Huckabee Suggests Poor People Should Be Sold Into Slavery For Stealing

[KamaAina]

Again, not The Onion.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/15/3712684/mike-huckabee-slavery/

The United States criminal justice system could be improved if we sell poor people convicted of crimes into slavery, according to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

The former Arkansas governor weighed in on our nation’s current criminal justice system during an appearance yesterday on Mickelson in the Morning, a leading Iowa radio program.

Host Jan Mickelson began by bemoaning that the “criminal justice system has been taken over by progressives.” In order to fight back, he argued, conservatives should look to the biblical Book of Exodus. “It says, if a person steals, they have to pay it back two-fold, four-fold,” Mickelson explained. “If they don’t have anything, we’re supposed to take them down and sell them.”

Mickelson went on to argue why jails, which he claimed are a “pagan invention,” are inferior to slavery: “We indenture them and they have to spend their time not sitting on their stump in a jail cell, they’re supposed to be working off the debt.”

[hobbit709]

1. Ditto WTF!

He needs to go back about 2500 years and stay there.

[Vinca]

2. Huckabee needs to STFU.

There's an interesting article about the Huckster (literally) in the latest edition of "Mother Jones." Not only did he pimp a medical cure that turned out to be cinnamon, he's aligned with another bunch of thieves who claim a cure for cancer in the scriptures. Anything for a buck and it doesn't matter what poor person you con. He ought to be charged with fraud and sent to the big house.

[lpbk2713]

3. This could only be a rethug idea.

If the cheap labor stands to benefit the one percenters somehow then they're all for it.

Of course they would piss and moan about the cost of food and lodging but they would
find a way to make family members pay for any expenses like that.

[KamaAina]

6. Some places make prisoners pay for their own "lodging"!

Or as I call it, 'Motel 6 to 12".

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. A rethug Christian extremist invention, at that

"Jails are a pagan invention" could only come from someone with a nutty "if it isn't written down in the Old Testament, it's 'pagan' and wrong" fixation.

[Solly Mack]

4. The man is achingly stupid.

Both men.

[CanonRay]

5. Huckabee: Party like it's 1765!

[Major Nikon]

7. This kind of flat earth dipshittery is what the GOP tries to pass off as intellectualism

Very telling.

[Dawson Leery]

8. We all know where is ancestors stood in 1860.

[City Lights]

9. What should be done with boy scouts that kill homeless dogs, Huckster?

In other words, what should be done with YOUR FUCKING SON?

Fuck off, Huckster.

[safeinOhio]

10. He, most likely, has dreams of

showering with all of his slave girls.

[hifiguy]

12. They already are.

It's called being incarcerated in a for-profit plantation, err, prison.

Seriously, Chucklenuts needs to walk into a 100-foot-deep open manhole.



THESE are the people that need to be locked up. In a place with high walls topped with razor wire where powerful anti-psychotics are administered on a regular basis. They sound more like ISIS every day.

[daredtowork]

22. Yep and

when you add discriminatory sentencing to the current plantation situation, you get something that looks very much like a return to the 18th century.

[MindPilot]

13. This is a perfect example of why religion and politics are a dangerous combination.

Christianity, just as much as Islam, is a serious threat to democracy, and to civilization itself.

[olddots]

14. Huckabee will be appearing as a float

at the Fresno State Fair .

[KamaAina]

16. Silly olddots. CalExpo, the California state fair, is in Sacramento.

[Binkie The Clown]

15. Nobody expects...

[Bernblu]

17. I sometimes wonder if Hucklebee is really a Christian

because he sure does make a mockery of it.

[matt819]

18. That's just plain offensive

Everyone knows that the proper justice for stealing is cutting off the offender's hand. Sheesh! I thought everyone knew that.

Of course, you have to carry this through to the logical conclusions. Sex offenders - convicted or not - need to have you know what cut off. Hear that, Josh Duggar and John Vitter and pretty much every other Republican? You know, Huckabee may be on to something.

And why stop there. Let's follow the wise lead of Saudi Arabia and institute flogging. Or, hey, bring back the pillory and stocks.

Why don't they just rename themselves the "We're fucking morons" Party.

[meow2u3]

19. meow2u3 thinks Xtian extremists should be sold into slavery

as punishment for advocating the overthrow of constitutional democracy and sold to the very people Yuckabee wants to enslave.

[Runningdawg]

20. Hey Huckster

Renounce your citizenship and GTFO of America. Sharia law will be more to your liking.

[Angry Dragon]

21. the bible also says to stone unmarried virgins

The Huckster just wants his own religion