Confessions of an Artist at Work

sleeplessinsouthie:

Says The Atlantic:

The evangelical organizer who helped Michele Bachmann win the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa Saturday was previously charged with terrorism in Uganda after being arrested for possession of assault rifles and ammunition in February 2006, just days before Uganda’s first multi-party elections in 20 years.

Peter E. Waldron spent 37 days in the Luriza Prison outside Kampala, where he says he was tortured, after being arrested along with six Congolese and Ugandan nationals for the weapons, which were described variously in news reports as having been found in his bedroom or a closet in his home. The charges, which could have led to life in prison, were dropped in March 2006 after a pressure campaign by Waldron’s friends and colleagues and what Waldron says was the intervention of the Bush administration. He was released and deported from the east African nation, along with the Congolese. On Saturday, Waldron told The Atlantic in Ames that he was a staffer for Bachmann and responsible for her faith-based organizing both in Iowa and South Carolina. But he also declined repeatedly to give his name.

Others have noted that Waldron claims a personal friendship with Pastor Martin “Eat Da Poo Poo/Kill the Gays” Ssempa. So, the man responsible for the “faith-based organizing” of a legitimate candidate for president of the United States has a criminal record of supplying weapons to a regime and religious movement which are on the record with their intention to execute homosexuals and their abetters. He also pals around with that religious movement’s most fervent lunatic. Which is all pretty neat, I guess.

i would be more surprised by the sun going down tonight than by this bit of news. i mean, when there’s bachmann, there’s bad stuff going down. simple.