{"id":190418,"date":"2009-11-30T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/30\/if-he-were-a-democrat\/"},"modified":"2009-11-30T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T01:04:00","slug":"if-he-were-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/30\/if-he-were-a-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"If He Were a Democrat&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now it turns out that it appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/huckabee.php\">man who allegedly shot 4 police officers in Tacoma was granted clemency by <span>Huckabee<\/span><\/a>, allowing for his pardon.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2010385617_webmansought29.html\">guy&#8217;s rap sheet is unbelievable<\/a> in chronological order, we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Sentenced at 18 to 60 years for robbery, theft, burglary, aggravated robbery, <span>posession<\/span> of a gun on school property.<\/li>\n<li>After his parole, it was two more armed robberies, and other assorted crimes.<\/li>\n<li>Punching a police officer during a domestic dispute.<\/li>\n<li>He has a pending charge of 2<sup><span>nd<\/span><\/sup> degree child rape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make this clear, sentencing people to prison, and paroling them is a crap shoot.  Some people don&#8217;t need to be in prison a day, some will never, ever be safe to put on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>So, governors will get this wrong, but <span>Huckabee<\/span> has a particularly bad record, see also the earlier case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/12\/03\/politics\/main3569614.shtml\">Wayne <span>DuMond<\/span><\/a>, where <span>Huckabee<\/span> seems to have engineered his release because it was a relative of Bill Clinton&#8217;s who was raped, and reports that he was more likely to pardon someone when, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Vote2008\/story?id=3983797\">evangelical leaders attested that a prisoner had found Jesus<\/a>&#8220;, and it appears that the accused, Maurice <span>Clemmons<\/span>, used the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2010389064_webclemency01m.html\">language of Evangelical Christianity in his appeal for clemency to <span>Huckabee<\/span><\/a>, which likely had something to do with that decision.<\/p>\n<p>There are also cases that seem to be tied to his personally knowing the prisoner, because they worked at the governor&#8217;s residence (<span>WTF<\/span> is up with that?), and because they had personal ties to him.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s not just that he&#8217;s made a mistake, it&#8217;s that he&#8217;s been a real horror show on this.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if he were a Democrat with a gig as a new host, someone like <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/30\/mike-huckabees-burden\/\">Roger <span>Ailes<\/span>, who created the Willie Horton ads<\/a>, would be on him, and on the network to dump him, but this won&#8217;t happen, because Roger <span>Ailes<\/span> runs Fox News, and has hired him as that host:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\"><p>Back in 1988, when it came to light that Willie Horton committed fresh crimes while out on a weekend furlough program backed by then-Gov. Mike <span>Dukakis<\/span> of Massachusetts, Republicans used it to help destroy <span>Dukakis<\/span> the presidential candidate. It may even have cost him the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it,\u201d said a gleeful Roger <span>Ailes<\/span>, then a media consultant to Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><span>Ailes<\/span> now runs Fox News. If they decide to hold the politician accountable for early release of a violent felon linked now to a death of four police officers, they know where to find him \u2013 in studio, as a Fox News host.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Consequence free lifestyle, all you have to do is to be a Republican politician&#8230;..Damn&#8230;.I just <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">cannot<\/span> do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now it turns out that it appears that the man who allegedly shot 4 police officers in Tacoma was granted clemency by Huckabee, allowing for his pardon. This guy&#8217;s rap sheet is unbelievable in chronological order, we have: Sentenced at 18 to 60 years for robbery, theft, burglary, aggravated robbery, posession of a gun on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1047,1052,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corrections","category-crimes","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}