--- In [email protected], "nablusos108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > "As recently as the 1960s, Finland had one of the highest > incarceration > > rates in Europe. Now it has one of the lowest, with 3,572 inmates, or > > about 67 for every 100,000 inhabitants—compared with more than ten > > times that in the United States. > > > > http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/march/helsinki.php? > page=1 > > Now, this is an interesting thing regarding the so-called > american "democracy". Once a negro has been in jail he looses > his right to vote, no?
More complicated than that. (Also simpler, in that there are no special rules for African Americans.) Whether a convicted criminal (of any race) is allowed to vote after he or she gets out of jail depends on the states. >From one Web site (lost the URL, sorry): "Forty-eight states deny the vote to at least some felons; only Vermont and Maine let jailbirds vote. Thirty-three states withhold the right to vote from those on parole. Eight deny felons the vote for life, unless they petition to have their rights restored." I don't believe voting is a problem for anyone but convicted felons (felony being a specific category of crime, worse than petty theft, for example). > And most afro-americans are democrats, no? Yes. I don't know whether most convicted felons are black, but I'd bet they are. Certainly most people in jail are black. So the laws prohibiting convicted felons from voting are definitely disadvantageous to Democrats (not to mention the felons). > Is american style "democracy" really worth a penny > and worthy of admiration, to be exported to the rest > of the 3'rd world, to whom the USA belongs ? No. Your opinion. In mine, it has its problems, but also its great strengths.
