Obama Administration Says Americans Should Fear Their Combat Veterans

Start Thinking Right ^ | April 14, 2009 | Michael Eden

[Michael Eden]

Barack Hussein's new Homeland Security Director says that Americans should be afraid that our returning combat veterans will be recruited by right-wing groups and use the 2nd Amendment rights they fought to protect to attack against the country.

I never thought I would hear such a profound level of mistrust and hostility directed at our greatest and noblest citizens. But that's how this administration rolls.

Of course, Obama already has always thought dimly about those Americans (in the below case Pennsylvanians) who refused to support him:

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

The second page of the Obama DHS's 9-page report has a definition of "rightwing extremism" that is frankly terrifying:

Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.

Great googly-moogly! I just found out I was a "rightwing extremist." And if the government says it, it has to be true. I believe in limited federal government. I believe that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." And I am opposed to BOTH abortion and illegal immigration.

Our founding fathers who wrote our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Federalist papers began their political careers being defined as traitors. Now they get to return to that status under Barack Obama.

The very top of the second page of the report offers this disclaimer:

The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.

Of course, there is no specific information that monkeys will fly out of my butt, but the government should massively crack down just in case.

And, of course, being "right-wing" is clearly tantamount to being "racist." Just ask the president who campaigned promising to unite the country.

No actual proof of any of it, but shouldn't the charge itself be sufficient to condemn in this brave new world of "hope" and "change"?

Well, at least al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden are off the hook. Obama apparently stopped using the term "terrorists" and "war on terror" against Islamists so he could apply the terms to conservatives instead.

Ed Morissey offered this on HotAir.com:

Michelle has it covered pretty well, but I looked at the DHS report on “right-wing extremism” myself, and it’s every bit as bad as she says, and as Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers first reported. The DHS fails to provide any specifics at all, preferring instead to smear half of the country or more as kooks for criticizing the government’s handling of the economy. As Eli Lake reports, the DHS has all but declared war on federalism, which used to be the founding concept of our republic:

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in “rightwing extremist activity,” saying the economic recession, the election of America’s first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines “rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

“It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration,” the warning says.

The first question we should ask is whether the DHS is reacting to any specific threats at all? Er … no (emphasis mine):

The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues.

This gets repeated over and over again during the report. They have no threat information. In fact, the report can’t even say definitively whether “extremists” are gaining “new recruits”. In order to find that, they’d have to identify the actual groups, note the recruiting patterns, and determine whether in fact they’re gaining recruits or losing members. Bottom line: DHS has no actual data. They’re pulling threats out of their collective arse and publishing them without any supporting research whatsoever.

DHS acts as though white-supremacist groups and militias believing in Zionist world conspiracies stopped existing between 2000 and 2008. Of course they didn’t; George Bush’s strong support for Israel fed those nutcase groups for eight years. Are those groups growing in the last five months, after what DHS assumes is the trigger for all this hate — the election of Barack Obama? They provide absolutely no evidence at all for it, and in fact repeat over and over again that they don’t have that data in a hail of May Bes.

So what’s triggered their antennae?

The current economic and political climate has some similarities to the 1990s when rightwing extremism experienced a resurgence fueled largely by an economic recession, criticism about the outsourcing of jobs, and the perceived threat to U.S. power and sovereignty by other foreign powers.

In the first place, the “outsourcing of jobs” outrage didn’t get stoked by the Right. That outrage got fed by the Democrats in the last two elections, and it’s a feature of the same anti-globalization loons of the hard Left that continually disrupt G-20 summits as they violently did in London. Barack Obama himself stoked a fair share of it during the presidential campaign with his NAFTA Dance.

And should we not have some concern about the economic recession, debate about trade policy, and insist on maintaining American power and sovereignty? Since when did those topics indicate criminality and terrorism?

DHS also manages to make several hysterical references to returning veterans. I’ll highlight the weasel words and provide the translation at the end:

The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.

Gee, it could lead? What evidence does DHS have of this? Oh, yeah, Timothy McVeigh was a veteran … and that’s it. I’m not joking:

After Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991, some returning military veterans—including Timothy McVeigh—joined or associated with rightwing extremist groups.

So let’s be terrified of veterans! Let’s treat them all like potential suspects, even though we don’t have one iota of evidence of any wrongdoing at all. Yeah, that’s the American way.

Imagine, if you will, what the Left would say if we took this entire document and replaced all references to “military veterans” with “Muslims”, and all references to “abortion” with “universal health care”, and then predated this DHS report to 2008, during the Bush administration. They’d be screaming about being smeared as traitors for their political beliefs, and they’d be right to do so. That’s exactly what the Obama administration and Janet Napolitano has done here.

This is a disgrace. Congress should demand Napolitano’s resignation immediately, and the White House should apologize for this attack on normal political dissent.

This is flat-out fascist. It is naked demagoguery specifically intended to label for demonization those Americans who harbor conservative or even merely traditional sentiments.

[Tammy8]

I am seriously worried about Obama and the rest of the crazy lefties in leadership in this country now. I welcome returning combat Veterans and thank them for their service. If that makes me a crazy then so be it.

[jeffc]

Barack Hussein's new Homeland Security Director says that Americans should be afraid that our returning combat veterans will be recruited by right-wing groups and use the 2nd Amendment rights they fought to protect to attack against the country.

What the headline should really be, if the truth would be told:

"Obama and his minions fear real Americans"

[jersey117]

...meaning Janet Napolitano?

She needs to be kicked out. Incompetence reigns in this administration.

[Tammy8]

. Lord knows where we would be WITHOUT combat veterans.

Where we would be without combat Veterans is exactly where Obama wants to take us.

[Michael Eden]

I love that song. Loved it the first time I heard it on the radio.

It sure has taken on a whole new meaning, hasn’t it?

[EEDUDE]

“Has an american president ever suffered from this degree of paranoia in thinking American conservatives, federalists, Christians, and military veterans are potential enemies?”

I don’t know whether he thinks this way or is just trying to hurry the country into the next Civil War. Classifying veterans and conservatives as terrorists will certainly hasten the latter.

It is entirely possible that attending Reverend Wright’s church has generated real paranoia in Obama.

Why this country would elect someone that attended a church that embraces Black Liberation Theology still escapes me. I can only assume that most people were/are ignorant of the tenets of this “religion”.

[LottieDah]

“Where we would be without combat Veterans is exactly where Obama wants to take us.”

He’s a blast from the past “hell no! we won’t go”.

[Texas Fossil]

I do not fear my friends. (Combat veterans)

I ran a Navy MARS station for 20 years out of my home.

We are old old friends.

Obozo is another matter.

[jersey117]

Has McCain weighed in on this yet? Is he with the former AZ governor or his fellow combat veterans?

[lilylangtree]

with obozo being the Uncle Tom of the RAT party & doing the asinine things he’s doing, people won’t have to actively recruit. the people will arrive in droves.

[massgopguy]

Wir wurden in der Toilette zein.

[jetson]

I thought this idiot was the great peacemaker. This is the stupidest threat against the American people I’ve heard yet. Making acusations about our vets ( who do become cops) is supposed to be good for the country. These children in the white house don’t seem to get it.

[spiderfern]

Also, she left a 4 Billion Dollar budget Deficit which our current Governor, Jan Brewer is trying to recover from. She was much too busy attending church services and parades throughout the state to work with the conservatives in the state government.

[Michael Eden]

The first thing fascists do is climb their way to power by falsely demonizing their opponents and by claiming that they will be the true champions of the people.

The second thing they do, once they are in power, is destroy their opponents, and seize all power for themselves.

The third thing they do is rule as totalitarian tyrants - all the while “in the name of the people.”

We’ve seen it again and again in country after country.

Now we will have to see if it will succeed here, too.

[chiefqc]

Incompetence reigns in this administration.

There is only one reason for this, to keep the heat off of the empty suit.

If they were to look closely at him and his past they would find that his past is of more concern than the people he throws under the bus to save his own skin.

I’m afraid that the American voters will find out later how much damage this figurehead empty suit, who sold his soul to become POTUS, has really, really done to the United States.

[Boonie]

Obama fears “Americans”...period

[Michael Eden]

I’m afraid that the American voters will find out later how much damage this figurehead empty suit, who sold his soul to become POTUS, has really, really done to the United States.

I always believed that one day the world would worship the beast, aka the antichrist.

In years past, while I could see the slide/decay here, I couldn't understand how the United States would fall into such evil.

Now we know, don't we?

Obama will lead the world into ruin so great that a man - the beast - will have an opportunity to emerge to lead us back from the brink of the disaster that Obama will cause. He will seem to have all the answers, but he will be the most evil man who ever lived, and his solutions will all be short-term pseudo decisions.

We're on our way. The beast is coming.

I want to warn as many people as I can before that day.

[TennTuxedo]

Welcome to the Fascist States of America.

[Mister Muggles]

"combat veterans will be recruited by right-wing groups and use the 2nd Amendment rights they fought to protect to attack against the country."

The country? against this corrupt RAT COMMUNIST Government perhaps, but not the country.

[Political Junkie Too]

Barack Hussein's new Homeland Security Director says that Americans should be afraid that our returning combat veterans will be recruited by right-wing groups and use the 2nd Amendment rights they fought to protect to attack against the country.

They'll hunt you down and shoot you like unarmed pirates. < /sarc>

-PJ