So shall we forgive & forget or nah??

http://www.bostonherald.com/inside_track/celebrity_news/2014/12/mark_wahlberg_seeks_pardon_for_1988_assault_conviction

Dorchester-born actor Mark Walhberg is asking the state to wipe a 25-year-old assault case from his record.

Wahlberg was sentenced in 1988 and served three months in jail, according to his petition, filed with the state on Nov. 26. The Hollywood star says his “past convictions still legally impact me to this day,” but notes he has spoken openly about his troubled youth.

“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, 1988,” Wahlberg wrote. “My hope is that, if I receive a pardon, troubled youths will see this as an inspiration and motivation that they too can turn their lives around and be formally accepted back into society.

“It would also be an important capstone to the lessons that I try to teach my own children on a daily basis,” he added.

Wahlberg, whose list of Hollywood titles includes, “Ted,” “The Fighter” and “The Departed,” joins a growing list of those hoping to wipe the slate clean. The state’s advisory board of pardons is still sorting through more than 250 petitions for commutations, or requests to shorten a jail sentence, and more than 70 pardons, according to the office.

Gov. Deval Patrick has already recommended four people for pardon and one commutation in recent months, his first during his two terms.

The board has not yet voted on whether to recommend Wahlberg for a pardon.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/wayne-wax/2014/05/an-interview-with-the-asian-man-whom-mark-wahlberg-horribly-disfigured/

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.

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Yeah Boston so I get where it comes from, but nah-- that's some kind of serious stuff. I think forgive, but don't forget. When you add to it that the start to what made him who and what he is is black music then he owes a debt and his record is part of the price.

I heard his record is keeping him from doing projects in Boston. So this is about money. Wouldnt those crimes be classified as hate crimes today? Nope keep them on his record.

purchasing bars/restaurants from what I read this weekend, so it is about potential dollars for him and not in order to reinvent himself or whatever he said. Given the legal system in this country, I'm surprised that he hasn't been able to throw money to the proper folks to solve his problems though.

...also seems kinda shitty to only serve 45 days for something like that too.

Life's unfair, Marky Mark. Deal with it.

....time & maturity has been extremely beneficial to wahlberg, but i don't like the idea of expunging the record of anyone convicted an obvious hate crime.

a better lesson to be learned by troubled youth is that you WILL be held accountable for your own actions (and that could follow you for the rest of your life). being young & immature doesn't grant you a pass. people need to recognize that there are certain things apologies and success won't cover.



*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

and Whalberg ain't exactly suffering. he's cleaned up his act, and done more than well for himself. if his punishment is he can't have everything he wants. tough shit.

When asked if he apologized to the Asian man he blinded during his hate crime, he said he did, during sentencing but hasn't reach out to him at all since.
So dude blinded a man, wants to be pardoned but never sought out the person he committed a crime against to make restitution or just plain apologize except when it was beneficial to him to get a light sentence. He's only doing it now so he can own a bar.
Naw... Sorry holms, believe you we don't. More people you need.

his PR team is dumb for allowing that.

http://gawker.com/here-are-other-crimes-mark-wahlberg-needs-pardoned-1668011058

Fuck him.

But he hasnt. Fuck him. He had the means to make amends, and never chose to do so. Until it fucked with his money. Fuck him.
It also prevents him from carrying a gun in certain states.

If he'd done everything he could to make that guy's life better, and he brought that to the board hearing, then absolutely. Has he paid for all of this guy's eye-related medical treatment? I haven't heard anything to suggest he has. Has he worked hard to support charity groups that assist Asian-Americans in need or Asian-American victims of hate crimes? I haven't heard anything to suggest he has. In which case, it is what it is.

I'm all for forgiving kids in instances of obvious adult repentance. Kids fuck up in terrible ways all the time, and kids do contrary to popular belief often change as a result of their fuck ups. I just don't see the evidence of obvious repentance here.

because he doesn't feel guilty anymore.


*shrug*

Just as he shouldn't be surprised people react this way.

!!!

when it does it will get picked up by blogs and stuff. Last time it made its rounds he was asked about it and that was his answer. Something like I am not the same person anymore and I have changed so I dont feel like I am guilty and have no need to apologize.

It would wear it as a reminder to itself and a caution to others. It would wear all the consequences as less than the minimum of justice given how unimpeded his success has been as a result

Instead he's crying because he doesn't have an extra cherry on top of the banana kaboom that is his life.

fuck that.

he is a huge success and has completely turned his life around. But his mistakes as a youth are still keeping him from doing things he wants to do. That is a lesson right there.

>he is a huge success and has completely turned his life
>around. But his mistakes as a youth are still keeping him from
>doing things he wants to do. That is a lesson right there.'

Unless he's breaking off some of that extra money to his victims, I hope his crimes stick on his record.

This is some of the stupid ass move I've seen, you done served a jail sentence became a rapper, went around the world touring, then became an actor/movie star, and making millions and he wants to make his record squeaky clean for what, it's more to this story than being reported, he wants something but has to get his record clean to get it but what is it?

but alas,

You were anti Black and anti Asian yet you co-opted Black hip hop culture.


Have a seat, sir.


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that's going to go over a lot of heads.

I had to correct my spelling error.

...but i always liked Donnie more anyway...

saw Donnie on the show Blue Bloods and i wanted to punch something.

he gets a life time pass from me.

who wasn't famous or rich.


>So shall we forgive & forget or nah??
>
>http://www.bostonherald.com/inside_track/celebrity_news/2014/12/mark_wahlberg_seeks_pardon_for_1988_assault_conviction
>
>Dorchester-born actor Mark Walhberg is asking the state to
>wipe a 25-year-old assault case from his record.
>
>Wahlberg was sentenced in 1988 and served three months in
>jail, according to his petition, filed with the state on Nov.
>26. The Hollywood star says his “past convictions still
>legally impact me to this day,” but notes he has spoken
>openly about his troubled youth.
>
>“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, 1988,” Wahlberg wrote. “My hope
>is that, if I receive a pardon, troubled youths will see this
>as an inspiration and motivation that they too can turn their
>lives around and be formally accepted back into society.
>
>“It would also be an important capstone to the lessons that
>I try to teach my own children on a daily basis,” he added.
>
>Wahlberg, whose list of Hollywood titles includes, “Ted,”
>“The Fighter” and “The Departed,” joins a growing list
>of those hoping to wipe the slate clean. The state’s
>advisory board of pardons is still sorting through more than
>250 petitions for commutations, or requests to shorten a jail
>sentence, and more than 70 pardons, according to the office.
>
>Gov. Deval Patrick has already recommended four people for
>pardon and one commutation in recent months, his first during
>his two terms.
>
>The board has not yet voted on whether to recommend Wahlberg
>for a pardon.
>
>
>
>


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2868589/Mark-Wahlberg-s-blinding-race-attack-victim-Johnny-Trinh-backs-bid-pardon-saying-course-forgive-didn-t-blind-Communist-Vietnamese-did-that.html

and he says no serious harm was caused. Big difference. But still a hate crime IMO. So no on the pardon.

he's the one who got punched in the face after the stick attack.

calling them "slurs" we all know what that fool was saying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eSN8Cwit_s

8ball cane? rofl!

A douche tryna hide their bias behind a stiff facade. I met him in person once and dude is like 5'5 I'm only 5'9 so yea fuck Marky Mark.

fuck those people.

positive outlets in neighborhoods where such things don't exist. Tutoring programs. Arts programs. Guidance for kids who need it.


Right now, he's a living example of making shitty choices as a youth, then being unrepentant later in life. And besides...doesn't feel guilty any more, he says? Isn't that bordering on some kind of dissociative disorder?