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Defense Department guide calls Founding Fathers ‘extremist’
Daily Caller ^ | Saturday August 24, 2013

Posted on 08/24/2013 10:44:15 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

A Department of Defense teaching guide meant to fight extremism advises students that rather than “dressing in sheets” modern-day radicals “will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place,” and describes 18th-century American patriots seeking freedom from the British as belonging to “extremist ideologies.”

The guide comes from documents obtained by Judicial Watch and is authored by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, a DoD-funded diversity training center.

Under a section titled “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.”

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KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; dod; extremism; extremists; foryourowngood; foundingfathers; liberalism; military; nannystate; obama; obamunism
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To: Bigtigermike

Whatever this is, it does not subvert the only oath to service that every service member takes; to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so. . .


21 posted on 08/24/2013 11:14:18 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Bigtigermike

What on earth are those idiots we sent to Congress allowing to go on down there???


22 posted on 08/24/2013 11:14:44 AM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

people wanting to keep slavery legal have less to do with the Founders than you think.

is seceding an option, yes.
are there consequences to seceding? yep.
are there morally valid reasons for seceding? sure. Refer to Revolutionary War.
are there craptacularly awful and immoral reasons for seceding? there sure are.
are good moral reasons for seceding and craptacularly awful immoral reasons for seceding equal? heck no.


23 posted on 08/24/2013 11:16:54 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Amendment10

History is written by the victors. And for the last 100 yrs. Socialism has been winning...and re-writing history.

You should have read some of the posts by those on this board on the recent Lincoln thread....


24 posted on 08/24/2013 11:19:23 AM PDT by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of all problems.)
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To: Bigtigermike
I downloaded the document and intend to scan it later.I'd bet my bottom dollar that there are 50 pages regarding the extremism of groups like “Defend The Bill Of Rights” but not a single word about Fort Hood because *that*,as we know,was workplace violence.
25 posted on 08/24/2013 11:21:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit)
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To: ZULU

The “idiots” don’t represent US...they represent the Federal Government and its bureaucracy to us!!


26 posted on 08/24/2013 11:21:29 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: ZULU

Read the bio’s on those in charge and PUKE!!!!!!!!!!


27 posted on 08/24/2013 11:24:29 AM PDT by Stayfree (If it is left, then it can't be right!)
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To: Bigtigermike

I’m pretty sure I’m an extremist then...


28 posted on 08/24/2013 11:25:14 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot
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To: CatherineofAragon

It’s almost as if there are no GOP constituents who ever scrutinize the crap that comes out of our government. You would never know by any evidence that the GOP is in control of House or Representatives either. Speaking of traitors...


29 posted on 08/24/2013 11:25:15 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Bigtigermike

There are neo GOP who share some of these viewd


30 posted on 08/24/2013 11:26:15 AM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: SandRat

Remember folks, the commissars are in charge. We are in deep Kim-chee.


31 posted on 08/24/2013 11:26:50 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Hugh the Scot

The way I see it - “Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice.....moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”


32 posted on 08/24/2013 11:28:31 AM PDT by organicchemist (Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
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To: soycd

That is the absolute truth. The GOP never speaks up about ANYTHING. They’re only interested in their own power.


33 posted on 08/24/2013 11:31:53 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)
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34 posted on 08/24/2013 11:37:46 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Bigtigermike

Words fail.


35 posted on 08/24/2013 11:53:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Bigtigermike

36 posted on 08/24/2013 11:54:46 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ryan71

“The people who wrote and approved the guide need to be put before the public and questioned.”

I disagree, they need be put before a wall and shot.

Everyday just when I don’t think it could get worse, something like this pops up. This nation is in such a death spiral nothing can save it now IMO, NOTHING. We have gone over the falls without a barrel or passed crush depth in a sub. No escape. I know now how those guys felt in Custer’s regiment.


37 posted on 08/24/2013 11:57:00 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Bigtigermike

The day is fast approaching when those of us who insist we are one gender or the other will be called extreme.


38 posted on 08/24/2013 12:05:35 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Windflier

39 posted on 08/24/2013 12:08:20 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Bigtigermike
The military is all that is left to defend the Constitution and the people's rights. The totalitarian socialists who want nothing more bu more power and to rule completely over all of us know that they need to neuter the military to the point where it becomes irrelevant.

Fill the army with homos, radical feminists, blame-America-firsters and chase out all those who actually believe in American freedoms and the Constitution, and it's almost game over for the real Americans. The totalitarian socialists win.

40 posted on 08/24/2013 12:23:54 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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