The Great Huck(ster)bee 

By Don A. Bright 

Author’s note:  Most, if not all of the information for this and other national exposure of Huckabee’s wrongdoings would not have gotten to the public’s notice without the untiring efforts of anti-illegal immigration activist and Mike Huckabee watchdog, Joe McCutchen and his wife, Barbara, of Fort Smith, AR.  For more on the exploits of Huckabee visit Joe’s website: ArkansasFreedom  

I live in Arkansas.  I have lived through two terms of “governance” under Mike Huckabee.  That alone qualifies me for membership in the vastly expanding BYVMHCO (before you vote for Mike Huckabee, check this out) early warning academy.  This encouraging and growing movement is represented by a lot of ex-Huckabee fans – inside and outside his circles – who were, like me, sorely disappointed and angry at his metamorphic personality. 

At this point I should admit the error of my ways concerning Mr. Huckabee.  I voted for the man the first time around.  Yep, I fell for his “I’m a Conservative, Christian, honorable and trustworthy man of humble upbringing…” syrup drippings.  It grieves me greatly to look back on this weakness. 

Now, having gotten all that off my chest, I will proceed here to, hopefully, enlighten the BYVMHCO academy with a couple of heretofore unknown sins of the Baptist preacher. 

My first dealing with Huckabee came shortly after his first term began.  At that time I was actively working for private property issues.  I was a co-founder of a property rights organization called Take Back Arkansas.  We had discovered that a great land theft was afoot. The United Nations and local “environmentalists” were wasting no efforts in an attempt to establish the Ozark Man and the Biosphere Reserve in our own backyard.   We were eventually successful despite Governor Huckabee resistance. 

When we raised enough awareness of this tomfoolery the good governor began getting a lot of pressure to own up to his involvement.  (We knew he was working with the Fish and Game Commissioner in helping the UN get control of a massive amount of private and public property.  We actually had a copy of a letter Huckabee had sent to the commissioner instructing him to assist the UN and environmental groups to actually turn over a huge section of the land and inhabitants of his own state to international control.  But I get ahead of myself.) 

Upon finding out about the UN scheme we were naïve enough to think that a letter to the office of the huckster would call his attention to what was happening and he would, of course, put an immediate stop to the land grab.  His response? Silence.  We persisted, however, and managed – as I state above – to bring a lot of pressure on the governor’s office and the members of the state legislature.  (At the time I hosted a local radio program which was, needless to say, a great help.  (More on that later.) 

Having no choice but break his cover-up-by-silence efforts, Huckabee came out and vociferously denied that the plan existed and that those who were saying it did exist were a bunch of “black helicopter”, anti-UN types who were trying to scare the good citizens of Arkansas.  I am sure I remember him saying something to the fact that if any such effort as described by we scaremongers was ongoing he would have stopped it long ago. 

So there was the governor of the State of Arkansas, effortlessly lying to his own citizens about a life-shattering event that would change their lives in a devastating manner.  And in so doing he gleefully tried to destroy the reputations of other Arkansans.  Typical acts of a true Christian?  I’ll leave that for the reader to decide. 

It was at this time that we released the letter –signed by Huckabee – wherein he had instructed the Arkansas Fish and Game Commissioner to proceed with assisting in the implementation of the “plan that didn’t exist”.  Well, needless to say, the barnyard filler hit the fan.  Huckabee, acting like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar, began a barrage of denials, blame shifting and scapegoating that would have done Bill Clinton proud.  We had managed to drag him kicking and screaming into the realm of truth.  A realm in which, I’m sure, he did not recognize as familiar surroundings.  Much to his discomfort he had to confront his deceit and openly put a stop to Arkansas’ cooperation in the UN invasion and the Biosphere plans were abandoned.  Read Defeating the Biosphere by Henry Lamb

My second up front and personal experience with Huckabee happened during an interview with him on live radio.  I couldn’t entice the man with the mutating mouth to be a guest on my show but a friend of mine who had a show following mine managed to land him and invited me to take part. 

Many questions were asked covering a multitude of subjects.  As is his wont, Huckabee danced around the difficult ones in a manner that would make Bo Jangles proud.  I wanted desperately to get him on the subject of property rights and finally my chance came.  I asked him for his opinion on regulatory takings and the property loss of individuals without just recompense by the government as called for in the Constitution. 

I could see the anger in his face when I confronted him this subject.  His answer?  He stated that the taking of property by the government without paying for it had to be considered on a “case by case” basis.  I thought I had him there and went in for the kill.  Or at least I tried to.  I began a question about how he could justify his position that the Fifth Amendment could be ignored on a “case by case” rationale.  Half way through the question his face became livid and he interrupted me and changed the subject.   

There you have it.  The governor of an American state was on record as a liberal “the Constitution is a living document” adherent.  So much for Huckabee’s adherence to the law of the land.  He actually thinks the Constitution of the United States is his to play with to further his insatiable thirst for power over the people.  Not a standard for conservatism, that. 

Now add the following to his resume:  (It may serve the reader well to remember that Huckabee was propped up by support and financial help by several corporate tycoons who made a great deal of profit off the backs of exploited captive labor.) 

*Huckabee tried to give scholarships for criminal aliens to attend Arkansas state colleges

*Huckabee increased the average Arkansan’s tax burden by 47 percent, boosting the levies on gasoline and cigarettes. 

*Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas journalist writing in the conservative American Spectator was quoted by Greg Peirce in the Washington Times as saying, "[Huckabee] used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor's mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a 'charitable' organization he set up while lieutenant governor--an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious 'charity.'" 

*Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA said the following about Huckabee’s record on illegal immigration: "He was an absolute disaster on immigration as governor; Every time there was any enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal aliens."

*Article 1 Section 10 of the US Constitution reads as follows:  “No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility”.    And yet, Jerome Corsi, author of the best seller "The Late Great USA."  writing for Worldnetdaily, exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee "worked with some of the state's most prominent and politically powerful businesses to establish the [Mexican] consulate as a magnet for drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs." Corsi also writes that "Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, told Worldnetdaily he and Huckabee helped arrange state and private financial support to induce Mexico to establish the consulate as a business development 'quid pro quo.' "Trevino signed on July 7, 2006, a 'Facilities Use Agreement' with Mexican consular officials to rent state government office space for $1 a year on the second floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services building at 26 Corporate Hills in Little Rock."

* Mike Huckabee ordered the destruction of a number of computer hard drives before leaving office. Hard drives in 83 computers and four servers were destroyed,

Mike Huckabee has proven over and over again that the rule of law & the Constitution are meaningless, and that he will say & do anything to promote himself….the republic be damned.

So BYVMHCO.  You have been warned.