Posted on 11/30/2009 2:46:22 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion
I have had disdain for Mike Huckabee for a long time. His weak kneed faux conservative views are sickening. Now he has had a hand in allowing a killer out on the streets when there was no reason to provide clemency for Clemmons. There were no mistakes in his case, yet Huckabee took it upon himself to free this thug with the thought that Clemmons received his 95-year sentence when he was young.
Huckabee is now scrambling to cover up his part in freeing Clemmons blaming it on the justice system and not on his own weak spine. As for Clemmons, he is scrambling too. Two pea in a pod...
Then there's the Washington state justice department, a typical liberal state, who thought it was a good idea to allow Clemmons to have bond set. he quickly came up with the $15,000 needed to secure a $150,000 bail and walked with only an ankle bracelet on. The bracelet was later found cut off. Four officers are dead, the public is at risk and many families are destroyed. This story sums up the bleeding heart mentality - and its results - in a nutshell.
Clemmons has an extensive violent criminal history in Arkansas. He also recently was arrested and charged in Washington State for assaulting a police officer, and second-degree rape of a child. Using a bail bondsman, he posted $150,000 -- only $15,000 of his own money -- and was released from jail last week.
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Clemmons, 37, who had a lengthy prison sentence commuted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee nearly a decade ago, became the prime target Sunday in the search for the killer of Lakewood Police Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; and Officers Ronald Owens, 37; Tina Griswold, 40; and Greg Richards 42.
...On Sunday, Huckabee deflected blame with a statement on his Web site.
"Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State," he wrote.
Note he doesn't state the series of failures that he is responsible for, like letting this criminal with a 95-year sentence free on society.
Mike Huckabee was here.
Lots of raw information to make for some sloppy opinions to no good. This story needs proper seasoning and fermentation.
He was the governor - he signed the release ... his excuse was the guy was just 17 .....
Looks like HuckaBible has his very own Willie Horton.
November 9? Are you sure about that?
Is this the same guy who killed 4 policemen in Washington State?
If so, the Huckster is finished in politics.
He had had better keep his day job at Fox News.
If there’s any good to come out of this...and admittedly it will nowhere near make up for the horrific executions of these police officers...it’s that Huckabee will now probably not run for the presidency and muddy up the campaign waters.
Are cops lives worth more than yours?
What about “regular people” who get killed?
Their lives are worth less than those of cops?
Explain that please.
And in that vein ... will somebody enlighten me on what constitutes a hate crime. Every time I try to do so I am labeled as a racist.
. his excuse was the guy was just 17 .....
A factor which was known by his judge and or jury when they considered his case and threw the book at him, yet Huckabee acts as if it is some mitigating aspect hidden to all but himself.
SICK AND TIRED OF HUCKABEE. Hope this does end his career.
So when do the release his convict conversion Islamic name?
and how old was the child he raped is the question I would ask huckabee.
Curious, why are you trying to pick a fight about this?
I’m thankful I have a boring job - my mistakes won’t cost anyone their life; my decisions aren’t blasted by hindsighters I’ve never met. We’re in big trouble if Huckabee is considered “left” enough to deserve full disdain.
This guy had a prison ministries minister who was a good friend of Huckabee who convinced the Huckster to free him because the murderer had asked for forgiveness in the name of Jesus.
As was pointed out to the ‘Soggy Bottom Boys’ in “O Brother Where Art Thou?”; God may have forgiven you, but the man still wants your a$$ in prison.
Apparently that lesson was lost on the supposed Biblical scholar Huckabee; who sought to render unto the Caesar that which was the Lord's.
Not one of those cops was from Seattle. Sorry, but it gets irritating when anything happens in Washington State, the media always refers to Seattle. They all started their careers in Lakewood, Washington which is right next to Tacoma, WA. Seattle is 30 miles away.
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