| ^You are not 'giving' anybody rights, the debate is what rights are being taken away.
In the UK right now, you can have a criminal record for putting your rubbish out too early, or leaving an inch gap between lid and body of the rubbish bin. It is for this reason that I am now somewhat cynical of the labelling of groups as criminal or not. It is then a dangerous path to go down (IMO) to start selecting groups within the burgening 'criminal' population to select for disenfranchisement.
If you are willing to buy into the vote-removal plan, then you have to define and opine on the perameters where the sanction should be used.
Again, for example, there is a larger fine available for the rubbish-bin fines, as described above, in the UK, than for some assaults where an injury may be sustained, which would, no doubt gain 'felony' status in the US. So to translate this into UK law priorities, this would suggest that, if similar vote-removal laws were adopted in the UK, reducing support for a particular party would be simple - go round to each of their supporters' houses and leave their bin lids ajar! |