The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupted a foreign policy speech by Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential has been Michele “Krazy” Bachmann.
During her address Krazy said she’d make Iraq pay back billions of dollars the U.S. spent to liberate the country and never let Iran get its hands on a nuclear weapon.
She’d make Iraq pay back the billions of dollars the United States spent invading it, destroying it, abusing its citizens and killing hundreds of thousands more while liberating it? Did Iraq ask to be liberated Krazy? Were the Iraqi people rising up in an Arab Spring type revolution in which we helped them? No, they didn’t and no they weren’t; Bush/Cheney decided we – the United States – would give them western-style democracy whether they liked it or not. And just how would she make Iraq pay us back? And just how would you stop Iran from getting its hands on a nuclear weapon? Oh wait, I know, INVADE!
Bachmann was about five minutes into her spell binding litany aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor when about 30 protesters rose from the audience of about 100 people and began shouting “Mike Check!” They then chanted a variety of complaints as police escorted the Minnesota congresswoman from the podium. She later said she never felt threatened by the mostly college-age protesters.
“You cater to the 1 percent!” they shouted. “You oppose paying hardworking Americans a living wage and refuse to promote realistic solutions to economic problems.” After several minutes, the group walked together off the aircraft carrier shouting, “We are the 99 percent!”
Bachmann was later escorted back to the podium and finished the speech. “Don’t you love the First Amendment?” she asked the crowd.
After asking about loving the First Amendment however, she did what most uber-conservatives do; complain about Americans exercising their right to free speech as guaranteed by it
“It was really ironic that you had a group of young people in what was really a very disrespectful and ignorant move, to take that kind of action in the midst of veterans who have fought to give them the right to do that,” Bachmann said.
“Disrespectful and ignorant move” taking that “kind of action in the midst of veterans who have fought to give them that right”? The disrespect and ignorance is all Krazy’s. Veterans serve to guarantee the rights of those protestors to do just what they did, she’s the one showing disrespect and ignorance. Bachmann needs to read and study the documents she claims to revere a little more.
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