Bachmann starred in movie warning public education would spark new Holocaust

[meegbear]

Source: RawStory.com / Mother Jones

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."

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

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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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Read the full (Mother Jones) story here.

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[elleng]

2. Yes, she appears to be all of the things you suggest,

and I think we should not hamper her quest; lets have a good NUT to run against!

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[Frank1]

13. WOW

The juxtaposition of this story with your blog on wanting more riots seems have have hit a nerve of truth.

[spedtr90]

3. Anyone in MN ever have a class called "History of Cars"?

She said in a past speech that the Profiles of Learning means a student who wants to be an auto mechanic would not learn about the Constitution, government, or wars; the only history they would be taught would be the history of cars.

Should we laugh or cry?

[No Elephants]

9. Is that why she thought the shot heard round the world was fired in New Hampshire:

[spedtr90]

20. Yeah, but it was a car backfiring.

[pam4water]

4. The Bachmann Turner Crazysdrive goes in to over drive.

[OneBlueSky]

6. seems that Ms. Palin and Ms. Bachmann are is a heated campaign . . .

to see which one can come across as the most batshit crazy and thereby garner support from the entire Tea Party movement for the next election . . . it's a tight race, but this one seems to vault Bachmann into the lead . . . at least for now . . .

stay tuned for the next episode of "The Golden Girls 2012" . . .

[Hubert Flottz]

7. The only thing I can figure out about who the teabraggers back, is

that they like a politician who is as ignorant as they are.

[buckrogers1965]

8. Let me get this strait...

She is advocating for a liberal education, across all disciplines and teaching history and the ability to think for yourself?

Somehow I think she is in support of the very thing she is advocating against.

Double plus good!

[No Elephants]

10. I wish her all the best in her quest for the Republican nomination.

Watching her try to debate Obama should be hoot.

Paging Tina Fey. Paging Tina Fey.

[SoapBox]

11. Man this dirt bag is STOOPID.

...dumbass.

Can a female actually be a dumbass?!?!

*snark*

[Homer12]

12. Is it a porn

I have a fetish that includes her and sister Sarah.

[Kablooie]

14. If the TeaDicks have their way, public teachers might be sent to concentration camps.

[gordianot]

16. She is obsessed with the idea re education and projecting Nazi tactics being practiced by"liberals"

Is such rhetoric Michelle the dominatrix real self desire punish those critics make them cry?

[XemaSab]

15. There is a fairly broad-based anti-public education movement on the right

It's rooted in crazy Christian theology that holds that Dad has to be accountable for what the kids are learning.

[Frank1]

17. Right

I don't know much about what Bachmann wants but as far as I know the right is opposed to forced or compelled anything, including education.

It is also a matter of economics. When the beneficiaries of a product have the power to choose for themselves what they want, generally that product gets better because there is competition and ideas. This is why trusts (monopolies) used to be busted up.

[sarcasmo]

18. Nut job, that belongs no where near the White House.

[Scurrilous]

19. K & R

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