Goodbye, Huck!
He knows it, too!!!
The first thing you notice is the INCOMPETENCE of the Seattle police!
All this tyranny paid for and THIS is what you get for SERVICE, Seattle?
"Search intensifies for man who shot officers; Wash. suspect has long history of violence, crime" by Gene Johnson, Associated Press | December 1, 2009
SEATTLE - The suspect had not been cornered after all....
Police canvassed the neighborhood and fanned out across the city....
“This guy should have never been on the street,’’ said Brian D. Wurts, president of the police union in Lakewood, where the slain officers worked. “Our elected officials need to find out why these people are out.’’
Police said they are not sure what prompted Clemmons to assassinate the officers as they worked on their laptop computers at the beginning of their shifts. He was described as increasingly erratic in the past few months and had been arrested recently on charges of assaulting a police officer. Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer told the Tacoma News-
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Police later learned he may have been hiding at the house in Seattle. After an all-night siege in which they tried to get him out using loudspeakers, explosions, and a robot sent into the house, a SWAT team stormed the place and discovered he was not there.
All that for NOTHING!!! How many tax dollars spent on this s***?
Police would not say who lived at the house or whether it was someone Clemmons knew. It was not clear whether he slipped past police, left before they arrived, or was never in the house, but Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel said there was evidence Clemmons at one point was on the property. He would not elaborate....
Translation: THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!
The search came as authorities in two states took heat for the fact that Clemmons was allowed to walk the streets despite a teenage crime spree in Arkansas that landed him a 95-year prison sentence. Clemmons was released in 2000 after then-Governor Mike Huckabee commuted his sentence.
Bye-bye, Huck!
Clemmons has an extensive violent criminal history from Arkansas, dating back to his teenage burglary and robbery spree. Huckabee’s decision to commute his sentence could create a problem for the Republican former governor if he runs for president again in 2012.
Huckabee cited Clemmons’s youth in granting the request. But Clemmons quickly reverted to his criminal past, violated his parole and was returned to prison. He was released again in 2004....
Meanwhile, they are GOING AFTER POT SMOKERS!!!
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And when the NYT gets in on the pile-up, you know you are done:
"Huckabee had pardoned slaying suspect; Action may affect any ambitions for presidency" by Kate Zernike, New York Times | December 1, 2009
NEW YORK - When Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist minister then serving as governor of Arkansas, granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons nine years ago, he cited his age: Clemmons was 16 when he began the crime spree for which he was sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.
It said 95 years above!! Times can't even get that right?
Now, Clemmons is being sought as the suspect in the killing of four uniformed police officers, execution-style, as they sat in a coffee shop Sunday near Tacoma, Wash., writing reports.
Huckabee, now a Fox News talk show host, has been leading the pack of possible Republican contenders for president in 2012. But the killings of the police officers are focusing renewed attention on his long-contentious record of pardoning convicts or commuting their sentences.
In a decade as governor beginning in 1996, Huckabee did so twice as many times as his three predecessors combined. He typically gave little explanation for individual pardons. But he spoke often of his belief in redemption, based on a strong religious faith that even criminals are capable of changing their lives and often deserve a second chance. He also raised concerns about the fairness of the Arkansas justice system.
The commutation of Clemmons’s sentence was routine enough that it failed to make a list of Huckabee’s 10 “most publicized’’ prison commutations compiled by an Arkansas newspaper in August 2004. And as in many cases where parole goes bad, it is difficult to pin responsibility for this week’s crimes solely on Huckabee, because many others made decisions that kept Clemmons out of prison.
Oh, such sympathy for a killer and the man who let 'em out, huh?
Clemmons had been convicted for burglaries and robberies that began in 1989, and would not have been eligible for parole until 2021. He applied for clemency in 2000, writing in a petition to Huckabee that he had simply fallen in with a bad crowd in a bad neighborhood as a teenager, and that he “had learned through the ‘school of hard knocks’ to appreciate and respect the rights of others.’’
Huckabee commuted his sentence, making him eligible for immediate parole. Clemmons violated the conditions of his parole within six months, returning to prison in July 2001 for aggravated robbery. When he was paroled again by the state in 2004, the police in Little Rock served a warrant on him related to a 2001 robbery. But a lawyer for Clemmons argued that too much time had elapsed since the warrant was issued, and prosecutors dropped the charges....
Yeah, but government has to have the power to SPY on YOUR E-MAILS and TELEPHONE CALLS, America -- to keep you safe!!!! And DON'T SMOKE a JOINT!
Huckabee.... overrode the objections of prosecutors, judges, and victims’ families....
Prosecutors told him he was ignoring his responsibility to explain to citizens why he was setting free convicted murderers and rapists. His response, some of them say, was to blame others and strike out against his critics....
With Clemmons, political consultants say Huckabee may have hit his Willie Horton moment....
Should Huckabee run in 2012, there are many prosecutors and victims’ advocates in Arkansas who say they are ready to argue to the national news media that this is just one of the cases where Huckabee ignored good judgment and a stubborn history of criminal behavior in granting clemency. An Arkansas Democrat-Gazette review found that nearly one in ten prisoners who received clemency from Huckabee later were back in prison.
Through a spokeswoman, Huckabee declined requests for an interview, but a statement on the website of his political action committee said that should Clemmons be found responsible, “it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State.’’
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You know, WHY the WEB SITE had to do an UPDATE is BEYOND ME!!!
"Huckabee clemency record revisited after shootings" by Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press Writer | December 1, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. --As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand pardoning or commuting many more prisoners than his three immediate predecessors combined. Maurice Clemmons, the suspect in Sunday's slaying of four Seattle-area police officers, was among them.
For a politician considering another run for the White House, Clemmons could become Huckabee's Willie Horton. "In a primary between a law-and-order Republican and him, I think it could definitely be a vulnerability," said Art English, a political scientist at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. "It is very damaging when you have someone like that whose sentence was commuted. That's pretty high profile and very devastating and very tragic."
English said it's hard to avoid comparing the case to Horton, a convicted killer who raped a woman and assaulted her fiance while on release as part of a prison furlough program supported by Michael Dukakis when he was governor of Massachusetts. Allies of former President George H.W. Bush ran ads criticizing Dukakis for his support of the program, undermining the Democrat's presidential campaign.
Yeah, we remember up here.
As recently as Sunday, hours before the shooting suspect was linked to him, Huckabee said he was leaning against running again for president, telling "Fox News Sunday" he was "less likely rather than more likely" to run.
Well, yeah, now!
On Monday, Huckabee said he takes responsibility for making Clemmons eligible for parole in 2000, and called the case a failure of the justice systems in Arkansas and Washington. Huckabee cited the length of Clemmons' sentence -- 108 years -- and a state judge's recommendation that it be reduced as factors in his decision. "If I could have known nine years ago that this guy was capable of something of this magnitude, obviously I would have never granted a commutation. It's sickening," Huckabee said on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor."
Not interested in excuses, scuz!
Clemmons was among 1,033 people who were pardoned or had their sentences reduced during Huckabee's 10 1/2 years as governor.... Huckabee's role in gaining the release of a convicted rapist, Wayne DuMond, was the subject of an attack ad during his presidential run.
Seems like a PATTERN with this guy, doesn't it?
During the presidential primaries, a conservative group aired television commercials in South Carolina featuring the mother of Carol Sue Shields, whom DuMond killed in 2000 after his release.
Pulaski County Prosecutor Larry Jegley, whose office opposed Clemmons' parole in 2000 and 2004, said Huckabee created a flaw in the Arkansas justice system by freeing the number of prisoners he did.
"(Clemmons) should have stayed locked up like the jury wanted him and we wouldn't even be having this discussion," Jegley said. "I just have been figuratively holding my breath and hoping something like this wouldn't happen," Jegley said. "I just think that a lot of the people that were subjects of clemency during that period of time were some very dangerous people who didn't need to be let out."
Clemmons also had the backing of Pulaski County Circuit Judge Marion Humphrey, who urged the board to grant clemency. Humphrey later presided over Clemmons' 2004 wedding in his court chambers. Huckabee cited Humphrey's support Monday and noted local prosecutors didn't object to Clemmons' commutation. Jegley said his office doesn't have any record that the governor notified him of the intention to grant clemency.
Unreal!
Prosecutors have said Huckabee, a Southern Baptist preacher, was more inclined to release or reduce the sentences of prisoners if he had direct contact with them or was lobbied by those close to him....
But he is for dropping bombs on people he has never even met.
In his application for clemency, Clemmons wrote that he prayed Huckabee would show him compassion and said at the time of his crimes he had just moved to Arkansas from Seattle. Clemmons also wrote that he had changed his life since "the angel of death has visited and taken away my dear sweet mother."
Awww, how can you say no to that?
But if a citizen needs health care or foreclosure help, it's easy!
What the printed Globe cut:
In 1989, Clemmons, then 17, was convicted in Little Rock for aggravated robbery and other charges and sentenced to 108 years. Between 1989 and 1998, Clemmons broke prison rules more than two dozen times -- sometimes violently, said state prison system spokeswoman Dina Tyler. Clemmons didn't stay out long. He was convicted of robbery in Ouachita County in 2001, but was released again in 2004 by the parole board....
(This version CORRECTS Clemmons' 1989 sentence to 108 years, not 95 years.)
Oh, so it was AP that F***ed UP, huh?
Does it even really matter?
ALL AmeriKan MSM SUCKS now!!!
Btw, good thing you are getting out anyway, Huck:
"Palin tops latest poll tracking GOP 2012 field
While Sarah Palin is in a tightly bunched pack in early 2012 Republican presidential polls, she has a clear lead over her rivals among the conservatives who listen to Rush Limbaugh and watch Glenn Beck, according to a new poll.
Ummm, PLEASE DO NOT LUMP ME IN with THAT SLIME!!
I've explained why I like her.
Several surveys have shown the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, former Alaska governor, and now best-selling author in the vicinity of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and ex-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Those surveys showed most Americans don’t believe she’s qualified to be president.
Right, and Bush was? Reagan?
Btw, Huck is out now and Romney?
I don't think Zionist controllers are going to sign off on a Mormon president -- no matter how much he sucks up to Israel.
Sarah says the right things, but when rubber hits road, she's a rapturist, right?
Of course, the party faithful decide.
Oh, the dreams of a Paul/Palin ticket!!!
But in the new
Palin, who is in the midst of a book tour that resembles a political campaign, is also ahead of GOP competitors on who best represents the party’s core values....
I mean, GIVEN the CHOICES we have, yeah!
Overall, 18 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents picked Palin as the person most representative of GOP values....
Yeah, THAT is ME!!!!
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