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Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 04-18-09 | CAM SIMPSON and GARY FIELDS

Posted on 04/18/2009 7:06:50 AM PDT by euram

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and "militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups," including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos sent from bureau headquarters to field offices.

The initiative, dubbed Operation Vigilant Eagle, was outlined in February, two months before a memo giving a similar warning was issued on April 7 by the Department of Homeland Security.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


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Looks like another witch hunt is on. First it was the 0bama administrations idea that they wanted disabled veterans to pay for their care at VA facilities, then it was the DHS issuing a report specifically targeting returning war veterans, and now the FBI is in the act.
1 posted on 04/18/2009 7:06:50 AM PDT by euram
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Not a good idea to target veterans


2 posted on 04/18/2009 7:09:23 AM PDT by smith288 (Americans suffer from Stockholm Syndrome with the government)
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At the end of this short clip is a Iraq Vet saying why she is at The Santa Barbara Tax Day Tea Party. Her name is Stephanie Browning and she is a Purple Heart Recipient from injuries she received in Baghdad

Stephanie Browning

3 posted on 04/18/2009 7:11:53 AM PDT by Zevonismymuse
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>>including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan,

I hope they don’t stop there. Cold War and Vietnam Era vets are plenty pissed off at Obamafascism too!


4 posted on 04/18/2009 7:13:13 AM PDT by Bryanw92
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...as a vet, and from a previous vanity thread I started, it's Deja vu all over again. We'll just have to see if the average American takes the BS.
The vet medical care fiasco was a test balloon...it didn't go well.....Napolitano’s rant and accusations...didn't fly either..but this time NO APOLOGIES, NO EXCUSES. SHE HAS TO GO!
5 posted on 04/18/2009 7:17:21 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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I think by now nearly everone is aware that the FBI is a really bad institution. Some of the fault lies with the administration (sending the FBI out on the pirated ship is an example), some with the Department of Justice, and the internal politicization does not help. Neither does its feckless leadership. They said that General Motors was to big to fail, and it has. Well, the FBI is just another General Motors wannabe.


6 posted on 04/18/2009 7:17:22 AM PDT by Melchior
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Damn, just Damn! Leave our service folks ALONE!! We are losing our republic, and doing it by taking out the very ones who bled and died to provide it. Get educated, get mad, get involved!!

.

The video is a description of the 5 supposed forms of government, from 100% government control (Communism, facism, totalitarianism etc) to 0% government (anarchy) it obliteraties all forms of government as only temporary and futile except for 2, olgiarchy and republic. It does this in a clear concise manner, which effectively shows even a grade schooler about them. It then, in the last few moments, explains Rome, its beginning as a republic, and its morph into a democracy. The parallels are well put, and clearly where this country is today. It is an excellent way to spread the word to those who have never been taught proper history, and that is alot of people since they have been re writing it for so long now.

I have been posting this sucker all over all day, and sometimes I forget that some are stuck at work, so I have included the above basic description of the video, however it does not do the video justice. I beg, implore and urge all to view it who have not. THIS is the reason we are so angry. Taxes are a symptom, losing our republic is the disease!!!!!

http://www.marchforliberty.org/multimedialinks.html


7 posted on 04/18/2009 7:18:56 AM PDT by wombtotomb
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Looks like the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are morphing rapidly into Obama's private Brown Shirt/Gestapo organization to carry out his personal eradication programs.

It's not even subtle morphing any more.

Leni

8 posted on 04/18/2009 7:25:03 AM PDT by MinuteGal (FR Regional Convention 4/25 Orlando....Florida, Alabama, Georgia & Carolinas Freepers Invited!)
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Just when I think they can’t outrage me any more. They exceed my expectations.


9 posted on 04/18/2009 7:25:29 AM PDT by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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Who ordered the investigation??

As I understand the procedures, the FBI does such investigations only by order from the DOJ or WH, not Homeland Security


10 posted on 04/18/2009 7:26:32 AM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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It’s obvious - at least in my warped mind - that they are looking for the tipping point, trying to make something happen. The left and Obama’s host of characters are the real extremists and will in fact be the one guilty of starting the revolution. They are going to push the envelope as far as they can until there’s a spark. And it will all be blamed on the conservatives of course because we respond to the tyranny . . .


11 posted on 04/18/2009 7:27:35 AM PDT by Free America52 (I just want it to be the way it always has been.)
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The great lie of the democrats is that they ever gave a damn about our veterans. How many times to they have to reject their votes, slander them and cut their benefits before it becomes clear. I’m not sure the Obama administration doesn’t see military casualties as late term abortions of the unwanted. He certainly tells every other nation how he loathes ours and the democrats in Washington never make a sound. Perhaps if he kicks them often enough and hard enough he will create a self fulfilling prophesy.


12 posted on 04/18/2009 7:28:14 AM PDT by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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Email these articles to everyone you know in the military.


13 posted on 04/18/2009 7:28:34 AM PDT by benjibrowder (I keep praying for hope and change, but I open my eyes and Obama is still President.)
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To: Bryanw92

If I may paraphrase Kipling in his poem about Sergeant Tommy Adkins.

It’s Tommy this and Tommy that and chuck him out the brute, but it’s please to step in front sir when the guns begin to shoot.


14 posted on 04/18/2009 7:39:53 AM PDT by Rider on the Rain
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The aim of the FBI's effort with the Defense Department, which was rolled into the Vigilant Eagle program, is to "share information regarding Iraqi and Afghanistan war veterans whose involvement in white supremacy and/or militia sovereign citizen extremist groups poses a domestic terrorism threat," according to the Feb. 23 FBI memo.

But the report says they have "no specific information" that any such situation exists.

This just doesn't add up. Methinks someone is lying.

15 posted on 04/18/2009 7:44:38 AM PDT by freespirited (Is this a nation of laws or a nation of Democrats? -- Charles Krauthammer)
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16 posted on 04/18/2009 7:44:50 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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LOL!


17 posted on 04/18/2009 7:45:19 AM PDT by peace with honor
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In order to find out if Vets were joining groups they would have had to research every Vet to find out their movements and associates. Everyone of us Vets have been monitored.


18 posted on 04/18/2009 7:46:58 AM PDT by tobyhill ("Hope and Change" is so overrated!)
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Hahaha you read my mind.


19 posted on 04/18/2009 7:50:52 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (An oath to a liar is no oath at all)
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absolutely obnoxious —> demonizing the folks that kept the US safe...


20 posted on 04/18/2009 7:51:58 AM PDT by xtinct ("There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum)
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