Do you buy this garbage?

Why the anger, and why the lie about race-based crime? The linked story says when he was 16 he cracked a guy on the head during the commission of a minor robbery (2 cases of alcohol). The guy fucked up nearly 30 years ago when he was young. Lots of people are different people 3 decades later, and lots of people ask for pardons. As an aside, I'm not sure what you're point is about race-based hate crime. There's no mention of the skin colour of the victims, and the assaults were during the commission of a property crime. Is there a point to your race-baiting or are you just angry because you're not white? And what's the "lord it over the rest of us" stuff? Good grief dude, get a grip.
 
What exactly is Wahlberg trying to lord over the rest of us?! That someone can change, turn their life around and become a better person?

The article doesn't even explain why he was charged as an adult - he was only 16 at the time of arrest. For that reason alone he should be eligible for a pardon.
 
In most industrialized (civilized) countries he would have been considered a minor and the record would have been sealed or destroyed. Not in the good old USA. Let's continue to punish him and ensure this follows him for the rest of his life. What a miserable place ... hold on a minute ... my mistake ... that is Harpo's Canada ... sorry.
 
CapitalGuy for someone who owns a Krone fountain pen you sure are shallow. Marky Mark got caught up in Boston's White Supremacy underground, he and his lads specifically targeted Indo-Chinese immigrants. There was a reason why he was singled out for adult court. He may have been scared straight in prison but he has never shown contrition for his crime. And a Vietnamese man has to live blind in one eye for his actions.

And FYI I am white, the Arabs never attempted to conquer my region of Italy. Unless you're part of the Anglo-Saxon elite that still doesn't consider South Europeans as white?
 
CapitalGuy said:
Why the anger, and why the lie about race-based crime? The linked story says when he was 16 he cracked a guy on the head during the commission of a minor robbery (2 cases of alcohol).
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He spewed off some racial slurs during the assault. That said, lots of people say hateful things when they're drunk.

OP is far too concerned over the outcome of this. I think most people would deserve a pardon given the facts here. It's been decades without a repeat. Give the guy a break.
 
Dickus said:
In most industrialized (civilized) countries he would have been considered a minor and the record would have been sealed or destroyed. Not in the good old USA. Let's continue to punish him and ensure this follows him for the rest of his life. What a miserable place ... hold on a minute ... my mistake ... that is Harpo's Canada ... sorry.
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The Conservative gov't amended the process regarding pardons; doubling the existing waiting period. And there was no grandfathering under the previous law - you may have gone 4 years, 11.5 months into the previous waiting period and then WHAM, Bill C-10 gets passed and you've now got another 5 years before you can clear your record. Personally, I find this to be an abuse of power by the gov't & something that would happen in a dictatorship rather than a democracy. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone deserves a second chance, and there's a huge difference between a career criminal (who likely doesn't care for or need a pardon) and a person who may have made a mistake.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/new-pardon-rules-thwart-student-s-rehabilitation-1.1294204
 
I have mixed feelings about this. He has turned his life around but he also committed a horrible deed and hurt other human beings. It's like those convicted murderers who now say they are not the same person who originally committed the crime.

Here is another example. Some people are now saying that the evil Cosby did should not outweigh the good he has done (make people laugh).

BTW: It is very common for folks in Hollywood to have criminal records.
 
I think that there is a difference if you committed a crime when a teenager or if you are an adult (30-40 + years). 30 has passed. Everybody makes mistakes. If he had no problems with the law since then, he should get a pardon.
 
I would agree to his pardon if he agreed to compensate the victim (or his family) for losing an eye. $2M seems reasonable - 1% of his net worth.
 
MattRoxx said:
What exactly is Wahlberg trying to lord over the rest of us?! That someone can change, turn their life around and become a better person?

The article doesn't even explain why he was charged as an adult - he was only 16 at the time of arrest. For that reason alone he should be eligible for a pardon.
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He might have been charged as an adult, but he certainly didn't do adult time. Just 45 days in prison for a vicious assault. The victim, like so many others, failed to get justice.
 
K Douglas said:
He might have been charged as an adult, but he certainly didn't do adult time. Just 45 days in prison for a vicious assault. The victim, like so many others, failed to get justice.
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Not sure how that should affect his pardon application.

las venganza said:
I like Mark Wahlberg...but here you go: http://thoughtcatalog.com/wayne-wax...n-man-whom-mark-wahlberg-horribly-disfigured/
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Weird and silly satire.

Anyone know if the victim has asked for compensation?

Mark Wahlberg said:
"As soon as I began that life of crime, there was always a voice in my head telling me I was going to end up in jail. Three of my brothers had done time. My sister went to prison so many times I lost count. Finally I was there, locked up with the kind of guys I'd always wanted to be like. Now I'd earned my stripes and I was just like them and I realized it wasn't what I wanted at all. I'd ended up in the worst place I could possibly imagine and I never wanted to go back.

First of all I had to learn to stay on the straight and narrow". Wahlberg first relied on the guidance of his parish priest to turn his back on crime. He told his street gang that he was leaving them and had "some serious fights" with them over it. The actor commented in 2009 : "I've made a lot of mistakes in my life and I've done bad things. But I never blamed my upbringing for that.

I never behaved like a victim so that I would have a convenient reason for victimising others. Everything I did wrong was my own fault. I was taught the difference between right and wrong at an early age. I take full responsibility".
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Is this in the same league as a tit flopping out? A upskirt no undies crotch shot getting out of a car? I sAx tape that goes missing and hits the internet? Extra publicity means hundreds of millions of $$$ for these people. If he really wants to atone for his past then he should find the guy that he assaulted and pay big for his crimes.
 
Insidious Von said:
CapitalGuy for someone who owns a Krone fountain pen you sure are shallow. Marky Mark got caught up in Boston's White Supremacy underground, he and his lads specifically targeted Indo-Chinese immigrants. There was a reason why he was singled out for adult court. He may have been scared straight in prison but he has never shown contrition for his crime. And a Vietnamese man has to live blind in one eye for his actions.

And FYI I am white, the Arabs never attempted to conquer my region of Italy. Unless you're part of the Anglo-Saxon elite that still doesn't consider South Europeans as white?
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Pay no attention to C.G.

When Marky Mark was fifteen, he had civil actions placed against him for hurling rocks at black people while screaming racial slurs at them. One year later, in a single day, he knocked Thahn Lam—a middle-aged man of Vietnamese descent—unconscious with a stick while calling him “Vietnam fucking shit” (assumedly he brushed up his wordplay skills in the Funky Bunch) and, on that same evening, punched Hoa Trinh—again several years his senior—in the eye, permanently blinding him. After being brought to the scene on the first charge, Wahlberg told officers, “You don’t have to let him identify me, I’ll tell you now that’s the motherfucker whose head I split open” and apparently made several remarks regarding “gooks” and “slant-eyed gooks” during police proceedings. For his crimes he spent 45 days in a correctional facility.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/wayne-wax...n-man-whom-mark-wahlberg-horribly-disfigured/

After 30 years people do change , but out of courtesy did he give a million to the guy he blinded since he is now a millionaire...? No, he says he wanted to track the guy down to apologize but he didn't get around to do it.
 
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