[82649] in Cypherpunks
Re: NRA and National Online Records Check bullshit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Tue Jul 1 09:11:12 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 97 08:14:31 EDT
In-Reply-To: <19970701044410.04530@bywater.songbird.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> writes:
> "Convicted Felon" is a permanent legal condition, a title with
> permanent social effects.
Weren't all felonies capital crimes initially?
A hungry little boy convicted of stealing a loaf of bread would hang.
Some time later the felons were given a choice of going to the gallows
or to Australia.
A convicted felon freed after a jail sentence is a fairly recent invention.
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