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Posted on 04/14/2009 1:11:50 PM PDT by NYer
.- According to a Homeland Security Report distributed to law enforcement organizations, abortion opponents are as great a threat to national security in the immediate future as white supremacists.
The nine-page document was sent to police and sheriff's departments across the country on April 7 under the headline, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment." The report is unclassified, but is accompanied by a warning that says it “contains information that may be exempt from public release under the Freedom of Information Act.”
The report was prepared by the Extremism and Radicalization Branch of the Department of Homeland Security and claims it was “coordinated with the FBI.”
“Rightwing extremists,” the document says, “have capitalized on the election of the first African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, mobilize existing supporters, and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning.”
Nevertheless, according to the report, the combination of a prolonged economic downturn, the election of the first African American President and the return of many veterans with "combat skills" could create an environment similar to the early 90's, which lead to the Oklahoma City bombing.
The report describes "Rightwing extremism" broadly as “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.”
Under the title “Revisiting the 1990s,” the report claims that “paralleling the current national climate, rightwing extremists during the 1990s exploited a variety of social issues and political themes to increase group visibility and recruit new members.”
“Prominent among these themes were the militia movement’s opposition to gun control efforts, criticism of free trade agreements (particularly those with Mexico), and highlighting perceived government infringement on civil liberties as well as white supremacists’ longstanding exploitation of social issues such as abortion, inter-racial crimes, and same-sex marriage.”
The report “is provided to federal, state, local, and tribal counterterrorism and law enforcement officials so they may effectively deter, prevent, preempt, or respond to terrorist attacks against the United States.”
Face it! We’re all terrorists now.
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Ping!
I think DHS has jumped the shark....
Obama and his ilk (his ilk is baby-killing Communist nihilists) never acknowledge any of the REAL motives of pro-lifers. They insist that the only reason people have for being pro-life is “hate.” They “hate” women, and sex, and freedom.
Thus, pro-lifers ARE just like white supremacists.
If only more people would pray with this “weapon” our side would have already won.
Sigh.
The liberals are twisting and distorting the facts about us conservatives, in order to have an excuse to move against us. We are in dangerous times, folks!
Yes, we are all terrorists except the muslims who are killing, kidnapping and blowing things up.
Call the Department of Homeland Security Citizen Line and see if you can get an answer regarding whether this document is legit.
Doing the telephone exercise is in some ways as informative as the document itself.
http://www.gordonunleashed.com/HSA%20-%20Rightwing%20Extremism%20-%2009%2004%2007.pdf
DHS:
http://www.dhs.gov/xutil/contactus.shtm
DHS Citizen Line
Operator Number: 202-282-8000
Some text from the document:
title:
Rightwing Extremism:
Current Economic and Political
Climate Fueling Resurgence in
Radicalization and Recruitment
Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly
adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular
and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority
rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups
single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
“Face it! We’re all terrorists now.”
Imagine the great PR for the Obama Administration of hordes of Roman Catholics praying the Rosary are arrested at demonstrations.
“If only more people would pray with this “weapon” our side would have already won.”
When I was a teenager a priest at my childhood church once said that if every single Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jew attended religious services there would be peace on earth. Prayer and faith are very potent weapons against evil.
They should be very careful with this name calling as it makes the one with the biggest mouth get the most scrutinized. Lets face IT every Rat has a closet full of skeleton’s.
I’m not a Catholic (yet) but I own a Rosary. Would it be permissable for me to show up at a Pro-Life rally with a Rosary in hand in hopes of being labeled as an Enemy of the State?
Am I already on that list by simple virtue of posting on this forum?
This is typical liberal idiocy.
BTW What do these freedom haters label someone who takes an innocent human life who can not speak or defend themselves as abortionists do?
Why does the report read like the kind of paranoid fantasies that liberal feminazis have about conservatives?
It's like those Chick Publications stereotypes they used to put out slandering Catholics.
The report states the DHS will be working with state and local partners over the next several months to determine the levels of right-wing extremist activity in the U.S.
Last month, the chief of the Missouri highway patrol blasted a report issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center that linked conservative groups to domestic terrorism, assuring that such reports no longer will be issued. The report had been compiled with the assistance of DHS.
The report warned law enforcement agencies to watch for suspicious individuals who may have bumper stickers for third-party political candidates such as Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin.
It further warned law enforcement to watch out for individuals with “radical” ideologies based on Christian views, such as opposing illegal immigration, abortion and federal taxes.
This is very scary....Stalinist? Hitler reborn?
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