Huckabee endorses Fourteenth Amendment repeal

Constitutional rights should not be negotiable. I'm sure you agree that the Bill of Rights - the first 10 amendments - should never be subject to repeal. The same must be said of the Civil War amendments - the Thirteenth through Fifteenth - as they've stood in modern times.

Mike Huckabee, however, does not agree.

The Republican presidential candidate has announced he wants to amend the Constitution to repeal much of the Fourteenth Amendment and take away birthright citizenship. Under Huckabee's plan, citizenship wouldn't just be denied to newcomers but to people who were actually born in America. Even without his FairTax support and his newspaper ad backing spousal abuse, this proves Fuckapee isn't merely conservative but extremist.

Think how silly this is: If Huckabee had his way, a person who's born in the U.S., never leaves the U.S., lives under American laws, and speaks fluent English may someday find out they're not a U.S. citizen. In other words, American citizenship would be denied to Americans. There's simply no other way of saying it. This policy would create a class of stateless people - individuals who lack citizenship in any country. Such an act would defy the very basis of a democratic republic and would criminalize even newborn babies.

Huckabee's stance came to light when he was cavorting with Minuteklan Project cofounder Jim Gilchrist. Gilchrist is a guy who ran for Congress in California and allowed members of a neo-Nazi organization called the National Alliance to help with this bid. Fuckapee promised Gilchrist he'd abuse his presidential powers to force a Supreme Court case challenging birthright citizenship, and push Congress to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment once that case failed.

As Arkansas governor, Huckabee was less extreme on immigration. But it's not much different from how Bush was hailed by the media as a get-things-done pragmatist when he was governor of Texas, only to have the truth emerge later.

So Huckabee hangs out with folks who let neo-Nazis work on their political campaigns, pledges to gum up the Supreme Court with unwinnable cases, and threatens to amend the Constitution to reverse 150 years of law and deport people who were born in America.

If the Reconstruction amendments aren't safe from the Fuckster, what is?

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/8/10145/88857/433/432803)