Tom Emmer: The Dog Whistler III

Here’s more evidence that Tom Emmer is dog whistling to the Patriot crowd with his “sovereign individuals” language in a bill that he authored to amend the Minnesota Constitution to permit nullification of federal law. This is from the NBC Nightly News.

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Here are the first few words of the amendment that Emmer proposes:

Citizens of Minnesota are sovereign individuals . . .

MNO pointed the video out to me in a link to Dave Neiwert and Crooks and Liars. In his post, Neiwert quotes Alex Seitz-Wald at Think Progress:

While the sovereign citizen movement has existed for some time, its popularity appears to be growing in a climate where the anti-government rhetoric of the tea party movement has become commonplace. Former President Clinton, speaking at the Center for American Progress Action Fund in April, “drew parallels” between the anti-government tone that preceded the Oklahoma City Bombing “and the political tumult of today.” Sadly, several recent incidents of right-wing extremist violence — including the West Memphis shootings — suggest he may be right.

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