Judicial Watch obtained the DOD documents in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) filed on April 8, 2013. The FOIA requested “Any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force.”
Included in the 133 pages of lesson plans and PowerPoint slides provided by the Air Force is a January 2013 Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute “student guide” entitled “Extremism.” The document says that it is “for training purposes only” and “do not use on the job.” Highlights include:
•The document defines extremists as “a person who advocates the use of force or violence; advocates supremacist causes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or national origin; or otherwise engages to illegally deprive individuals or groups of their civil rights.”
•A statement that “Nowadays, instead of dressing in sheets or publically espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.”
•“[W]hile not all extremist groups are hate groups, all hate groups are extremist groups.”
•Under a section labeled “Extremist Ideologies” the document states, “In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.”
•In this same section, the document lists the 9/11 attack under a category of “Historical events.”
•“[A]ctive participation…with regard to extremist organizations is incompatible with military service and, is therefore prohibited.” [Emphasis in original]
•The document details the “seven stages of hate” and sixteen “extremists’ traits.”
•The SPLC is listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced several times throughout the guide.
•Of the five organizations besides the SPLC listed as resources, one is an SPLC project (Teaching Tolerance) and one considers any politically or socially conservative movement to be a potential hate group (Political Research Associates).
•Other than a mention of 9/11 and the Sudan, there is no discussion of Islamic extremism.
Some how the link doesn’t work.
Anyone have the correct link?
Democrats are evil.
“The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule”
Isn’t that unbelievable?
The modern military equates the Founding Fathers and Revolutionaries with “extremism”.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S SHUTDOWN OF NATIONAL PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND PUBLIC LANDS
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Interesting stuff. But I wouldn’t equate the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute to be representative of the military. This reads like some suck-up, fat-ass Air Force colonel writing leftist garbage in hope that the racist Obuma would give him a general’s star.
Comments from Judicial Watch would help shed light on this.
What did Gen Kelly know and why did he put up with it?
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The museums that draw millions of visitors to the National Mall closed their doors Tuesday, memorials were barricaded and trash will go uncollected in the nation’s most-visited national park due to the first government shutdown in 17 years.
Visitors found locked doors, black metal barricades and yellow caution tape blocking entrances to popular tourist attractions just hours after the shutdown. Fountains at the World War II Memorial were shut off.
“Why the heck does this have to be closed?” said Deb Cavender, 44, of Ames, Iowa, as she and her husband were making their way toward the memorial.
https://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/01/memorials-barricaded-as-national-mall-shuts-down-2/