Wife Whackin’: It’s About Freedom
Okay, I know that the foreign state of Maine is a long damn way from here, but guys like this aren’t.
Erick Bennett is running for the United States Senate against Susan Collins. Okay, he has that right, but Susan Collins isn’t the first woman he wanted to beat.
In 2003, Erick Bennett was convicted of beating his wife. She divorced him and, after he unsuccessfully appealed the conviction, he went to prison. Even afterwards, he contends that it’s everyones fault but his. It’s liberal judges, crooked prosecutors, lying women, bad cops, and probably Barack Obama. Okay, so I made up the Barack Obama part but you know he’s said it at some point.
It’s weird enough that he still defends his actions, but now he’s saying that it’s the best damn thing about him.
“The fact that I have been jailed repeatedly for not agreeing to admit to something I didn’t do should speak to the fact of how much guts and integrity I have,” he said. “If I go to D.C., I’m going to have that same integrity in doing what I say, and saying what I do, when it comes to protecting people’s rights, as well as their pocketbooks.”
Honey, that’s denial on a catapult.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
“The fact that I’ve been jailed REPEATEDLY . . . ” OMG!!
What an idiot. What a stinking little weasel.
I got nothin’ else to say.
1Annnnnnnnd, here’s a link http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/01/03/erick_bennett_of_maine_vote_for_me_for_senate_because_i_was_convicted_of.html
2Jesus … it just gets crazier with each passing day!!
3Exactly, JaneE, jailed repeatedly. That struck me too (so to speak).
JJ, do you have a link to the article?
An admitted wife beater in the Senate = more of what we don’t need. Also.
4Sorry, I sometimes get carried away and forget to do the link thing. Thanks, Jane.
5Erick needs to start wearing a hat in the winter. Frost bite of the brain cannot be reversed, but at least he would not become crazier.
Men in Maine, vote with your wives on this one, please. You don’t need a crazy senator to match your crazy governor.
6So wife beating has somehow turned into a badge of merit in Repugville. Yes, he denies he did it, but given how hard it is for women to succeed in actually prosecuting their abusers, let’s go with the court on this one.
7And since we have been relitigating just about every civil rights improvement, here’s one more that they could go after.
I wonder if selective amnesia is covered by Obamacare?
8All I want to know is, what did his wife say?
9re: being jailed repeatedly, means being caught repeatedly. Since offenders repeat their offense more often than they are caught….
10“The best predictor of criminal behavior is a history of criminal behavior, and past violence will suggest a probability of future violence. A history of criminal behavior is the best predictor of criminal recidivism regardless of whether the offender is mentally disordered or normal (Bronta, Law and Hanson, 1998)….Furthermore, the more frequently the behavior has occurred in a variety of situations, the more accurate will be the predictions. Someone who frequently manifests violence across many different situations will be far easier to predict than a person who is only occasionally violent in some situations.”
Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach, 8th edition, Bartol and Bartol)
micr: does the book reference of Bartol for recidivism prediction take into account other contributing factors non-convicts don’t have to deal with; eg, a permanent record that prevents them from obtaining some of their previous rights back after successfully doing their time? If a person has real difficulty in obtaining shelter, food and a decent job, what would we do? This is not a defense of the societal offense but to raise a question of what to do with these people when they are released back into society.
11Maine is Texas with frostbite.
12http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/12/11/rush-limbaugh-sexual-harassment/
Here’s Rust Limpaw’s way for rethugs to sexually harass women and then claim victimhood. They are all bat-s$%t crazy.
13@van59: your questions are tough and on point and without definitive answer. Cop out I know! I don’t know.
As a student I had the understanding that Bartol was groundbreaking. My psychologist wife immediately corrected that understanding with the simplistic statement that psychologists have known since dirt that “past behavior accurately predicts future behavior”.
14Well, like when our oldest was about four years old and couldn’t understand why I knew what he had done. I said, “I KNOW you.” It may be unfair but generally folks act like they generally act. Four year olds oughta get another chance. I’m not sure about 40 or whatever year olds. I guess maybe we oughta take notes from the Scandinavian countries who do different stuff with their criminals than we do. Maybe if we were consistent, like lock up all the law-breakers, not just some. Or do some behavior training. I’m no psychologist.
15— Other Mother of the World, vol. 3.
Fifty uears ago when I was a kid,people were honored and humbled to run for and get elected to political office. A scandal like this back then and the schmuck would have been shunned from polite society forever. Now bad behavior is the new norm. Pols are like children saying and doing shocking stuff to get noticed. Rethugs are acting like they just reached puberty.
16What a weenie!!! I don’t give a flaming hot damn why he did it. It marks him as a LOSER! Back in ancient Rome, when a man had to beat his wife just to get his johnson up he was publicly shunned, most especially if he was a member of the Senate of Rome. From then on his name was mud and if I could remember the Latin for mud I would tell you!
17@maggie: illuvies, maybe?
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