RE: News from the clown car: Radio host suggests enslaving the poor, Huckabee agrees
October 19, 2015 at 12:58 am
(October 16, 2015 at 12:03 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: "Huckabee Suggests Poor People Should Be Sold Into Slavery For Stealing"
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/1...e-slavery/
Quote: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.
The guy is right. We went to the prison system because the progressives claimed that it was more humane than the old system of corporal punishment. Their intent was to rehabilitate the bad guys instead of chopping off their hands or branding them or beating the crap out of them with a cat-0-nine tails. So now we have millions of people in prison with a very large prison industrial complex that depends on an ever increasing inventory of prisoners locked up for all sorts of new crimes created on a daily basis.
"There were jails, of course, from the earliest times, but they were used mainly to detain persons accused of crime until their guilt could be determined. Once they were found guilty they were not commonly returned to durance, but punished forthwith, either by death, by exile, by fine, or by some form of corporal suffering. Prisons were set up by philanthropists eager to do away with these ancient cruelties, but what they mainly accomplished was to make cruelty more facile. The very fact that they were regarded as humane suggested longer and longer sentences, and so today, at least in the United States, it is common for men to be locked up for years for crimes which, in a more innocent day, would have been punished by some such triviality as branding on the hand, a few hours in the pillory, a good cowhiding, or the loss of an ear. "
H.L. Mencken
https://www.prismnet.com/gibbonsb/mencke...uotes.html
If thieves lost their right hands for stealing would there be a lot of car thieves?
