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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No, because Dick Morris did the same thing...and most Right Wing pundits wouldn’t want to embarrass the toe sucker IMO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmWyharVEUU
Hannity, Limbaugh, Fox News, Talk Radio, for the most part love Dick Morris, would they want to bring up a story about Obama and Odinga just so it would backfire on one of their favorite Clinton critic’s? I personally don’t think so, and I think that is why the Odinga story was buried in even Right Wing news.
Christians had better get ready to bear the brunt of his fury! We are the new Jews, and after the Jews have been silenced or taken out, we’ll be on the plate next.
I could see how Barack Obama would have credibility campaigning in Kenya, but MORRIS? Do Kenyans really think that highly of Mr. Morris?
This can’t be legit....wow,....I hope it isn’t.
Yeah, it makes no sense to me! WTF was Morris doing over there!
One Party
One Soetero
Federal agency warns of radicals on right (Big Brother is coming)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228608/posts
Let us expose their argument in the open, so that its faults can be fully seen. However they dress it, it is basically thus:
1) We progressives want to help people.
2) Disagreeing with what we progressives do is hateful.
3) Promoting such disagreement is hate-speech.
4) Hate-speech is dangerous and could foster violence.
5) We must use the power of government to stop people from expressing disagreement.
6) However, some haters might communicate subtly.
7) Thus, we should watch those kind closely, to make sure they are not disagreeing with us.
our discussion here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228020/posts
Michelle has done our work for us, apparently it IS legit.
However, she (and no one else I could find)...does not explain how a government report containing reference to an April 4th event could have been published and distributed on April 7th, just 3 days later. Also, no mention about the host site,logicsix.com.
It must be disavowed and it authors exposed and removed from any office charged with stewardship over the public trust. Anything less would communicate open hostility to Liberty as an official position of government.
The very least the People of the United States should expect is unequivocal denunciation of a sophomoric and poorly concealed hatred written into an official document making out a peaceful and free People as enemies of themselves.
As such, it defies all logic and disturbs the domestic tranquility.
Therefore, the message must be clearly set forth, and without delay, communicating to all employees of the People this kind of reckless and ridiculous nonsense will not be tolerated from anyone presuming to act in an official capacity of government.
To do otherwise is an endorsement of this strange doctrine. Reason demands no ambiguity in response.
Maybe Uncle Sam has discovered email?
Someone needs to put an ad in a major liberal newspaper demanding an explanation from Washington for this.
Ewwwww, I think Obama and henchmen have made a really bad mistake. This is going to come back and bite them hard.
Think about it...what do you think our returning vets and current active duty is going to think about this? hmmmmm
Nothing more galvanizing than targeting half of the country as criminals. Stupid fools.....meanwhile the real terrorists are very patient and waiting....hell, they may be sitting in the White House.
Just damn...
The "left-wing", yea, even those who act as apologists for endless violence against innocent Israelis year after year after year...even they have the nerve to associate anti-semitism with being "right wing".
Michael Savage was right about this one: "Liberalism is a mental disorder" (meaning the new left wing, not classical liberalism).
The Constitution is an extremist document....
Well, yes, that would explain the quick distribution. I think the issue was more about how quickly it was created and approved in just 3 days by government ;)
Oh, and then there is the matter of this post...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228020/posts?page=12#12
Bring it on Hussein.
‘Does this look like a unclassified homeland security document?’
While it looks legit...even with Malkin’s confirmation, it is kind of hard to believe that the government could have created, approved and distributed it in 3 days.
It’s dated April 7th and contains reference to an April 4th event.
The left needs to silence the right to further their agenda and gain more inroads into our lives.
What better way than to declare us extremists and then demonize our standards, beliefs and agenda.
Expect false flag operations at the TEA Parties culminating with something big on April 19th.
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