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eBay'er Arrested For Attempting To Sell His Vote
The Associated Press reports that Max P. Sanders, 19, is charged with a felony for attempting to auction off his vote on eBay for the upcoming presidential election. From the article: '"Fundamentally, we believe it is wrong to sell your vote," said John Aiken, a spokesman for the office. "There are people that have died for this country for our right to vote, and to take something that lightly, to say, 'I can be bought... It's a real shame"' Yes, that is a terrible shame, isn't it. Perhaps we should arrest, prosecute, and imprison everyone who sells their vote. The boy says it was all a joke, but prosecutors aren't laughing. Max faces up to 5 years in prison and $10,000 in fines if he is convicted.
Selling a vote for a certain law or policy in congress is entirely different then selling a vote for an election.
And you have no proof that congress men actually sold their votes. People donate to candidates who support issues they care about. It is entirely possible that the vote was completely separate from the campaign donations.
I could go on about problems with your concept of "we the people" with your notion of that in relation to the population under thirty and the decline of the education system but I will save that for another time.
Seems to me like most of the point of citizenship is to vote. I'm a bit disgusted with the guy too, but spending public funds to prosecute and incarcerate him? First, it's wasteful and pointless, and second, it's excessive and lacks common sense when there's an obvious solution.
Why don't we just revoke the citizenship of anyone who attempts to sell their vote? Holding them against their will for five years seems excessive and mean, but it makes sense to me to take away the privileges of citizenship from those who disdain them.
On more than one occasion, most recently this summer, George W. Bush has paid voters in an attempt to gain favor. He paid me $600 last month in essence to get me to vote Republican. Why is he not under arrest?
"We can categorically state we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." - UK military spokesman, July 2007
Can anyone explain how can the dude be arrested for selling his vote and at the same time the US president rules a country that he stole the whole election ?