Well-to-do politicians who no longer have to live among the rest of us consider average, everyday working folks expendable. So, if they have to unchain a few violent miscreants to prey upon the public in order to make themselves feel noble, well, what the heck? No harm done. You may recall that Huckabee pulled this same sick stunt.
“So, if they have to unchain a few violent miscreants to prey upon the public in order to make themselves feel noble, well, what the heck?”
Follow the money. There will be no trail, no way to prove it, but I’d bet a dollar to a doughnut that Mr. Barber made some serious cash over these pardons.
Nothing will change until/unless we do two things:
#1 - Retirement from political office should not be an endless gravy train.
#2 - Politicians need to really fear the electorate.