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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Unbelievable! I guess they are going to tout him as a "reformer"
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SSgt Cynthia Hamilton
SSgt Cynthia Hamilton
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No, as redeemed. Don't you think folks can be rehabilitated? Or are you one of those that just wants to lock them all up, in a knee jerk reaction? America, the land of equal opportunity, that's the country I serve.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Lt Col Charlie Brown
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SSgt Cynthia Hamilton - I put kids in the service who had records. It depends on what you did and what you are doing now. Not when someone was still on parole.
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SSgt Cynthia Hamilton
SSgt Cynthia Hamilton
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Lt Col Charlie Brown guess that means your organization just had different goals. Your post sure didn't sound like you had any grasp of redemption. Glad some folks made it past the gauntlet to get a chance.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
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Has he served his sentence? Is he rehabilitated?

Better yet, can he serve as a role model for youngsters heading down the wrong path? Can he speak, personally, about the dangers of gangs and gang violence on a level most politicians cannot? Can he provide a message of "never too late to do the right thing?"

I am not a huge fan of the move, honestly. I would have preferred to see someone with a less-checkered past get the job, especially as I have to assume that the position is one that requires a great deal of trust and ethics. And he has a proven record of bad decisions and unethical behavior. He may well be reformed, but for a top post like that, I would think that either A) a reformed felon with an established and considerable track record of reformation and trust, or B) someone with a clean record would be called for. But, when looking at this story, rather than looking at who they should have picked instead, and just looking at this one guy as an individual in a specific job, I cannot really fault the choice... yet. Time will tell if it was a good or bad decision.

(Of course, I ain't a democrat, so the whole thing is just academic for me.)
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