Picture this:\u00a0 You’re at the Hiawatha Avenue railroad yards.\u00a0 It’s 5AM.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 At 8AM, the trains pull out, hauling thousands of dissidents off to “re-education” camps in Idaho and eastern Wyoming.\u00a0 Their only crime?\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
This is the vision of Jeff Rosenberg, of MNPublius.\u00a0 This is the world he wants.<\/p>\n
Well, no – he doesn’t specifically say <\/em>so.\u00a0 But he doesn’t speak out against it<\/a>!<\/p>\n Oh – he’s talking about Rep. Michele Bachmann:<\/p>\n Well if I thought her rhetoric was overheated before, that\u2019s nothing compared to a speech<\/font><\/a> she recently made to a group of Denver\u00a0conservatives:<\/p>\n \u201cThis cannot pass,\u201d the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. \u201cWhat 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\u2019t\u00a0pass.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n 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.\u00a0 It’s a guy thing anyway; nobody expects a chick to have a command of it.<\/p>\n Does \u201cwhatever it takes\u201d include violent, armed revolution? Because her rhetoric over the past year doesn\u2019t seem to rule that out in any\u00a0way<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I just sat slack-jawed for a while when I read that.<\/p>\n I still am.<\/p>\n 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.<\/font><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well\u00a0– problem solved!\u00a0<\/p>\n By the way – while Bachmann said nothing <\/em>about armed revolt of any kind, it’s good to see lefties\u00a0suddenly getting upset about violent<\/a> opposition<\/a> and anti-American sedition<\/a>.<\/p>\n