"Mic check!! Mic check! This will only take a minute. We have a message for Mrs. Bachmann...." Michelle Bachmann, Presidential candidate, interrupted as Occupy Charleston took over her foreign policy speech. The protestors read a speech of their own to the Minnesota congresswoman, calling her out because they believe she caters to the 1%. "As an elected official, her obligation should be to the electorate, not just to the few people writing checks," says Christopher Ingleice of the Occupy Charleston movement. The entire interruption lasted less than 3 minutes. Not only did the protestors address the 1%, they also accused Michelle of dividing Americans and promoting discrimination. Bachmann was escorted off the stage during the outburst. Mt. Pleasant Police saying it was for her own safety. "Sometimes to get your point across, especially in the midst of a system that is failing too many people, you have to take steps that get people's attention," says Ingleice. After the speech, Bachmann addressed the interruption, finding irony in the fact that the protestors interrupted her speech on foreign policy, in a room full of veterans, the day before Veterans Day. "I really felt like it was ironic that you had a group of young people in a very disrespectful and ignorant move, to take that kind of an action in the midst of veterans that fought to give them the right to do that." Occupy Charleston says it's not about respect. It's about getting their message across."Being respectful, I'll leave that to people more qualified to make those kinds of judgements."
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