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Today, an 89-year old documented nut entered the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. I have no idea what the politics of Stephen Tyrone Jones were, but the man serving as a guard died a hero: he died standing in the way of this evil man and the innocent and unarmed people he would have murdered. A question immediately comes to mind: what side of the bowl did this nut inhabit? Obviously he was a nut. But was he a rightwing nut or a leftwing nut? What the left want us to believe is that James von Brunn is a rightwing...

At this point it's little consolation, but Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano turned out to be more prescient about domestic extremism than many of her critics. In April, she got an earful from conservative bloggers and radio pundits after DHS issued a nine-page report, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," which warned of the potential for violence from rightwing fringe groups. In part, the critics' distemper was connected to language which they said unfairly singled out returning veterans and conservatives. Here's what the report said: "Returning veterans possess combat skills and...

A Dutch MP banned from Britain for his anti-Islamic views has won more than 15 per cent of the vote in Holland's European Parliament elections, exit polls have shown. Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party are to take four of the 25 Dutch seats in the European assembly as right-wing and fringe parties were set to gain all over Europe. The results are giving credence to the theory that the economic downturn, cynicism over the union's eastward expansion and worries about relations between Muslims and non-Muslims are fuelling a voter backlash against mainstream politicians. Wilders was barred from entering Britain...

http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/2009/05/tiller-killing-suspects-may-ha.html Tiller killing: Suspect may have right-wing ties Sunday May 31, 2009 Categories: Catholic, Church , History, Politics, Pop Culture Local TV reports are naming the 51-year-old suspect as Scott Roeder, and other reports indicate he may have been a member of the anti-government Freemen group who was arrested in 1996 after authorities found what were apparently bomb-making materials in his car. News reports at the time identified him as Scott Roeder, 38, of Silver Lake, Kan., which would make him 51 today, the same age as the suspect in the Tiller killing. Other reports are tying him to anti-abortion...

We've discussed this "extremist" issue at length already, but it never hurts to have a flashy video accompaniment. Props to Illuminati TV for the production of this film. Their YouTube feed is linked on the right side of this blog. http://conservativebrawler.blogspot.com/2009/05/for-record-right-wing-extremists.html

A Louisiana driver has been stopped and detained for having a "Don't Tread on Me" bumper sticker on his vehicle and warned by a police officer about the "subversive" message it sent, according to the driver's relative. The situation developed in the small town of Ball, La., where a receptionist at the police department told WND she knew nothing about the traffic stop, during which the "suspect" was investigated for "extremist" activities, the relative said. It followed by only a few weeks the release of a Department of Homeland Security "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in...

House Republicans demanded Wednesday that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano detail how the controversial "right-wing extremism" report was compiled, using a rare legislative maneuver that ensures that the Democrats must take a public stand - one way or another. The request asks Ms. Napolitano to release information on how the report was compiled. The report sparked a furor from conservatives included in the definition of "right-wing extremism" and prompted Ms. Napolitano to apologize to the nation's veterans. "The report that came out of DHS was offensive, and unfortunately, Secretary Napolitano still has a lot of explaining to do," said House...

This product provides definitions for key terms and phrases that often appear in DHS analysis that addresses the nature and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security’s release of the “right-wing extremism” report should anger everyone. Janet Napolitano’s faux apology to veterans glossed over the real message of this memo: to intimidate the 60 million Americans who voted against Obama. Consider the current Department of Homeland Security’s definitions of “extremists” according to this memo: those worried about the usurpation of the Constitution, illegal immigration, and the threat of gun control legislation. Consider the way these real fears are cast: “Many right-wing extremist groups perceive recent gun control legislation as a threat to their right to bear arms”; also they have the “perception...

Who trusts Arlen Specter anymore? By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist Arlen Specter staked out his independent positions once again on the Sunday TV talk shows. But what difference does it really make? Specter has never been trusted by the Republicans he bolted just last week. And on Sunday, Specter seemed to go out of his way to say the Democrats he joined shouldn't expect him to be a reliable supporter for their party.

A student group that bills itself as "America's right wing youth movement" focused on countering radical multiculturism, socialism and mass immigration is causing a stir on a growing number of college campuses across the country. The ultra-conservative political group Youth for Western Civilization is currently organized on at least seven university campuses. According to its Web site, the group hopes to inspire Western youth on the "basis of pride in their American and Western heritage," counter and ultimately defeat "leftism on campus" and create a social movement in which a right-wing subculture is an alternative to what it calls a...

SNIPPET: "White schoolboys from less well-off backgrounds in Birmingham are in danger of being recruited by far right groups as they grow increasingly disaffected, it has been claimed." SNIPPET: "The head teacher of Colmers School in Rednal, Peter Jones, called on Birmingham to take a lead in tackling the issue during a meeting of Birmingham City Council’s education scrutiny committee. And Nigel Baker, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers in Birmingham, warned: “Areas like yours are also breeding grounds for extremism for right wing parties.” Council officers at the meeting acknowledged that “extremist attitudes” existed in areas...

Don't you just love the new MOAB? I think it says it all quite well. Despite the constant calls for surrender by the Democrats, the troops held firm, and we've now pretty much won the war. All we're doing now is mopping up and making sure the new Iraqi Army is trained well enough to take over when we leave. But maybe we're going to have to start checking to see if our own Department of Homeland Security is spying on us as we gather every Friday outside the main entrance of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC....

Always park in well lit spots at night. Be sure to lock your car doors when driving. Don’t go out jogging alone after sundown. Avoid roaming in dark alleys. Thanks to the painstaking efforts of our new Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Reno Napolitano, we now know how important it is to revisit those well worn precepts about personal safety. Law enforcement officers have been teaching these basic safety rules for decades. But until Napolitano’s pioneering work in drafting a recent intelligent assessment, too many Americans were deluded about the true nature of the threats to our safety.

The April 7 memo by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that was distributed to law enforcement agencies across the country gave a sweeping generalization that many conservatives are “right-wing extremists.” Some criticize the Obama administration for writing it. But it may be more indicative of a larger problem. It may reveal the left-wing orientation of the academic-governmental complex, which is a problem that transcends political parties. This left-wing orientation considers any conservative or right-wing idea a danger. The nine-page DHS document is titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” The report...

I confess; I am a domestic right-wing extremist. As I read the Law Enforcement Sensitive Information (LES) from the Department of Homeland Security, I realized that the innocuous white van parked across the street isn’t the milkman. Superficially, my family fits the DHS domestic terrorist profile--not the sleeper-cell Islamic extremists, but the target-shooting, Bible-toting, baby-loving, troop-cheering, tax-paying, God and country types. A quick scan of the document makes us likely surveillance candidates. DHS provides law enforcement with a handy checklist.

Janet Napolitano continues to thrash around for any rationalization she can find for the DHS report that painted political organizing on abortion, federalism, and immigration as potential national-security threats and called returining military vets a danger to the country they served. Yesterday on CNN, Napolitano tried explaining that the DHS doesn’t see these vets as threats. The DHS sees them as saps who don’t know any better than to fall into extremist traps: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Sunday portrayed veterans as victims – not perpetrators – of right-wing extremism as she sought to combat the political controversy arising...

National Socialists were never “anti-government.” They were always, however, fervently anti-capitalist and, above all, opposed to specifically financial capital and the world market, which was assumed to be dominated by the latter. In other words, they were much like what are today described as “leftists.” In fact, they were “leftists.” And they still are today, as the eagerness of Germany’s contemporary Nazis to participate in “anti-globalization” protests makes clear. ... This is why the standard use of the expression “right-wing extremist” is highly equivocal even in its original German context. In any case, America’s “anti-government” libertarians, whether extreme or otherwise,...

A series of leaked "intelligence" reports have caused quite a dust-up over the last several weeks. A Texas fusion center warned about a terrorist threat from "the international far Left," the Department of Homeland Security and a Missouri fusion center warned of threats posed by right-wing ideologues, and a Virginia fusion center saw threats from across the political spectrum and called certain colleges and religious groups "nodes of radicalization." These are all examples of domestic security gone wrong. The way for local police to secure their communities against real threats is to focus on criminal activities and the individuals involved...

Alleging that the Bush Administration’s “obsession” with the purported risk from Islamic jihadis had obscured the “clear and present danger” of “home-grown” terror, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Nipplitaliano issued new guidelines to security personnel. “When you get right down to it, the number of Islamic terrorists on American soil has got to be pitifully small,” Nipplitaliano observed. “On the other hand, there are millions of veterans, gun owners, and pro-lifers living in the United States. These statistics alone argue that a long overdue shift in emphasis is needed.” “Let’s not forget the damage done by Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma...