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From the article: Huckabee did not say yesterday whether he had read those letters. But in 1996, he spoke to the victim of the 1984 rape, Ashley Stevens, who told the Globe in an October interview that Huckabee "seemed to have already made up his mind. He just thought that Dumond was innocent."

Huckabee should state what facts caused him to believe Dumond was innocent.

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As Conservatives most us hold a very dim view of inappropriate paroles meeted out to prison imates. If those inmates go on to cause serious injury to subsequent victims we rail on those who have had sympathy for the prison inmate and have aided in their release.

Such an instance is being heralded these days concerning Mick Huckabee. It's the old Willie Horton case all over again. Or is it?

I would encourage forum paticipants to read the following article circa 1996, in which the case for Wayne Dumond is made. Read this article for a description of what took place back in the day. See if you could fault someone for thinking this guy got railroaded.

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NEW GOVERNOR REOPENS CASE EMBARRASSING TO CLINTON
Hope for Justice Rekindled
By Cathy Tapie, July 29, 1996
The Washington Weekly, (http://dolphin.gulf.net)

A spokesman for Arkansas' new Governor Huckabee has told the Washington Weekly that an old case of injustice in Arkansas will be re-opened. The case could turn out to be very embarrassing to Bill Clinton.

The story reads like a scenario right out of the movie "Deliverance" and is not recommended for the faint of heart. Reported on June 2, 1996 in the New York Post and chronicled in the book "Unequal Justice," it starts around 1984 and goes like this:

Forty nine year-old Wayne Dumond, father of six and Vietnam Veteran, had been telling his church congregation about suddenly disappearing automobiles in their community. It would later turn out that the local county sheriff, Coolidge Conlee, was the culprit. It seems he was running, among other things (a casino at the Sheriff's office and drug running), a handy little car- theft ring. The sheriff was corrupt. Which is not necessarily unusual for Arkansas.

Needless to say, Wayne Dumond's vocality about disappearing cars was a thorn in this sheriff's side.

Long about this same time frame, a 17 year old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped. But the girl was Governor Bill Clinton's cousin, a little known fact and well kept secret at the time. Her father is also a millionaire and a big contributor to Bill Clinton's various election campaigns and her mother worked in Governor Clinton's "inner circle."

Guess which innocent man got fingered and ultimately convicted despite overwhelming (suppressed) evidence of his innocence? Wayne Dumond. But this is where the story turns even uglier.

While an innocent Wayne Dumond was awaiting sentencing (later meted out at life plus 20 years), it seems that two masked men, acting on orders of the corrupt county Sheriff Coolidge Conlee, burst into Wayne's home. They had guns and knives. They hog tied Wayne. They raped him. Then, as if that wasn't enough, with surgical scalpels, they castrated him.

If it hadn't been for Dumond's two sons coming home from school and calling for help, Dumond might well have bled to death.

But there's more.

After the Sheriff Conlee's sociopathic cretins had had their way with Wayne and finished their brutal amateur surgical procedure - even as he lay in a hospital bed, near death, after having lost 3/4 of his blood supply from his butchered groin, the good Sheriff went to the Dumond family's bloodied home and retrieved the body parts so that he could display them in a jar on his desk with a caption that read: "That's what happens to people who fool around in my county."

What did Bill Clinton do about it? Absolutely nothing. In fact, after 4-1/2 years in prison, the parole board decided to release Dumond. But did Bill Clinton sign the release?

As reported in the New York Post, according to the managing editor of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Bill Clinton had a "romping, stomping fit" about it. He refused to sign the release.

Even though their innocent father was doing time in prison after having his manhood mutilated, the Dumond family did have a modicum of relief when they were awarded $20,000 in a lawsuit of "outrage." But that money went to compensate for damages when someone (I wonder who?) burned down the family home while they were in hiding from vigilantes and no insurance was paid.

It is now 12 years later and where is this cast of characters?

- Wayne Dumond? Still in prison

- Governor Bill Clinton? President of the United States.

- Sheriff Coolidge Conlee? Died in prison after being sentenced to 160 years on extortion and drug-dealing charges. But he was never punished for his crimes against Wayne Dumond.

- The allegedly raped girl and her parents? Not yet identified and probably living happily ever after.

- The alleged rapist(s)? Of the two men the girl initially identified (before she was "talked to" by her father and Sheriff Conlee), it is alleged that she dated one of them. Neither has been charged.

- The "vigilantes" that burned down the Dumond home? Not caught.

- The deranged amateur surgeons? Not caught.

Will the guilty be caught and punished? Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Wayne Dumond? Even though Dumond will never have his manhood back, will the new governor of Arkansas sign his release and see that the guilty are punished?

"We are very aware of the case. The governor is awaiting Dumond's application for clemency to be submitted to the Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board," says Huckabee spokesman Jim Harris, "State law requires that this be done before the governor can consider it, so we are just waiting for the application and the governor will then be able to review the whole thing and do what is right and fair." The new governor of Arkansas has his work cut out for him on this one.

This case is not just about Arkansas corruption. This case is not just about injustice in Arkansas under Governor Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton has taken his operation national and into the White House. There is mounting evidence that points to an equal level of corruption and egregious violation of civil rights at the highest levels of the White House. Perhaps Arkansas justice will finally be served under Governor Mike Huckabee, but will justice ever be served while or even after Bill Clinton and his kind have run the United States of America?

Time will tell.

[Printed in the July 29, 1996 issue of the Washington Weekly]

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This is already getting old. The Huckster said he made a mistake. Another reason I am sure he is a Christian, he realizes he is a flawed human being. Now if he did this on a regular basis, I would say he has a serious problem.

I love his answer today about Mitt’s speech. Its this sense of humor that needs to be transplanted into some of Fred’s rabid followers. They take politics way too seriously, and will be totally disappointed with whoever the next President is, if he doesn’t at least walk on water.

I think I’ve probably been asked far more questions about my faith than Mitt Romney’s been asked about his,” Huckabee said. “Maybe I ought to be doing the ‘God speech’ out there. I might even include an altar call and an offering with mine.”

As a general rule, no one from Arkansas should ever be President.