WILLIE HORTON: THE LEFT'S FAVORITE MURDEROUS RAPIST

 

Willie Horton has been the poster boy--and, no, I do NOT mean that in any “racist” way--of The Right’s racism ever since he was featured in that by-now-infamous campaign ad during the 1988 Presidential (so-called) elections. In the ad that targeted former Vice-President George Bush’s opponent Michael Dukakis, it brought up the inexplicable prisoner furlough program instituted in Massachusetts when Dukakis was governor of that state. The ad prominently featured Mr. Horton as the primary reason for the apparent failure of said prisoner furlough program. The Left pounced on the “use” of Willie Horton in the ad, saying how “racist” it was for the Bush camp to “use” him like this since, needless to say, Horton was an African-American. However, what WASN’T mentioned by The Left is why Willie was prominently featured in said ad and/or why he was even incarcerated in the first place.

Willie Horton was initially incarcerated after he had brutally stabbed to death a 17-year-old convenience store worker during a robbery ever after said 17-year-old convenience store worker gave him--and his cohort--all the money. But Willie Horton’s heinously brutal crime spree did NOT end there. Again, then-Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis implemented the aforementioned prisoner furlough program that allowed about a dozen prisoners to actually leave prison for an entire weekend. Among those dozen or so prisoners was none other than Willie Horton who was allowed to “participate” in the program in spite of the brutal nature of his crime (he had also reportedly sliced off the 17-year-old worker’s genitals and shoved them in his mouth as he lay there dying). While he was out on said furlough, Willie Horton proceeded to kidnap a husband and wife where he tied the husband up and forced him to watch while he brutally beat and raped his wife repeatedly. However, in spite of the sheer brutality of Willie Horton’s multiple crimes, if you Google Horton’s name even today you’ll find countless articles from various people on The Left about how “shameful”--and, of course, racist--George Bush and The Right was to “use” Willie Horton the way they did while saying nothing--I reiterate--NOT A DAMN THING about his brutal crimes.

I myself was not aware of what Willie Horton had done until I read about it in books by Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter (whom I am NOT a fan of, by the way). Of course, if The Left had in fact acknowledged the sheer brutality of Willie Horton’s crimes, then they [The Left] would know that they couldn’t prop him up as a poster boy--again, I do NOT mean this is a racist way--for The Right’s perceived racism as if HE were the real “victim” and not the actual victims of his crimes. While I’m certainly no ardent supporter of The Right and have my own issues with the (so-called) Right in this country (reread my article on Ted Nugent), it’s examples like Willie Horton that make likewise NOT a “supporter” of The Left in this country. Granted, there are abundant examples of The Right’s actual racism that The Left could--and have--focused on So why in the left-wing hell they [The Left] has chosen to focus so much of their time on Willie Horton is beyond me. The bottom line is, Willie Horton is a murderous rapist of the WORST kind who deserves to rot away in a jail cell for the rest of his miserable useless life and is not--I repeat--NOT a damned “victim” in ANY way, shape or form. And I say to hell with anyone from The Left--or elsewhere--who “supports” this murderous rapist bastard. The same way I say to hell with Willie Horton.