…Michelle Bachmann should not be arrested immediately for treason or at the very least advocating and/or instigating a treasonous rebellion against the United States of America?
She appeared on a radio show in Minnesota earlier this week, describing elected Democratic officials as the “enemy” and encouraging her constituents to be “armed and dangerous.” Soon after, while appearing on Sean Hannity’s radio show, Bachmann went even further.
“We are headed down the lane of economic Marxism. More quickly, Sean, than anyone could have possibly imagined. It’s difficult for us to even keep up with it day to day….
“[I]t’s like Thomas Jefferson said, a revolution every now and then is a good thing. We are at the point, Sean, of revolution. And by that, what I mean, an orderly revolution — where the people of this country wake up get up and make a decision that this is not going to happen on their watch. It won’t be our children and grandchildren that are in debt. It is we who are in debt, we who will be bankrupting this country, inside of 10 years, if we don’t get a grip. And we can’t let the Democrats achieve their ends any longer.
“If Tim Geithner is successful under President Obama, and they move us to an international currency. Then we have no hope of standing on our own as a sovereign nation with our own economic system. It’s over. We can’t do that.”
Yes, notice she has repeated the lie we discussed yesterday that Geithner wants to move us onto some form of international currency. She went on to decry “tyranny” being “enforced upon the people,” adding that “our very freedom” is at stake. Now, let’s remember, what she is opposed to is the stimulus package and spending. So, the fact that President Obama wants to spend public money to stimulate the economy is tyrannical and oppressive, according to her. Yes, deficit spending, while certainly not desirable but necessary in times of economic crisis and war, is now taking away her very freedom under the Constitution.
If she really believes that, than of course, she is deranged and mentally ill, requiring immediate medical attention. Again, just like yesterday where our choice was between her being unbelievably dumb or simply a liar, I opted for her being a liar. And today, our choice is between her being mentally ill, or he just using hollow and false rhetoric to not only describe her opposition to President Obama’s plans, but also to chin up some outrage in the country.
My fear, at this point, is that lunacy from deranged politicians and their media allies is going to end up getting someone hurt. Republican officials believe they should emulate the insurgency tactics of the Taliban. They see themselves as “freedom fighters” taking on the “slide toward socialism.” They want a “revolution” because Americans “can’t let” Democrats succeed in taking away “our very freedom.”
I think it is too easy to laugh off Bachmann and those like her. Yes, we can assume she is dumb as a post (and she probably is) and insane (ditto), but I have gotten to the point where I think our choice is not binary. Incendiary rhetoric like this leads strange people to do strange things. And the first time a lemming follower heeds Bachmann’s calls for revolution, and kills a Democrat or a liberal or a government employee, than we must try, convict and hang Michelle Bachmann for treason. That is my first impulse. I am restrained by the notion that punishing her for her treason makes her a self fulfilling prophet to those who would listen to her. So we are left to laugh at her, while secretly fearing that one day, perhaps soon, a gun nut feeling their freedom is at stake due to deficit spending will kill a crossing guard.
It is insane, yet real.