Howie Carr says the Bay State is only beginning to pay the price for electing Gov. Patrick.
The Parole Board is open Under New Management - liberal bleeding-heart management.This is splendid news for stone killers and rapists, bad news for everybody else.
This week we got the first of what will no doubt be a long line of murderers being cut loose: Karter Reed, who wept at his Parole Board hearing in March. Of course Killer Karter wasn’t crying at Dartmouth High School back in 1993, when he fatally stabbed a teenager he didn’t even know, laughing and jeering as his victim lay dying on the classroom floor. Even Deval’s Parole Board had to stipulate that.
“The Parole Board does acknowledge this tragic senseless loss of a young and innocent victim but . . . ”
But we’re liberals, and it’s our $90,000-a-year job to fling open the prison doors for murderers. For 16 years, these horrid Republicans would never release any of these poor young men who’ve been turning their lives around, and now it’s payback time.
The vote to let Killer Karter go was 4-3. It was close only because the Parole Board still includes some holdovers not appointed by Gov. Deval Patrick, that great benefactor of rapists. Next year the votes will be 5-2, then 6-1...
This is a return to Dukakis days. The difference is, the henpecked little wimp from Brookline often commuted the sentences himself, and took the heat. This time around, Gov. Patrick will let his new, improved rubber-stamp Parole Board stonewall the press when the released murderers somehow forget their Anger Management training and begin doing what they do best: killing people.
What’s next, weekend furloughs for murderers?
Along with op-ed columnist Michael Graham, Carr remains one of the troubled Herald's saving graces.
UPDATE: More from Casey Ross.
