Bernie’s deep thoughts: He actually said he WOULD give the bomber the right to vote

He knows 8 out of every 10 terrorists would vote Bernie.

True dat. The sky’s the limit on what they will do to buy votes.

Bernie should worry more about the evil 1% he's a part of.

Inherent EVIL to even contemplate giving convicted murderers, rapists, chikd abusers and terrorists a vote in anything! Bernie is a fruit loop.

Funny that.

That's VERY racist thinking there, OM. Not that I think so but, don't step too far. Please don't speak for Islamic terrorists unless you are one because you can't begin to understand the struggles they face. Getting bomb material, obtaining rocket launchers, having to constantly change phones. Don't let your white privilege blind you to the realities faced by these oppressed people.
I'd just hate for you to be ostracized from your friends for colonial thinking. Just cuz you fund them, doesn't mean you own them.

to weaponize for a political agenda.
do the crime..do the time...and done.
end of discussion.

if you agree that committing a crime removes you from political life...forever..
that will just open up a new can of worms to be exploited by the political class.

we are already the worlds greatest penal colony.

Not forever, just while they are paying their debt to society. Bernie said that the marathon bomber should have the right to vote even while in prison. I’ll take a hard pass on that. It wreaks of desperately buying votes. I believe in restoring rights after their time is served.

i understand why some may think that way,and it can be another form of punishment,but it is also a really effective way to disenfranchise people.

it is a state by state issue.
took me 10 years to get my rights back,and i had to fight for it,even though it was in that states constitution that my rights be re-instated automatically.

as for "buying votes"..meh..not exactly a new or novel tactic,but it does presume the direction that convict would take.

if you recall it was bill Clinton who enacted the "three strikes" and thus began America's largest penal colony on the planet.neither party could be considered "convict friendly".both parties use the "tough on crime" bullwhip every election cycle.

both Vermont and maine allow convicts to vote,but those are the only states.i am partial to either actually.i understand both lines of thinking and they both have validity.so let the states make their own rules.

Were you convicted of a felony and how could it take 10 years if that state’s constitution says it’s automatic?

did my time,but the state i was in made it that you couldn't vote for ten years after release.
had to get my original lawyer to take the state to court to re-instate my rights.which i found out at the time was pretty much that states modus operandi.they did it to everyone.

makes sense in a political dynamic.
most convicts never re-instated.they were already dis-enfranchised.
very effective way to keep the rabble off the voting rolls.

I’ve commented twice on your meme and they’ve both disappeared.

really, only u or a mod can do that