News from the clown car: Radio host suggests enslaving the poor, Huckabee agrees

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"Huckabee Suggests Poor People Should Be Sold Into Slavery For Stealing"

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/1...e-slavery/

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.”

“Wouldn’t that be a better choice?” the host asked.

“Well, it really would be,” Huckabee replied without missing a beat. “Sometimes the best way to deal with a nonviolent criminal behavior is what you just suggested.”

You just can't make this shit up. Complete with demonizing liberalism and everything! "[The] criminal justice system has been taken over by progressives" - um, no. If it *had* been taken over by progressives, it'd look a lot different than the system we have today, fucktard. Guy doesn't miss a beat.