Wahlberg filed for a full pardon. He let the petition expire when people protested.
I think one of the reasons for pardon would have been that he was 15 and 16 when the crimes occurred.
How is that relevant? My point was that it’s not just celebrities who try to get their convictions expunged when they have “turned a new leaf,” so to speak.
Wahlberg’s felony conviction for assault was when he was 16.
He had two other incidents at ages 15 and 21 that resulted in civil actions that were settled.
You wrote “most”, which may not necessarily be the case, due to limitations on expungement eligibility and the person’s knowledge that expungement exists or the procedure to do it.
@momo2x2018 Ooops, you are right!
Neeson shows why they need PR experts to form what they say.
I don’t condone any of this.
Oh come ON. The point of my response to another poster is that looking for a way to expunge a criminal conviction is not just a celebrity thing. There is a whole forum on my nursing board devoted to this.
ETA: This has gotten off topic. I don’t want to see the OP’s thread closed or derailed.
The reason I don’t watch any movie with Wahlberg in it is not due to the fact that he nearly killed a Vietnamese guy long time ago but because he doesn’t seem that remorseful about what he did. He seems to be a great dad though.
So back to Liam Neeson-
I know that when someone I love was assaulted, I had all kinds of fantasies about doing that person harm in revenge-I admit it. They weren’t related to the person’s race, and they were all about the actual individual-I guess in retrospect I was lucky to know who the perpetrator was, so I could at least accurately direct my mental anger. I never acted on those horrible thoughts and eventually came to see my anger as counter productive. But saying all that, I can sympathize on some level with LM’s desire to act on his anger. The key thing is that he did not, and in the telling he seems very cognizant that he would have been very wrong to act on his urge. He verbalizes shame for it. And even as horrible as his confession is, he does note that he didn’t go looking to hurt just any person, but someone who first approached him with malice. That is the most fortunate part of the story, otherwise the chances of him actually harming someone would have been higher.
I don’t see how this should hurt his career. He didn’t do it, he realized very soon into this rage the wrong of it, and carries a bit of shame about it to this day.
The ‘message’ received is what one thinks he/she hears.
He’s describing understanding the will to retribution, it does sound thoughtful. I think the problem is partly that none of us wants to be challenged on our own faulty thinking, our own stereotypes and moments of uncontrolled anger. He admits it. And if you listen to the actual interview, his voice, it does bother him.
No, that doesn’t make the incident right. But we could all self examine.
Reactive or revenge bigotry is probably very common, and most people do not want to admit that it is, or that they themselves may have felt it.