Beg pardon!

Commit a serious felony, and you can get pardoned.

But get placed in a teen confinement facility or a psychiatric institution, and it follows you around for the rest of your life - even if there was no justification for the confinement.

Mad Dog Bush (not Dumbya, but his daddy) pardoned several traitors who were involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. But if you got placed in a facility without a hearing when you were 16 (or even younger) because you got expelled from school (even if the expulsion itself was unfair), that's on your record for the rest of your life.

In other words, if you got kicked out of school or got bad grades as a teenager, your punishment is far worse than it is for right-wing criminals who betrayed their own country.

While Presidents and governors abuse their pardon powers to help their criminal friends (like the elder Bush did when he pardoned the Iran-Contra turncoats), why don't they have the power to pardon someone who was victimized by the psychiatric racket despite being perfectly sane?