume you would have supported the redcoats. After all, those minutemen were lawbreakers. Every one of them.

The lesson here is that some laws are not worthy of respect or recognition. And as a free People it is our duty to fight – and if circumstances require, violate – such laws.

A strict observation of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means. - Thomas Jefferson to John Colvin, 1810

 

[USP45usp]

edited because of the post in General by SM.

I figure that I would be the first to start the healing.

Wayne