* HUCKABEE ON SLAVERY

[LiberalArkie]

HUCKABEE ON SLAVERY: Did the failing presidential candidate Mike Huckabee really mean it? He thinks slavery as punishment for criminal offenses is a good idea? Or will he just nod in agreement with anything any crackpot says to him in his desperate quest to get somebody, anybody, to vote for him? Salon's right. He better clarify.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee seemingly endorsed “biblical” slavery over the modern prison system on Wednesday’s edition of “Mickelson in the Morning,” ThinkProgress’ Scott Keyes reports.

In Huckabee’s defense, host Jan Mickelson was firing ideas at the long-shot for the GOP candidacy, and many of those ideas were couched in familiar biblical phrases that would incline Huckabee to agree with them content-be-damned, so it’s entirely possible that he simply didn’t understand what he was endorsing.[/dev]



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[shenmue]

1. Le duh

[Thinkingabout]

2. Interesting, the GOP has been all over Michelle Obama for encouraging healthy eating habits, Sarah

Palin probably raised money ranting about Michelle Obama and now Huckabee is on the train with Michelle Obama. This will probably be his new gig on FOX when he drops out of the GOP race.

[trusty elf]

3. Huckabee 2016 ! ! !

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[cannabis_flower]

4. Actually...

That's what we already are allowed to to.

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html

Key phrase in there is "except as punishment".

They disallowed slavery for no reason, now they just need to find a law for you to break to enslave you. The disallowed Jim Crow so they created drug laws.

[LiberalArkie]

5. And now we know the rest of the story about why prisons are so profitable.