Huckabee’s Horton moment
Update: The latest developments and campaign back and forth here.
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Last week, when Mitt Romney faced questions about one of his judicial appointees who was responsible for freeing a convicted murderer who went on to kill again, I asked: “Will Romney’s opponents run with it or stay away lest their own complicity in revolving-door horror stories come back to bite them?”
Well, it’s Mike Huckabee’s turn this week. Huckabee’s Willie Horton is convicted rapist Wayne Dumond. Unlike the Romney case, Huckabee played a direct role in events that led to Dumond’s release. Byron York was on the case in August and now the Huffington Post has published new details and exclusive letters ((yes, a curious choice for the leakers, but the documents are still damning).
York sums up the case:
For many people, the report is the first they’ve heard of the Dumond case. Once they learn about it, however, they are unlikely to forget its bizarre details and the strange turn of events that led to Dumond’s final crime. The case is the wild card in Mike Huckabee’s record, the single most controversial event during his time in the Arkansas governor’s office. And it is a potential threat to his now-soaring candidacy.
It began in September 1984, when Dumond, a 35-year-old handyman, kidnapped and raped a 17-year-old high-school cheerleader in the small eastern-Arkansas town of Forrest City. Dumond was allowed to remain free on bond while awaiting trial, and in March 1985 two masked men entered his house, tied him up with fishing line, and castrated him. People were stunned; the case, already notorious, became much more so. And that was before the local sheriff, a rather colorful man named Coolidge Conlee, displayed Dumond’s severed testicles in a jar of formaldehyde on his desk in the St. Francis County building. Amid tons of publicity, Dumond was found guilty and sentenced to life plus 20 years.
The case took on a political coloring when it became known that the victim was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton. After conviction, Dumond, who claimed he was innocent, asked Clinton for clemency. Clinton declined.
Dumond also argued that even if he were guilty his sentence was excessive, and his position won him some sympathy, not least on the grounds that he had suffered terribly at the hands of those unknown assailants. In April 1992, when Dumond had served just seven years, Lt. Gov. Tucker, acting as governor while Clinton was out of state campaigning for president, commuted Dumond’s sentence to a level where he would be eligible for parole. That didn’t mean Dumond would go free, only that the state parole board would consider the question. The board declined to free Dumond.
That’s where things stood when Huckabee took office on July 15, 1996. Last August, Huckabee told me he had his doubts about Dumond’s guilt, and also felt sorry for him over the castration attack. On September 20, just weeks after taking office, Huckabee announced that he intended to set Dumond free, saying that there were “serious questions as to the legitimacy of his guilt.” On October 31, Huckabee met with the parole board. Not long after, the board voted to free Dumond, but on the condition he move to another state. Huckabee was pleased, in part because — given that the board had voted to free Dumond — there was no need for Huckabee to commute the sentence or pardon him. So Huckabee denied Dumond’s now-irrelevant pardon application while at the same time congratulating him on his soon-to-come freedom. “Dear Wayne,” Huckabee wrote in a letter to Dumond. “My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.”
In 2000, Dumond went on to rape and kill a 39-year-old woman at an apartment complex.
ABC interviews the mother of the rape/murder victim who would be alive today but for Huckabee’s intervention.
Allah looks at the intersection of faith and policy in the case.
CBS investigates the extent of Huckabee’s lobbying for Dumond before the parole board.
Well, at least the case has turned the media into tough-on-crime advocates..for the moment, anyway.
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Yeah, this is not good for Huckabee, whom Rush has suggested the Drive Bys were previously promoting.
As you noted, now in their zeal to be seen as tough on crime, they’ll inadvertently rejuvenate Rudy.
Ah, the Law of Unintended Consequences.
those ‘unknown assailants’ had the right idea.
Just imagine how Hitlary would be screaming bloody murder if somebody brought up something damaging from her past.
Then again, what can you really say about her past that isn’t rotten?
I say this is the end of Huckabee as a candidate.
So did Dumond commit his heinous deed in or out of Arkansas? Pity his castrators didn’t just off him way back when, but then the whole rotten mess would not be impacting on Huckabee now.
God help us if we have Huckabee as the nominee…another RINO tax and spender who feels sorry for illegal immigrants.
And why do we keep releasing career violent criminals? If Dumond were a Mexican national who fled home, I suppose they’d never extradite him to face American justice? And what is wrong with castration for violent rapists (as opposed to statutory rapists)? It would never happen, but French had right idea- penal colonies in godforsaken places. Throw in hard labor and see how all that reduces crime rate.
I was going to say, this should put an end to the ridiculous demands some people make that convicted rapists be castrated to prevent recidivism.
But then bloghooligan had to prove me wrong.
So, let me get this straight. Two masked people rape and castrate a man who hasn’t been convicted of a crime and the testicles end up on the sheriff’s desk. And no one gets caught.
Wow.
And DuMond was actually a cause celebre of the right. A lot of people thought he was being set up by the Clintons. When it comes to Bill Clinton, a lot of conservatives will believe anything.
That’s what got him paroled.
More here
The CNN/YouTube debate was the first real look at Huckabee for me. I just got a bad feeling about him..now I know why.
#6 Yes, he was an innocent victim of vigilante justice. I bet he was framed for the later rape/murder of the 39 year old woman also. I’m sure you’re one of those people of empathy who would picket outside the scene of a state sanctioned execution. Look at all the tax money we’d save if only we’d show compassion and release all prisoners as soon as possible or maybe just those on death row because chances are few would kill again? All you need is love. Too bad more people are not like my Mennonite inlaws- there would be no Americans dying in Iraq. Turn the other cheek, trust in the Lord, the meek shall inherit the earth, yada yada.
Where are the rest of the trolls to glorify Dumond as a victim here?
Ya know, I’ve been kinda floating between Fred and Rudy, never did like Huckabee, never could say why, but I always just got bad vibes from him I guess.
A response to some of the resident trolls pro-mumia propaganda:
From CQ website: Mumia Myths 20/20 TV show for 12/09/1998
http://web.archive.org/web/20020608203551/danielfaulkner.com/index2020.html
I expect there will be plenty of old info about Dumont also.
Haha, yup.
Dumond was a bad dude. A bad dude that many right wingers wanted released because they were blinded with hatred for Bill Clinton.
And, yeah, I have sympathy for someone who was raped* and castrated. That’s pretty similar to a lynching. “Who needs a conviction when we can torture this guy on our own!”
Absolutely sick.
*I noticed this post didn’t mention the sexual assault. I know it was a cut-and-paste from another site, but shouldn’t that have been mentioned?
#6 — Rusty:
*sigh* Once again, I’ll ask you — as so many others have asked before — do you actually read what you link before you link it? The Sheriff had the testicles because he found them at the scene. Nobody was passing around testicles in the dark of night. Maybe he did know who did it, but once again you try to mis-direct. Even the article you link – which is so biased it’s a miracle the words don’t slant on the page – does not try to change that part of the story.
So let’s see… This animal participated in the claw-hammer death of a soldier (he says he just “watched”), accosted a teenage girl, raped another teenage girl, then raped and killed another woman after he was released. And you are hung up on the Sheriff? Amazing.
I don’t know what Huckabee could possibly say to make this less damaging, but he’d better do something fast.
huckabee is a wolve in sheeps clothing. he has used his good ole baptist preacher shtick to get the ‘christian’ vote. he has jumped on the bandwagon of ‘fair’ tax to get a significant voting block within the conservative Iowa caucus. never was a part of his platform before, all of a sudden he jumps in the polls in Iowa. sounds like he learned a little to much from the last arkansas governor that ran for president, slick willy..
nope this guy needs to go back to arkansas in MHO
well Rusty – let’s look at this in the least common denominator:
the people had it right (unknown assailants)
the bureaucracy had it wrong
as with anything, i trust the people.
i should amend that…
i trust the people more with social justice than the gov’t.
i tend to trust the gov’t more on issues of national sovereignty than the people.
this was social justice, and the ball cutters had it right. i don’t care who he’s a cause of, right or left.
You have no idea what social justice means.
This is vigilante justice. This is the sort of thing that leads to some poor black kid in a white town being castrated and having his fingers and ears and tongue cut off before being hung and burned. All after being accused of murdering a white woman. That’s the kind of justice you’re after.
You have no decency.
Mike needs to step up and confront the issue head on. A lot of people thought Dumond was innocent. But it’s clear that Huckabee went well beyond his bully pulpit in his efforts to get Dumond paroled. Now it comes out that he went so far as to disregard specific letters pointing out why Dumond should not have been paroled. Why, Mike?
As a Huckabee supporter, I’ll admit I’m biased. I want to hear an explanation that makes sense. So far, though, all I’m hearing are dodges. It’s hard to imagine voting for someone who could make such a huge error in judgement. Unfortunately, it’s also hard for me to imagine myself ever voting for the remaining collection of hypocrites and panderers that make up the rest of the Republican field.
On a side note, MM, I have to take some issue with saying those women would be alive “but for” Huckabee’s intervention. I know the statement doesn’t preclude other “but for’s”, such as “but for Dumond’s actions,” but I think it does imply more responsibility for their deaths than Huckabee deserves.
#16 you have to throw in the racial aspects. I have no problem with CRIMINALS of any color paying the piper.
I think Robert Blake, Phil Spector and Orenthal Simpson were all killers who should have been fried and not freed.
Take a look at the fictional rape scene in Pulp Fiction. Bad guy Ving Rhames is sodomized by two crackers. He promises the survivor that he will get medieval on him and he will have a short but painful life. Yes, Rhames is judge, jury and executioner. The rapists won’t hurt anyone else ever again. And yes, I’m sure that Rhames character has much to answer to also. One thing I never understood though was why men raping men is often not considered homosexual behavior by the rapists themselves.
Rusty, once again, you show how you skim the story and miss (ignore) or make up details. You said: “So, let me get this straight. Two masked people rape and castrate a man …”. Uh, no one raped Dumond.
Then you said, “A lot of people thought he was being set up by the Clintons.” Where in the world did you get that idea that this was “a cause celebre of the right”?
I lived in the area at the time and never saw that this was really a left vs. right political issue.
What’s a laugh about Puff Post is that they want to elect someone who will have revolving door policies.
What Huck did was disgraceful, and his candidacy should be derailed as a result. We cannot have someone in high office who makes decisions on emotion, not facts.
One of the intruders forced Dumond to perform oral sex on him. So, sexual assault. Still bad. And your point about Pulp Fiction is lost on me. As for race, the kind of justice that bloghooligan was talking about was incredibly similar to lynching. Accuse someone of a crime and then hurt em real bad.
And, behiker, not a cause celebre for the right? Did you see the piece I posted earlier? And there’s this and there’s a NY Post columnist who went so far as to suggest that Stevens (Bill Clinton’s cousin/rape victim) was never actually raped.
It wasn’t as prevalent as that “Clinton killed Foster” crap, but it was there. It was there that I had heard of Dumond before MM and Kos and Huffington posted his story.
Radio Joe has a point.
Ultimately, the scumbag known as Dumond is responsible for his actions. Why aren’t people convicted of rape sentenced to either death or life without parole?
A drug dealer can get life without parole, and taking the virtue from another in the form of rape — let alone wantonly taking the life of another — is certainly more heinous than pushing drugs.
Huckabee better have some answers — and fast. Rape is wrong. Wrong WRONG! It doesn’t matter who is in charge. It must be punished.
*yawn* at Rusty. Nobody cares, let alone agrees with you, in case you didn’t notice. You’d think you were from the early 20th century since that seems to be your point of reference on race relations. Totally tiring and uninformed and not reflective at all of real life.
One thing I’d like to know is WHY did Huckabee think he might be innocent? The articles link state that Huckabee questioned the decision but not why he thought it.
Because people accused Bill Clinton of using dirty tricks to obtain a conviction and keep him in jail. If Bill Clinton isn’t related to the victim, he doesn’t get released because no one cares. If Huckabee and all the other people clamoring for his release were so confident in his innocence, they wouldn’t have put in that stipulation that Dumond move to another state.
This is a fascinating development, because it extends the theme of “Huckabee as moralist” that the guys at Powerline have identified (Mike Huckabee — Too Moralistic to Protect Our National Security and Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter), which makes Paul and John at PL very concerned about his ability to design and implement realistic domestic or foreign policy.
I urge everyone who’s interested in how MH might govern to read those two posts. I found them compelling.
Thanks Rusty, but I’d like to know what Huckabee thinks. Not what some unhinged moonbat thinks.
No testicles…rape….how is that possible? Nah, I better not post this.
As much as Rusty is wrong everywhere else, he has a point here. It shouldn’t have ever become another state’s problem.
Huckabee has appeared to have washed his hands and put the onus on another state to babysit Arkansas’ problem. Say what you will…Rusty is right on that point.
But, yes, let’s hear straight from the horse’s North End (Huckabee) on this one.
Ok. Well. I urge you to do some Googling and find something else.
Here, again, is the big anti-Clinton piece from the Village Voice that will tell you what you want to know. There wasn’t a DNA match and the victim got the color of his eyes wrong. That and the people who were prosecuting him (like the sheriff) were undeniably evil people.
This sort of thing happens all the time. The difference here was that people were willing to believe any conspiracy about Bill Clinton and it got some woman in Missouri raped and killed.
And I take offense to being called an “unhinged moonbat.”
Well the Huckster is pretty much a counterfeit conservative in my book anyway….he has bought into the scam being peddled by anAL GOREtentive vis a vis AGW…calling for some kind of mandatory ‘cap and trade’ scheme for carbon credits….so he isn’t a serious candidate to me anyway….personally,I’m hoping for a ‘reverse gonzo’ ticket…Thompson/Hunter
Rusty, unless you’re saying that Dumond might be innocent, i don’t get your racial reference. it seems to be implying that all of those blacks were indeed guilty of rape/the-crimes-they-were-accused-of…a claim i find preposterously racist in its application.
blacks were the victims of crime, not vigilante justice. please get the history straight.
i know you like to portray anyone who believes in justice as blood thirsty, but – earth to Rusty – that type of nonsense defeats the point of justice and is counterproductive. people are not as irrational as you appear to be, or think them to be.
I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure a lot of those people advocate castration not to prevent recidivism but as a purely punitive measure. As emotionally satisfying an idea as I may find it, even I have to admit that such punishment runs afoul of the 9th Amendment.
Someone check Hell for snow, I completely agree with Rusty here. No matter how heinous the crime questions of guilt, innocence and punishment can’t be left up to self-appointed crusaders in ski masks. Public officials that are complicit in such behavior betray their offices.
You’re definitely living in a glass house on this point. In terms of both the number of believers and the bizarre nature of their beliefs the Clinton haters are absolute pikers compared to the Bush haters. It’s also worth noting that on the right we push lunatics to the margins, on the left you make them chairman of the national party.
Perhaps but it is all theorizing until there’s an answer from Huckabee, either from his own mouth or through investigative work that uncovers the reasons. We don’t know why that stipulation was put in place and no one has provided an answer except for wild anti-Clinton conspiracy theories.
Rusty, you really need to take a breath and pay attention…
I pointed out that you said the guys “raped” Dumond, they did not. Yes, sexual assault and rape are both bad. But, if you are going to comment on things, please state facts.
Secondly, I said nothing about “Pulp Fiction” that was in posting above mine. I’ve never even seen the movie, so I won’t comment on it.
And yes, I read the article you linked too. But I still don’t see how you can state “a cause celebre of the right”. You tried to make it sound like another Vince Foster, but it was no where close.
This news does even more to shine a spotlight on the dubious record of the Huckster. He is beginning to look like a RINO version of “Billy Bob Clinton” only with out the trail of bodies caused by Arkancide.
I don’t see this happening in a Giuliani/Hunter administration. In fact with this unbelievable Intel. report out yesterday they would probably fire most of the State Dept. and CIA. Needless to say the Justice Dept. and the Pentagon would shape up quick.
I do partially agree with Rusty. No matter how heinous the crime, we can’t condone vigilante justice. Whatever criticisms of the legal system one might have, allowing citizens to take matters into their own hands is a dangerous thing.
However, Rusty – as far as facts are concerned, you may want to find a different article to cite. That Village Voice article you keep linking is possibly one of the least objective examples of “journalism” that I have ever read.
Can anybody vouch for Hillary and Janet Reno’s whereabouts that night?
Compassion gone wrong…Obviously, Huckabee didn’t knowlingly want to release someone who he thought was guilty of such a heneous crime nor did he anticipate that the guy would rape and kill upon his release. Maybe his faith compromised his judgement. That’s a good enough reason for me not to vote for him. If we’re attacked again, he may not have the will to counter-attack an enemy.
Unless there was compelling evidence that the guy was innocent, he shouldn’t have touched it with a ten-foot pole.
Rusty-
You might wish to read what the same author of the piece you’ve linked to is saying today.
*Note: I encourage anyone interested to read the entire article because my intent was not to cherry-pick comments.
I would not classify that as anti-Clinton.
With all that said, though, focusing on the castration (much as this author did) is part of what tripped up Mike Huckabee as well. It’s a false lead to the real issue here. In this, the vigilante justice failed because it provoked pity for someone that was not deserving of it.
I cannot help but wonder that if Dumont were not castrated, would he have been kept in jail?
So let’s hear from former Governor Huckabee. Governor?
Governor?
cue the chirping crickets…
At this point, he had better have some answers before the 6:00 news. Otherwise, he’s political toast.
I’m an Arkie and I expect you’ll be finding out several things about the Huck you will not like. He is a Republican, but I don’t consider him a conservative. He is a moderate. His record on taxes and immigration need to be examined closely.
Hunter or Tancredo!
Seems Huckabee is starting to sound, act and twist like Bill Clinton does? Is it possible he is the Republicans version Of Bill?
They really need to put “none of the above” on the ballot.
I wonder how he feels about the boys in Gitmo.
I always thougt Huck seemed a little week on crime and security issues. This is just more evidence.
OT-am I the only one who is reminded of one the former presidents on 24 when I see Huck? They sorta look similar and I could see Huck being just as wobbily on life or death issues (not counting the season where the guy turned evil).
Hmmm, people like him for his charisma, but we keep getting more and more information on his crap policies and deicisions. I’m think he may be the GOP versioun of Clinton? What the heck is in the water of Hope?
Interesting that this is being reported now, the day we find Huck is at the top of the polls. I suppose better now than later, especially if he wins the primary, but this can be coincidental.
Apparently the only people w/o any dirt on them are Hunter and Tancredo (besides the pissing off his dem, office neighbor by smoking a cigar, but that ought to give him bonus points.)
http://www.kypolitics.org
In rundown of top contenders, McConnell leaves Huckabee off the list
The Matt Drudge-coined
Huckaboom
that is sweeping Iowa and other early presidential voting states apparently hasn’t reached Mitch McConnell.
Surging presidential contender Mike Huckabee, who is
and
(within
three points
of Rudy Giuliani)
, has been all the rage recently. But not with Kentucky’s senior senator.
McConnell was asked to give his thoughts on the presidential campaign last week at a stop in northern Kentucky.
comments in the
Kentucky Enquirer
:
In the presidential race, Republicans Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are the party’s top contenders, with Romney and Giuliani
running the best campaigns.
A few months ago McConnell’s ommission of Huckabee would have raised very few eyebrows. Now, with Huckabee a real factor, it might strike some as calculated.
As we’ve previously reported, McConnell does have personal connections to other contenders. And political players close to him are backing various other
candidates: Giuliani (Anne Northup, Cathy Bailey) and Romney (Trey Grayson), for example.
But the ommission probably has more to do with Huckabee’s iffy record on taxes,
. And this video, which was excerpted and used effectively by Fred Thompson during last week’s CNN-YouTube debate:
Inactive Control
Huckabee_fish_2
As Dan Bayens wrote
, McConnell’s talking points are full of rhetoric on Democrats and tax increases. It’s an effective message for McConnell – especially here at home, considering
the landslide defeat of the Louisville library tax measure.
Huckabee hasn’t had much exposure in Kentucky. He cancelled an event in Danville that had been scheduled for earlier this fall. But we’re guessing that
his down-home/social conservative/semi-populist message would play decent enough here in a general election.
It would be a problematic fit for McConnell, however, who would be inclined to work overtime to distance himself from Huckabee’s questionable tax record
in an effort to keep his message consistent.
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I do not know the facts of this case and I will not rely on anyone’s interpretation of facts to make a judgement but I will state this:
Vigilanteism is never acceptable
If local law enforcement did not pursue the perpetrators of the castration with due diligence then they should also be procecuted. Two wrongs do make a right.
As for Huckster, he is definately not a conservative. As for anyone’s defense of the Clinton’s, all I can say is:
Total Fabrication or TF for short.
Is a Huckaboom anything like Jomentum?
I think I was first alerted to this in a debate when he talked about being concerned about main st, not wall st. Sounded a little too much like the silky one for my tastes.
It certainly is awfully easy to look back at the past and point out everyone’s crap decisions, isn’t it?
Did the man serve time behind bars? Yes, 8 or 9 years or so, right? What are rapists regularly sentenced to serve today? Realistically, with “good behavior credits” and “time served” credits during a trial? Did DuMond himself profess his innocence? Yes.
Also, I wouldn’t read too much into Huckabee’s insistence that DuMond live outside Arkansas. More likely, as a victim of a vigilante crime, it was believed at the time that DuMond would face further abuse if he remained in Arkansas.
If Huckabee made his decision based in part on his faith, and in part on information provided to him which was incomplete or inaccurate, I’m willing to allow that it was, in hind-sight, a boneheaded decision. But, unlike many here, I’m also hoping that Huckabee is bright enough to have learned from said boneheaded decision, and that will make him a better person and a better leader overall.
I’d much rather have someone with “charisma” an an “R” behind his name than Shillary in the Oval Office, come mid-January 2009!
Yep. That’s pretty much one thing we have to judge a candidate by. My magic eight ball doesn’t give me accurate forecasts on what he will do in the future.
Once again, this guy will fall quicker than he rose. I trust that the voters in Iowa can recognize the smell of manure.
Rusty, what would an unhinged moonbat like you like to be referred to as? Who killed Foster? And Ron Brown? Sufferers of BDS like to think Bush is a criminal yet there are no and I mean no facts in evidence, yet when we refer to the Clintons, there is mountains of evidence there was something amiss, yet it becomes a “vast rightwing conspiracy”. That is as bad as Hitler blaming the Jews for Germanys ills. Huckabee is following the tact of Clinton. He needs to fess up.
Yes. That’s kind of my point. It’s a hit piece on Bill Clinton.
Ummmm…I’m going to go with Vince Foster killing Vince Foster and gravity killing Ron Brown.
Oh man. Are you aware of Godwin’s Law? What a crazily inappropriate and inaccurate simile.
“Not in my backyard!”
There should be a federal law preventing states from imposing this type of condition on criminals they release. Maybe if they had to worry about the guy moving in next door, they would think twice about releasing him.
Could this Arkansas sheriff also be the guy Hillary put in charge of her lockbox? Just wondering…
Maybe this news will take the heat off Romney for hiring illegals to mow his yard. Romney gave them a second chance too and look what happened…THEY MOWED AGAIN.
Just being sarcastic.
I don’t like Huckabee. I don’t trust him. He’s a bleeding heart conservative.
Last May, Bill Maher made the following observation:
Someone (possibly from this web site) then gave this excellent response:
Given that the democratic party is willing to allow an illegal invasion of our country to replace the voters they abort, wouldn’t it also make sense for them to support castration of criminals to add even more voters to their rolls?
Papa Louie – That’s a riot!
Neither did Huckabee’s magic eight-ball concerning DuMond. Human beings make mistakes. Get over it and look on the bright side; at least Huckabee isn’t Ron Paul!
The main question is, what’s Huckabee’s response now? Will he admit that he did screw up? Will he defend his actions as those of a “compassionate conservative”?
Ronald Reagan was in a distant 4th place before Iowa. Critics hammered him on once being a Democrat. I believe he laughed it off as saying even he was young and stupid once. Will we get a Reagan-esque moment from Huckabee?
Jam @ #44:
No! He’s a RINO version of Jimmah Cartah, what suckered the Evangelical vote in ‘76 with his smile and Southern Baptist trappings. As we all know now, it was just an act and when religion was no longer convenient, he excommunicated the church.
MH seriously worries me. Leaders do NOT wear their emotions on their sleeves and that’s the problem with this M-I-C (Moralist-In-Chief). And as a minister, I’d like him to explain the import of Romans Chp 13 to good & just governance.
The more I read & hear about Huckster, the more I believe that he is the ultimate MSM/Secular Progressive
plantsleeper agent.Well, this is an unpleasant topic. I can say that some years ago, William Buckley was asked about using this procedure on sex-offenders and he pointed out — he referenced a Scandanavian study — that it doesn’t work. What happens is that when released, the eunuchs blame all women and take their revenge accordingly. Huckabee was probably not aware of that study, which doesn’t excuse him, of course. The man doesn’t seem to be aware of much of anything.
Anyway, just my two cents. Question such be addressed to Bill (Buckley, that is).
Would someone, please, point me in the direction of any document, that validates this claim.
If there’s a letter FROM Huckabee TO the parole board, I’d be interested in seeing it.