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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 03:36 PM
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Bachmann Starred In Movie Warning Public Education Would Spark New Holocaust - RawStory/MoJo
Bachmann starred in movie warning public education would spark new Holocaust
By Stephen C. Webster - RawStory
Thursday, August 11th, 2011 -- 12:09 pm

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In a strange revelation Thursday, Mother Jones magazine unearthed a mostly forgotten 2002 movie that stars none other than Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann during her days as an education activist, warning Americans about a coming second Holocaust brought on by the U.S. public education system.

As if that weren't bizarre enough, her co-star, activist Michael Chapman, got even more specific: He claimed that a globalist plot to destroy Christianity was underway in the U.S., warning that schools helping teens find jobs would ultimately lead to a new Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi concentration camp where countless Jews were slaughtered.


The film, called Guinea Pig Kids II according to the report, was made in conjunction with a conservative group called the Maple River Education Coalition. Consisting mainly of two presentations -- one by Chapman and one by Bachmann -- building upon conspiracies that sound like Glenn Beck's worst nightmares.

"They redefine words," Chapman claims in one segment. "'Civic virtue.' Doesn't that sound wonderful? It is now redefined as 'the dedication of citizens to the common good -- even at the cost of their individual interest.' Now you're starting to see where we're going. Because once you throw out God, that includes your individual liberty. So who's the new God? Government."

He goes on to assert that school-to-work programs, which help students identify core skills needed to get jobs in their chosen fields, are an echo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's concentration camps. Later the film shows an image of a deserted, foggy area bearing the words "Work Makes Free!," a rough translation of the phrase that hung in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/11/bachmann-starred-in-movie-warning-public-education-would-spark-new-holocaust/

MoJo Piece: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/michele-bachmann-auschwitz-movie

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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 03:37 PM
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1. K&R
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 03:39 PM
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2. These extremists RWers are truly alien life forms...
Geebus...:eyes:
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Inuca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 03:39 PM
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3. She's NUTS!! n/t
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vanbean Donating Member (957 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 03:46 PM
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4. Great news in case she wins the primary.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 04:00 PM
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5. oh good grief.. please let her win the nom
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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 04:09 PM
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6. K&R
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RT Atlanta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 04:20 PM
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7. Hope she's the nominee; I also found this interesting too...
From her Wikipedia bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachman

In 1979, Bachmann was a member of the first class of the O.W. Coburn School of Law, a part of Oral Roberts University (ORU).<11> While there, Bachmann studied with John Eidsmoe, whom she described in 2011 as "one of the professors who had a great influence on me".<13><14> Bachmann worked as a research assistant on Eidsmoe's 1987 book Christianity and the Constitution, which argues that the United States was founded as a Christian theocracy, and should become one again.<11><13><14>
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 04:29 PM
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10. Me too - Bachman/Perry or Perry/Bachmann would be entertaining as hell
And both are absolute nutjobs as far as their extreme religious beliefs go.
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 04:25 PM
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8. She is the gift that never stops giving.
:popcorn:
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Proles Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 04:27 PM
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9. Lol, if she wins the nomination, I dare people to vote for her.
DARE them I say!

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