Obama Administration Says Americans Should Fear Their Combat Veterans

Start Thinking Right ^ | April 14, 2009 | Michael Eden

[Michael Eden]

Barack Hussein's new Homeland Security Director says that Americans should be afraid that our returning combat veterans will be recruited by right-wing groups and use the 2nd Amendment rights they fought to protect to attack against the country.

I never thought I would hear such a profound level of mistrust and hostility directed at our greatest and noblest citizens. But that's how this administration rolls.

Of course, Obama already has always thought dimly about those Americans (in the below case Pennsylvanians) who refused to support him:

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

The second page of the Obama DHS's 9-page report has a definition of "rightwing extremism" that is frankly terrifying:

Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.

Great googly-moogly! I just found out I was a "rightwing extremist." And if the government says it, it has to be true. I believe in limited federal government. I believe that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." And I am opposed to BOTH abortion and illegal immigration.

Our founding fathers who wrote our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Federalist papers began their political careers being defined as traitors. Now they get to return to that status under Barack Obama.

The very top of the second page of the report offers this disclaimer:

The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.

Of course, there is no specific information that monkeys will fly out of my butt, but the government should massively crack down just in case.

And, of course, being "right-wing" is clearly tantamount to being "racist." Just ask the president who campaigned promising to unite the country.

No actual proof of any of it, but shouldn't the charge itself be sufficient to condemn in this brave new world of "hope" and "change"?

Well, at least al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden are off the hook. Obama apparently stopped using the term "terrorists" and "war on terror" against Islamists so he could apply the terms to conservatives instead.

Ed Morissey offered this on HotAir.com:

Michelle has it covered pretty well, but I looked at the DHS report on “right-wing extremism” myself, and it’s every bit as bad as she says, and as Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers first reported. The DHS fails to provide any specifics at all, preferring instead to smear half of the country or more as kooks for criticizing the government’s handling of the economy. As Eli Lake reports, the DHS has all but declared war on federalism, which used to be the founding concept of our republic:

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in “rightwing extremist activity,” saying the economic recession, the election of America’s first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines “rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

“It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration,” the warning says.

The first question we should ask is whether the DHS is reacting to any specific threats at all? Er … no (emphasis mine):

The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues.

This gets repeated over and over again during the report. They have no threat information. In fact, the report can’t even say definitively whether “extremists” are gaining “new recruits”. In order to find that, they’d have to identify the actual groups, note the recruiting patterns, and determine whether in fact they’re gaining recruits or losing members. Bottom line: DHS has no actual data. They’re pulling threats out of their collective arse and publishing them without any supporting research whatsoever.

DHS acts as though white-supremacist groups and militias believing in Zionist world conspiracies stopped existing between 2000 and 2008. Of course they didn’t; George Bush’s strong support for Israel fed those nutcase groups for eight years. Are those groups growing in the last five months, after what DHS assumes is the trigger for all this hate — the election of Barack Obama? They provide absolutely no evidence at all for it, and in fact repeat over and over again that they don’t have that data in a hail of May Bes.

So what’s triggered their antennae?

The current economic and political climate has some similarities to the 1990s when rightwing extremism experienced a resurgence fueled largely by an economic recession, criticism about the outsourcing of jobs, and the perceived threat to U.S. power and sovereignty by other foreign powers.

In the first place, the “outsourcing of jobs” outrage didn’t get stoked by the Right. That outrage got fed by the Democrats in the last two elections, and it’s a feature of the same anti-globalization loons of the hard Left that continually disrupt G-20 summits as they violently did in London. Barack Obama himself stoked a fair share of it during the presidential campaign with his NAFTA Dance.

And should we not have some concern about the economic recession, debate about trade policy, and insist on maintaining American power and sovereignty? Since when did those topics indicate criminality and terrorism?

DHS also manages to make several hysterical references to returning veterans. I’ll highlight the weasel words and provide the translation at the end:

The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.

Gee, it could lead? What evidence does DHS have of this? Oh, yeah, Timothy McVeigh was a veteran … and that’s it. I’m not joking:

After Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991, some returning military veterans—including Timothy McVeigh—joined or associated with rightwing extremist groups.

So let’s be terrified of veterans! Let’s treat them all like potential suspects, even though we don’t have one iota of evidence of any wrongdoing at all. Yeah, that’s the American way.

Imagine, if you will, what the Left would say if we took this entire document and replaced all references to “military veterans” with “Muslims”, and all references to “abortion” with “universal health care”, and then predated this DHS report to 2008, during the Bush administration. They’d be screaming about being smeared as traitors for their political beliefs, and they’d be right to do so. That’s exactly what the Obama administration and Janet Napolitano has done here.

This is a disgrace. Congress should demand Napolitano’s resignation immediately, and the White House should apologize for this attack on normal political dissent.

This is flat-out fascist. It is naked demagoguery specifically intended to label for demonization those Americans who harbor conservative or even merely traditional sentiments.

[LifeComesFirst]

I may actually register as a Republican to vote in the primaries, just to kick Obama out of the WH in 2012.

[Uncle Miltie]

"rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority"

Federalism = Rightwing Extremism

- 0bummer

[silverleaf]

It’s shockingly bad

Has an american president ever suffered from this degree of paranoia in thinking American conservatives, federalists, Christians, and military veterans are potential enemies?

[LottieDah]

These people have lost their friggin minds. Lord knows where we would be WITHOUT combat veterans.

[prismsinc]

WOW! This is Stalin style psychopathy. I’m starting to wonder if Zero is sane. This hints of major insane paranoia by Zero.

[SpinnerWebb]

Silent Running
Mike & The Mechanics

Take the children and yourself
And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don’t believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I’m with the high command

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

There’s a gun and ammunition
Just inside the doorway
Use it only in emergency
Better you should pray to God
The Father and the Spirit
Will guide you and protect from up here

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

[Beowulf9]

“New Homeland Security Advisor”

...meaning Janet Napolitano?

When she was our governor here in Az she did her best to let all the illegals walk into our state and get jobs. She was against English being the official choice of language and every bill the public supported en masse to ensure we handle the problem with illegal aliens she was against and wouldn’t enforce.

I’m not surprised.

[PhilCollins]

I was in the navy for 21 years, and I was near Baghdad, in the Triangle of Death, Sept. 2004-Mar. ‘05. I was a member of conservative groups before I went to the Middle East.

[al baby]

I think that his past or current drug use is causing him to be paranoid

[Michael Eden]

Survey after survey has proven that most of our nation’s veterans are conservatives who vote Republican.

It’s not that liberals despise the military; they despise a military that seeks to uphold traditional constitutional values.

Any fool can see that they LOVE marshaling power against those who disagree with them.

[OB1kNOb]

For those of you currently serving this country in the Armed Forces, first, thank you for your service, but realize that this is what Obama and his appointed minions think about you. Consider this matter seriously and settle it in your mind beforehand so that when the time comes and Obama sends you to squelch public uprisings against his Marxist administration, you know without a doubt whose side you are on.

[chris37]

I fear the government of the United States of America, and not much else.

[DocRock]

"Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."

[The Sons of Liberty]

Obama Administration Says Americans Should Fear Their Combat Veterans

0bama and his regime fear veterans because they have "sworn to defend The Constitution" - something they abhor.

[Michael Eden]

I think Obama thinks our military should do their appointed duty and fight. And then be humanly euthanized in a “retroactive abortion” like they did with war dogs.

I put my flag away: I won’t fly it while this man is president. (And if I did fly it on the days I have always flown it, I would fly it upside down).

Every day is a new outrage.

[RikaStrom]

home

[quikdrw]

>>>Survey after survey has proven that most of our nation’s veterans are conservatives who vote Republican.

I certainly am. My older brother is, too.

[lgjhn23]

I’ve said it before...I’ll say it again:

Liberalism is an insidiously evil mental disease with no known cure. 20-30 years ago, these people were locked up in state institutions known as “nut houses”. They tried every means possible to cure em...including the infamous electric shock treatments. Somewhere along the line somebody decided they were no long a threat to society and let them all loose as a cost-saving measure. Now, we got em in the government setting social and political philosophy. They’re gonna get us all killed.
Th inmates are, in fact, running the ayslum!!!!

[Levante]

“I think that his past or current drug use is causing him to be paranoid”

That and his apparent low-down homosexuality.