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.

[Michael Eden]

We have a new term for “pirates” now:

“Merchant marine organizers.”

Organizing the high seas community toward economic fairness.

[CORedneck]

Looks like we are going back to treating our veterans like crap like the Viet-Nam days when the vets came home and were denied jobs and were spat on. When I use to work for LM, the managerial power structure was former IBM (most old school) and we had a Viet-Nam vet - Jack. He was in the company longer than these punks but when they came in, they treated him pretty badly. Plus he didn’t care on being politically correct either.

[RightWingConspirator]

That leftist mentality of labeling anyone with an opposing idea as an extremist is what led the Klintoon administration to assault the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, and what ultimately led to burning to death of more than 80 men, women and children—American citizens all.

[RightWingConspirator]

She is truly an ugly woman, as well.

[Twinkie]

They ought to read DU a while to decide whether or not the “left wing” elevator goes all the way to the top floor. What little I see on there is the most hate-filled, obscene, juvenile garbage imaginable.

[Michael Eden]

That leftist mentality of labeling anyone with an opposing idea as an extremist is what led the Klintoon administration to assault the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, and what ultimately led to burning to death of more than 80 men, women and children—American citizens all.
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The words of that kid (last name Pollak) who put Barney Frank in his place by asking a simple question that caused Frank to blow up rather than respond:

And one of the reasons I don’t consider myself a Democrat anymore is because whenever you ask a question, you’re labeled. You’re put into a box. I found that even when I was a left-wing Democrat, as I was — and I was so left-wing in my undergrad days that I thought Bill Clinton was too far to the center. When I would go to left-wing events, I found that questioners did exactly what Congressman Frank did. When I went to conservative events, they listened to the question and they gave me an answer. And so I think that that has a profound effect on you over time, if you’re the kind of person who’s curious about the way the world works.

[HighlyOpinionated]

WE the People need to get someone to donate copies of The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution and hand them out at HHS. Not that these people can actually READ.

What a bunch of maroons. This @#&#@ has no concept of The American Way . . . much less Truth and Justice.

I am livid.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Someone check out Saul Alinsky or Marx or Hitler and see if this is just part of the overall plan to take away the guns from Patriots and the Military who would defend the Constitution and replace it with the People's Army who are paid and pledged to the Great Fuhrer Caliph 0bama.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Michael Eden]

The more totalitarian, dictatorial, and communistic/fascistic a society is, the more likely it is to remove guns from its law-abiding citizenry.

[OneWingedShark]

>I’ve said it before...I’ll say it again:
>
>Liberalism is an insidiously evil mental disease with no known cure.

Metals, like Lithium, have been used in the treatments of mental diseases... I think something a bit more drastic and weighty, like lead or copper, should be used to treat these outbreaks.

You may want to get a second opinion though.

[Just A Nobody]

Somewhere along the line somebody decided they were no long a threat to society and let them all loose as a cost-saving measure.

IIRC, that was Reagan.

[Just A Nobody]

We have a new term for “pirates” now:
“Merchant marine organizers.”

No, no - haven't you heard? Our illustrious SoD has now labeled them as "untrained teenagers"...I kid you NOT!!!

[Beowulf9]

So right, you are.

[Prole]

Then let those unconstitutional, communist Obamatrons try to come and take them!!!!

FUBO!!!!!

FUBO, FUBO, FUBO!!!!!!!!!!!

[john mirse]

Is Obama eligible to be president? Has Obama lied about where and when he was born?

Why does the mainstream media treat Obama one way and the rest of us mortals a different way when it comes to asking Obama direct questions about his past?

1. I like to watch tv shows like Dateline, 48 hours, 20/20.

2. On these shows, the reporters go right after the person they interview when the reporters are investigating crimes such as murders and embezzlements.

3. These reporters have no problem asking persons very direct and embarrassing questions like the following:

"Did you murder so and so?"

"Did you poison the victim?"

"Where were you on the night of the murder?"

"Did you ever physically and verbally abuse the victim during your relationship?"

"Did you murder your previous girlfriend or girlfriends?"

"Did you embezzle all the money that the press claims you stole from your clients and your company?"

4. As we know, reporters routinely confront suspects by putting microphones in their faces as the persons are putting out the trash in front of their homes, or when the suspects are simply walking down the street.

5. Some reporters even spend days and nights camped outside suspects' homes, and they quickly confront the suspects when the suspects leave their houses even for a few minutes.

6. But when it comes to the way the mainstream media treats President Obama, it is with a don't-touch-him attitude.

7. Myself, I would like to hear a mainstream media reporter ask Obama two simple questions in my lifetime:

"Were you born in Hawaii? When?"

"Could you please give us the name of your Hawaii birth hospital?"

8. My point is this: Why is it so hard for prominent reporters to ask the President of the United States the two simple questions above about his Hawaii birthplace and his Hawaii birth hospital, when they have no problem confronting suspected murderers and embezzlers with embarrassing personal questions and with an in-your-face-microphone approach?

[Michael Eden]

What is sad is that it will ultimately be our military’s loyalty to Constitutional government that would prevent them from entering the battle against the side of a tyrannous government.

It would literally be up to former soldiers and those who resign - precisely what Obama is afraid of in this report - who depose a tyrannous government.

The military will heroically protect Americans from any and all external threats; we are own our own against our internal threats to our democracy and our way of life.

[OneWingedShark]

But the oath of enlistment is to the Constitution first, and the part on obeying orders requires that they be LAWFUL ORDERS; as the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, that means that contra-constitutional orders are illegal. Period.

[ezo4]

Same here - i took mine down as well and replaced it with a gadsden

[Michael Eden]

But the oath of enlistment is to the Constitution first, and the part on obeying orders requires that they be LAWFUL ORDERS; as the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, that means that contra-constitutional orders are illegal. Period.
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You’ve got a great point.

I’ve read some on our great military commanders, and I would sure rather they were in charge than Obama. They are incredibly thoughtful men who understand the times and the threats facing the nation. They also understand how to make things work.

But these are men who TRULY support the idea of civilian leadership, and it is unfathomable to me that they would step in and lead a revolt against an elected government.