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It's hillarious to see Libbos suddenly become hard on crime...LOL!!!
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It's hillarious to see Libbos suddenly become hard on crime...LOL!!!
Face it, the guy killed 4 cops and if Huckabee had not commuted his sentence he wouldn't be out now.
The entire premise of this thread begins with a glaring flaw. The governor did not pardon him. Try again.
Giving birth to someone is a reach for placing fault.
Actually COMMITTING THE CRIME isn't a reach for placing fault.
The entire justice system situation began upon the point where this individual broke a law. That's when the justice system begins.
Had the sentence that was given to him not been exceedingly and grossly larger than it should have been then who knows what would've happened in regards to the commutation.
Yet you don't want to acknowledge that.
You want to say that Huckabee overturned a "lawful punishment" while ignoring the fact that what Huckabee did was ALSO lawful.
Why was one lawful, but possibly negligent thing (a grossly over the top jail sentence), something you'll happily ignore, forgive, and not even mention but another lawful but possibly negligent thing (commuting his sentence), something you want to crucify a man for?
That's the focus YOU want because it fits your little hatchet job against a politician you don't like because you don't view him as "conservative enough" (which is funny, cause others are going at him because he's a "extreme right winger").
You're right, the commutation was done by Huckabee, that falls on him.
That doesn't mean the entire justice cycle started with him, nor does that place the blame squarely on his shoulders by any stretch.
If a horrible, crippling, just constitution trashing bill just got passed who would you blame? The President for signing it into law? The congress for voting it forward? The Committe for voting it to the floor? The person that sponsored it? The firm that lobbied and wrote it? All of the above?
I'm going to guess you'd place the blame all of the above despite the fact it "started" at the lobbying firm.
I'm sure you wouldn't be giving Obama and Pelosi a pass because sure, they were wrong for passing it on, but if it wasn't there in the first place it wouldn't have happened.
Yet here you want to essentially ignore EVERYONE else in line, even the criminal it seems, to squarely and largely place it singularly on Huckabee's shoulders.
It started with the Criminal doing a crime.
Huckabee was one person in a long line of people that made a bad decision which led to this person having the oppertunity to do his latest crime.
Sounds like Huckabee's "Willie Horton" end to any future Presidential asspirations to me.
I think he regrets that decision. He felt, at the time, that the young man should get another shot at life, being that he was so young when the crime was committed. I'm surprised that liberals are crying foul here, it's often the liberal segment of society that pushes for second chances for criminals to be rehabilitated. They tend to oppose 'Three Strikes' laws, and often argue that minorities, such as this fellow, don't get a fair shake by society.
It's even funnier to see Libbos get upset because a burglar didn't get a life sentence!...lol
I didn't read this whole thread, but, Huckabee commuted a 105 year life sentence to something else I think 46 years. It was the parole board that released him...
Well anytime you see Gibberish show up, you know the leftwing premise holds no water.Once again Governor Mike Huckabee DID NOT PARDON Clemmons.
He reduced his sentence to 47 years which meant that the guy was eligible for parole in 11 years.
The parole board voted 5-0 to grant him parole (he was a nonviolent offender) and the judge in his original trial agreed with the recommendation.
Eleven years is way above average for what a person who committed a similar crime would serve.
This thread is nothing more than pointless Mike Huckabee bashing.
He must have the Democrats really worried for 2012.
Do you have anything useful to add??? :roll:Do you have anything to say other than random insults?
I have no political issues with Mr. Huckabee. I did believe, and continue to believe, that he is a nothing - not presidential material and certainly not worth my political input.
My concern regarding Mr. Huckabee is limited to his penchant for releasing violent criminals for (a) questionable reasons, and/or (b) in direct violation of his state's laws.
As for my personal agenda? Maybe I'm crazy, but I just don't like the idea of my life being endangered by violent felons who've been paroled YEARS before their sentence has been completed.
The way to prevent future incidents like this is to keep violent repeat offenders IN prison for their full sentences.
I'm pretty sure Huckabee had no idea 9 years ago what this guy would do.
Do you have anything useful to add??? :roll:
By my calculations, even if Governor Huckabee had done nothing, Clemmons would be coming up for parole soon anyway.
I think it is anti religous bias in no small part.
I don't understand the fanaticism of the Huckabee bashing.
He was one of the best modern governors Arkansas ever had.
I think it is anti religous bias in no small part.