Michele Bachmann Panders To Kooky Amero Crowd
For a few years now, the people who used to focus on conspiracy theories involving black helicopters and bar codes on the backs of highway signs have expanded their paranoia into the world of currency. They have invented the Amero.
The Amero, so the story goes, is a secret North American currency that is being planned as a replacement for the Mexican peso and for the Canadian and US dollars. Activists on the right fear that once a continental currency is in place, then a continental government will follow, and that a One World Government cannot be far behind. The One World Government is something that they associate with Nostradamus, the Apocalyse, the Antichrist, and supernatural End Times threats of that sort.
There’s just one trouble with the story of the Amero. The Amero doesn’t exist. There is no plan in place to create a North American currency, much less to inaugurate the reign of Satan’s leagues over the Earth.
This little detail hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theories from spreading, of course. Right wing conspiracy theorists are always on the lookout for signs of an international currency on the horizon.
This week, Republican U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann encouraged these conspiracy theorists by adding a new dimension to their kooky ramblings. She accused the Obama Administration of secretly conspiring with the government of China to create a One World Currency. With a headline reading, Bachmann Demands Truth: Will Obama Administration Abandon Dollar for a Multi-National Currency?, Representative Bachmann accused Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner of embracing plans for a common currency with China, even after he said that’s not what he meant to suggest.
Bachmann issued a press release stating:
“Yesterday, during a Financial Services Committee hearing, I asked Secretary Geithner if he would denounce efforts to move towards a global currency and he answered unequivocally that he would,” said Bachmann. “And President Obama gave the nation the same assurances. But just a day later, Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table. I want to know which it is. The American people deserve to know.”
Asked today about a currency proposal from China at a Council on Foreign Relations event, Secretary Geithner stated he was open to supporting it. Despite attempts to clarify his remarks later in the day, the unguarded initial response calls into question his true intentions.
The American people deserve to know? I suppose that’s true, but even Michele Bachmann admitted in her outraged press release that Geithner clarified his remarks, so that the American people would know quite clearly that he wasn’t proposing an international currency. So where’s the controversy?
Michele Bachmann is following the conspiracy theorist’s maneuver of claiming that a denial that anything is going on is clear proof that something is going on. Why must the people of Minnesota keep on sending this representative of lunacy back to Congress?
You know, Michele Bachman hasn’t denied being an emissary of the Venusians. Why does she want to bring 400 degree temperatures to the surface of the Earth?
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