I've never made any secret of the fact that I don't have much use for Representative Michelle Bachmann (R-MN6). I like her ideology and her fearlessness, but dislike her purity fetish and her inability to be a GOP team player, and thought her quixotic 2012 presidential bid was equal parts arrogant presumption and risible absurdity.
But today we're speaking in the context of her admirable traits, which were on perhaps too-visible display at the recent Value Voters' Summit:
Per many-time Constitution Radio guest Walid Shoebat, the Islamic State took notice of this speech, going so far as to include excerpts in a recent video and leveling online death threats against Congresswoman Bachmann, which has prompted the Capitol Police to provide her with a 24-hour-a-day security detail:
Federal law enforcement officials are taking an ISIS threat against Michele Bachmann so seriously that Capitol Police have given the Minnesota Republican her own security detail.
An online threat against Bachmann emerged recently, according to multiple law enforcement officials familiar with the situation. Last week, Bachmann was provided a security detail in response, according to the sources.
Members of the U.S. Capitol Police’s Dignitary Protection Division were briefed on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The police security will continue until Bachmann, who will retire at the end of this Congress, is no longer in office.
A police detail of this type typically means 24-hour protection when a member of Congress is on Capitol Hill or back in the home district.
Officials declined to outline the specific nature of the threat.
Bachmann’s office referred news media inquiries to Capitol Police. A Capitol Police spokeswoman declined to comment.
On the one hand, I'm a little puzzled as to why ISIS would take such an inordinate interest in Mary Tyler Less. She is, after all, only one congresscritter out of 435, and it's not as if her bold, steely, spot-on warnings about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the U.S. government have been heeded. She is, in other words, no threat to them or their cause.
On the other hand, she's an "uppity" "infidel" woman who nailed the jihadists right between the eyes ideologically, and Islamic Fundamentalists don't tolerate such affronts to their imagined "honor". Which leads to the most obvious problem: How will she be protected after she leaves Congress? Because it's unlikely that the threat to her will diminish once she does. Has anybody given this any thought?
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