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http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419 :
Wayne Dumond, convicted of rape in Arkansas and murder in Missouri, died of apparent natural causes in prison Tuesday.
The occasion prompts us to republish Murray Waas' prize-winning article for the Arkansas Times in 2002 about
the extraordinary steps Gov. Mike Huckabee took to help win Dumond's freedom. He has since blamed others for Dumond's release to kill again, but his actions over many years demonstrated his support for Dumond and, ultimately, the instrumental role he played in the parole board's decision to free him.
Cole (fellow anti-Clinton baptist minister) has repeatedly claimed that Dumond’s various travails are the result of Ashley Stevens’ (a Dumond victim) distant relationship to Bill Clinton.
Much of what Dunleavy (anti-Clinton reporter) has written about the Dumond saga has been either unverified or is demonstrably untrue. Dunleavy has all but accused Ashley Stevens of having fabricated her rape, derisively referring to her in one column as a “so-called victim,” and brusquely asserting in another, “That rape never happened.”
The columnist wrote that Dumond was a “Vietnam veteran with no record” when in fact he did have a criminal record. He claimed there existed DNA evidence by “one of the most respected DNA experts in the country” to exonerate Dumond, even though there was no such evidence. He wrote that Bill Clinton had personally intervened to keep Dumond in prison, even though Clinton had recused himself in 1990 from any involvement in the case because of his distant relationship with Stevens.
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Dumond was paroled because right wing lunatics believed that Bill Clinton sent his goons to castrate an "innocent" man because one of his "alleged" victims was a distant relative. That this story was, you know, pretty much insane didn't stop it from getting regular play in the conservative press.
It’s true. You had to be pretty much out of your mind to believe what these Clinton-haters believed—and
their loony beliefs helped drive Huckabee to support Dumond’s plea for parole. When paroled, Dumond raped and murdered two women. http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh120607.htmlI think this compares with Dukakis's parole of Willie Horton back in the 1980s. It really helped doom his presidential campaign. I think this is much worse b/c of the underlying political insanity that spawned the parole.
