Remember this prediction from Michele Bachmann? Guess President Obama didn't start breaking ground soon enough to save the mid terms. And this woman will likely be a driving force in the new republican congress. The country just got in a little more trouble:
From the Minnesota Independent:
Bachmann links Census to 1940s Japanese internment
By Paul Schmelzer | 06.25.09 | 11:40 am
Michele Bachmann, who may be redistricted out of a job based on next year’s Census findings, has already stated she won’t respond to certain Census questions required by law for fear that ACORN will get its hands on the info. Now she’s working to spread the fear — by conjuring the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
On Fox News, Bachmann spoke of how Census information helped the government find and detain Japanese people more than six decades ago:
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.”
It’s not the first time Bachmann has raised the specter of such detentions: In April, she said she feared the Obama administration was planning “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.”
Fox’s Megyn Kelly challenged Bachmann on her assertion, giving the Stillwater Republican a split-second of apparently shocked pause:
“We’ve had a lot of good years since then,” Kelly said. “That was a different time and a different era. We’ve had decades since then when, at least to our knowledge, this information hasn’t been abused. So how do you respond to people who say, ‘Look, we’ve been doing it for decades since then. The law is what it is and you as a lawmaker should know better than to break it.’”
Bachmann’s reply: “I think it is important that we are not a nation of law breakers. I’m just not comfortable with the way this Census is being handled…”
Apparently Bachmann’s comfort is more important to her than personally abiding by the law.
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