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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 04:29 PM Dec 2014

Huckabee: 'Incredibly Dangerous' For Congress, Rams Players To Use 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' Gesture

Mike Huckabee said today that he was “disgusted” by the “incredibly dangerous” decision of some black members of Congress and St. Louis Rams players to use the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture to protest the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, arguing that such actions actually inspire looting and murder.

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In an interview with Newsmax TV host J.D. Hayworth, a former GOP congressman, Huckabee said he “found it just incredibly dangerous that you have members of Congress on the floor of Congress holding up their hands in the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ position as if to say that somehow that is going to get you shot.”

Huckabee, who previously compared Ferguson demonstrators to the killers of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, said people making the gesture are effectively “teaching” young people “to go loot a store, beat up a cop, reach for his gun and hope you get it before he does.”

“This is not only foolish and dangerous but it is really on the verge of anarchy and I’m just disgusted that you have NFL players, politicians and others who no matter what the evidence reveals, no matter how many sworn testimonies show that Darren Wilson — it’s a tragedy that the young man got shot, but this is a young man who had just roughed up a store owner, just robbed a store and now he’s going after a cop’s gun and it’s a horrible thing that he was killed but he could’ve avoided that if he had behaved as something other than a thug,” he said.
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Huckabee: 'Incredibly Dangerous' For Congress, Rams Players To Use 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' Gesture (Original Post) big_dog Dec 2014 OP
Then why is Huckabee still alive? A man who calls himself a religious preacher & acts against jillan Dec 2014 #1
this is the same person who is running in the upper tiers of the 2016 wingnut primary polls big_dog Dec 2014 #2
Answer: arteriosclerosis Warren Stupidity Dec 2014 #3
there's that 'thug' word again. fuck you mike. spanone Dec 2014 #4
Notice that now Brown "looted" the store too? arcane1 Dec 2014 #5
Like I care what a disgusting piece of shit says about humans. Rex Dec 2014 #6

jillan

(39,451 posts)
1. Then why is Huckabee still alive? A man who calls himself a religious preacher & acts against
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 04:31 PM
Dec 2014

his religion is my definition of a thug!

 

big_dog

(4,144 posts)
2. this is the same person who is running in the upper tiers of the 2016 wingnut primary polls
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 04:32 PM
Dec 2014

hes got to throw the red meat to the tea party to raise fundage

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
6. Like I care what a disgusting piece of shit says about humans.
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 05:20 PM
Dec 2014

What is incredibly dangerous is having extremist views in Congress. Huckabee is saying that people should be ashamed for exercising their first amendment rights in a private enterprise and in the halls of Congress. That's dangerous talk.

Where was Worthless when his party caused countless federal employees to go without pay?

Where was he when his party decided to invade a country that had not caused us any harm?

FUCK MIKE HUCKABEE, a worthless POS that hates anyone non-white.

Like so many in his party.

He is worthless and without a purpose.

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