I knew that Mike Huckabee had decided to be the biggest advocate for child molestation in the country, but I had no idea that his support for fondling children ran this deep.
John Perry, a prolific author who co-wrote two books with former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and co-wrote one with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, was accused of child molestation in two separate lawsuits, BuzzFeed News has found.
A 2012 police investigation of Perry’s alleged offenses found that “the allegations of sexual battery were sustained” but that the statute of limitations had expired.
Ah, yes, “the statute of limitations had expired.” This is the new “no controlling legal authority” defense made famous by Al Gore during the brouhaha over his violations (of the letter if not the spirit) of the Pendleton Act by illegally raising campaign cash on White House telephones.
As I recall, people on the right weren’t too impressed with Gore’s highly technical defense. But how many of these same folks will care that Huckabee has twice used a child molester as the co-author of his books?
Yes, yes, this could happen to anyone. I know.
But “anyone” isn’t running around the country arguing that Josh Duggar is innocent of molesting his sisters because he was never formally convicted of the crime.
The man confessed.
I know the temptation is there to argue that this all just a natural result of the sexual repression inherent in Huckabee’s evangelical brand of Christianity. I disagree.
I’m not going to slime millions of people with being advocates for child molestation. Put blame where it belongs, and only where it belongs. Mike Huckabee pals around with sexual predators who harm children. And then he defends them in his free time.
Remember, nothing is about what it says it is about.
This is not about child abuse. It is about accountability.
We may be tempted to use child abuse as a stick to beat Huckabee with, because we may thing that it resonates more or with a wider audience than other crimes; but to do that is to allow ourselves to become distracted. It is only and always about accountability.
Look at every right-wing proposal through the lens of which actor would gain reduced accountability from it.
Never use any other frame.
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have no clue what you are talking about.
child sexual abuse is not like, say, stealing cars or whatever it was Issa did
My words were clear. Mike Huckabee (exemplar of a class of actors) wants Josh Duggar (exemplar of a class of actors) to be unaccountable. It doesn’t matter for what.
Business, the Church, the Party machine itself, all of the Republican constituents, want to be unaccountable. It doesn’t matter for what. Every Republican initiative has a hard practical consequence of exempting some actor from accountability or scrutiny. Often, this purpose is veiled by a thick or thin veneer of propaganda. It is our job not to be misdirected by the propaganda and focus on the common thread, which is always unaccountability.
If we are to have a message at all, it must be accountability, for every actor, every time. There is no other possible message.
We got where we are by letting people get away with sh1t. No more. No more. No more.
That’s what free-dumb means to these half-baked libertarinists.
And it is not “we” who are letting people get away with shit. It is the collapsed and corrupt institutions in current US society who have been compromised by ideology and cash.
well, as you restate it here, I disagree. your not-accountable abstraction is simply an abstraction and distinguishing the various factions is part of pitting them against each other and gaining a foothold against them, appealing to voters. the hypocrisy of the cultural issues group is a strong point against them; big money coming from outside the state, for example, to exploit resources speaks to in a completely different angle. concreteness is key – the abstraction, which is, imo, platitudes is what keeps them competitive by obscuring what criminality is actually taking place . btw, I’m not stupid, no need to write as if I am.
Tone can’t be read from a channel like this.
Here is what is stupid: being tricked into engaging these things on their surface, as if they were about what they say they are about, instead of dishonest allegories.
This always leads to the tu quoque, and in this particular case diverts the discussion (? if that is even what it is) to accusations of bigotry against Christianity, etc., none of which has anything to do with what is really going on. It is like the cloud of ink that the squid blows to cover its escape.
So far Huckabee has been a patron of Wayne DuMond, Josh Duggar, Perry, and his own dog-hanging son. Any one of of these would be enough to destroy a Democrat (Willie Horton, anyone? …not that Dukakis knew Willie Horton).
But since Huckabee is all jeebusy he is automatically forgiven, not just by the Klan and its fans, but by the press corpse.
The Devil made him do it.
Very good that you emphasize it’s his sisters. seems to me in a family vaunted for its familyness violating his sisters is an extra crime
You write a book with the coauthor you have, not the coauthor you might want or wish to have at a later time.
Did Huckabee know about the allegations of abuse? The date there is 2012. Were the books written before that?
This is beyond disgusting.
Beyond disgusting.
Gives me the creeps.
There are many closets in the Republican mansion, very many closets.
So, Huckabee worked closely with a child molester. And the Duggars sent their son to be counseled by a guy now in prison for decades for child porn.
Sure, you never know who, and all that. And it’s still a small sample size. But these are relatively small rocks to have so many creatures living under them.
It reminds me of one of my pet peeves in mystery books and TV shows, of the amateur crime-solving protagonist who is perpetually being drawn into cases by having a relative, friend, co-worker, etc. murdered. How many of us have that happen more than once or twice in a lifetime?
Similarly, how many people do you know – well – who’ve been credibly accused of sexually predation involving kids? Shouldn’t that number be smaller for people holding themselves up to the nation as paragons of moral virtue? Or who are advocating – as both Huckabee and, until very recently, Josh Duggar, have done – legislating the morality of the rest of us?
The creep factor here is hitting on so many levels I’m losing count.
Let’s not forget ARK Rep (R) Justin Harris — another “christian” and leader in Rehoming, aka dumping little girls on a pedophile.