It's hard to believe that less than a year ago, most people outside of Minnesota had never heard of Michele Bachmann, but ever since her suggestion that members of Congress should be investigated to find out if they're good Americans, chronicling the insane gibberish that comes out of her mouth has become a full-time job. Her latest is a follow-up on her plan to thwart ACORN and the Census Bureau:
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is taking her refusal to fully fill out her Census form, which is a crime punishable by a $5,000 fine, to a whole new level: Invoking the memory of the Japanese internment during World War II, and the evil role that the Census played in it! [...]
"Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps," said Bachmann. "I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps."
Classic Bachmann - say something absolutely insane and follow it with "I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but ..." She has truly raised fear-mongering to an art form.