Posted on 04/13/2009 10:02:53 PM PDT by ebiskit
Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled:
The “report” was one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I’d ever read out of DHS. I couldn’t believe it was real.
I spent the day chasing down DHS spokespeople, who have been tied up preparing for a very important homeland security event later today: The First Lady is coming to visit their Washington office. Priorities, you know.
Well, the press office got back to me and verified that the document is indeed for real.
They were very defensive — preemptively so — in asserting that it was not a politicized document and that DHS had done reports on “leftwing extremism” in the past. I have covered DHS for many years and am quite familiar with past assessments they and the FBI have done on animal rights terrorists and environmental terrorists. But those past reports have always been very specific in identifying the exact groups, causes, and targets of domestic terrorism, i.e., the ALF, ELF, and Stop Huntingdon wackos who have engaged in physical harassment, arson, vandalism, and worse against pharmaceutical companies, farms, labs, and university researchers.
By contrast, the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives. And the intent is clear. As the two spokespeople I talked with on the phone today made clear: They both pinpointed the recent “economic downturn” and the “general state of the economy” for stoking “rightwing extremism.” One of the spokespeople said he was told that the report has been in the works for a year. My b.s. detector went off the chart, and yours will, too, if you read through the entire report — which asserts with no evidence that an unquantified “resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalizations activity” is due to home foreclosures, job losses, and…the historical presidential election.
In Obama land, there are no coincidences. It is no coincidence that this report echoes Tea Party-bashing left-wing blogs (check this one out comparing the Tea Party movement to the Weather Underground!) and demonizes the very Americans who will be protesting in the thousands on Wednesday for the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party.
From the report, p.2:
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.
From the report. p. 3:
(U//LES) Rightwing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment tool. Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment. From the 2008 election timeframe to the present, rightwing extremists have capitalized on related racial and political prejudices in expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential sympathizers.
(U) Exploiting Economic Downturn
(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet continues to focus on the economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors, and home foreclosures. Anti-Semitic extremists attribute these losses to a deliberate conspiracy conducted by a cabal of Jewish “financial elites.” These “accusatory” tactics are employed to draw new recruits into rightwing extremist groups and further radicalize those already subscribing to extremist beliefs. DHS/I&A assesses this trend is likely to accelerate if the economy is perceived to worsen.
From the report, p. 5:
(U//FOUO) Over the past five years, various rightwing extremists, including militias and white supremacists, have adopted the immigration issue as a call to action, rallying point,
and recruiting tool. Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent.
And echoing the anti-military bigotry last seen in that disgusting Penn State University training video, there’s this on p. 7:
(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
There’s no hackneyed left-wing stereotype of conservatives left behind in this DHS intelligence and analysis assessment. I asked both DHS spokespeople to tell me who, specifically, the report was accusing of “rightwing extremist chatter” and which “antigovernment” groups are being monitored as “extremists.” They say they’ll get back to me.
In the meantime, be aware of this from the report, p. 8:
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A will be working with its state and local partners over the next several months to ascertain with greater regional specificity the rise in rightwing extremist activity in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the political, economic, and social factors that drive rightwing extremist radicalization.
Better make a few last-minute signs for the Tea Party. Obama’s DHS is watching:
Honk if you’re a radicalized rightwing extremist!
Guilty of rightwing extremist chatter
Anti-government, pro-freedom: Sue me
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So they are going to break down 6 million sets of doors, all within a very short, like a day or three, period of time?
It was terrorism. If he'd gone after Janet Reno, or even the BATFE/FBI agents directly involved, then it would have been an act of revenge. Going after little old ladies trying to straighten out their social security checks, not to mention a bunch of kids in a day care facility, it terrorism.
Well, folks, we can certainly expect zero to stage another “Reichstag Fire” any day now.
I’ve said it before...
9/11 was meant to happen under Al Gore’s watch, with the Clintons et al running the show behind the scene’s.
Can you imagine what the landscape would look like today
if 9/11 had not been blamed on Bin Laden,
but rather the right wing, bible/gun clinging extremist.
It is coming. I just can’t say when. But I would opine it will happen sooner rather than later.
The ramifications are scary to contemplate. I’ll tell you one thing though, Timothy McVeigh is still thought of as a terrorist today, and yes the word ‘terrorist’ can still be used by the media and leftists. That’s more that can be said about the 09/11 perps. No, they are now just considered to be people working out their grievances against the United States, sort of freedom fighters if you will. You know, we deserved it...
The double standard on this is massive.
What bothered the left about 09/11, was not the deaths, destruction and mayhem. It was the idea that they couldn’t blame everything on Conservatives for a while. There actually were people out there who wanted to take us down, and they couldn’t gloss over that for a period of time. That unified us to some degree, and nothing urks a lefty more than to realize the right was right when it comes to groups out there who wanted to do us harm, and that they can’t deny it.
Well, they’re back at it today. The word terrorist can’t be used, unless it’s in conjunction with Conservative people who believe in right to life, and our founding fathers, documents, and principles.
There is a disease in the land, and it is Leftist, Socialist, Marxist, and Fascist in nature. This cancer must be dealt with, or the patient is terminal.
And no DHS, this is not a call to violence. Activism can and generally is wholesome. DUH!
Beard was a progressive historian who helped revise the history of Wrold War 1 soon after the fact, setting up the post-war isolationism, which paved the way for WW2.
I totally agree! Bush,, God love him,, gave us so much crap!! The TSA and Homeland Security. Both Dem ideas that he caved to!
Ok,, so we’re all extremists now! Might as well just make the Republican party and all Republicans for that matter extremists. Sounds like anything other than one party rule is going to be treason!
So here we have in our Universities and colleges all across this land real radicals who preach real revolution,,, posing with AK 47’s,, saying we deserved 911,, some like Ayers actually have bombed government buildings,, even proclaiming they haven’t done enough terrorism,,,, and do any of them make the list????? Is Bill Ayers name mentioned anywhere at all??? Any left wing Fascists in the mix???
Oh God no!! What am I thinking!! If Bill Ayers were mentioned then that would lead to Obama!!!
No way!! Ayers isn’t a terrorist!! No,, he’s out there changing our education system!!!
I am in the process of shaking my head... not that it will do any good.
If I call DHS and Obama collective idiots will I get a visit from the Gestapo? I’m not a single issue person anyway so I figure I’m alright... I abhor illegal immigration, think abortion is murder, believe that Obama is Socialistic and he is wrecking the economy for generations. So as long as I mix it up I reckon I’ll stay off DHS’ radar.
Yes, we did. And we were attacked on FR for it.
Tribulation now here?
“1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away.” (II Tim. 3:1-5)
· “3knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” (II Peter 3:3-4)
· 9”Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. (Matthew 24:9-12)
CNN is on the lookout for the “rightwing extremists”.
Right on cue.
I am absolutely amazed at how fast Barry and his posse comes up with this stuff.
1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Revelation 15:2
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
I’m just a harmless old fuzzball.
If you are a “redneck”, you might be an extremist.
Sadly, I am convinced.
You may be right about the language and you probably are, it was a more genteel time. But you cannot deny that he would have had the same reaction indicated by "WTF", if he'd seen what his beloved Republic had degenerated into.
BTW, I don't think by "virtue" he meant *only* civil language and a concern for "proper" behavior. He meant things like public spirit, patriotism, and a willingness to defend the rights of man.
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