The American Spectator

Eric Damon| 12.1.09 @ 9:56AM

He can't be Mumia because he wasn't "railroaded" by a racist justice system. Maybe Tookie Williams though. Did he write any children's books after being released from state custody in Arkansas?

Janemarie| 12.1.09 @ 10:24AM

No, it was Huckabee who killed him; he'd be alive if his sentence hadn't been commuted!

Nick| 12.1.09 @ 11:26AM

For anyone who still might be inclined to support Mr. Huckabee for president, please read this article from 2004 that Michelle Malkin has a link to:

http://www.arkansasleader.com/.....kabee.html

This isn't the first time he's done this. And he was passing the buck back then.

Shoshanna| 12.1.09 @ 10:23PM

I suspect this will prove to be it for Governor Huckabee. Regardless of the candor with which he may speak or the no doubt genuine regret he will express, this terrible blunder will return to haunt him, and Clemmons will become his Willie Horton. (Does anyone recall Michael Dukakis?)

Any political future he might have had on the national stage has now been terminally compromised by a decision that eventually led to the senseless and tragic slaying of four officers, and has left his own poor judgment inextricably intertwined with this terrible, inexcusable, and utterly unnecessary nightmare.

In answering the question of how, following a long and violent criminal career, this savage animal was able to be released on bail to wander loose-- ready, willing, and able to commit mayhem, and intent on doing so-- my guess is that a lot of people are going to have to face up to their consciences. And I hope they do so, because Clemmons was not unique. There are many more like him.

But regardless of the number of individuals whose decisions kept putting him back on the streets, and however many experts and authorities Governor Huckabee consulted prior to commuting Clemmons' sentence, there are two facts that nothing can change:

1) Had the Governor not decided as he did, those officers would be alive today.

2) He was, in fact, the governor, and the buck stopped with him.

The governor will, in all likelihood, have may years ahead in which to live with these facts. But I believe that whatever their personal and private impact, their public consequence will that of ensuring he lives with them as a private citizen, and never again as an elected leader.

Seek| 12.1.09 @ 12:36PM

How long will liberals make martyrs out of people like Maurice Clemmons? Answer: About as long as "conservative" governors like Mike Huckabee free people like Maurice Clemmons.

victor| 12.1.09 @ 7:47PM

Dear Seek,
Huckabee neither paroled nor set free this monster.
His sentence was commuted when he was 18 in 1990, from 108 years to 47 for a burglary for cash and credit cards and a robbery for $16.
That was twenty years ago.
Talk to those who could have kept him in jail since then.

Liberal Reader| 12.1.09 @ 1:07PM

McCain --

Your post this morning represents the sort of low-class, cheap, shallow sleaze that gives the conservative press a bad name.

Can you identify ONE published liberal writer or broadcasted liberal commentator that in any way identifies with this man.

Indeed, there have been many polls recently that found conservative evangelicals favor Huckabee over any other potential candidate -- including the Priestess of Wasilla.

Does this mean conservative evangelicals are responsible for this crime?

After all, they've lent support and comfort to the man who freed the criminal who committed it!

Obviously, only a moron would think this way.

And only a moron would scan the wires looking for some -- any! -- reason to blame Democrats or liberals for this shooting.

You are, Sir, a giftless hack. I've never seen you offer a fresh idea, a new way of looking at things, or even an old way of looking at things. You just fire off predictable, transparent, depthless and thoughtless reactions to news stories you don't seem even to understand.

Pete2| 12.1.09 @ 1:42PM

LB...you don't have to look very far to find where liberalism shares the blame for this tragedy. For years, liberals have been soft on violent criminals . They have blamed society for this problem not the perp. They have created a victim class who are not responsible ,in their eyes, for what ever crime they have done. This perp was a prime example of this. He had a history, yet he kept getting released. Why? Explain that to me. Why did the system fail to keep this thing behind bars?

Eric Damon| 12.1.09 @ 1:38PM

Liberal Reader,

McCain asks a very good question, because the left in this country has a long record of making heroes and martyrs out of criminals. Remember Joanne Chesimard, who killed a cop and fled to Cuba, only to be lauded by the left as a political exile? Or Tookie Williams, who was a founder of the Crips LA street gang, convicted of two murders, probably responsible for many more, wrote some anti-gang children's books while on death row...and nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize? Or Che Guevara, a murderous thug who helped Castro launch his Communist Revolution in Cuba, but is lionized in lefty films and memorialized on t-shirts and posters? Or Chairman Mao, whose Little Red Book was a most prized posession of leftists in America for a couple of decades, even though he murdered millions if his countrymen in the name of his Communist revolution. Or maybe Nidal Hassan who already has people on the left dreaming up a pre-post traumatic stress syndrome to excuse his murderous rampage at Fort Hood? Or the aforementioned Mumia Abu Jamal who murdered a cop and was turned into a martyr to the "racist" justice system in America? And the list could go on and on!

RS McCain is not a moron, but you are. The question is a valid one given the actions of the left over the years, whether you like it or not.

Liberal Reader| 12.1.09 @ 1:56PM

Eric --

You rely on flimsy analogies.

If you are going to claim that liberals sympathize with or wish to martyrize the man that committed these crimes, then show me some EVIDENCE.

I want SOURCES, LINKS, something, ANYTHING that substantiates this claim.

Without some kind of substantial proof, it is just balderdash offered in bad faith.

McCain, like many of his ilk, are a cancer on the body politic. They use language to define enemies, not ideas.

This debasement of political discourse is probably a greater threat to our way of life and our system of government than any foreign terrorist.

I am THE LIBERAL READER, and speaking for my own, I am here to tell you: liberals do NOT sympathize with this crime or the man that committed it.

I advise anyone within earshot actually to MEET a liberal and TALK to him. You will find he shares your values more often than not, and you will find that you've been tricked by frauds like McCain, and Beck, and so on, into dividing the whole of western metaphysics into two competing camps, the "conservative" and the "liberal." It's a bogus, weak, shallow SUBSTITUTE for thought. Of course it's easier! It's designed for WEAKLINGS.

Adam Smith| 12.1.09 @ 2:42PM

I have plenty of liberal friends. Too many in fact.

You are like the Borg in your unanimity of thought and predictable vitrol.

From the Seattle Times, in response to the shootings:

"Hokey Pokey
seattle, WA
70 comments November 29, 2009 at 9:58 PMRating: (10) (4) Log in to
report abuseA repeat felon and a child rapist was set free by a REPUBLICAN governor.

It was REAGAN, another REPUBLICAN who insisted on flushing the mentally ill and insane out of institutions and onto the streets where they still are today, short of services and still dependent on taxpayer $$ to make it through the day - and sadly FREE to PREY on citizens.

GOP: Putting the mentally unstable on your doorstep, year after year after year."

All of you are MSNBC junkies and the analysis stops when it leaves Olby's maw and reaches your ears.

The Times also had a slew of comments praising the shooter, but they have been removed. The board now looks like swiss cheese because of it.

victor| 12.1.09 @ 7:34PM

Simple Reader:
"If you are going to claim that liberals sympathize with or wish to martyrize the man that committed these crimes, then show me some EVIDENCE.
I want SOURCES, LINKS, something, ANYTHING that substantiates this claim."

http://www.freemumia.com/internetres.html
http://www.finalcall.com/artma.....6613.shtml

victor| 12.1.09 @ 7:35PM

Simple Reader:
"Blah... Blah... Blak"

http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1488/1/

http://www.workers.org/2009/us.....amal_0716/

victor| 12.1.09 @ 7:38PM

Simple Leader:
"Blah Blah White Blah Blah People Blah Blah Suck"

http://www.emajonline.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal

Big Leo| 12.1.09 @ 1:44PM

If you'd like to see a gaggle of lefty loons making a martyr out of Clemmons, go over to the Daily Beast blog on "Suspected Cop Killer . . . " Their hatred of the police would be funny if it weren't tragic.

Oldefarte| 12.1.09 @ 2:54PM

If the police were allowed/encouraged to TAKE OUT the numerous thugs/criminals that are currently on the streets today, without the backup of the corrupt lawyers providing their legal get-out-of-jail assistance, we'd all be better off!!!!!!!!!!!!

Liberal Reader| 12.1.09 @ 3:45PM

You Bushbots make me ill. First you attack our sexy President (Oh what pecs!! Look at his deltoids!), and now you go after a man who probably suffered an awful childhood thanks to your idol Ronal Reagan. And to make matters even worse, you follow that vamp from Alaska! You hateful Snapple drinking, inbred, mind numb bitter clingers have fallen for that seductrix. Don't deny it! Those loamy loins, firm bosoms, and load bearing hips... succulent lips (which spew filthy contard gibberish).... now look what you've done. .. I can't get her image out of my mind. Must return to bedroom where The One's poster is plastered all over the walls.....

SoCon| 12.1.09 @ 4:22PM

Loamy loins? Contard? LMAO!!

Witty, witty, witty.

Um, RR was Governor of California--not Arkansas; he had nothing to do with that vicious cop-killer.

Alan| 12.1.09 @ 5:25PM

As a conservative reader, I'm going to go ahead and agree that Mr. McCain's post here is in shockingly bad taste.

victor| 12.1.09 @ 7:42PM

Alan, you're neither a conservative nor a reader, you are a speed bump in a motel parking lot off of an exit somewhere in the mid-west.

WilliamInWien| 12.1.09 @ 7:15PM

What is MISSING? Four police officers dead in Pittsburg, what about Oakland and now in Washington state. I don't give a fig about Huckabee or any one other than the police officers whp gave their lives and their grieving families and fellow officers. How many names have to be placed on the memorial in DC every year? The "criminal justice system" is broken when any multiple fellon gets back out on the street before they reach senility. Let us get our priorities straight first before we rail about a politician!

Nick| 12.1.09 @ 8:27PM

Liberals hate the military and police officers.

40 years ago they would spit on returning G.I.'s and call them "baby killers" because of a few murdering pigs.

They happily threw rocks at National Guardsmen trying to protect State property.

They rioted against police and called them pigs.

The true believing liberals in SDS and the Weather Underground took up arms and planned violence against this Great Country.

They bombed police stations and ROTC facilities; and robbed banks to fund their traitorous activities.

Two of them are good friends with President Dither.

You could carpet bomb an anti-war rally and not hit one patriotic American. You couldn't swing a dead baby harp seal at a Tea-Party protest without hitting one.

God Bless America!

Rich Rostrom| 12.1.09 @ 9:12PM

William in Wien: Politicians are part of that "broken criminal justice system". They appoint judges and parole commissioners, they fund police departments, they hire police officers, they appoint police chiefs, they serve as district/state's attorneys, they issue pardons and commutations.

Huckabee is part of this mess - he commuted Clemmons' last prison sentence to time served.

victor| 12.1.09 @ 10:09PM

Huckabee neither paroled nor set free this monster.
His sentence was commuted when he was 18 in 1990, from 108 years to 47 for a burglary for cash and credit cards and a robbery for $16.
That was twenty years ago.
Talk to those who could have kept him in jail since then.

Janice| 12.2.09 @ 3:54AM

Huckabee is "Compassionate Conservatism" in action. Huckabee for POTUS? No way, never.

Beyond-Politics| 12.2.09 @ 4:33AM

I see it didn't take long for conservatives to turn this tragedy into a partisan issue. The truth of the matter is that no one in their right mind can spin the actions & subsequent fate of Clemmons into martyrdom. Just as you may have a few extremists on the Left who may do do, you have just as many extremists on the Right who will behave similarly (example: there are both left AND right extremists who engage in conspiracy theories regarding the events of 9/11--the 'net is brimming with them). As for Huckabee, don't blame HIM...he was merely trying to do the right thing by someone he thought showed promise due to circumstances interpreted at the time. We are human beings, not oracles...all "signs" cannot be "read" with infallible accuracy, and hindsight is 20/20. Don't blame Huckabee...blame the man who made the wrong choices...Clemmons

WilliamInWien| 12.2.09 @ 9:13AM

Mr. Rostrom: The CJ system is broken yet the only name bandied about is Huckabee and his so-called political aspirations. Wait three months and look for any coverage in the media about changing the system that allows for such a tragedy. When I say the "CJ system", it encompasses the entire system, including elected politicians and judges. As for the media, the Tiger Woods "domestic" will occupy their interests longer than four murdered police officers. One would think that an "investigative" reporter would trace the career criminal track of this individual and account for all of the police-court-prison-parole decisions and who made them. Slamming just Huckabee, certainly part of the problem, is too easy!

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