Bachmann Warns Of Link Between Census, Japanese Internment

Bachmann Warns Of Link Between Census, Japanese Internment
By Eric Kleefeld - June 25, 2009, 11:00AM

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!

During an interview this morning on Fox News, Bachmann mostly focused on the danger of her personal information falling into the hands of the dreaded menace ACORN. But at one point, she made a very interesting appeal to history:

"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."

At this point even Megyn Kelly, who had been gladly dishing out the anti-ACORN talk along with Bachmann, had to take a step back and raise the point that the Japanese internment was a long time ago and we haven't had such abuses since then.

For some context on how this fits into Bachmann's overall worldview, keep in mind that she's previously warned of the threat of "re-education camps" where young people would be indoctrinated into the government's official philosophy.



http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/bachmann-warns-of-link-between-census-japanese-internment.php

Oh wait, this was on FAUX! Never mind.

She's the gift that keeps on giving. :crazy:

Therefore they should be in favor of this imaginary development.

I wouldnt let her NEAR my kids.

is she still a member of Congress?

She's been inhaling too much of that natural carbon dioxide.

:wtf: :freak:

""It’s under the guise of — quote — volunteerism. But it’s not volunteers at all. It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government""

unfortunately we pay Michele to do work on behalf of the gov't and she stinks at it...

If people in what Menken called "the cow states" want to skip the census - and be underepresented when congressional lines are redrawn - more power to them.