Posted 5:58 AM by Creditwrench

Court Finds Felon Disenfranchisement Law Discriminatory
Miami Daily Business Review

In an opinion that reviews the history of the Florida Constitution, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a trial for convicts seeking to restore their civil rights. The class action could affect more than a half million people who are currently denied the right to vote. A Washington, D.C., think tank estimates that 13 percent of black men are unable to vote nationally because of such felon disenfranchisement laws.

If it ends up being ruled that one cannot be deprived of his right to vote because of such disenfranchisement laws then might it not also be illegal to deprive ex felons of their right to keep and bear arms as well as other discriminitory laws now in place depriving ex felons of their rights? Where in our constitution does it allow for the deprivation of any right of a free man? Throughout most of our history it has been a time honored tradition that if a person had paid his debt to society then that was the end of it.

Just to show how much our viewpoints on such matters have changed, a few years back an ex felon sued the state of Oklahoma because the state still had an old law on the books that said that upon his release from prison the state had to give the felon a horse and a gun and $20.

He won the case and got his horse and his gun but the law didn't say what kind of a horse nor what kind of a gun they had to give him. Needless to say the horse he got didn't eat anything and the gun didn't fire any bullets either. (LOL)

And of course they immediately repealed the law. But the story does tell us how much our society has changed in regard to felons.

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R K Shows will also have a show at the State Fairgrounds in OKC on Jan. 24th & 25th.