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To: KLP who wrote (336394)	11/30/2009 7:35:13 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

"No Guts to Jail the Nuts": I think you'll appreciate this piece on Clemmons. "No Guts to Jail the Nuts": Man Wanted in Connection to Killings of 4 Police Officers Sunday in Tacoma Washington This is Maurice Clemmons, sought by the police of Washington state, for possible involvement in the ambush/assassination of 4 police officers Sunday morning in Tacoma. Reading Clemmons' recent and not so recent criminal history makes any sensible person ask, "What is this animal doing out on the street?" The short answer is, "You just can't lock up crazy and dangerous people any longer." The longer answer, in fewer words, is "We don't have the guts to jail the nuts." The weak and neuter-run Seattle Times, long a proponent of "No jail for nuts just bail," reports the facts of Clemmons' demented history in Maurice Clemmons, man wanted for questioning, has long criminal history Among Clemmons more recent "achievements" that should long ago have placed him in a concrete cage at the bottom of the sea include: a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child. eight felony charges in all out of Washington state. punching a sheriff's deputy in the face gathering his wife and young relatives around at 3 or 4 in the morning and having them all undress. He told them that families need to "be naked for at least 5 minutes on Sunday." Clemmons' previous criminal distinctions include, "at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington. The record also stands out for the number of times he has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed." Clemmons was given a 60-year sentence in Arkansas while "he was already serving 48 years on five felony convictions and facing up to 95 more years on charges of robbery, theft of property and possessing a handgun on school property. Records from Clemmons' sentencing described him as 5-foot-7 and 108 pounds. The crimes were committed when he was 17. Clemmons served 11 years before being released." His sentence was commuted due to the "mercy" of then governor Mike Huckabee who cited his tender years at the time his crimes were committed. Should Clemmons turn out to be responsible for the killings of the four police officers, I'd say Mike Huckabee should hang up his further political aspirations in America for good. This would be Huckabee's Willie Horton moment only several orders of magnitude larger. The Seattle Times, a paper that has fought harder for laxity in law enforcement than any other in Washington, naturally led with the Huckabee connection, not that he doesn't deserve it. But what unrolls beneath the lede in the litany of depravity that is Clemmons' life points again and again to the lack of will in America to do anything definitive about the pathological humans that walk among citizens. We've come, through all the good intentions in the world, to a society where individuals of obvious depravity are routinely paroled, or have their sentences commuted, or are given bail because many among us have determined it is more important to be fair, to be nice, than to live. Clemmons became free to walk about Washington state in this way: "Clemmons posted $15,000 with a Chehalis company called Jail Sucks Bail Bonds. The bondsman, in turn, put up $150,000, securing Clemmons' release on the pending child-rape charge." You've got to love the name of that bail company: "Jail Sucks Bail Bonds." That name encapsulates in its depraved way everything that has gone amiss over the last few decades. "We think jail just sucks and if you do to come on down to Jail Sucks Bail Bonds where freedom to take your demented life back on the streets is only 10% away." Of course, the Democrat controlled Washington State legislature and governor are continually hatching legislation that will make it more difficult for ordinary citizens to arm and protect themselves from the vermin they catch and release like diseased trout back onto the streets. You'd think having four armed police officers executed while they sat having coffee in a Tacoma restaurant would make the politicians of this state, and other states, think twice about anti-gun legislation. Forget about it. The Democrat disease's main symptom is that they don't even think once. americandigest.org