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Huckabee Was Correct and America Needs Such Principled Leadership
American Daily Review ^ | 12/06/2009 | Yomin Postelnik

Posted on 12/05/2009 11:19:27 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik

There is currently a move underway to discredit Mike Huckabee over the rightful pardoning of a then 16 year old who had been sentenced to 108 years on robbery charges. I make this statement as someone who fully supports the death penalty for murderers and for child rapists, but also as someone who recognizes that getting tough on crime means fostering sensible rehabilitation, not turning first time offenders into violent career criminals.

Yes, Governor Huckabee pardoned more people than most governors do. That’s because Gov. Huckabee isn’t thoughtless, callous or cruel and recognizes that public service actually entails service to the public. Sentencing a 16 year old to months of hard labor generally serves as the greatest deterrent (except in cases of murder and the like). By contrast, sentencing a teen to years in prison has almost inevitably bred nothing more than a violent menaces to society.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clemmons; election2012; huckabee; pardon
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1 posted on 12/05/2009 11:19:29 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Put down the crack pipe.


2 posted on 12/05/2009 11:22:54 PM PST by Steve_Stifler
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Reply self censored to avoid banning.


3 posted on 12/05/2009 11:23:28 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

So tell that to the dead cops families...


4 posted on 12/05/2009 11:23:55 PM PST by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

I don’t trust Huckabee. I’ve heard his excuses and am not buying it.

Sorry Chuck Norris.


5 posted on 12/05/2009 11:26:35 PM PST by smokingfrog (I'm from TEXAS -- what country are YOU from?)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

I noticed his books at the B&N untouched.


6 posted on 12/05/2009 11:31:40 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: Yomin Postelnik

I would not vote for Huckabee for governor of my state. Thats about all I have to say.


7 posted on 12/05/2009 11:33:12 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Tell it to the families of those four murdered cops.


8 posted on 12/05/2009 11:34:41 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Yomin Postelnik

You might as well say that you support Huckabee, which is pretty obvious from this article. However, no matter how you try to white-wash it, the criminal that murdered the police officers should not have been set free. Huckabee is responsible for this, no one else. The fact that he has been trying to blame others tells me the kind of leader he is.


9 posted on 12/05/2009 11:38:32 PM PST by ABQHispConservative (A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
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To: babygene

16 year olds who’ve been sentenced to life for crimes other than murder are thrown into a violent despair. That’s what more than likely led to the horrific police killings - and if we want to stop them in the future, we need to look beyond emotion and get to the real problem.

Huckabee’s approach prevented much violent crime and radical Islamic recruitment. Those who criticize him promote more of the same.


10 posted on 12/05/2009 11:40:00 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik (www.ABetterFlorida.com - Also Support Marco Rubio, Allen West and reelect Tom Coburn in 2010)
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To: Yomin Postelnik
By contrast, sentencing a teen to years in prison has almost inevitably bred nothing more than a violent menaces to society.
LOL! Recent events have proven the opposite to be true dimwit.
11 posted on 12/05/2009 11:42:14 PM PST by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: ABQHispConservative

You’re trying to say that my argument is politically motivated. My linking to a year and a half old column warning of the dangers of long sentences (dangers that led to just such a situation like that of Clemmons) refutes that.

Your assertion that “Huckabee is responsible... no one else” seems to be extremely politically motivated. Washington state gave him parole after he raped a child - something that no sane person, least of all Huckabee, would have done.


12 posted on 12/05/2009 11:42:59 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik (www.ABetterFlorida.com - Also Support Marco Rubio, Allen West and reelect Tom Coburn in 2010)
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To: lewislynn

Are you able to even look at the true cause of an event? Read the whole article instead of name calling. I’ll be more than willing to debate whatever actual points you find against a needed approach that is absolutely necessary to preventing future killings.


13 posted on 12/05/2009 11:45:12 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik (www.ABetterFlorida.com - Also Support Marco Rubio, Allen West and reelect Tom Coburn in 2010)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Yes on the first. Perhaps yes on the second.

And as with Huckabee, you are looking for scapegoats. Perhaps if Clemmons had served a longer sentence he might have improved himself. Perhaps he would have been worse. Now we will never know. Cold comfort for the dead police officers and their families, though.


14 posted on 12/05/2009 11:47:23 PM PST by ABQHispConservative (A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
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To: ABQHispConservative

Perhaps if he hadn’t been given a sentence at 16 that turned him into a violent maniac and caused him to go from petty thief to rapist and murderer - as has happened the majority of times when such sentences have been handed down - he wouldn’t have been a killer. We’ll never know. But we can certainly analyze and look at the facts as the only way of trying to prevent numerous other cases.


15 posted on 12/05/2009 11:50:39 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik (www.ABetterFlorida.com - Also Support Marco Rubio, Allen West and reelect Tom Coburn in 2010)
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Washington state gave him parole after he raped a child - something that no sane person, least of all Huckabee, would have done.

You are incorrect. WA did NOT parole him.

16 posted on 12/05/2009 11:53:40 PM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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Perhaps if he hadn’t been given a sentence at 16 that turned him into a violent maniac

You have that backwards. He was sentence because he was a violent maniac.

17 posted on 12/05/2009 11:54:57 PM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Let me get this straight. If we hand out “tough” sentences, we are creating animals. But if we give them light sentences, then we are turning them into peaceful individuals. That is what I am inferring from the first sentence.

No, he committed the crime he should have paid the time. Perhaps doing hard labor as well.

How can you say that prison led to his future behavior. His environment on the outside also contributed.


18 posted on 12/06/2009 12:00:21 AM PST by ABQHispConservative (A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
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Yes, Governor Huckabee pardoned more people than most governors do. That’s because Gov. Huckabee isn’t thoughtless, callous or cruel and recognizes that public service actually entails service to the public.

You are a liberal freak. And you call yourself “an adviser?”

The Huckster didn't need a brain to let all of those people go. Get real. He only had to exercise a lapse in judgment, which has to do with NOT HAVING A BRAIN.

Showing "compassion" by risking innocent lives is stupidity. Showing "forgiveness" when you weren't the one wronged is un-Biblical. Go read your Bible.

19 posted on 12/06/2009 12:03:59 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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“By contrast, sentencing a teen to years in prison has almost inevitably bred nothing more than a violent menaces to society.”

Then kill them as Teens and avoid the future menance.


20 posted on 12/06/2009 12:04:34 AM PST by BigCinBigD
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