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Message: [QUOTE="heartly87, post: 3081514, member: 8651"] Last I heard we live in a country where people who serve a sentence or pay a fine are not treated like second class citizens and deemed criminals for the rest of their days. Granted there are more unforgivable crimes but Lodges wasn't one. Lodge is somebody who as a young man made mistakes, wronged people and even harmed people. If he has changed his ways and is helping other young men not make the mistakes he made, I say good on him and well done. Tell me what the difference is in what Tallis did to Ben Ross. You can't, that was aggrivated assault. But because it was on a footy field people turn a blind eye, no pun intended Ben. How many cases of DV , ETOH abuse and sexual assualt have been swept under the carpet because of a players stature in the game, GI anyone. Greg Bird glassed his misses and still co captained the Titans. Packer brutally curb stomped a guy and became a captain. There are other cases. Lots of these people didn't even change their ways apart from Packer who like Lodge does a lot of youth work. I find it strange the obsession with holding people down. Not letting the past be the past. Take a man for how he is, not for how he was. It speaks volumes that those close to him, respect him despite his past. [/QUOTE]

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