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DOD Training Materials Call Conservatives 'Extremists'
Free Beacon ^ | 8/23/13 | staff

Posted on 08/23/2013 12:49:13 PM PDT by Nachum

Judicial Watch obtained Defense Department training materials on Friday that described conservative and civil liberties organizations as “hate groups.”

The training materials used by the Air Force were created to help students “recognize extremists ideologies.” The materials identified conservative values, such as individual liberties and states’ rights, as recruiting rhetoric used by “extremists.”

According to Judicial Watch:

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.”

The documents were published by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute in January 2013. They cited the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center repeatedly as a source to use when identifying hate groups.

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Conservative: Extremely wonderful.

Liberal: Extremely awful

1 posted on 08/23/2013 12:49:13 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Again?


2 posted on 08/23/2013 12:49:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

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3 posted on 08/23/2013 12:49:54 PM PDT by Nachum (I am Breitbartacus!)
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To: Nachum

Southern Poverty Law Center

Racist Liberal Scum..


4 posted on 08/23/2013 12:50:44 PM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising.... Civil War II)
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To: Nachum

Founding Fathers .. ‘Dangerous extremists’

OWS .. Partisans for Economic Justice

Media .. Still miserable sobs


5 posted on 08/23/2013 12:52:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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To: Nachum; All

Obama and Holder are publicly speaking about their ‘plan of the week’ that are just more smokescreen distractions to divert attention away from the incompetent manner Obama has handled his day job.

The best indicator of a PHONY ADMINISTRATION is the number of its REAL SCANDALS.

Commie Tyrant Obama’s current talking points are thus smokescreen distractions for the products of Obama’s first 4 years in office:
* Refusal to close US Southern Border to Mexican illegal alien invaders
* No known un-forged records of Place of Birth
* No known un-forged records of University grades
* Benghazi Massacre
* Dereliction of Duty as CIC during Benghazi Massacre
* Cover up of Benghazi Massacre
* Destruction of Seal Team Six
* Cover up of Fast and Furious murder of US Border Agent by Exec. Order
* IRS-Obama’care” Commune Death Grip on Wealth and Health
* NSA-Gestapo Death Grip on all citizen’s communications
* Use of Courts against News Media
* Use of Supreme Court to install Un-Constitutional Obama’care’ Tax
* Destruction of the US Coal Industry
* Refusal to permit XL Pipeline construction
* Trillion Dollar a year Federal Overspending
* Monthly violations of the US Constitution by Obama
* Use of Exec. Orders to bypass Congress.

REPLACE sniveling coward Speaker Boehner with a FIGHTER!

It is time to IMPEACH Tyrant B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro.
_______________________

Tyrant B. Hussein Obama, (aka Barry Soetoro), continues his unopposed efforts to expand Totalitarian Obamanation in Liberty-based America.

Where are the Republican opponents of Tyrant Obama?

Why have the Articles of Impeachment for Tyrant Obama not been issued by US House Speaker Boehner, or Pro-Welfare Republicans Cantor or Ryan?

Have House and Senate Pro-Welfare Republicans formed a cave-in pact with Pro-Welfare Democrats to protect Tyrant Obama?

The main thing that Speaker Boehner is afraid of is being blamed for doing his job.

Speaker Boehner’s job now is to shut down the NON-ESSENTIAL parts of the US Federal Government until Obama’care’ is ABOLISHED, however long that takes.


6 posted on 08/23/2013 12:52:36 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Nachum

Pay attention people, this is how Germany looked pre WW2


7 posted on 08/23/2013 12:54:20 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Graewoulf

“Where are the Republican opponents of Tyrant Obama?”

Who?!


8 posted on 08/23/2013 12:55:29 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: Nachum

9 posted on 08/23/2013 12:56:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Nachum

Who in the hell writes these manuals? Conslutants?

Can you possibly imagine how miserable it must be to be in the military now? To have no choice but to stay and endure until you are released from your contract? It is prison. It is voluntary servitude with no conditions for cancellation of the contract.


10 posted on 08/23/2013 12:58:40 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Nachum
What is the NAZI equivalent?

...or is this the NAZI equivalent?

11 posted on 08/23/2013 12:59:41 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Nachum

Good, God!!!

Is it not time, people? Is it not time?


12 posted on 08/23/2013 1:00:33 PM PDT by Malichi (!)
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To: Nachum
I'm extremely the words “doubleplus ungood” aren't in their communist style directive.
13 posted on 08/23/2013 1:01:08 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: cripplecreek

Bat sure wishes his mug was in that picture! Carry On!


14 posted on 08/23/2013 1:04:02 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Graewoulf

You forgot obama’s TREASONOUS foreign policy—selling us out to the muslim Brotherhood and to other Christian-killing islamic supremacists!!!!


15 posted on 08/23/2013 1:06:25 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Nachum

Turning the DOD into an Occupation Force one lecture at a time


16 posted on 08/23/2013 1:07:45 PM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Nachum

From the manual, am I mistaken this sounds just like liberals?

extremist’s character.

a. Character assassination
Extremists often attack the character of an opponent rather than deal with the facts or issues raised. They will question motives, qualifications, past associations, alleged values, personality, looks, and mental health as a diversion from the issues under consideration.

b. Name calling and labeling
Extremists are quick to resort to taunts (e.g., pervert, racist, and crackpot) to label and condemn opponents and to divert others from listening to their arguments.
c. Irresponsive sweeping generalizations
Extremists tend to make sweeping claims or judgments with little to no evidence, often confusing similarity with sameness. That is, they assume that because two or more things are alike in some respects that they are alike in all respects.

d. Inadequate proof behind assertions
Extremists tend to be very fuzzy about what constitutes proof for their assertions and tend to get caught up in logical fallacies where they assume that a prior event explains a subsequent occurrence simply because of their before-and-after relationship. They tend to project wished-for conclusions and exaggerate the significance of information that confirms their prejudices and discredit or ignore information that contradicts them.

e. Tendency to view opponents and critics as essentially evil
Extremists feel that their opponents hold differing views because they are bad, immoral, dishonest, hateful, cruel, prejudiced, etc. and not merely because they simply disagree, see matters differently, or are mistaken.

f. Dualism worldview
Extremists tend to see the world in terms of absolute good and evil, for them or against them, with no middle ground or intermediate position. All issues are ultimately moral issues of right and wrong, good or bad, with the right and good positions coinciding with their interests. Their slogan is often “Those who are not with me are against me.

g. Tendency to argue by intimidation
Extremists tend to frame their arguments in such a way as to intimidate others into accepting their premises and conclusions. To disagree with them is to ally oneself with the devil or to give aid and comfort to the enemy. They tend to be very judgmental and moralizing, allowing them to define the parameters of the debate by keeping their opponents on the defensive.

h. Use of slogans, buzzwords, and thought-stopping clichés
For many extremists, shortcuts in thinking and in reasoning matters out seem necessary to avoid troublesome facts and compelling counterarguments. Simple slogans substitute for more complex abstractions.

i. Assumption of moral superiority over others
The most obvious assumptions are claims of racial or ethnic superiority—a master race. Less obvious are claims of ennoblement because of alleged victimhood, a special relationship with God, or membership in a special or elite class and a kind of aloof high-minded snobbishness that accrues because of the weightiness of their preoccupations, their altruism, and their willingness to sacrifice themselves (and others) to their cause.

j. Doomsday thinking
Extremists often predict dire or catastrophic consequences from a situation or from a failure to follow a specific course, and they tend to exhibit a kind of crisis-mindedness. It can be a Communist takeover, a Nazi revival, nuclear war, earthquakes, floods, or the wrath of God. Whatever it is, it is just around the corner unless we follow their program and listen to their special insight and wisdom, to which only the truly enlightened have access. For extremists, any setback or defeat is the beginning of the end.


17 posted on 08/23/2013 1:09:28 PM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: Nachum

“”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.””

So according to the DOD’s definition, the Founders were “extremists”?!?!


18 posted on 08/23/2013 1:10:16 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Nachum

Veteran of several combat deployments:

Dangerous conservative extremist skilled in use of weapons & explosives.


19 posted on 08/23/2013 1:10:51 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Nachum

Simply put, names need to be assigned to the people responsible for such lies, and when Republicans are again in power, they should be not only fired, but barred from future work with the US government because of their “un-American activities”.


20 posted on 08/23/2013 1:12:12 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Be Brave! Fear is just the opposite of Nar!)
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