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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: Hugh the Scot

“extremism in the defense of Liberty, is no vice” - Barry Goldwater


41 posted on 08/24/2013 12:43:56 PM PDT by Paisan
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To: Bigtigermike

The Pentagon, less than a decade after the al Qaeda
Atrocities attacked the Pentagon itself,
now has the audacity to get on its knees,
arm al Qaeda (and cover it up),
as it attacks US citizens, impugning them???

The Girl Scouts are more trustworthy.


42 posted on 08/24/2013 12:50:32 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: wardaddy

“There are neo GOP who share some of these viewd”

Perhaps this is why Mr. Boehner ran unopposed in 2012. The Democrats did not want him to be replaced as speaker with a possibly more effective leader.


43 posted on 08/24/2013 12:54:00 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Amagi

George Washington was a bigoted, radical extremist because he knew that sodomy was not conducive to good order and discipline in the US Armed Forces and he swiftly kicked them out. The rest of the Founding Fathers was also bigoted because they thought that sodomy was a degenerate and immoral practice. Obama knows better than all the Founding Fathers. they were all bigoted old fools. All braindead democrats believe Obama over George Washington and the rest of the Founding Fathers. If you say sodomy is a perverted and immoral practice you are now the bigot, and the sodomist is praised and worshipped and glorified. Welcome to SickoLand, aka the World of Obama, the country’s first sodomite president, and hopefully the last.


44 posted on 08/24/2013 1:52:22 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Bigtigermike

teaching guide? Students? Just who are these intended students in the DOD? Maybe it’s part of Parachutes 101? Put these manuals downrange in the “Artillery for Beginners” course and shoot until they are gone. Maybe the genius who wrote it would be happy to keep score?


45 posted on 08/24/2013 2:02:04 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Mouton

Ha! Agreed! Question them then shoot them!


46 posted on 08/24/2013 2:30:06 PM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Bigtigermike.
...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."

47 posted on 08/24/2013 2:54:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Bigtigermike

The Department of Defense is offensive to Americans who still posses a functional brain.

Clean up this central socialist government!


48 posted on 08/24/2013 2:59:48 PM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Someone needs to ask them about those cushy jobs offered to ‘retired’ DOD boys - from the companies they threw business to...


49 posted on 08/24/2013 3:08:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (Young black men -- 3% of the population -- commit 50% of the murders in this society.)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

This is the Dept of WHOSE Defense? Certainly not ours!

This is chilling.


50 posted on 08/24/2013 3:57:10 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: Bigtigermike
modern-day radicals “will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place,”

Democrat Convention "Our path leads to a better place"


51 posted on 08/24/2013 4:38:18 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Drone strike on Michael Grunwald: you know it makes sense)
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To: Bigtigermike; expat_panama; holdonnow; combat_boots; Travis McGee; SoldierDad

Sorry about the uninvited PING, but WTHeck is going on here in the United States of America?


52 posted on 08/24/2013 6:43:00 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Bigtigermike

This Department would have nothing to Defend if it weren’t for those ‘extremists’.


53 posted on 08/24/2013 6:50:53 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: Bigtigermike

As a true blue Son of The South I feel complemented to be compared to the Founding Fathers.


54 posted on 08/24/2013 7:55:13 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: Bigtigermike
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton concluded that the documents fall in line with the Obama administration’s “nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism,” and that the language closely “echoes the IRS targeting language of conservative and Tea Party investigations.” “And now… its Defense Department suggests that the Founding Fathers, and many conservative Americans, would not be welcome in today’s military… After reviewing this document, one can’t help but worry for the future and morale of our nation’s armed forces.”
55 posted on 08/24/2013 11:39:58 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Bigtigermike

They are busily trying to brainwash the military at-large with the same sort of tripe. I believe it’s a push for when they decide to physically cow the People and want to be sure that if the military isn’t 100% behind them, that it’s divided enough to balance out the sides it chooses. There is no other “logical” reason for what they are doing to confuse and divide the military folks.


56 posted on 08/25/2013 3:05:43 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: rbg81

Those of us who maintain that a person is either male or female, and that this is not subject to choice or change, are already branded as extreme. Worse, it is *we*, and not the deviants, who are labeled ‘sick’ and ‘perverted.’

I fear that the fundamental principle of a free, self-governing society, the recognition of divergent viewpoints and the respect of one another’s rights in spite of those differences, has vanished over the last 20 years, and an increasing number of supposedly intelligent and educated people regard anyone who disagrees with them as enemies to be suppressed.


57 posted on 08/25/2013 4:25:23 AM PDT by VietVet (I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
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To: Ohioan

What Mongolian troops are you referring to? Ethnic Buryats and Kalmyks?


58 posted on 08/25/2013 8:11:25 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
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