Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is going to have a Capitol Police escort between now and the end of her term in Congress, following the emergence of an online threat from the terrorist group ISIL. The security detail will likely mean Bachmann will be guarded around-the-clock, both in Washington, D.C., and at home in Minnesota while Congress is in recess.
A Capitol Police spokesperson would only say they do not “discuss law enforcement operations or security regarding Members of Congress.”
While the specific nature of the threat remains unknown, one cause for the ISIL response could be Bachmann’s recent performance at the at the Values Voters Summit, during which the combative Tea Party member channeled a vengeful, Old Testament God, saying the United States is currently engaged in “spiritual warfare” with the terrorist organization.
There was none of that New Testament “blessed are the peacemakers” message in her speech last month.
You kill their leader. You kill their council. You kill their army until they wave the white flag of surrender.
And all God’s children (or should I say followers of “Republican Jesus™”) said “Amen.” All the members at the annual conference, sponsored by the Family Research Council, cheered wildly at the Tea Party champion’s bloodlust.
Not surprisingly, Representative Bachmann got nearly every other part of her message wrong during the speech. Islamic leaders around the world unilaterally condemn ISIL and reject her assertion that “yes, Mr. President, it is about Islam.” No, it’s not.
ISIL is not representative of the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, as Ms. Bachmann suggested, nor is it an “Islamic State.” ISIL (ISIS, IS) a mercenary force which has captured sections of Syria and Iraq — and is patrolling the border with neighboring Turkey. Just because they made themselves a flag, Representative, doesn’t mean any country in the world recognizes this group of terrorists as a “state.”
Bachmann will lose her security detail when the new Congress convenes early next year. She has not made it clear what she will do once she has retired from Congress, but still has some legal issues to clear up following a failed run at the Republican nomination for president in 2011.
Questionable decisions regarding campaign finances and/or actions by members of her staff resulted in multiple investigations by both state and federal agencies, as well as the Congressional Ethics Committee. Now, it seems, Ms. Bachmann has one more thing to worry about during retirement.
H/T: Politico | Image credit: Creative Commons
Bet-cha won’t hear hear her whining about government spending anytime soon…
I’m sorry, Representative Bachmann, due to budget cuts you can’t have a security detail but here is a slingshot and some marbles. (‘Cuz we all know she’s lost her marbles. LOL)
Let’s hope she gets the detail that allowed a gun-wielding convict to share an elevator with POTUS.
thats reassuring being guarded by the folk,s that work for the main rag head !! good-luck with that one girl !!
“main rag head?” Are you even close to be an educated adult with some level of respectful intellect?
not even close he’s part of the old ass incestrous ass white f-ks that is feeling castrated by our classy president
and when it comes to MFs like this I have no class
Right wing nutjob troll. Following your master’s orders, right? You know that they all worship Satan and have made a deal with the Devil.
wonder how much money she is going to try to raise off this?
I hope they get her
Who cares about this stupid Biach. She has harmed more Americans with her bullshit in Congress than ISIL will ever be able to do… She and her adopted brood along with her gay husband should strap on a AR Rifle and protect themselves because Govt. doesn’t know how to do it and besides we are broke….Right Michelle ?
oh well….
Bachmann does love to bring god and religion into almost everything she says. Here’s an example of where ‘Separation of church and state’ might have actually wound up saving Bachmann’s ass. When she finishes her stint as a congresswoman and loses her security detail maybe the Fox channel can launch a reality show of just following Bachmann around until one of the ISIS operatives jumps out from behind a billboard in Minnesota condemning same sex marriage and nails her right between the eyes. Sean Hannity could host the show and have Michelle Malkin in the field covering the action.
Michelle Malkin is the dumbest thing, to come out of, the Philippines! As for imperial wizard Sean Hannity, there is no hope, for his racist ass.
I can only express extreme pity for this totally deluded woman, who has no business in Congress, and is blindly arrogant to even think of running for the Oval Office.
May she retire to an unknown cabin in the woods and knit and crochet for the rest of her days.
From the Facebook conversation: Honestly? I don’t want them to even try. When I saw the item on the newswire I thought — ‘how’d she arrange this?!’ People who love her and think she’s doing God’s work will never see the parallel between her religious extremism and ISIL.
“Yeah, but ISIL terrorists behead people!” Right — and so does a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile built by Raytheon. Look it up, “patriots.”
God wouldn’t side with any party who tortured people any more than Jesus would. The mere concept is blasphemy at its worst and those who think republicans rate a pass are just bug house crazy.
My advice to Ms. Bachmann. Don’t let these thugs intimidate you … in the words of another of your ilk “reload” and double your verbal attacks on ISIS.
She must be in “heaven” finally someone’s listening to her,taking her nonsense seriously. Even if they are like minded crazy people. Bet there’s a little skip in her step in the morning as she hands out cookies to her “security detail”.
Religious fanatic extremist vs. Religious fanatic extremists!!Kill each other every single one and the earth will be a better place!!Just leave the sane people out of it!
Words do have consequences don’t they darling Michelle!
I am Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and I approve this message. LOL
One could only hope she gets the same secret service agents to protect her that President Obama had.
Far be it from me to step in for Michelle Bachmann, but having studied Sunni Islam extensively, I have to take issue, again, with the very popular assertion (especially in our own progressive circles) that ISIL is not about Islam.
This idea that jihadi terrorists are perverting or ignoring Islam is a very popular notion, but when it comes to many of these militant groups it is patently false. Its pervasiveness can mainly be attributed to our tolerant liberal instincts, which encourage us to stand up for all those who conservatives discriminate against, and to our misconception that all religions have similar basic ethical structures at their core.
The reality is, ISIL is as close to literal, faithful to text Islam as one can find in the entire Muslim world.
The unfortunate reality is that nearly every one of their brutal acts is entirely consistent with the Qur’an, including the crucifixions, decapitations, slow stonings of women, insurgency warfare, mass rapes and slavery, kidnappings, murders of prisoners and breaking of truces.
All those are done as instructed in the Qur’an and described in the Hadiths.
We need to be honest and start understanding that Islam does have a huge role in this, especially since we are now facing a terrorist threat which is directly copying Muhammad’s methods and re-enacting the first Caliphate with creepy accuracy.
As violent as the Old Testament is, the Qur’an is designed specifically to lead a people to permanent war and to incite permanent division between religions, and it is ethically not consistent with Western standards.
This is a very complex subject, which I will gladly discuss in detail with anyone who would like to do so, but it is too much for me to explain within the confines of this already way-too-long comment.
Suffice it to say that Islam as a religion has as its only stated goal absolute world domination, and tgat it justifies this aspiration through a unique but morally suspect ethical duality.
This is not to say most muslims are like ISIL. It does mean, however, that radical Islam is much more easy to reconcile with Quranic law and Muhammad’s work than moderate Islam is.
May I suggest a simple example of how this kind of religious interpretation works?
ISIL = Islam as WBC = Christianity
Except the folks of Westboro Baptist Church (as hateful as they are) aren’t going around enslaving, raping and murdering people. Yes they both do not represent their respective religions, but there is a big difference. Perhaps its better to say that Salafists are to Islam what WBC are to Christians, but that is still stretching it a bit.
Okay then…
How about KKK = Christianity?
Joseph Kony and his LRA (Loʀɒ’s Resistance Army).
There you go - good one.
Replace “WBC” with “Joseph Kony and his LRA (Loʀɒ’s Resistance Army).”
I was busy with other projects and it didn’t dawn on me that this conversation would need tending — but having read through your contribution, might I just add: poppycock. Not that I’m going to take issue with “facts” or interpretation here — just that trying to paint all of Islam with an ISIS brush is just plain nonsense. Here’s part of the conversation I was having on Facebook:
“… What’s really tragic about this, is that a member of the House “Intelligence” Committee — with ready access to a whole host of information that even the media isn’t privy to, could be so incredibly wrong about ISIL to begin with — (but) her public statements don’t seem to contain any artifice whatsoever.
It’s as though Michele Bachmann (JESUS, I hope someone on her staff gives her the message) doesn’t have the first clue these terrorists believe in a radicalized version of Wahhabism (which comes from Saudi Arabia) — and they might kill some Christians if they find them, but their mission is to rid the planet of Shia Muslims.
By the way, Representative — PLEASE if you must claim this is about religion (and yeah, since that’s how they self-identify we sort of have to, I guess) call them Wahhabi, not Salafists. Wahhabi to an ISIL terrorist is considered derogatory — sort of like ME referring to you as a “Christian” to people who actually try and follow the perfect example of the Christ. …”
There’s quite a bit of dogma practicing Christians have chosen to ascribe to the times in which they were written (without refrigeration, shellfish can be deadly) — so, too modern Muslims can interpret what was written and apply it to their own personal faith. This brand of violent, puritanical Wahhabism is nothing like most of Islam — and when you have Kurds and Turks and Iranians and Saudis ALL ON THE SAME SIDE fighting these butchers — all with a common cause to eradicate this menace — it’s patently clear your message is wrong. But I understand you’re going to find an audience with the fearful — good luck with that.
ISIL AND MOSSAD ARE BEST FRIENDS !SHE SHOULD FEAR THE MOSSAD MORE AS THE SECOND IS CLOSER TO HOME AND IN HER BACKYARD!!
What an odd comment. Do you have some source for this claim? It’s fascinating.
Looks like her big stupid mouth got her into major trouble this time.
Republican Jesus? For her to even consider that Jesus would somehow side with a political party that institutionalized the torture of others is just crazy and 100% wrong.
That’s why I use the ™ whenever I refer to whoever it is this new batch of “Christians” in America think they’re following — because the guy they claim to speak for, is nothing whatsoever like Biblical Jesus.
Just a hate group who think they can hijack the word “Christian” like they did “Conservative”. As a non party affiliated conservative, I resent the Republicans hiding behind another alias, as they did the Tea Party, to escape the shame of the torturers and the past six years of obstruction and betrayal. Attempting to fool the people into voting for them again..
Honestly I hope they get her. Then just maybe the right-wing white republican Christians will shut up. I am so sick of their mongering. Fear, hate and death. I so tired of it.
what ever happens is “Gods’ Will” as Michelle would say.Good Luck with that
i’m kinda siding with isis/isil on this one. LOL!
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person. I’ll bet she is proud.
I hope they catch her gang rape her and stone the stupid bitch
Karma Michelle, Karma! You put it out there, it comes back to you, good or bad!!!
Jihad is more than just ISIS/L. Let me remind you.
What an incredibly stupid woman. And a waste of tax payers money - in paying her and security
Democrats are not the targets of ISID/ISIL because they are defending these murdering bastards. Read the comments here and just try to deny it.