Bachmann wants Minnesotans ‘armed and dangerous’ against Obama energy policy

By Chris Steller
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 2:27 pm

bachmann-narrowDuring a radio show on Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann described herself as a “foreign correspondent on enemy lines” in Washington, D.C. The Republican congresswoman went on to tell WWTC-AM:

I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us, having a revolution every now and then is a good thing, and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.

Audio after the jump.

Smart Politics notes it’s not the first time since the election of President Obama and a new Democrat-led Congress that Bachmann dubbed her conservative compatriots “foreign correspondents reporting to you from enemy lines.” The metaphor, combined with her “armed-and-dangerous” rhetoric, drifts close to Sean Hannity’s excited speculation about a militant right-wing reaction.

But if she sounded like any kind of journalist, it was a 1950s writer for the show-biz rag Variety. Here’s what she said about climate-change doubter Christopher Horner, who she is bringing to the Sixth District for two appearances in April: “He gave a boffo speech out in D.C. … people’s socks will be knocked off.”

Think Progress has the full audio from Bachmann’s Saturday appearance on WWTC-AM.

Here’s the key minute (h/t DumpBachmann):

Related: Bachmann: Democrats are ‘ripping the guts out of freedom’

Comments

28 Comments

tiredofkooks
Comment posted March 23, 2009 @ 4:32 pm

violent opposition to regulating CO2 emissions?
violent opposition to returning money to the victimized middle class?


Randy
Comment posted March 23, 2009 @ 5:09 pm

Imagine the outrage if some leftist/anarchist were to say the same things.

As much as I favor free speech for everyone, for a member of Congress to urge armed resistance against lawful actions of the US government crosses the line. Her speech is sedition, and (according to section 2383 of title 18 of the US Code), she is not only subject to being locked up for ten years, but she is “incapable of holding any office under the United States.”


WobegonGal
Comment posted March 23, 2009 @ 5:27 pm

It is curious that someone such as Ms. Bachmann, who espouses the virtues of Christianity, should use such violent terms as “armed and dangerous” to rally people to her cause. Tell me, what would Jesus do? Recall Sarah Palin’s shout out to the Prayer Warriors and the use by otherwise people of faith in all matters of race bating at McCain/Palin rallies. Perhaps Bachmann has joined the cause now promoted by Glenn Beck and Chuck Norris to secede from the Union. They would rather tear this country apart (or at least use rhetoric suggesting such) rather than try to work with the Obama Administration to fix the ills of this country. Nevermind that we are now reaping the greedy, corrupt, and asinine policies have been thrust upon us over years of Republican governance.

Tell you what, Ms. Bachmann, since you dub yourself a “foreign correspondent” perhaps that makes you ineligible to serve as a representative in the US House of Representatives. Obviously you consider Government as the enemy. Perhaps it is time for you to step aside and allow someone who has the best interest of her constituents at heart rather than her narrow-minded loyalties to the likes of Dobson, et al.

Your rhetoric only exposes your hypocrisy. Jesus would want us to feed the poor, help the disadvantaged among us, afford our neighbors a chance to find a job and keep their homes. He would not be coming in locked and loaded.


EK
Comment posted March 23, 2009 @ 5:45 pm

The “people” who voted for Bachmann should be ashamed of themselves.


Jesus
Comment posted March 23, 2009 @ 6:40 pm

What would Jesus do? I’ll tell what Jesus would do, he would open an can o whoopass.


bill
Comment posted March 23, 2009 @ 8:42 pm

So is she advocating a revolution? Can we assume she has declared war on the US government and is leading an armed rebellion? What a loser.


lenzy1000
Comment posted March 23, 2009 @ 10:14 pm

Someone is rewriting history again:
Only one problem with Bachmann’s speil. Jefferson was encouraging a revolt to stop free trade, which Bachmann supports.

QUOTE
Jefferson airs his sentiments in a letter to James Madison on January 30, 1787, expressing justification for the series of protests led by Daniel Shay and a group of 1,200 farmers.

Jefferson also writes of his concern over John Jay’s impending negotiations with Spain. Under consideration would be proposals to extend privileges in Spanish ports to American ships, while providing navigation rights on the Mississippi River to Spain.

In his letter to Madison, Jefferson expresses his belief that the agreement might be interpreted as opening up the Mississippi to Spanish rule, thus provoking a war between settlers in the west and Spain, and eventually, dividing the nation.

http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer/letter.html

Voted YES on promoting free trade with Peru. (Nov 2007)
Voted NO on assisting workers who lose jobs due to globalization. (Oct 2007)
http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Michele_Bachmann.htm


Miles
Comment posted March 24, 2009 @ 10:17 am

Bachmann already is dangerous, and she’s only armed with a bully pulpit.
I can’t wait until she starts to tell us who she actually wants shot.


MOJOWILLY
Comment posted March 24, 2009 @ 11:23 am

PLEASE, for the LOVE OF HUMANITY !!! Minnesotans, put this LUNATIC away !!!!

VOTE THE CRAZIES OUT OF OFFICE FOR ALL TIME !!!

We are talking ‘ sedition ‘ here, if not COMPLETE & utter delusion & I am sorry that I need bring this to the fore, BUT, YOU VOTED THIS LOONY INTO OFFICE !!!
There is NOT ENOUGH medication on the planet ta make this CRACK POT palatable…
This, my friends, is ” a bad machine “…SHUT ‘ER DOWN !!!!


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Jean
Comment posted March 28, 2009 @ 11:39 am

treason ~

1. the offense of acting to overthrow one’s government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2. a violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state.
3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

Lock her up !


donna s
Comment posted March 31, 2009 @ 11:05 pm

I think we need to cut to the chase and see who is paying her. What big corporation that is funding her campaigns is so virulently against this Energy tax??


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Comment posted April 16, 2010 @ 10:29 am

Follow the money…


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Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 7:06 pm

The money for all these treasonous actions is coming from the corporate elite who are buying the U.S. Government. The Koch Family Foundation ulterior motive eliminate government and usurp USA with anarchy. David & Charles Koch – Koch Family Foundation are funding the tea party and other faux groups through their foundations; for example: Americans for Prosperity (AFP).
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Comment posted January 10, 2011 @ 9:41 am

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