Someone needs to take the Dukakis in the tank picture and substitute Mike Huckabee.
There is only one person responsible for these horrific crimes, and that’s Clemmons.
“If I could’ve known nine years ago, looked into the future, would I have acted favorably upon the parole board’s recommendation?” Huckabee told Fox News Radio on Monday. “Of course not.”
Many years ago a young man began a life of crime. From his teens till he was 20 he was in and out of jail for one thing or another. By the time he was 20 he found himself doing hardtime for armed robbery at a state prison. The young man was granted parole when he was 23. In a conversation many years later, Johnny Cash said he didn’t remember Haggard being “on the bill” at a concert in San Quentin prison. To that Merle Haggard replied, “I was in the audience Johnny”. The young man convicted of armed robbery.
Haggard was given a chance to change and turn his life around. He did so, and Hag and all of us are the better for it.
Clemmons was given that same chance in 2000. He is responsible for the life he has chosen since then.
In light of his failure to change his ways and the direction of his life, after being arrested in the state of Washington and committing serveral felonys, he certainly should not have been released again.
We all grieve for the families and victims who have suffered for what this man has done.