You are correct. That is why the DHS has changed its name and created a new seal.
Posted on 04/26/2009 11:39:13 AM PDT by moneyrunner
First it was the turn for the Right to be outraged by a DHS report warning that – among others - veterans, the unemployed, people unable to obtain credit, opponents of illegal immigration, racists, anti-Semites, gun owners, civil libertarians, people who oppose abortion, people who oppose homosexual marriage, paranoids, people who buy guns and ammunition, Christians, and anti-Communists were ripe for being recruited into ‘right wing extremist” groups.
Today we are treated to the revelation that the Virginia Fusion Center (which is funded by the DHS) has spotted other links to terrorist groups. While the Virginian Pilot was apparently unaware of the DHS report on right wing terrorism, they take this report very seriously indeed. That’s because it identified groups that (unlike right wing extremist) they think are just great. This time several local “historically black” colleges are singled out as breeding grounds for terror cells. The report also mentions Pat Robertson’s Regent University, a local anti-abortion group and the military. The entire report is here.
Broadsides from the press, the university community and the ACLU notwithstanding, I have to agree with the DHS. The groups singled out in the reports are a threat to the established order.
From the Left, anger will be directed at elements of the old regime and those parts of conservative society who publicly oppose the new direction the Left are taking the country. The left has always been the natural home of the Jihadists of Islam, communists and anarchists. We did not need a report to know that.
On the part of the Right, we may see a birth of activism that has previously been the province of the Left...
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they were totally different.
The left one cites actual examples and real organizations.
The right one, it trashes everything and everyone on the right generally.
very very different
You don’t have to look far to find actual concrete examples of violent leftists, and leftist home-grown terrorists. Look at almost any leftist demonstration (anti-war, pro-abortion, whatever), and you see a cauldron of violence waiting for the slightest trigger to erupt. And leftist terrorists have been active since long before 9-11.
OTOH, the “warning” about right-wing groups is all hypothetical, and there isn’t a single concrete example of a right-wing terrorist, nor of right-wing groups erupting into spontaneous violence.
See my reply to GeronL
You are correct. That is why the DHS has changed its name and created a new seal.
These DHS reports are making me uncomfortable. Isn’t that considered torture now?
Yes and no.
If you are a law-abiding, gun-owning, talk-radio-listening, taxpaying American. Then yes.
If you're a maniacal, blood-thirsty, America-hater who believes it is your duty to devise plots designed to kill as many infidels as possible. Then no.
Ehhhhh, no habla ingles. Yo quiero el Amendmento cinco.
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