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When "Game Over" is the only appropriate answer

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LA JUNTA, Colo. (CBS4) – An admitted murderer was elected to serve on the East Otero School Board in La Junta.

Thomas Seaba pleaded guilty to murdering a fellow Marine in the 90s. A detective on the case said Seaba shot the victim five times.

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The East Otero School District’s superintendent, Rick Lovato, said “We researched to see what the criteria was. It is not outside of the rights for a person with a felony conviction to run for the office.”
confessed killer school board 6sotvo transfer frame 682 1 Voters Elect Known Killer To School Board

The only thing that would bar someone for running for school board in Colorado is a sex crime against a child.
I hope nobody will confuse me for a Statist or someone who regularly advocates for the State to increase in power.

How is the "rule of law" to be respected when this is its product?

That said, there's only one proper response to a convicted murderer and that is the swift execution of justice and destruction of their body. Anything less, including but not limited to freeing the murderer, creates a host of problems that can only be remedied with the sentence of "Game Over".
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Re: When "Game Over" is the only appropriate answer

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bignflnut wrote:
LA JUNTA, Colo. (CBS4) – An admitted murderer was elected to serve on the East Otero School Board in La Junta.

Thomas Seaba pleaded guilty to murdering a fellow Marine in the 90s. A detective on the case said Seaba shot the victim five times.

SNIP

The East Otero School District’s superintendent, Rick Lovato, said “We researched to see what the criteria was. It is not outside of the rights for a person with a felony conviction to run for the office.”
confessed killer school board 6sotvo transfer frame 682 1 Voters Elect Known Killer To School Board

The only thing that would bar someone for running for school board in Colorado is a sex crime against a child.
I hope nobody will confuse me for a Statist or someone who regularly advocates for the State to increase in power.

How is the "rule of law" to be respected when this is its product?

That said, there's only one proper response to a convicted murderer and that is the swift execution of justice and destruction of their body. Anything less, including but not limited to freeing the murderer, creates a host of problems that can only be remedied with the sentence of "Game Over".
I certainly would never accuse you of being a Statist.

I won't comment on the appropriateness of the sentence on the murder conviction as I don't know any of the details surrounding the case.

The problem, if there is one, is with the voters of the East Otero School District. Let 'em reap what they sow.
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On the other hand, he has served his sentence. Should he not be judged on current behavior? We have often discussed here whether convicted felons should have their rights restored upon paying their debt to society and the consensus (not unanimous, of course) is that they probably should.
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schmieg wrote:We have often discussed here whether convicted felons should have their rights restored upon paying their debt to society and the consensus (not unanimous, of course) is that they probably should.
Yup. I agree with that. I simply think that the "debt to society" should be infinite in certain cases, this one included, and therefore, the books would balance swiftly in the graveyard.

It could be an spectacular tale of redemption. I hope that it is.
The civil government is charged with upholding justice so that citizens don't take matters into their own hands. This would seem like a temptation for the victims family.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908

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