Posted on 12/07/2007 5:31:53 AM PST by SUSSA
Gov. Huckabee probably never read the confession of a demented killer named Glen Green before he made the monster eligible for parole.
Green's confession is so depraved, its sadistic details so scary that no sane, responsible adult would consider him for parole.
If the governor didn't read the confession, he is guilty of dereliction of duty.
But if he read the confession and still considers Green deserving of parole, he's certainly unfit to hold office. Who would free a madman who beat an 18-year-old woman with Chinese martial-arts sticks, raped her as she barely clung to life, ran over her with his car, then dumped her in the bayou, her hand reaching up, as if begging for mercy?
We're publishing the gruesome picture of Green's victim on the front page because we believe her hand is reaching up to demand justice.
In usual fashion, Huckabee's office didn't even contact the victim's family about the clemency.
Although he's required to by the Constitution, the governor, as is his custom, won't say why he granted clemency to this crazed killer (over the unanimous objections of the Post-Prison Transfer Board).
Huckabee apparently listened to Green's minister (and a friend of the governor), who thinks the murder was an accident and Green was forced to confess.
The Jacksonville police, who arrested Green in 1974 after a witness linked him to the crime, think the minister and Huckabee are both delusional, which is the mildest epitaph we can print.
This old police reporter knows a genuine confession when he sees one, and Green's depravity has the ring of truth.
Green, a 22-year-old sergeant, kidnapped Helen Lynette Spencer on Little Rock Air Force Base, where he beat and kicked her as he tried to rape her in a secluded area. She broke loose and ran toward the barracks' parking lot, where he caught up with her and beat her with a pair of nunchucks.
He then stuffed her into the trunk of his car and left her there while he cleaned up. Several hours later, he drove down Graham Road, past Loop Road and stopped near a bridge in Lonoke County. Green told investigators he put her body in the front seat and raped her because her body was still warm.
He dragged Spencer out of his vehicle and put her in front of the car and ran over her several times, going back and forth. He then collected himself long enough to dump her body in Twin Prairie Bayou.
This is what the Rev. Johnny Jackson, interim pastor at Bethel Baptist Church in Jacksonville, calls an accident, and apparently Huckabee believes him.
"There is no doubt in my mind that he could kill again," warns Pulaski County Prosecutor Larry Jegley.
The crime started out in his jurisdiction and ended in Lonoke County, where Prosecutor Lona McCastlain has also spoken out against the clemency.
"Life means life," she said, referring to Green's sentence after he plead guilty to Spencer's kidnapping, rape and murder.
As he grants clemency to scores of violent criminals, Huckabee's motives are the subject of speculation: Why, people are asking, is he doing it? After studying the record for several weeks, all one can say is that his actions perhaps reflect a combination of arrogance and avarice and ignorance.
While his fellow governors keep electing him to top positions in their little club, he has alienated Arkansans of both parties. They're shocked at not only the amazing number of clemencies but also at the way he ignores the suffering of the victims' families, who are always the last to know when their loved one's killer is up for parole.
Bilenda Harris-Ritter, an attorney who now lives in California, is one of those people who worry all the time that Huckabee might free the man who killed their relatives. Harris-Ritter's parents were murdered in north Arkansas, and she has had to deal with heartless state bureaucrats as she fights to keep the killer locked up.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently named Harris-Ritter chairman of the Public Employees Board, which oversees collective-bargaining agreements among 7,000 employers and 2 million employees.
She is upset that our governor has not been more forthright about his clemencies.
"Huckabee is required by law to make certain notifications. When he does not, the pardon should be voidable," she told us.
She continued, "The people of the good state of Arkansas (and I really mean that) need to think seriously about impeachment."
When told that many people consider Huckabee our worst governor in recent memory, Harris-Ritter replied, "No argument from me, and I am a Republican!"
You hit it right on the nose: the Jimmy Carter Syndrome. It’s a Syndrome that has cost millions of lives nationwide. And if bleeding heart, social gospel preacher Huckabee slithers his way into the White House, millions more will die from is perverse “Christian compassion.”He’s either a liar, an idiot — or both.
Somebody send a copy of this to Chuck Norris,he needs to read this.
I think you have stumbled onto something there. If Gov. Huckabee started out with the assumption that the juries in his state were populated with nothing but mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging racist retards, one would expect him to act exactly as he has acted.
Now it is up to Gov. Huckabee to provide a plausible alternative motivation for his actions.
The Baptist Minister has a need to forgive,
but a Governor has a duty to protect.
Seems he never gave up the Ministers job.
Where is Glen Green now and why wasn't he prosecuted under the UCMJ?
Huck cannot provide a plausible alternative motivation for his actions on paroling an enormous number of violent criminals...just say no way.
Exactly and I've already suffered through four years of a Carter 'misery indexed' presidency and don't need to do it again.
exactly, when he was asked as he was doing the clemencies, he said he couldnt legally discuss the reasons he was letting a killer out.
His own Howard Dean Scream moment can’t be too far away.
lol, he’d call the hawgs!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pig SOOOOOOOOOOIE!
"(Prosecutor)Herzfeld successfully sued to keep a murderer named Don Jeffers behind bars (at least for a while longer) after Huckabee granted him clemency without explanation as required by law: "On granting an application (for executive clemency), the Governor shall include in his written order the reasons thereforeŠ."
Attorney General Mike Beebe, in nullifying the pardon, agreed that the governor had erred when he didn't give reasons why he had pardoned Jeffers and didn't even contact the prosecutor or the victim's family about how he felt about the pardon.
"It was a tremendous victory," says the 30-year-old prosecutor. "This was not only the first time a prosecutor had filed a lawsuit against a governor but had actually won." Jeffers had strangled a Bryant man during a home burglary in 1980 and is serving a life sentence without parole for murder and 25 years for armed robbery after he plea bargained to avoid the death penalty."
I try not to badmouth anyone on our side.
It’s just hard when several of them, for various reasons (Rudy, Paul, Huck) don’t appear to BE on our side...
We report, you decide. JUST LISTEN..
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bump!
I wonder if anyone can find these reasons....it got so bad we just ignored the clemencies we knew he wasnt going change.....Jeffers must have been after another one I was digusted with and quit giving a crap. I dont remember the guys name, he had killed a preacher the family of the preacher did not want to seek the death penalty if the state promised he would do life in prison. 20 years later he is a trustee working in Huck’s triplewide and Huck grants him clemency. Huck said he would not and could not discuss the reasons. The preachers family was pissed they didnt get to talk to the governor about the clemency.
Was that Willie Way Jr? There was another trustee pardoned too who was later banned from the mansion for illegal activity there. I just can’t remember his name right now.
Who’s we? The Clinton goon squad? That’s who’s doing the reporting here.
>> JUST LISTEN.. <<
Yes, Shift, I’m so sorry, I forgot about your weak chest. I’ll go fetch the lion skin for you.
(I’m not missing your sarcasm, just playing along with it.)
Rudy’s a self-professed ideological clone of Clinton. Paul isn’t even actually a Republican. Huckabee... well he’s hated by the Clinton goon squad. God knows that means he can’t be a Republican. (/sarcasm)
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