Re: Felonys, Misdemeanors, and Background checks....

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On 7/04/06, Curmudgeon wrote:
> You did not make a "mistake." You made a deliberate
> decision to commit a crime. Employers, landlords, etc., are
> entitled to know that you are the type of person that either
> poses a risk of committing another crime or has such bad
> judgment that you make those types of "mistakes." You are
> proving that with your post. Rather than accepting
> responsibility for your past and making the best of what you
> have, you try to excuse it as a "mistake"--and we're somehow
> supposed to assume that it will never happen again. My short
> answer to you, my friend----B*llsh*t.
>
> On 7/04/06, John wrote:
>> Here is my opinion about criminal background checks. If a
>> person has made a criminal mistake in their past and paid
>> their debt to society, they need to be set FREE (Truly
>> FREE) and not oppressed by society for the rest of their
>> lives and continually held accountable for past mistakes.
>>
>> A criminal background check (employment, housing, etc...)
>> on an ex-offender only serves to oppress and discriminate
>> against these people based on their past mistakes. If
>> they have paid their debt to society, then LET them go
>> FREE! Truly FREE!
>>
>> Everytime an ex-offender cannot find work, housing, or
>> licensing for a profession and better way of life...he or
>> she is placed in a desperate life situation. Depression
>> and Anger fills them. If this person finds him/herself
>> without hope of a better future or any future for that
>> matter, then you can most assuredly expect the CREATION of
>> More criminal activity, more hatred towards an unforgiving
>> society, and a SKYROCKETING repeat offender RECIDIVISM
>> rate in our national prison systems.
>>
>> If ex-offenders cannot find decent work, housing, or a
>> better life after their release...what GOOD is their
>> FREEDOM..???? What good is their life! SET THEM FREE!
>>
>> GIVE Ex-offenders BACK their rights to live! Stop holding
>> these people accountable for the rest of their lives for
>> past mistakes (not a damn one of us is perfect or has
>> never sinned), and give them the TRUE FREEDOM to better
>> their lives without fear of the oppression and
>> discrimination that comes from looking into their
>> backgrounds and holding this against them for the rest of
>> their lives. How UTTERLY RIDICULOUS and WHAT A TRAVESTY!
>> That is NOT JUSTICE, that is OPPRESSION! And when hope is
>> finally lost in the souls of these ex-offenders, you are
>> CREATING Criminals, NOT rehabilitating them!
>>
>> You think about that!
>>
>> Judge not and condemn not, lest YOU be judged!
>> The merciful shall obtain Mercy!
>>
>> There is a higher power to listen too and obey than the
>> biases of mankind and His name is God Almighty whom this
>> nation was founded UNDER.
>>
>> FREE those who are wrongly being continually oppressed and
>> give the Lord a mightly flood of justice and mercy towards
>> those in trouble, in need of help, and who are poor.
>>
>> I am pissed off and angry as hell at what I see going on
>> around me with ex-offenders and with myself.
>>
>> Unless things change, society is going to see an EXPLOSION
>> of criminal activity, until rights are restored to
>> oppressed and discriminated ex-offenders!
>>
>> The whole sitaiton is PATHETIC and I am deeply ashamed!

Curmudgeon,

By your reasoning you are saying once a criminal, ALWAYS a
criminal. That is BullSh...! And it is
prejudicial/discriminatory and leads to a life of oppression!

I don't care what a person has done, no person is beyond
redemption. STOP judging other people based on their pasts
(which is gone anyway), or you will be judged by the same
standards you use for others by God! That is a BIG message in
the Bible!

And you say that crime is deliberate and not a mistake. Of
course, crime is deliberate because the person doing it is
doing it for some reason (maybe being brought up in a broken
home with no upbringing). We ALL make "mistakes" in our lives
(wrong job, wrong spouse, curse, lie, lust, adultery, greed,
gossip, slander, anger, immoral, etc....)

But if a person has committed some crime and has been punished
for it and served their debt to society, it should not be held
against them for the rest of their lives! That is completely
WRONG! Why bother punishing them for a limited amount of time
and then releasing them at all, if that is the case?

If society is not going to forgive a person's past
trangressions, then what's the point of releasing them from
prison in the first place. They will have no life when they
get out anyway. Why not just keep them in prison for the rest
of their lives OR better yet....because YOU feel once a
criminal, ALWAYS a criminal..why not just KILL them (gas,
lethal injuction) and save the tax payers money from
supporting them in prison. Right!

Have you ever lied in your life? Should I judge you as
a "Liar" for the rest of your life thinking everything that
comes out of your mouth for the rest of your life will be a
lie? How utterly FOOLISH!

You may say, "Well, I can lie all I want too because it isn't
against the law." But does that make it right? It is against
God's law. And even the courtrooms call this perjury.

Have you ever been angry with another person? God says you
are a murderer at heart when you do so and subject to His
judgment, lest your mercy towards others wins out against his
judgement towards you.

Have you ever looked upon a woman with lust? God says you are
an adulterer at heart when you do so. But you may say lust
and adultery is legal. Not according to God!

Are you prideful and arrogant? These are abominations to God.

Simply put and this says it all...."no one is perfect, not a
single person on earth" and if you or anyone will not forgive
another persons transgression in their life, then you yourself
will NOT be forgiven by God and these ramifications are
eternal.

But you may be an athiest for all I know. I also know my
words wont change a person who is unwilling to change either.
God says people who will not listen are stubborn and
rebellious because they hate the light and love the darkness.