Posted on 04/15/2009 12:22:29 PM PDT by MaestroLC
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report sent to law enforcement that lists veterans as a terrorist risk to the U.S. and defines "rightwing extremism" as including groups opposed to abortion and immigration.
The outcry resulted in a demand from the head of the American Legion to meet with Ms. Napolitano, a request the DHS chief said she would honor next week when she returns to Washington from her current tour of the U.S.-Mexican border.
"The document on right-wing extremism sent last week by this department´s Office of Intelligence and Analysis is one in an ongoing series of assessments to provide situational awareness to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies on the phenomenon and trends of violent radicalization in the United States," Ms. Napolitano said in a statement.
"I was briefed on the general topic, which is one that struck a nerve as someone personally involved in the Timothy McVeigh prosecution," Ms. Napolitano said.
"Let me be very clear: we monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don´t have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence," Ms. Napolitano said.
"We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not — nor will we ever — monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources," Ms. Napolitano said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
So why isn’t Bill Ayers in prison?? Oh, right, he’s a LEFT-wing extremist.
Janet Reno II
show prep
To the Obama admin, "terrorist risks" are those who:
A) put their lives on the line serving our country.
B) are members of groups opposed to the killing of babies.
C) are members of groups advocating the enforcement of immigration law.
She can rot in ...
Because to Communists in our government, the ends justified the means.
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Power is not a means; it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power”.
-George Orwell - 1984
Americans see the current administration as a national security risk. Napolitano, you should publish a white paper on the current government extremism; do one on yourself.
Then its just a coincidence your report didn't mention William Ayers, Earth First, FALN, the New Black Panther Party, the militant wing of La Raza, the dozen left-wing anarchist groups active over the past few years, etc etc.
one in an ongoing series of assessments to provide situational awareness to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies on the phenomenon and trends of violent radicalization in the United States,”
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..as preparations for ‘McCarthy-like’ hearings in front of Gubamint committees set-up to test one’s loyalty, I reckun.
William Ayers is a Self Confessed Unrepentant Terrorist Who Bombed The PENTAGON Successfully and Now is held on a Pedestal by The Left Wing Extremist and The ZERO HUSSEIN Administration Hierarchy among Others inluding Ms. Napolitano! Thats Okay, Because Ayers is a close Personal Friend of Obama’s.
Oh, I guess if you were involved in the Ted Kaczynski prosecution, you'd be targeting leftwing extremism.
Actually, the president is good friend with somebody who was closely involved in a leftwing terrorism case - Bill Ayers. You could pick his brains for insight, since apparently your own personal experience drives law enforcement directives for the entire nation.
Ha, ha. My first thought. Obama’s Janet Reno.
Read this statement by DHS idjuts.
Then you’ll feel all better.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229841/posts
(Or maybe you’ll puke)
“we do not — nor will we ever — monitor ideology or political beliefs.”
Janet “I never met a lawbreaker I didn’t like!” N.
“rightwing extremism” hate groups, anti-government groups, and single issue groups “such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”
Janet’s dogs
`Who controls the present, controls the past.
Who controls the past, controls the future.’
`George Orwell’
“Blow it out your t***, Janet.”
sincerely, td
Extreme carpet muncher.
In reality, it was the Communists above all others who prevented revolution in Spain. Later, when the Right Wing forces were in full control, the Communists showed themselves willing to go a great deal further than the Liberals in hunting down revolutionary leaders.[Snip]
Between the Communists and those who claim to stand to the Left of them there is a real difference. The Communists hold that Fascism can be beaten by alliance with sections of the capitalist class (the Popular Front); their opponents hold that this maneuver simply gives Fascism new breeding-grounds. The question has got to be settled; to make the wrong decision may be to land ourselves in for centuries of semi-slavery.
Rot in hell fascist wench!
Abortion, illegal immigrants, big government, guns are not ideology or political beliefs.
She looks like one of Janet Reno’s harem!
Smith and his guests on FOX news....DOWN PLAYING DHS report...conservatives AND military are being TOO SENSITIVE about the Report....Catherine Herridge saying that the report about right-wing originated BEFORE Obama!!!
POLAR OPPOSITE of what Judge Andrew Napolitano said earlier!
jeezy peezy... are those warts on her face?
Does she have a comment on this? When can we expect an report?
NC attack on Tancredo
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com
I think we should FedEx her a barrel of dead rotten fish!
(wait...there’s a knock on my door....)
Wow, I left a baseball glove out in the back yard all winter when I was a kid and the leather looked better than her.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report sent to law enforcement that lists veterans as a terrorist risk to the U.S. and defines “rightwing extremism” as including groups opposed to abortion and immigration.
We live in a bizzaro world. This dike needs to be shown the door.
She doesn’t sound very bright.
So that's why there have been reports (and photos) of government agents recording the license plates of protesters.
I do not trust any of the 0bamabots!
OTOH. There are some moderate Republicans on this forum who think FReepers are a subset of conservatism. This is what the conservative movement is faced with every day. Liberal Democrats being joined by moderate Republicans in denouncing rightwingers as extremists.
Hussein al-Husseini. John Doe #2. Later got a job at Logan Air Port in Boston. But nothing bad ever happened out of there. Right?
Point-of-fact:
DHS, FBI, JTTF, etc... This labeling of “Constitutionalists” as suspected, possible terrorists is NOT new. There was proof of this leaked back in 1999/2000 — a brochure released by the FBI and the JTTF, and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office which labeled people like that as well...
So, while this report itself is new, the general attitude towards “right wing extremists” is not... It’s been going on since Clinton was in office. Scarier now that Obama is in office though knowing the left’s dislike for military, and all divergent viewpoints... But, if you’re on one of their lists, chances are you’ve already been on it for a LONG time now...
Just because Bush was in office for 8 years doesn’t mean the attitude among the Federal “LEOs” was different...
The only thing that is different now is because with the COMMUNISTS in Washington daily stripping out Constitution they KNOW more and more people are getting fed up. That’s why there is this push now. Think of the effect it will have on the general public — if your neighbor starts talking about how Washington is destroying the Constitution, and you’ve heard this liberal propaganda about how these people are all racists and terrorists and such the average person who doesn’t know any better will be afraid and won’t listen to the truth of what they are being told.
I don’t know how to explain this exactly, but I think you can get the gist of what I mean. It’s definitely no mistake that they are pushing this out in the open and in the media RIGHT NOW...
Just like Obama, she’s good at pretending her actions are perfectly sensible, who can dispute that we have to watch for all extremist attacks?
Yet she issued a report that was more like a leftist wet dream.
While we are worrying about our soldiers and folks that don’t like paying high taxes, did she issue any alerts about poor inner city blacks (she said poverty causes terrorism), moslems, radical womens’ groups, animal rights activists, eco-terrorists, etc?
Just wondering
That's gonna make it real hard to watch groups like AQ or Hezbollah
Heehee, yep!
"I was briefed on the general topic, which is one that struck a nerve as someone personally involved in the Timothy McVeigh prosecution," Ms. Napolitano said.
Perhaps you should also consider becoming personally involved in prosecuting unrepentant bomber William Ayers and members other liberal terror organizations.
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