Shame on Haley Barbour
February 4th 2012 22:06
This is heartbreaking:
I can't stand pardons by elected officials. I don't like it when Democrats do it, and I don't like it when Republicans do it. Haley Barbour should be ashamed of himself for his recent pardons (one of which was the subject of this story).
Personally, I don't care for Haley Barbour. He may be a smart man and he may take some positions that I agree with, but he looks, sounds, and acts like the caricature of the Southern "Good Old Boy." He has spent extensive time as a lobbyist (one of the most loathsome professions in our Republic) and he's the ultimate Washington insider, despite being a governor in a Southern state. Now, he's given numerous controversial pardons to folks who should not be walking free today.
We're not (nor should we mimic) a monarchy in which kings decide the fates of their subjects based on favoritism or whim. We have a legal system. It's not perfect, but it's what we have. It shouldn't be in the hands of one partisan person to summarily decide a person's fate. That isn't justice -- certainly not for the families who were victimized by those Barbour pardoned.
Shame on you, Haley Barbour.
When Barbour pardoned Bostick in January, the convicted DUI felon was sitting in an Oxford, Mississippi, jail cell for violating the terms of a previous DUI sentence and was awaiting formal charges from yet another drunken driving accident in October that ended in the tragic death of 18-year-old Charity Smith. Who's at fault in that accident has yet to be determined.
I can't stand pardons by elected officials. I don't like it when Democrats do it, and I don't like it when Republicans do it. Haley Barbour should be ashamed of himself for his recent pardons (one of which was the subject of this story).
Personally, I don't care for Haley Barbour. He may be a smart man and he may take some positions that I agree with, but he looks, sounds, and acts like the caricature of the Southern "Good Old Boy." He has spent extensive time as a lobbyist (one of the most loathsome professions in our Republic) and he's the ultimate Washington insider, despite being a governor in a Southern state. Now, he's given numerous controversial pardons to folks who should not be walking free today.
We're not (nor should we mimic) a monarchy in which kings decide the fates of their subjects based on favoritism or whim. We have a legal system. It's not perfect, but it's what we have. It shouldn't be in the hands of one partisan person to summarily decide a person's fate. That isn't justice -- certainly not for the families who were victimized by those Barbour pardoned.
Shame on you, Haley Barbour.
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