Huckabee's Confidant Execution of Whom?

Here is a link on likely US-presidential candidate Huckabee speaking with confidence about execution as the only just remedy for the leaking of embarrassing cables: HP.

Don't forget that he is also a good Christian minister and the young man in question could easily be from a colleague's congregation.  Like his pappy, Huckabee lays down the law.  Now will that be by hanging or firing squad?  And in time of crisis?  Keep a list and Round'em Up! (worked in Canada in 1970.)

Here is a report on another bit of Huckabee: a joke?

Canada's Tom Flanagan now regrets his call to assassinate Julian Assange, or so he says.  But he would have settled for "disappeared".  Does he know which side of the southern continent Chile is on and which side Argentina is on?  But this is not the Canada of Diefenbaker and Pearson: this is Steven Harper's Canada.

Who else called for the murder of the Australian citizen?  What if General Motors had wanted to "disappear" Ralph Nader back when he was a "job-killer"? ( A Canadian hero worked with Nader, by the way ... Ken Dryden.)

What if Three Mile Island or Love Canal had been designated a "State Secret"?  Would we be calling for the execution of NYT journalists, editors?  Hells-bells, everyone knows the Washington Post is a hotbed of treason!  Elitist treason! What America needs is a Cultural Revolution!  Put those elitists to work in the cotton fields of Arkansas!

And then there is the real threat to the American way of life: atheists.  Homosexual atheists.  Socialist homosexual atheists.  Lesbian atheistic socialists.  Arm the militias!  America is in imminent peril!  Round up the Japs and Chinks!  And most of those Polacks at Catholics like that Mafiosi, "Jack" Kennedy - who was actually born in Ireland, you know ...

And Huckabee?  This Baptist minister from Hope, Arkansas came in behind McCain and Romney in 2008.  Everyone thinks of him as a likable guy. Folksy charm.  A real populist.  Not one of the elite.

Yet Americans like to see an elite serve as the captains of aircraft carriers, as their NASA astronauts.  In those cases, Americans are less likely to advocate for plain fools.

( Of course, in Canada in 1970 there were bombs, kidnappings, killings, organized domestic terrorists - and the ability to suspend civil liberties ... )

Now about organized crime in Niagara, N.Y., maybe we could just sit down an talk to those misguided entrepreneurs, right Mike?  There's nothing Un-American about it - they're just responding to a commercial threat from the Canadian tourist industry.  Hell, those Falls probably should have belonged to Uncle Sam in the first place ... now what would Kit Carson have done?