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

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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.
> I AGREE.
> 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!
> I AGREE
> 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!