Michelle Bachmann warns of politically correct re-education camps for young people
By John Amato Monday Apr 06, 2009 3:00pmIsn't the state of Minnesota embarrassed enough already over Norm Coleman's hold out? They re-elected one of the craziest members of Congress back into office, and she's not going to stop with the "right-wing Patriot" wingnut rhetoric. Her latest rant piggybacks on a Glenn Beck rant, only she left off "FEMA camps."
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she fears the Obama administration will create “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.”
Here’s what Bachmann said on Minnesota radio station KTLK-AM (podcast) this weekend (in reference to The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, a proposed expansion of the AmeriCorps program that Obama may sign into law this week):
It’s under the guise of — quote — volunteerism. But it’s not volunteers at all. It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government. …
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.
...it's time for Bachmann and her fellow travelers to think seriously about the real-world impact of some of their more paranoid statements. This weekend provided a good example of comments that Bachmann should go back and reconsider.
Bachmann has been on a roll lately, worrying that the U.S. is making "the final leap to socialism" and spreading ludicrous theories about the potential replacement of the dollar as U.S. currency. Over the weekend, in an interview with a local radio station, Bachmann jumped on what's now become a substantial bandwagon, espousing one of the paranoid, and completely untrue, rumors about the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, a bill intended to enhance volunteerism in the U.S.--
If you're curious, FactCheck.org has a good debunking of this sort of stuff about the bill.
And for all those folks in Bachmann's district suffering from the foreclosure epidemic in their midst: How's that conservative governance treating you these days?
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The radio host sounds like she's taken a hit on a helium ballon.
...and a big gulp of Kool-Aid.
I thought government paid volunteers only went to Boot Camp to get Re-educated "...and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.”
Aren't those Called Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen who are government indoctrinated Volunteers?
Reeducation camps does have a certain appeal. The Congresswoman would be a prome candidate.
"It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government"
WTF? This stupid bitch WORKS ON BEHALF OF GOVERMENT
I can only imagine what kind of looks this fucking nutcase gets in congress. She's truly insane. But, this is good, the more she's on TV the better.
....Democrat Congress!
at home communing with her vibrator.
If there was ever a case of someone needing a few orgasms to loosen up, she is a prime candidate.
I didn't think this woman could get any crazier. What's next from her? You people from Minnesota need to wake the fuck up.
from Minnesota DIDN'T vote for her but I grew up in her district - when it was sane there. She may be re-districted right out of a seat come 2010 - beyond that, even the folks whom I know pretty well, including many relatives who voted for this wing-nut, won't vote for her again. Most of them aren't this nuts and she's really gone round the bend MUCH FURTHER since the election. They really all aren't this stupid - and "WE MINNESOTANS" aren't either.
I'm from Utah. We have crazy people in my state too.
Obama was right when he made the claim that people in PA cling to there guns and religion. You go outside of the cities in PA like Pitt, Philly, Scranton, Erie even Johnstown, it's an entirely different state. Seriously, I am not kidding, all I have to do is drive 10 miles outside of the city and these people worship Glen Beck.
Come to missourah (blunt, bond, ashkroft)where they caint even pronounce the name of the state {Missouri}
You right of center Minnesotans wake the fuck up. There's no help for the extreme right. My apologies if I offended you.
I'm a recent addition to the Fightin' 6th, and let me tell you - there are folks here that surprise me. Our local newspaper's comment sections are dominated by a very few vocal wingnuts who are total slaves to her. They call her "patriotic" and that they are "proud" of "their girl." These are, of course, the same ones who call our President the "Obamasiah" and claim that it is the left who show slavish devotion to their "leader."
The district was formed in the wake of Jesse the Body's win - it's a swatch of fircely independent voters that voted 17% for the third party candidate this past election.
We're totally going to be redistricted right into a new rep.
What in the world are the Minnesota voters thinking reelecting
"Nurse Ratched!?"
for the past 8 years! Why is she telling the truth now?? This sucks but she isn't lieing, I don't say this easily either.
... birds of a feather...
LOL.
Ummm no, You see what she is saying is true, but this person has no business talking about freedom or the constitution. Like I said, where was she for the past 8 years?
And not with conjecture either. Prove what she is saying is true.
Links?
Let me just give you a few links, I some will adress your questions but see them all and tell me what you think about the "change".
http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/23/hr-1388...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdwrU3Csi1E
rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_follows_Bush_policy_on_wiretapping_0406.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TovrzDZlqIM&fe...
#1. Emphasis on the word "Could"
#2. While I see where your going with this, in the 40's it was deemed patriotic. But, I'm not in favor of it.
Not to mention, this in an idea. Not legislation.
3#. I haven't watched this one. But the title is disturbing. On this one. We're in agreement.
But the issue here is re education camps.
In that, you have failed to prove such a thing exists. Or is actually planned in the future.
Oh the reeducation camps I don't know about that. I am positive that Rham is serious about manditory though. Oh and the legislation passed.
I wasn't aware that it even got to the legislation phase.
Could you provide me with the Bill #?
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1388/show
It passed the house and Senate, it just has to be signed and I doubt Obama will veto.
"In its current form, the legislation does not include a mandate requiring service."
Baffling him with facts. It gets in the way of his bullshit ideology.
Are an honorable thing to do. Right?
The thing is it's being painted as some form of socialism. There was a time when doing civil service was patriotic. What's so wrong with trying to better your community? Or help the nation? Mandatory? No.
It should all be voluntary.
But this woman and her girlfriend Glennis Beckass are doing nothing but promoting hysteria.
The more simple minded folks eat this crap up. And repeat it over and over. If you lie long enough, some people think it's the truth.
That's ok. I'll check back later.
Glen Back is trying to make his living off a group of people like me and telling 70 percent truth with 30 percent inscitment (to commit violence)and lies.
Listen to many of the people who come on his show like Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Gerald Celente, (oh and I know I will be bothered for saying this LOL) Lew Rockwell and a few others because they have the actual benefit of society in mind EVEN IF you do not agree with their politics in some cases. They know their economy and civil liberties, they are NOT Neo Cons.
Watch Obama Deception too, its NOT conspiracy but fact, all of it is documented. You can't legally make a movie like that making the claims it does without facts to back it up or its slander.
But you keep on trying.
But, as of this moment. You haven't proven a thing.
Paulbots are made of the same whacko stuff as this Bachmann lady.
See, a libertarian is pretty much someone whose main asset is being an asshole they are trying to capitalize on it. Thus the whole concept of volunteering and helping your fellow man is so utterly foreign to them, that they automatically assume it is bad.
The iornic thing is that for 8 years Bush wipped his ass with the constitution. But it is now, when the gov is asking for help in rebuilding this country (which they brought to brink of collapse), when they open their mouth...
Ain't that a bitch...
No partisans like yourself are the Whacko's, you refuse to listen to anything even if it makes sense.
an Alex Jones minion. Same tired talking points. Blah blah blah.
I guess this says it all.
??
What did you want proven to you? I am talking about Glen beck.
And we got on about Glennis Beckass.
Who, imo, is a nutcase.
Left and Left said it best.
Psychobabble.
And the legislation thing. The one with no mandate.
Shirley you jest.
That's ok. We all need some humor.
No the movie is fact, if I were to make a movie lying about someone I would be sued. Just ask Michael Moore when he made Farenheit 9/11, he offered 10,000 dollars to prove one fact was wrong and they couldn't.
How did you get on to a movie?
Emphasis on the word, "Movie"
Oh, Civil Service. What was it that you said about civil service?
Surely you don't think CS is a socialist plot?
He is an Alex Jones Minion. I'll bet he is stockpiling seeds along with his ammunition.
We had record prosperity and peace until the Rushthugliklans came along and fucked it up. Rushthugliklan "saving" and "fixing" of this country is the last thing we need. The Rushthugs have a track record of "saving" and "fixing" America and it sucks. They've done more damage to this country than Al-Queda could have ever hoped to have done.
Crazy.
the "Democrat" party's best friend. She makes Rush Limbaugh seem normal. Palin/Bachmann 2012!!!!!
She's a few sandwiches short of a picnic. How can people defend her, take her seriously and vote for her?!?
Palin/Bachmann 2012 would be ten Christmases celebrated on the same day :-)
Don't they have unemployment in Minnesota, the need for food stamps, decaying schools and infrastructure, sons and daughters in foreign wars
And this is the best she can do?
Creepy voodoo dolls and vampire movies (most recent open thread) ain't got nuthin' compared to Michelle.
bachmann's song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v0iVja6ZFk
But I, for one, do not like the Rahm Emanuel compulsory service plan. It isn't just right wing folks who worry about such stuff. This old liberal has a big problem with it, as well.
I would think that any American citizen would have this concern. Or the concern of having active, armed Army patrolling inside the borders. Or the militarization of the police. Or the illegal (condoned) wiretapping, etc, etc, etc
Crazy she may be, but those of you who act as if nothing at all is of concern are a far more dangerous group.
eh?
Let me guess--you're a "lifelong democrat".
*YAWN*
You freepers need to learn some new tricks, your old ones don't fool anyone.
Other than the "Rahm Emanuel compulsory service plan," for which he supplies no particulars, most of the other points he raises has brought concern from commenters on this site. Like Black Water, or whatever the hell they're called now, patrolling in the aftermath of Katrina, the constant use of police swat teams for more and more trifling concerns, and the FISA Court get arounds, data sweeping etc.
However, that being said the one part that's relevant is again non-supported.
You are right, she is not lying. I am wondering why she is all of a sudden miss constitution.
and the rest of the ReThugs were using the Constitution as toilet paper for the last 8 years. Newsflash: You lost!
First of I am NOT a republican, second I know they were using it as toilet paper..are you actually reading what I am saying? SECOND this IS NOT A GAME, "you lost?" Grow up.
ron paul identifies himself as republican
he lost to mcgramps
And mcgramps lost to President Obama
Grow up.
First off, Ron Paul is a republican because he has to be second the elections are fixed third you grow up.
He has to be a Republican? This is politics, not indentured slavery.
You should know by now that only Dems and Repubs get on TV or have any say in anything. He was asked that question many times and that was the answer. The System is bias to third parties, Ron even helped promote Ralph Nader, Mckinney and others before the election.
The campaign is long since over. Your guy couldn't even challenge McGrandpa, who the nation ordered to "fuck off" in November. Now you spend all night trying to reignite a factually dead election...what a fool.
that having the district with the highest foreclosure rate in the whole state of MN would be more of a concern to her, but hey, if she can win elections with the support of Alex Jones nutjobs more power to her.
we had mandatory government re-education camps. It was called the "Military Draft". Lots of indoctrination there. Even Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts had heavy handed "patriotism" as a main feature.
People like Ms. Bachmann should worry more about being educated than re-educated. I see she is a graduate of Oral Roberts fine institution where she no doubt, judging by the amount of rhetoric she spews, she majored in oral activities. If she is an example of a Minnesota education I'm glad I live elsewhere.
Oral Roberts, I did not know that. That clears a lot up.
I always thought it was 2 gay guys by the name of Bob?
He's married to Connie.
No thanks to her or governor Pawlenty
I have heard that she was raised in Anoka, MN and was a democrat in her youth, probably until getting away from the public schools - meeting her whacko husband and being brainwashed by the religious right. I don't blame her parents or the MN public schools - who knows, her parents probably vote against her.
Well, we do know that the idea of helping those in need sickens the right wing.
Joel, Crow, Gypsy and Cambot are always there to lend a helping hand though.
Bachmann’s district has Minnesota’s highest foreclosure rates
Just to the north of the Twin Cities, the 6th district, represented by Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, had the most foreclosures of any of Minnesota’s eight congressional districts, with an estimated 5,227 in 2008. Her district also had the highest rate of foreclosures as a percentage of households, at 1.80 percent, nearly that of the city of Minneapolis at 1.85 percent.
The situation was similar in 2007, when, according to a Housing Link study, Bachmann’s district had a higher foreclosure rate than the rest of Minnesota and the rest of the country.
But Bachmann’s record in Congress is not one of a representative whose district faces such a crisis. Bachmann hasn’t authored or sponsored any legislation to assist homeowners facing foreclosure, but she has co-sponsored 14 bills to restrict abortions and five to promote Christianity in government.
Ok, lemme see here:
That would be like brainwashing. Like patriotism. Like We're Number 1. Like we have to bail out the banks. Everything the government puts forward is for their own interests, is it not? For the last 30 years, people have followed blindly left, right and center government philosophies. How many think North Korea evil? Why? How many rah-rahed the Iraq war? Why? How many think that those pesky Al Qaeda and Taliban MUST BE DEFEATED? Why? Because the government, with media assistance, brainwashes en masse.
So she's batshit crazy, but actually almost telling the truth.
Bumper sticker on Michelle Bachman's car.
michelle is an example of what
happens when the baby is oxygen
deprived at birth.....only she
was without for a full hour.
of the kitchen, however. Maybe Yahweh gave her a dispensation.
These Birchers have been spewing this crap about the Peace Corp for 40 years.
if young people help the less fortunate, there may be no one left to feel sorry for.
The GOP needs people at the bottom of the economic and social ladder, so that they can make themselves feel better about their irrelevant achievements.
You can't be rich if there are no poor, you dig?
And you just KNOW this douchebag has orgasmic fantasies about America's, nay, the WORLD'S young people being forcibly converted into fundamentalist Christians.
Once again, Republican projection. In spades.
damn flag pin? What's wrong with you? Why do you hate America? I bet you haven't been proud of your country for a long time, huh michelle?
the crazy EYES!
On this one I have to say I agree with Michelle Bachmann. Expecting our young people to perform public service, will indeed brainwash them. They'll see that not all people live in comfort. They'll see that some people sleep on the streets, under a bridge or in a vacant building at night. Some of them freeze to death. They may even get to know such people and find out some have masters' degrees, some are poets and most of them are kind, good people. They'll learn firsthand about the horrors in our inner city school and how even the brightest little ones get discouraged by poverty, crime, lack of health and dental care and lack of any kind of chance in our society. They'll find out that we allow our mentally ill, many of them Veterans, to eat out of garbage cans. Michelle Bachmann has every right to be afraid because she is in a position to make changes and refuses to do so.
have said it better bro or sis! So true.
She isn't from Minnesota originally. She is one of the Christian right wing carpetbaggers who moved in to change politics in Minnesota. John Kline is another one. He is doing his damage quietly while she plays the rodeo clown.
It will be interesting to see how long she can keep it up before she self destructs.
Coo-coo. Coo-coo.
I apologize for all the retards in my district that voted for this woman. I did not and never would consider it, she is a complete nut case going back to her days in the state senate. Now she is on the Marxism crusade, years ago it was all about banning gay marriage. With the ruling in Iowa I am surprised she hasn't gone completely ballistic about that trying to legislate away the gays.
In Novemeber of 06 it was a huge win for the democrats but here it was absolutely devastating having this whack job become our representative. She was of course a complete embarrassment, as expected. Last year I thought after she got owned on Hardball and earned a million in contributions for her opponent for 10 minutes of nonsense that we'd finally be done with her. Guess not. Once again a terrible stain on an otherwise great election night.
Now that this nut case is taking her psychotic crap national I hope others can help get in the game to get rid of her earlier in the campaign cycle this time. Do what you can to help the next election cycle, we need it. Our district is not all right wing crackpots, most of them are in a hick area known as Wright County. The rest of us sane people need to pull together and get rid of her, because the local media refuses to cover the nonsense she says and it continues to go unchecked.
"Idiot" would do, and is less loaded. Thanks.
Bachmann actually
has some helpful information on her website.. It's the most comprehensive instructions found anywhere on the Internet.
Either that, or our representatives should not be allowed to speak on ideological talk shows.
The media should be questioning what comes out of her mouth, not cheerleading and promoting lies.
By the way, she'd be all for a volunteer program that literally brainwashed children with the worldview of Evangelicals and Corporatists. Of course, that would imply that this volunteer program "brainwashes" anybody.
So what are all those young republican clubs
And Jesus Camps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACyLTsH4ac
Why hasn't Jesus told the fat bitch in this video to lay off the super sized value meals?
Backatchoo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk41Gbjljfo
I wonder what people here think about this..hmmmmmmm
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_follows_B...
Don't you people understand that Michelle Bachmann's district is the epitamy of White Trash America (meaning dee dee dee's). Hello McFly??
She was raised in Waterloo Iowa
"Paying people to do work on behalf of the government"!!
That would be like...like...if they were members of Congress or civil servants or something!!!!!!!
Michelle Bachmann called on Americans to become armed and dangerous in response to Democrats. On Saturday, one of the weaker minds in the conservative movement, fearing President Obama was going to take away his guns, killed 3 Police Officers in Pittsburgh. Bachmann should be proud, someone finally acted on her propaganda to rise up and arm themselves.
Her words need to become prima facie evidence for this case.
Prima feces.
When people listen to this Woman they think that she is Crazy.
However when Republicans listen to her they think that she is Brilliant.
Every thing Republican should be Linked to her and Glenn Beck the other
Fruit-Cake that makes a living out of Trashing Reality.GOP= Grand Old Psychotics.
Michelle ... can you put me in touch with your dealer, honey?
That's all natural.
well, maybe not.
Just when you thought this woman might get a clue that she's a bona fide idiot and laughingstock, she says something else that's even more twisted and sick than the last one. She just can't help herself.
I think Bachmann needs to be put under investigation for inciting terror by her statements and incarcerated under the Patriot Act.
This woman is past batshit crazy.
Get the hook, please and put this woman out of her misery. We know there's not much left to the GOP these days (some 23%) and this woman is certainly doing her part to recruit more people to the Democratic Party....actually, she's tied with Rush Limpballs.
may be a little 'off', shall we say, and I'm not necessarily in agreement with any of her rants in particular. However, I do think that whatever occurs in the country during the next couple of years will change the lives of many of us much more drastically than we can now imagine.
The economic collapse/financial crisis is far from over; our government is far from 'transparent' as was promised; and, there are many secret dealings related to the transfers of vast amounts of OUR wealth. We really have no idea what plans have been made regarding our futures in the G20 meetings or other gatherings of elitists and government officials (Bilderberg, CFR, Economic Summits, etc.). Maybe they're all just sitting around swapping ideas about how to raise the standard of living for the rest of us; how we can all become millionaires and share the good life. It appears to me that just the opposite has been happening in the US for the past couple of decades.
So, make fun of Ms. Bachmann - she deserves some of it. But, pay very careful attention to the legislation being introduced and passed in Congress and to the continuing saga of the 'bank bailouts."
We are so-o-ooo screwed.
Just as the polling shows, no one is holding Obama responsible for any of this. Obama has done more to right this flagging country in 70 days than Bush did in 8 years. This will never be forgotten.
As for Bachmann, she deserves ALL OF IT. Don't make excuses for someone so willing to incite people to violence and say moronic things in public.
Michelle Bachman is an american disaster. She deserves to spat upon.
He's doing whats right?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_follows_B...
Just as important is what does your messiah think of it?
That's all there is to it. Same as the butthead beck is insane. They make "good little repugs". Nut balls that spew hate, fear, and lead the brain dead morons of this nation to "tea parties"...lol.
What a f*cking joke!!
They're called boot camp and the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines run them. It's where young people are trained to become authoritarian followers and future conservatives. The Obama camps will be deprogramming centers to turn adults back into sentient humans. I'm retired military and know of what I speak.
Because the American Armed Forces may be the largest socialistic institutions in the world.
she seems to be saying this stuff intentionally. She believes it's helpful to say crazy things. I don't even want to know who is in her district. Sounds scary.
needs to have her committed to a mental institution. The woman is clearly mentally unbalanced and suffering from some sort of delusion, and potential threat to the general public as there are people out there that take her madness seriously.
Michelle Bachman is, unfortunately, one of those people who wants to impress and be loved by other people. But the only people she can impress or hope to be loved by are strange right-wingers (like that interviewer). There's a sweet eager not-too-bright little girl somewhere in there who's trying to win somebody's heart, and if it means being nuts, that's what she'll be.
And who the hell was that pandering right-wing nut interviewer? She was as bad as Bachman.
These people are insane and irresponsible.
I can see a FEMA re education camp from my house!!!!!
Tue, 04/07/2009 - 04:26 — proud 2 b american
I'm former Air Force, E4, Top Secret Clearance, Honorably Discharged.
I have an IQ of about 120, although I'm told I'm right brained and artistic oriented so portions of my IQ can't be measured accurately.
I also have blood lines to Nathan Hale, Martha Washington, an early royally appointed governor of one of the original 13 colonies, William Seward, Henry Clay, and the Plantagenets.
Not that my comment has any relevance to this thread,
But then neither does yours.
Albeit, disorganized.
Look at our drug laws and how they're prosecuted. Look at how no-knock warrants are served...by SWAT teams. Look at what happens when they do. Dead pets and sometimes dead children. Terrorized innocent citizens. Civil rights in tatters. No accountability and rarely any restitution.
There's yer fascism, right there. Why doesn't Bachman, Beck, all those wankers, why don't they get into hissy, foaming fits about that? Maybe because the main targets happen to have Black and Hispanic faces?
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