If we all as a net community can have discussions and open forums discussing Music topics and related issues we should all be able to show some type of concern for our future of music, liberty, freedoms, and our childrens and families futures! If you really don't like how your government or the system is at the moment don't just talk about it do something! Thousands upon Thousands of our family ancestors in ALL countries have shed blood for freedom and Liberty with you, their children, in mind for a brighter future! I think we could at least reflect on the Che Guevera's, Emiliano Zapata's, Abraham Lincoln's, Nelson Mandela's, Martin Luther King jr's, Malcolm X's, John Fitzgerald Kennedy's, Evita Peron's, And the Hundreds of normal people like us that gave up everything to make sure you have the right to vote and to have freedom! If one of you board members could vote than I've Regained my voice Because I am a Felon and in the United States we cannot vote! This is due to the fact that MOSTLY minorities are in prisons and it is a way to take away their voice. You see it is a subtle form of " weeding out" Liberal votes and ensures that informed, intelligent minorities can't sway a vote! I could go on Forever and ever about the shit these Rich fuckers are doing to us, but that would be way to long! I don't Care what ya'll vote for just vote! Oh yeah and a special sidenote Prop 66 is a very important bill that will ensure that you have to have three violent felonies to catch life not like my old cellmate who got caught in orange county with 10 dollars worth of heroin and they gave him life! 3 strikes put good people away and fucked up strong families. Yes on 66 makes sure that you got to have 3 VIOLENT offenses to get life but the current law is ANY THREE FELONIES can get you LIFE and USUALLY DOES. So thank you very much for your time and go register!
YOUR FUTURE! Please Register to Vote!!! Yes on 66!!!
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Nefar559! Thank you very much and since i have piqued your interest I would be more than happy to describe to you the injustices and the systematic circumventing of minorities votes via a very structured system that actually has been a safe guard { for the rich} since inception of the constitution so that are voices are quelled and lost through a burecratic and oppressive system which is cohesively ingrained with the penal system, welfare system, and actually is demographically bias in most case! I will start a new thread! Thank you for your vote Yes on 66, I feel i at least owe it to you for that very important voice that was stolen from me for feeding my family the only way i was taught! The Capitalistic way! But i didn't fit the two criteria's that would have ensured my success or my lack of. I wasn't White and I was poor! I am NOT a racist and i do not BLAME my woes on any one but myself, However it would be absurd to not acknowledge that in our United states judicial system and ALL forms of Government they have an inclination to protect certain liberties in other words WE ARE ALL EQUAL, BUT SOME OF US ARE JUST A LITTLE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS! GOD BLESS
Of course, many felons have not "paid their debt to society" becuase the depts placed on them are so severe and may take an entire lifetime to pay.
"Of the approximately five million adults who will be forbidden from voting this year because of a criminal conviction, 40 percent are black and the overwhelmingly majority are people of color. A recent study by the United States Civil Rights Commission reports that 13 percent of all black males in the country are disfranchised because of a felony conviction.
Nor can it be mere coincidence that felon disfranchisement laws are most harsh in the Southern States, which have a 150-year, post-Civil War history of crafting laws to prevent the descendants of former slaves from voting – including poll taxes, literacy tests and a host of other barriers which disparately impacted the poor and the under-educated.
Thanks to constitutional and statutory reforms and aggressive civil rights advocacy, most of those barriers have been eliminated one by one. However, because of a strained reading of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment in an opinion by Justice Rehnquist in 1974, felon disfranchisement laws have been able to survive efforts to expand the franchise and provide equal voting opportunity to minority groups
Section 2 provides that whenever a state denies the right to vote to otherwise qualified inhabitants, the state's representation in Congress will be reduced in proportion to the number of persons excluded from the franchise – except when disfranchisement is based upon “participation in rebellion or other crime.” The provision was obviously intended to punish any of the former Confederate States which tried to prevent former slaves from voting by reducing their representation in the national legislature."
Of course, many felons have not "paid their debt to society" becuase the depts placed on them are so severe and may take an entire lifetime to pay.
"Of the approximately five million adults who will be forbidden from voting this year because of a criminal conviction, 40 percent are black and the overwhelmingly majority are people of color. A recent study by the United States Civil Rights Commission reports that 13 percent of all black males in the country are disfranchised because of a felony conviction.
Nor can it be mere coincidence that felon disfranchisement laws are most harsh in the Southern States, which have a 150-year, post-Civil War history of crafting laws to prevent the descendants of former slaves from voting – including poll taxes, literacy tests and a host of other barriers which disparately impacted the poor and the under-educated.
Thanks to constitutional and statutory reforms and aggressive civil rights advocacy, most of those barriers have been eliminated one by one. However, because of a strained reading of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment in an opinion by Justice Rehnquist in 1974, felon disfranchisement laws have been able to survive efforts to expand the franchise and provide equal voting opportunity to minority groups
Section 2 provides that whenever a state denies the right to vote to otherwise qualified inhabitants, the state's representation in Congress will be reduced in proportion to the number of persons excluded from the franchise – except when disfranchisement is based upon “participation in rebellion or other crime.” The provision was obviously intended to punish any of the former Confederate States which tried to prevent former slaves from voting by reducing their representation in the national legislature."
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Thank you for validating my arguement you are also obviously a well informed individual! I hope you checked out my other thread regarding this subjec! Thanks God Bless!
"Of the approximately five million adults who will be forbidden from voting this year because of a criminal conviction, 40 percent are black and the overwhelmingly majority are people of color. A recent study by the United States Civil Rights Commission reports that 13 percent of all black males in the country are disfranchised because of a felony conviction.
Nor can it be mere coincidence that felon disfranchisement laws are most harsh in the Southern States, which have a 150-year, post-Civil War history of crafting laws to prevent the descendants of former slaves from voting – including poll taxes, literacy tests and a host of other barriers which disparately impacted the poor and the under-educated.
Thanks to constitutional and statutory reforms and aggressive civil rights advocacy, most of those barriers have been eliminated one by one. However, because of a strained reading of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment in an opinion by Justice Rehnquist in 1974, felon disfranchisement laws have been able to survive efforts to expand the franchise and provide equal voting opportunity to minority groups
Section 2 provides that whenever a state denies the right to vote to otherwise qualified inhabitants, the state's representation in Congress will be reduced in proportion to the number of persons excluded from the franchise – except when disfranchisement is based upon “participation in rebellion or other crime.” The provision was obviously intended to punish any of the former Confederate States which tried to prevent former slaves from voting by reducing their representation in the national legislature."
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Thank you for validating my arguement you are also obviously a well informed individual! I hope you checked out my other thread regarding this subjec! Thanks God Bless!
