{"id":4462,"date":"2011-04-01T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2011-04-01T03:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:00:43","slug":"huckabees-second-amendment-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/huckabees-second-amendment-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee&#8217;s Second Amendment Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Pseudo-Christian followers of Supply-side Jesus (not the real one) will do almost anything to accost unwilling individuals with rude attempts at proselytization.&#160; However, presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee, has found a new low to accomplish this.&#160; It\u2019s a Second Amendment solution.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"1Huckabee\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1Huckabee\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1Huckabee.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"169\" \/>Did Mike Huckabee just flush his presidential aspirations down the proverbial toilet? Well, if American mainstream media has an ounce of journalistic gumption remaining the answer most certainly would be \u201cyes\u201d. Huckabee has just been caught on video, at a Christian supremacist conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1O1dvN8lag#t=1m6s\" target=\"_blank\">stating that Americans should be forcibly indoctrinated at gunpoint<\/a>. The organization which hosted the \u201cRediscover God In America\u201d conference, United in Purpose [Theocons delinked], has edited Huckabee\u2019s comment from footage of his speech, but not before People For The American Way\u2019s Kyle Mantyla <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/huckabee-americans-should-be-forced-gunpoint-learn-david-barton\" target=\"_blank\">captured the unedited footage<\/a>, in which Mike Huckabee states, \u201cI almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and <strong>all Americans would be forced\u2013forced at gunpoint no less\u2013to listen to every David Barton message<\/strong>, and I think our country would be better for it. I wish it\u2019d happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Barton is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2009\/7\/17\/34930\/6724\" target=\"_blank\">leading promoter<\/a> of a brand of falsified American history altered to support the claim that America was founded as a Christian, rather than a secular, nation\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.alternet.org\/speakeasy\/2011\/03\/30\/mike-huckabee-says-he-wants-americans-to-be-indoctrinated-at-gunpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video.&#160; The offending statement is at 1:06.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N1O1dvN8lag?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It is bad enough that these Republican Supply-side Christians (not the real ones) would force their dogma of bigotry, greed and intolerance on unsuspecting school children, but even that pales in comparison to a presidential hopeful suggesting guns as a method of evangelism.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pseudo-Christian followers of Supply-side Jesus (not the real one) will do almost anything to accost unwilling individuals with rude attempts at proselytization.&#160; However, presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee, has found a new low to accomplish this.&#160; It\u2019s a Second Amendment solution. Did Mike Huckabee just flush his presidential aspirations down the proverbial toilet? 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