Mike Huckabee Agrees: Poor People Convicted of Crimes Should Be Sold Into Slavery
Remember Iowa right wing radio host Jan Mickelson, who gained notoriety back in August when he advocated turning undocumented immigrants into slaves? (Yes, he really did say this, and yes, he really meant it.)
Yesterday Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee appeared on Mickelson’s radio show and the subject of slavery came up again, when Mickelson took his insanity a step further and proposed that poor people who are convicted of crimes should be sold into slavery.
And Mike Huckabee agreed with him. The audio is above; listen for yourself. We actually have a presidential candidate in 2015 who thinks it would be a good idea to sell people into 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.”
