Bachmann Links Census to Internment of Japanese Americans

Eric Kleefeld at TPMDC has the latest Bachmann eruption on Fox TV: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is taking her refusal to fully fill out her Census form, which is a crime punishable by a $5,000 fine, to a whole new level: Invoking the memory of the Japanese internment during World War II, and the evil role that the Census played in it! Here's the money quote: "Take this into consideration. 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." The video: The Strib reports on Bachmann's bizarre comments about ACORN and the census. The article ends with... what else?: Calls to Bachmann's office for comment were not immediately returned.