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7 Senate Republicans Reply to DHS 'Rightwing Extremists' Scaremongering
Publius' Forum ^ | 4/17/09 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 04/17/2009 6:38:41 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

Seven Republican Senators have this week signed a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asking for the proof upon which the Department of Homeland Security based its outrageously accusatory report on so-called rightwing extremism in the Untied States.

The seven scold the DHS and the Obama administration for its over-broad generalizations that seem to assume that nearly half the electorate is prone to becoming terrorists merely because they hold right of center political views.

The letter alludes to the central point in this whole episode: that the U.S. government has now determined that the traditional American beliefs of small government and adherence to the Constitution is now suddenly a determinant in forming citizens into homegrown terrorist groups. After 200 years, all of a sudden believing in run-of-the-mill American beliefs makes you a terrorist! These seven Senators want to know why...

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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: barackobama; coburn; demint; dhs; donttreadonme; homelandsecurity; inhofe; napolitano; obama; rightwingextremism; senate; terrorism; veterans
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Obama's administration is basically posturing that the American military are terrorists.

Osama-ism is now hte official POTUS Administration poster boy for peace. Thanks to liberals, freedom is a punchline.

41 posted on 04/17/2009 9:23:19 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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