If the right had not taken up the case for Wayne Dumond, because
Dumond's teenaged rape victim was a cousin of Bill Clinton,
would Huckabee been on a rampage of pardons that led to the
release of the man who murdered 4 cops in Washington?

The right hated Clinton so much they supported the parole of a
rapist, who then committed murder. In so doing they set the
stage for the murder of those 4 cops.

This is the price of your hate.

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The end of Mike Huckabee

Posted By _Froma Harrop_ On November 30, 2009 @ 5:20 pm In

If Maurice Clemmons is found to be the perpetrator then that
should end the conservative Republican's chances of being taken
seriously as a presidential contender.

I've met Huckabee a couple of times and can say that he's a
genuinely good man. But like some other religious conservatives,
he did have the annoying and lazy tendency to make snap
judgments about people based on what he felt in his heart.

Last year, I published a column about Wayne DuMond another
criminal helped out of jail by Huckabee. With 25 years left on
his sentence, DuMond gave Huckabee some spiel about having found
God, and Huckabee reportedly pressured the parole board to
release him. DuMond then proceeded to murder a woman in
Missouri.

You wonder what it takes for Huckabee to think someone is a
menace to society. Clemmons, the man being sought in Washington
state, had been sentenced in Arkansas to 60 years behind bars
for burglary and theft, while already doing 48 on five felony
convictions. Among other threatening behavior, Clemmons had
lunged for a guard's gun in the courtroom.

The early crimes were committed when Clemmons was 17, and
Huckabee cited his tender years in extending clemency. Facing
nearly a century of jail time, Clemmons got out after only 11
years.

If Clemmons is guilty, that's five dead, thanks to Huckabee's
extreme faith in his power to probe the human soul.
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Huckabee's Perilous Perception Of Souls
A Commentary by Froma Harrop
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

In 1996, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee reportedly pressured
a parole board to release a sexual predator from jail. Wayne
DuMond had 25 years left on his long sentence for the 1984 rape
of a teenager. His claim to have found God apparently helped
open the prison doors.

...

A free man, DuMond proceeded to murder a woman in Missouri.

...

There's been much speculation that Huckabee's concern for
DuMond's social development may have masked a political
calculation. The 17-year-old victim was Bill Clinton's third
cousin and her father a contributor to Clinton campaigns. DuMond
had thus become a pet right-wing cause. One DuMond champion, New
York Post columnist Steve Dunleavy, called his imprisonment "a
travesty of justice."

The Arkansas Prosecuting Attorneys Association wrote a letter
opposing clemency for the rapist. Huckabee reportedly
threatened to frustrate the group's legislative agenda if it
went public with the criticism.

Huckabee had also slashed the prison sentence of a wealthy
Republican contributor who had been convicted four times in five
years of drunk driving. Back on the roads, the man was arrested
again, inebriated, after crossing the center line of a highway
and barely missing an oncoming police car.

Let us assume that Huckabee genuinely believed in the power of
redemption for DuMond. After all, he had pardoned or commuted
the sentences of 1,000 prisoners, including 12 murderers.

The release of a violent offender based on his tale of religious
conversion (or in this case, a fellow Baptist minister's claim
of such) -- rather than on available evidence -- is inexcusable.
It speaks of arrogance and laziness. Clergymen, like
psychiatrists, often flatter themselves into believing that
their magic has turned around the hardest cases. "Faith" becomes
a shortcut for researching the reality of things.

We saw the hazards of gut judgments after President Bush's June
2001 meeting with Vladimir Putin. Bush announced that he had
looked the Russian president in the eye and "was able to get a
sense of his soul." The remark was embarrassing then, and as
history has shown, ludicrously wrong.

...

Religion, like other aspects of one's upbringing and education,
does color a candidate's world view. There's nothing wrong with
that, as long as it isn't used to cut corners in making
important judgments.

...
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BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... So, you're a student at the Vern Humphrey school of snotty message writing?
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