Graciegirl..It goes without saying that we have a great respect for you and your points of view expressed in TOTV. You are a terrific contributor.
Having said this I want to clarify some of the comments I have made on this subject. Regarding your question..yes we have lived in The Village for a few year and I feel confident in saying that we have alway felt safe and secure in our Village. It is not that The Village's are not safe as that would be an incorrect perception of our community. It is probably one of the few
places where a woman could go walking at midnight and be relatively safe.
My point is and has been that we have some people who commit felonies and suffer no consequence's from the community. If you are a felon in Florida you lose your civil rights for 5 years and must apply if you want them restored. They are not automatically restored. In The Villages you can assult someon, (family or otherwise), you can commit a serious robbery, get 3 DWI's, some of these against children, seniors or police officer which automatically raises the bar to "aggravated" which is a higher degree of felony and there are no
community consequences. They can continue to experience the privilege's
of The Villages and after being convicted continue to hide their bad behavior from their neighbors, etc. This only enable's the person to feel that much more entitled and continue the anti social behavior. I am not sure if it would be legal to restrict them from having the "privileges" of The Villages. My
point was why not see if they can be removed until their Florida civil rights have been restored?
I continue to be amazed that some actually feel this is unfair, that the victium is the felon and the privileges are an entitlement? These are the kind of thoughts that cause addiction to continue since there are no consequences for the abuses. Some have tried to bully this free speech and that is a mystery to me. Why they do this is for each to decide. Based on this I have no more interest in continuing providing the suggestion. Not becasue of the bullies but because few understand the basis for my opinion and/or I am providing a forum for some to give power to the felon. Therefore I am wasting my time and also giving power to those that want to protect the felon.
