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"Police and federal officials have placed security around ex-Rep. Anthony Weiners wife, Huma Abedin, after a New Jersey man threatened her, law-enforcement sources said.
An individual, described as a Muslim man, made the unspecified threat after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) last week claimed Abedins family had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and asked for a probe to see if she is helping the Islamist organization.
The man was questioned by the NYPD and the State Department and has not been charged, sources said."
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/07/22/562311/abedin-threat-security-bachmann/
Enough is enough! Speaker Boehner needs to take Bachmann off the Intel Committee immediately!
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Any kind of incitement? I honestly don't know.
She needs to be censured and stripped of her committee positions in Congress.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)caveat_imperator
(193 posts)Suggest to them that dangerous rethug actions like this should be pointed out in any commercials they produce.
malaise
(269,054 posts)establishment for political, ideological and economic reasons.
If I were Weiner, my lawyers would contract that woman and let her know that if anything happens to Huma she will be sued.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Boehner needs to take this very seriously!
malaise
(269,054 posts)They don't care who is threatened
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)she is dangerous
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I know her district is a conservative one but what are the chances that she's just gone over the edge and no one but the teaklanners will vote for her? Any chance of her getting thrown out this time? I know she'll get NO backing from the RNCC.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)and contains significant pockets of teabaggerati and other characters who could have been extras in Deliverance (Paddle faster! I hear banjos!). It also includes some spoiled-brat Twin Cities exurbs whose residents would rather drink bleach than pay an extra dime in taxes to help any "unworthy" (i.e., minority) people, along with a fair number of wingnut megachurches. So it's not surprising she gets reelected. However, her opponent this time might have a shot at unseating her. Anybody who wants to help get this despicable character out of Congress, send a buck or two to Jim Graves. http://jimgraves.com/donate/
RagAss
(13,832 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)She does not have the level of calm discretion expected of a statesperson, and her access to state secrets puts us all in grave danger. She is obviously much more interested in gaining political advantage and satisfying extremist elements among her constituency than she is with the national security of these United States. She should be removed from the Intelligence Committee immediately.
sandyshoes17
(657 posts)How in the world is someone as batshit crazy as her allowed on that committee. Do they trust her with the sensitive intel that she has access to?
Swede
(33,257 posts)Dangerous at best.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)Full of Hate and lies.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)lame54
(35,294 posts)she should start with Marcus
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/10/marcus-bachmann-s-controversial-gay-therapy-and-how-it-affects-michele-s-campaign.html
Marcus Bachmanns Gay Cure by Michelle Goldberg
Jul 10, 2011 11:31 PM EDT
A hidden-camera exposé proved that Michele Bachmanns husband practices a controversial therapy aimed at turning gays straight.
...Yet when the City Pages reporter asked Marcus if his clinic performs so-called reparative therapya widely discredited technique meant to turn gay people straightMarcus denied it. And over the years he has kept denying it, despite plenty of evidence that both he and Michele are deeply committed to the idea that homosexuality can be cured.
If there was any doubt that he was lying, it disappeared on Friday, when The Nation broke news of an investigation by Truth Wins Out, a group devoted to combating the ex-gay movement. Undeniably, 100 percent, the Bachmann clinic practices reparative therapy, which tries to cure gay people of their homosexuality, says Wayne Besen, Truth Wins Outs founder.
Responding to queries about Bachmanns clinic from reportersmyself among themBesen recently put out a call for former Bachmann patients, and a young man named Andrew Ramirez responded. As Ramirez told The Nation, after he came out in 2004, the summer before his senior year, his evangelical stepfather had dragged him to Bachmann & Associates. There, a therapist told him he should renounce his sexual orientation. He basically said being gay was not an acceptable lifestyle in Gods eyes, said Ramirez.
To prove that reparative therapy continues at Bachmanns clinic to this day, Truth Wins Out sent a 26-year-old staffer, John Becker, to pose as a patient there. Armed with hidden cameras, Becker attended five sessions with therapist Timothy Wiertzema, who assured him that its possible to rid himself of same-sex attractions. I think its possible to be totally free of them, Wiertzema says in a transcript of the sessions provided to The Daily Beast. ts happened to a number of people. I dont know how many, but
thats for sure....
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Or maybe he can cure his family of taking farm subsidies.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)You piece of shit.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Shit can be turned into compost, which makes things grow. This complete waste of human flesh is more like toxic sewage sludge. It's useless, poisonous, and stinks to high heaven. Just like Ms. Crazy Eyes.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)calimary
(81,322 posts)But it does fit.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)piece of shit who makes the world a worse place. Go fuck yourself you delusional twit.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)Somehow I'm not very surprised. She attracts mouth
breathing sociopaths like a fresh cow pie attracts flies.
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)And yeah, she has no place on the Intel Committee and she never did.
dgibby
(9,474 posts)Anybody threatened him since she linked him to the Muslim Brotherhood? Wonder if Keith Ellison has gotten any threats. Bachmann has gone from being the crazy relative in the attic to a full blown assault weapon.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)amb123
(1,581 posts)Along with Louis Gohmert (R-TX), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) and Tom Rooney (R-FL). And we tell Frank Gaffney to keep his paranoid ravings to himself.
NOW!
Frank Gaffney, Bachmann, Gohmert, Franks, Westmoreland and Rooney. THE MONSTER RAVING LOONY PARTY.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)frogmarch
(12,154 posts)but the four other republicanz who support her contention need to be dealt with as well: Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Thomas Rooney (R-Fla.) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.).
Bachmann should be frogmarched off the Intel Committee.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)who belong in a nice quiet place where the nuts hunt the squirrels.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)Just another day like the rest. It's time to enforce these laws.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)If that's even a possibility.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)she is a worthless person let alone being a member of Congress
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)Censure would probably have been a done deal by now.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)by the events Bachmann put in motion.
Now, terror? Homeland security?
When are they going to stop groping women and children and go after the true terrorists, those who hide behind the first ammendment while making others lives hell?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The Republicans brought this on themselves. They described Sarah Palin as the future of the Party and Bachmann is her serving equivalent.
benld74
(9,904 posts)mother earth
(6,002 posts)crime, murder & hate. End this "christian value" hate talk! You are not christian and you have no value when you incite hate!
K & R
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Obama could make one phone call and have that guy warehoused off to Guantanamo and never heard from again.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Bachmann is dangerously sick. with palin putting crosshairs on giffords district to this unexcusable McCarthyism, this has to be stopped and soon.