Posted on 04/20/2009 4:00:00 PM PDT by VRWCmember
The April 7 memo by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that was distributed to law enforcement agencies across the country gave a sweeping generalization that many conservatives are “right-wing extremists.” Some criticize the Obama administration for writing it.
But it may be more indicative of a larger problem. It may reveal the left-wing orientation of the academic-governmental complex, which is a problem that transcends political parties. This left-wing orientation considers any conservative or right-wing idea a danger.
The nine-page DHS document is titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” The report defines right-wing extremists as belonging to one of two sets of groups. One set is “primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups).”
The other set is “mainly anti-government, 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.” (emphasis added)
This broad-brush approach is consistent with the leftist ideology that is pervasive in the nation’s college campuses. Since government intelligence analysts have undergraduate degrees and most obtain graduate degrees, usually in sociology or criminal justice, they are indoctrinated in the leftist dogma.
Ronald Rychlak is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi. He is also on the board of advisors for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and on the advisory board of the International Solidarity and Human Rights Institute.
Mr. Rychlak said that the document was not necessarily reflective of the Obama administration or Janet Napolitano.
“It was probably a long term civil servant who wrote this,” he said.
He also said that there is an “overwhelming left leaning bias in the academy.” The left feels wary and endangered by conservative attitudes.
“This fear, concern and lack of understanding was evinced by the president’s clinging to guns and Bibles comment,” he said.
It is from this background that the career civil servants who become the analysts who produce such reports originate. This report reflects the leftist attitudes they were taught on campus.
This problem was identified as early as 1973 in a treatise by Walter B. Miller published in the Northwestern University School of Law’s Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Prof. Miller was a Philadelphian and a preeminent anthropologist. He worked with the famous criminologist James Q. Wilson, who was the author of the “broken windows” theory of crime used by Rudy Giuliani to clean up New York City. He also collaborated with Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan about crime issues.
His study was titled “Ideology and Criminal Justice Policy: Some Current Issues.” Prof. Miller wrote, “Academic criminology, reflecting academic social science in general, is substantially oriented toward the left.”
He further said that the consequence of inserting ideology into the criminal justice field is that it evokes “the most passionate kinds of reactions and to become infused with deeply felt, quasi-religious significance that constitutes the crucial element in the difference between testable assumptions and ideological tenets.”
An example of how this ideology enters law enforcement is the FBI’s 1999 Project Megiddo report. The purpose of the report was to “analyze the potential for extremist criminal activity in the United States by individuals or domestic extremist groups who profess an apocalyptic view of the millennium or attach special significance to the year 2000.”
Much as the DHS memo did, the Megiddo report lumped white supremacist groups and readers of the Turner Diaries (a book which details a violent overthrow of the federal government by white supremacists), together with militia groups, Christian Identity advocates, followers of Odinism (Germanic pagans), and members of the Aryan Nation.
None of these groups committed a millennium-related terrorist act. Ironically, the most dangerous millennium terrorist plot was that of Muslim terrorists who wanted to detonate bombs at Los Angeles airport. They were caught by a vigilant border patrol officer.
The Megiddo report did not mention Muslim terrorists.
The idea that a government analyst, most likely with a postgraduate degree college, would produce a report that considers people who are opponents of abortion, illegal immigration, gun control or military veterans as recruits for right-wing terrorism should surprise no one. Still some people find it troubling.
Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College and the executive director of the Center for Vision & Values think-tank/policy center, finds the whole affair disturbing.
“There’s one section that lists three manifestations of ‘white supremacists,’ one of which is to be anti-abortion. That’s shocking, ridiculous, and quite scary,” he said.
Michael P. Tremoglie can be contacted at mtremoglie@thebulletin.us
First
Read this statement from Janet Reno:
"A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools for their children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the Second Amendment; and who distrusts big government. Any of these may qualify a person as a cultist but certainly more than one of these would cause us to look at this person as a threat and his family as being in a risk situation that qualifies for government interference." -Janet Reno, Attny. General of the United States during an Interview on CBS "60 Minutes" on June 26, 1999
NOTE: The alleged Reno comments have been repeatedly exposed as a HOAX, and urban legend, and completely unfounded.
Second
The other set (of right wing extremists) is “mainly anti-government, 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.” DHS Threat Assessment Memo, 4/7/2009It appears that the person who originated the Reno hoax emails has graduated from hoax emails to writing threat assessment memos for DHS, and unfortunately takes himself or herself way too seriously. In this brave new world of Zero, truth is much stranger and more disturbing than fiction.
Yes, there is a bigger problem...
O bama
B ig
A ss
M istake
A merica
Chains you can believe in.
And the sun rises in the east.
Bull. Both Barry and Nappie had to sign off on it.
HOPE H ate, O f, P eople, E verwhere in the USA
It's really bizarre when one notes that Margaret Sanger was a racist. She has been quite successful given that abortion has wreaked havoc on the Black community.
“...rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority...”
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I am so screwed...
"...Any weapons we resort to must be "real" weapons not pistols. i.e. Rifles and shotguns. Due to concerns of re-supply (you have to plan for a long battle) such weapons should be limited to very small number of different rounds."
"if it is decided to fight, be prepared to fight, bring a backpack, entrenching tool, tent, and other equipment of an Infantrymen. You will need it for Bush and his supporters decides it is better to fight than to accept the will of the people, the fight to overthrow them will be a long fight."
Bush 'investigator' John Conyers needs to be investigated for his ties to left-wing extremist groups
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 8:45:38 AM EDT by ETL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233326/posts
Wormy little liberal weenies always fear the truth and strength.
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Photo of Charlie Rangel at the podium of a March 19th, 2005 Workers World Party/Troops Out Now rally in Harlem, New York. The occasion marked the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. The photo comes from the ("We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ...") Workers World Party website.
Also appearing at this "peace" rally with the demonRat Charlie Rangel, now chairman of The House Ways and Means Committee, were Saddam Hussein lawyer, Ramsey Clark and convicted terrorist enabler/attorney, Lynne Stewart. Clark, with Workers World Party, started up that other 'peace' group, A.N.S.W.E.R. Clark also heads the International Action Center and was actually once Attorney General of the United States under democrat LBJ.
Source for the photos: Workers World Party website (workers.org)
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html
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Note: A.N.S.W.E.R. is now officially controlled by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. They are an offshoot of Workers World Party. The David Corn article below is from 2002.
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11315
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Behind the Placards
The odd and troubling origins of today’s anti-war movement
David Corn, November 07, 2002
"Officially, the organizer of the Washington demonstration was International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism). But ANSWER is run by WWP [Workers World Party] activists, to such an extent that it seems fair to dub it a WWP front. Several key ANSWER officials -- including spokesperson Brian Becker -- are WWP members. Many local offices for ANSWER’s protest were housed in WWP offices. Earlier this year, when ANSWER conducted a press briefing, at least five of the 13 speakers were WWP activists. They were each identified, though, in other ways, including as members of the International Action Center.
The IAC, another WWP offshoot, was a key partner with ANSWER in promoting the protest. It was founded by Ramsey Clark, attorney general for President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s."
http://www.laweekly.com/2002-11-07/news/behind-the-placards
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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION (PSL)
* Marxist-Leninist antiwar group that calls for “revolution” in the United States
* Operates in tandem with International ANSWER
* Expressly supports anti-Israel and anti-American terrorism
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) was founded in 2004, following an organizational fissure within the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party (WWP) that resulted in three WWP member branches -- based respectively in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C -- breaking away to form their own group. Openly allied with the International ANSWER Coalition (which is intimately tied to Ramsey Clark's International Action Center), PSL has also established branches in New York City (in Harlem), Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and West Chester, Pennsylvania.
A proponent of "revolutionary Marxism," PSL’s general raison d’etre is opposition to capitalism, which it defines as "the system in which all wealth and power is held by a tiny group of billionaires and their state," and the promotion of "socialism." The organization regards "U.S. capitalism" as the underlying cause of the war in Iraq (and all other wars) and regards "revolution" as the only viable alternative.
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Though nominally an independent group, PSL mostly acts in concert with International ANSWER. A list of campaigns and events on PSL’s website provides a summary of demonstrations and protests organized by ANSWER. PSL is staffed largely by ANSWER activists, among whom is PSL’s “leader,” Brian Becker. Other PSL members include ANSWER activist Gloria La Riva, a former gubernatorial candidate in California and a longtime apologist for communist Cuba, as well as several ANSWER coordinators and organizers, among them Saul Kanowitz, Muna Coobtee, and Caneisha Mills.
PSL is a strong supporter of Fidel Castro's Cuban government and the socialist "Bolivarian Revolution" led by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. It also holds a favorable view of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in 1960s China.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7278
A.N.S.W.E.R. website:
http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage
Question: Has DU said anything about the DHS report? If so, what?
This is the money quote:
“It was probably a long term civil servant who wrote this,” he said.
Mygirlsmom, do you know this:
“Bull. Both Barry and Nappie had to sign off on it.”
I doubt very much that’s so.
TC
The 16th Amendment pretty much took away states rights through the power of the purse string..
“Successful” in an understatement. Her efforts make Hitler looks like an amateur.
What can you expect from Anita Hill’s ex-lawyer?
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