By Omission
Picture this: You’re at the Hiawatha Avenue railroad yards. It’s 5AM. Trucks - which have been busy rounding up dissidents all night long - line up and unload their cargoes, to be stuffed onto boxcars by gangs of SEIU thugs with attack dogs. At 8AM, the trains pull out, hauling thousands of dissidents off to “re-education” camps in Idaho and eastern Wyoming. Their only crime? Speaking out against the Obama Administration; winding up on Janet Napolitano’s enemies list; getting denounced by their DFLer neighbors to the DFL “Hope and Change” tribunals.
At the camps in Idaho, they live in unheated barracks, eat potatoes (albeit Idaho potatoes), and learn proper thought by hauling wheelbarrows full of dirt from one pile to the other.
This is the vision of Jeff Rosenberg, of MNPublius. This is the world he wants.
Well, no - he doesn’t specifically say so. But he doesn’t speak out against it!
Oh - he’s talking about Rep. Michele Bachmann:
Well if I thought her rhetoric was overheated before, that’s nothing compared to a speech she recently made to a group of Denver conservatives:
“This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”
I’m gonna go out on a limb here; Bachmann grabbed the wrong metaphor in the heat of a rhetorical moment; you don’t slit your wrist, you poke your finger or thumb. It’s a guy thing anyway; nobody expects a chick to have a command of it.
Does “whatever it takes” include violent, armed revolution? Because her rhetoric over the past year doesn’t seem to rule that out in any way.
I just sat slack-jawed for a while when I read that.
I still am.
Let me be absolutely clear for our conservative readers. Free speech is protected, and Bachmann has the right to voice her opposition to health reform. However, sedition and fomenting violent rebellion are most definitely not protected.
Well - problem solved!
By the way - while Bachmann said nothing about armed revolt of any kind, it’s good to see lefties suddenly getting upset about violent opposition and anti-American sedition.
Bachmann needs to cool it before the birthers-with-guns movement turns into something even more insidious.
Perhaps Rosenberg means “before the “birtherns with guns “movement” turns into a movement”. There’ve been three incidents, none involving illegal activity, much less violence.
Indeed, every single incident of violence at every town hall meeting was precipitated by a Democrat or one of their sympathizers. Every one.
Who is it we have to worry about, here?
I, for one, would hold her partly responsible.
Like there was a lot of doubt about that.
Cross-posted and comments welcome at Shot In The Dark.
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