"Here’s the barebones story of how 18-year-old Mike Huckabee’s son, David, and 17-year-old Clayton Frady killed a dog when they were Boy Scouts, and got fired for it. From the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 1998 (as quoted in DogBlog):[David Huckabee,] the younger son of Gov. Mike Huckabee and another teen were fired last month from jobs at a Boy Scout camp after the killing of a stray dog.[..]
So, how and why did David Huckabee (and Clayton Frady) kill the dog?
The original story isn’t clear in the lead (the admissions and the details come as you read down). Still from the Democrat Gazette:
The dog was killed [passive voice] July 11 at Camp Pioneer near Hatfield.[..]
I believe the following is the faxed description of the “particular process.” It’s on a reputable site, Utopia Animal Rescue, which is run by, of all people, Kinky Freidman:
(Miller County, Arkansas) Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David litickabee [sic], the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.
Lambert notices that Michael Isikoff’s coverage of the story for Newsweek is particularly lacking in investigative curiosity on how David Huckabee killed the dog, which as you can see above, really does color the event.
Digby’s on top of this too. The Huckster’s son seems to be a real winner and his father tried to cover up his sick, twisted behavior — the same kind of behavior that landed former NFL star Michael Vick in prison."
Thanks to PMS for the tip.
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A Poem by Amy Gerstler
Max’s Lecture on Canine Buddhism
(Opening Remarks)
All adult dogs I have known embrace Buddhism to some degree.
As puppies, we’re too frantic in our heathen frolics to
Meditate, recognize delusion, polish a tile with our tongues,
Contemplate a waterfall, stare down the endless corridor formed
By a hollowed-out marrow bone. The moment we’re housebroken,
Though, we begin thinking of ourselves as the night sky, which
Never loses it’s essential character, though thunder may growl
At it’s edges, and lightning split its endless, forgiving darkness
-Max
One of many wonderful poems in
Unleased
Poems by Writers’ Dogs
You have to wonder what sort of culture fosters torture or allows it to go unpunished.
I don't know why everyone picks on David. He carries a Glock as all patriotic should. He wouldn't carry one of those trashy foreign jobs. He did err when he got caught. This is my response:
David, whom I know, forgot he left his Glock in his bag when he went to the airport this morning.
David is a great young man, and a good person. He has a concealed weapons permit and he knows how to use firearms responsibly. I feel for him because I know how easy it is to forget such things. A couple of years ago I left a handfull of bullets in my bag after hunting season. Weeks later, when I tried to run that bag through the x-ray machine at the airport... lets just say they weren't happy. Thank the good Lord my gun wasn't in there...just the bullets.
This same thing has happened to lots of people. But most of them didn't have a dad running for president.
Cheer up, David. This too shall pass!
On the lighter side, maybe this will give Governor Huckabee the opportunity to talk to the news media about his strong support of our 2nd ammendment rights -- which will NOT be changed by this incident.
UPDATE: Governor Huckabee has commented on this incident this evening and, as I predicted, he still supports our 2nd Ammendment rights. He also supports the courts and our legal system. Here's an excerpt of his remarks: "I love my son but what he did was irresponsible, but not intentional. The right to carry a firearm has to be balanced with an equal responsibility to not make foolish errors...It is the court's responsibility to properly consequence him for a foolish act but his family's responsibility to love him and temper our disappointment with our support."
From Newsweek: ...bombarded with complaints generated by a national animal-rights groupto write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed. But John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request. Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed chief by Huckabee's Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer's intervention as improper and terminated the conversation. Seven months later, he was called into Huckabee's office and fired. "I've lost confidence in your ability to do your job," Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason Huckabee cited was "I couldn't get you to help me with my son when I had that problem," according to Bailey. "Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son," says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a "courageous" and "very solid" professional. ... read it all.
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