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[Depravity] Outgoing GOP Gov pardons Child Rapist, Murderer whose Family Donated to Campaign

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by SamFisher, Dec 13, 2019.

  1. SamFisher

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    When Republicans lose, they set the state on fire and laugh while it burns.

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics...rdons-hundreds-convicted-murders-rapists.html

    Among the pardoned was Patrick Baker, who served just two years of a 19-year sentence for reckless homicide, impersonating a police officer, and tampering with evidence. Barker was convicted along with two others for a deadly 2014 home invasion where a father was killed in front of his family. Baker’s brother and sister-in-law raised $21,500 last year to retire Bevin’s 2015 gubernatorial campaign debt. They also donated $4,000 at the July 2018 fundraiser held at their home. Baker’s two co-defendants did not get pardoned by Bevin and remain in prison. “I’ve never seen a more compelling or complete case,” the sentencing judge said of Baker. “The evidence was just overwhelming.”

    In addition, Bevin pardoned a man who was sentenced last year to 23 years in prison for raping a 9-year-old child, as well as a woman who was sentenced to life in prison for murder after giving birth in a flea market outhouse in 2003 after discarding the newborn. Bevin also released a man who had been in jail since 2003 for killing his parents and leaving their bodies in a basement when he was 16 years old, a man who hired a hit man to kill his business partner in 1991, and a man who had been on death row for a triple murder in 1983. ​
     
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    Disgusting.

    There is no floor with Republicans, they keep getting lower and lower.
     
  3. dobro1229

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    I would take a bet that not one Republican will say a word about this because the broadcast signal works to their benefit.

    "Message to Megadonors: We now own justice in the USA, and if you give us your financial support & fealty, you can literally get away with rape & murder"

    This is a message they now want out there loud and clear. They hope they can also peel away the mega donors that used to give money to the Dem establishment as well I'm sure.
     
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    But they’re a Christian...
     
  5. Andre0087

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    What happened to the party of law and order?
     
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    They obtained the power of law & order.

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
     
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    Yes this is disgusting but I am not sure you want to think that only a Republican would do this.
     
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  8. AleksandarN

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    Ok if you have Democrat’s doing this please post because whoever does this is pathetic and needs to be called out. Anyone who pardons a child rapists that raped a 9 nine year gets pardon after 18 months need to be called out.
     
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    Don't have any specific examples but Republicans don't hold a monopoly on greed and Clinton pardoned some shady characters.
     
  11. LabMouse

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    Just put the name over here, stop speculate.

     
  12. Nook

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    There are a lot of slimy things that happen with pardons.

    Bill Clinton pardoned his own brother. He also pardoned Marc Rich....

    Less than a year ago Democrat Governor Cuomo pardoned 4 murderers.

    Donald Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio .....and so far has pardoned three murderers.
     
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    Yes all and good but I haven’t seen anyone pardon a child rapists who raped a 9 year old . What’s worst when the said person only served 18 MONTHS
     
  14. AleksandarN

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    Yes he pardoned his own brother but at Least his brother served all of his jail term. Still not right. Pardon should not be abused but in all cases it has. But to have a child rapists only serve 18 months for a rape of a 9 year is going too far
     
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  15. Nook

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    I'm not defending him...... he also pardoned an incredible number of people. I am simply pointing out that some very sketchy things happen with pardons..... Trump and Clinton especially have pardoned people that had no business being pardoned.
     
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    Actual child pedophiles generally are hardwired to be aroused by children. This isnt the kind of thing where, "Me and the child were drinking at a bar and I fell over and accidentally penetrated her" - it wasn't a crime of passion. People like this think about and plan and prepare this s**t. Beyond a question of crime and punishment this guy is an ongoing danger.

    Further, I also believe a pardon means he can forgo the sex offender registry, so he can move in next door to a daycare or kindergarten and nobody will be the wiser.

    Anybody think Bevin will even pay attention much less feel the slightest bit guilty next time this dude rapes some child?

    In a sane world he would have to weigh that $26k against the possibility of a multimillion dollar civil suit that would inevitably be coming when baby f**ker strikes again.
     
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    To this extent yes only a Republican in the Trump era would be this emboldened to go this far. Comparing Clinton’s pardons from decades ago is the height of whataboutism.

    It’s 2019 with 2019 norms, only a Republican would do this and he’s doing this for a reason. It’s no accident. The silence from the right is telling.
     
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    Republicans are prostitutes. They will sell anything for a campaign donation.
     

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