{"id":18202,"date":"2008-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalpardon.org\/presidential-pardons-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:00:00","slug":"presidential-pardons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.nationalpardon.org\/?p=18202","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Pardons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With George Bush about to [finally] leave the White House there is a lot of talk in the news about who will receive the final presidential pardons. I have no personal interest in who does or does not receive a pardon from the George Bush but there is a part of me that thinks the American pardon system is just a little unfair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.nationalpardon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Whitehouse1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4392\" alt=\"Whitehouse\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.nationalpardon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Whitehouse1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Word is that petitioning for a presidential pardon costs in the range of $200, 000 dollars in legal fees. Otherwise you will need to have a very close political connection if you have any chance at all of receiving a pardon.<\/p>\n<p>If this is not an elitist system I don&#8217;t know what is. In Canada our own <a title=\"Public Forum on the New Pardon System\" href=\"http:\/\/np.verodecor.com\/pardon\/pardon-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">pardon system<\/a> seems a shining example of a fair and unbiased government system in comparison. As many problems as there with our system here in Canada it really is not a system based on who you know or how much money you have. In Canada if you serve your time, <a title=\"Pardon Eligibility\" href=\"http:\/\/np.verodecor.com\/pardon-eligibility\/\" target=\"_blank\">complete your sentence<\/a>, and stay our of trouble you can make an application to have your criminal record pardoned. And once you have a pardon it is illegal for anyone in Canada to discriminate against you based on it.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that a president, particularly one as woefully inadequate as George Bush, is the only man in the country with the authority to determine who deserves a second chance is just a little too dystopian for me. 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