![]() I’m sure the men he beat up, one who was left partially blind, wish that they could file some paperwork and never have been senselessly beaten on the street, but they can’t. ![]() Wanting the approval from the world at large is the kind of vanity you would only see from a celebrity. Seeking recognition from others isn’t a reason to do good things. If he decides that he is a different person and has cleaned up his life, he should work that out in therapy and keep the prison board out of it. I don’t doubt that Wahlberg is a much different person and regrets what he did, but the state isn’t the one that needs to tell him that. But not everything is erased as easily, and not everything should be. Wahlberg seems to be on a bit of a redemption tour. “It would be formal recognition that someone like me can receive official public redemption if he devotes himself to personal improvement and a life of good works.” “The more complex answer is that receiving a pardon would be a formal recognition that I am not the same person that I was on the night of April 8, 1998,” he writes. Just like Wahlberg can have any job he wants, he can also do any sort of outreach he wants for any number of other issues, conviction be damned.īut that isn’t the real reason that he wants a pardon. Look at what Jenny McCarthy has done for vaccine nuts, and she’s not nearly as famous or as likeable. Why isn’t Wahlberg out there speaking out for reform in those areas and trying to repeal the silly laws that keep convicts from working in food service, for instance? That’s the sort of policy work he could do quite easily with his public profile. Rather than making things easier for a mediocre film actor, there should instead be new policies that make it easier for all recovered felons. As Gwynn Gilford points out on Quartz, the issues that effect Wahlberg because of his conviction affect many recovered felons. This seems like a legitimate concern, but that doesn’t mean it’s insurmountable. But his record keeps him from working with at-risk youth. County Sheriff’s Youth Foundation, which is dedicated to helping at risk youth,” he writes. “I have become close with many members of the local law enforcement community in Boston and Los Angeles, including as a member of the board of directors of the L.A. Doesn’t Wahlberg and his considerable capital have every available outlet to expand his fortune? Yes, he does. And should the court really be concerned that a very rich man is not able to get even richer in a certain field? No, it should not. Well, that hasn’t stopped him from opening several restaurants, including Wahlbergers, which has it’s own A&E show. “My prior record can potentially be the basis to deny me a concessionaire’s license in California and elsewhere,” he writes.
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