West Point center cites dangers of ‘far right’ in U.S

The Washington Times ^ | Thursday, January 17, 2013 | Rowan Scarborough

[Jahoohio]

A West Point think tank has issued a paper warning America about “far right” groups such as the “anti-federalist” movement, which supports “civil activism, individual freedoms and self-government.”

The report issued this week by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., is titled “Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right.”

The center — part of the institution where men and women are molded into Army officers — posted the report Tuesday. It lumps limited government activists with three movements it identifies as “a racist/white supremacy movement, an anti-federalist movement and a fundamentalist movement.”

The West Point center typically focuses reports on al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists attempting to gain power in Asia, the Middle East and Africa through violence.

But its latest study turns inward and paints a broad brush of people it considers “far right.”

It says anti-federalists “espouse strong convictions regarding the federal government, believing it to be corrupt and tyrannical, with a natural tendency to intrude on individuals’ civil and constitutional rights. Finally, they support civil activism, individual freedoms, and self government. Extremists in the anti-federalist movement direct most their violence against the federal government and its proxies in law enforcement.”

[WilliamofCarmichael]

. . . dangers of ‘far right’ in U.S

Here's what was said..

The [public] fully respects . . . responsible criticism, and . . . the right of dissent . . . But we repudiate . . . irresponsible, extremist groups . . . [that] discredit our [nation] by their efforts to infiltrate positions of responsibility in the [government], or to attach themselves to its candidates [for office].

The time has come for [the public] . . . [to] take decisive action [against groups] which would subvert this [nation] to purposes alien to the very basic tenets which gave this [nation] birth . . . "The [public] is in real danger of subversion by a radical, well-financed and highly disciplined minority . . . [the purpose of this minority is] "wholly alien to the . . . honest conservatism [of] the [public] . . ., wholly alien to the sound and honest [American] liberalism . . . , wholly alien to . . . the mainstream . . . principles."

. . . These extremists feed on fear, hate and terror. They have no program for America . . . These extremists have no plan and no program to keep the peace and bring freedom to the world. On the contrary - they spread distrust. They engender suspicion. They encourage disunity. And they operate from the dark shadows of secrecy . . .

There is no place in this [nation] for such hawkers of hate, such purveyors of prejudice, such fabricators of fear . . . These people have nothing in common with Americans. The [public] must repudiate these people.

D'oh! Sorry. Wrong thread.

I was trying to post how the RNC Rockefeller Republicans view the Tea Party -- which kinda does match the West Point nut job.

This was Nelson Rockefeller speaking against Goldwater and supporters at the 1964 Republican convention.. and he was warning of the dangers to the Republican Party. I changed "Republican Party" to references to our Nation.

[MaxMax]

Kicking in doors and dragging people away in the night will start an epic revolt.
The reason we have weapons that match today's military is for our protection
against them. And many who own those weapons are old school retired military.

[Red Steel]

I wonder which West Point pantywaist wrote this?

[Vince Ferrer]

If the democrats kill 3000 people, like on 9/11, and successfully blame it on us, we will have to fight mobs of deluded people. They will not try to calm people down to understand our feelings, like they did to muslim terrorists. It is the oldest trick in the book, and they are preparing the way for it.

[windcliff]

ping

[freekitty]

Who is the far right?

[joseph20]

Dear Jahoohio,

Please see the following excerpt from the article:

The report says there were 350 “attacks initiated by far-right groups/individuals” in 2011.

Details about what makes an attack a “far right” action are not clear in the report, which was written by Arie Perliger, who directs the center’s terrorism studies and teaches social sciences at West Point.

[onedoug]

It’s coming.

[Christie at the beach]

—>>>A Republican congressional staffer who served in the military told The Washington Times: “If [the Defense Department] is looking for places to cut spending, this junk study is ground zero.

->>“Shouldn’t the Combating Terrorism Center be combating radical Islam around the globe instead of perpetuating the left’s myth that right-wingers are terrorists?” the staffer said. “The $64,000 dollar question is when will the Combating Terrorism Center publish their study on real left-wing terrorists like the Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and the Weather Underground?”

Amen to what the republican staffer was quoted to say.

[Christie at the beach]

—>>The report says there were 350 “attacks initiated by far-right groups/individuals” in 2011.

What a bunch of lies/misinformation.

[Travis McGee]

I agree.

Clipped from “Dear Mr. Security Agent”

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/bracken-dear-mr-security-agent/

Then how about a paper in an approved and sanctioned semi-official U.S. military publication, written by a War College professor in good standing. Serious enough for you? Google the “Small Wars Journal” piece entitled “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A Vision of the Future,” by Colonel Kevin Benson, USA (ret), 2012. The “full spectrum operations” envisaged for the Army in the homeland are not made against hypothetical hostile drug cartels in the Southwest, or urban gangs, or the traditionally ambiguous and vague “Pineland Liberation Group,” or “Orangeland People’s Front,” hypothetical stand-ins named to offend no one, not even by accident.

This long-standing neutral naming protocol is tossed aside in “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland,” where the new domestic enemy that the U.S. Army must crush is a neo-KKK, a white racist “Tea Party terrorist” organization, headquartered in, of all places, Darlington, South Carolina. Yes, the NASCAR Darlington. Anybody who has been in or near an actual Tea Party event or rally knows the crowd is made up mainly of an older white population, a quiet group that leaves no mess behind, not even a stray poster, and causes no fuss.

Yet “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland” postulates that these white grandpas and grannies will be the very group that the U.S. Army will be called upon to crush in its first major battles on American soil since 1865. The message this paper sends throughout the upper ranks of the War-College-trained military, actually naming an ethnic group—Southern whites—as the national enemy to “hypothetically” be crushed by the Army in the year 2016, is simply mind-boggling.

[MileHi]

Constitution is a "federalism" document.

At least it was.

[MileHi]

So this makes two?

[virgil]

What a stupid report. These people are fools.

[Jeff Winston]

A West Point think tank has issued a paper warning America about “far right” groups such as the “anti-federalist” movement, which supports “civil activism, individual freedoms and self-government.”

[Jeff Winston]

[Gator113]

Words fail me,.

[gusty]

When some liberal commentator states that a nuclear armed government is no match for the citizenry, thus the 2nd Amendment should be scratched, answer with this perfect example, Northern Ireland. There a nuclear armed government was fought to a standstill within its own borders by a very small force called the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The PIRA, whose spokesman Danny Morrison stated “with the ballot in one hand, and an Armalite (the A in AR-15) in the other” fought the nuclear armed British Army to a standstill and forced that government to concede a measure of political power to them. This did not happen in some far off jungle or dessert but within the borders of the UK itself. The PIRA even managed to rain mortar fire down on 10 Downing St and Heathrow Airport in London. So take that Piers Morgan.

[2ndDivisionVet]

We had many more nuclear weapons while we fought in Vietnam than we do now and I don’t remember us winning that one. Men and women hauling supplies on bicycles in the jungle kicked us out of their country but good.

[piytar]

A West Point think tank has issued a paper warning America about “far right” groups such as the “anti-federalist” movement, which supports “civil activism, individual freedoms and self-government.”

At this point, I am FOR sequestration. I WANT our standing military to be degraded if they are being taught that “civil activism, individual freedoms and self-government” define THEIR enemy!