Right-Wing Extremism Explored

Campus Report ^ | April 29, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

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Right-Wing Extremism Explored

by: Bethany Stotts, April 29, 2009

The Department of Homeland Security memo outlining the emerging “threat” of right-wing extremism has been heavily criticized over the last couple weeks for its vagueness and apparent attempt to ideologically profile individuals of conservative ideology.

The criticized DHS report stated in a footnote that “Right wing 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” (emphasis added).

Not merely a product of the Obama administration, the DHS has in fact been funding academic research on right-wing domestic extremism since at least 2005, and has expended over $370,000 on projects by two academics, including a database of “open-source data on non-violent and violent criminal behavior associated with far right-wing extremist groups” between 1990 and 2009.

In 2005 City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Joshua Freilich conducted “a systematic literature review on far-right extremism and measurement issues in terrorism related research” and in August 2007, he and Professor Steve Chermak of Michigan State University presented a research briefing to then-DHS Undersecretary Jay M. Cohen on the results of their first database.

Freilich’s interpretation of right-wing extremism, however, is far less politically charged than the DHS report, which was influenced by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.

“The domestic far-right is composed of individuals or groups that subscribe to aspects of the following ideals,” Freilich told this correspondent....

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In other words, the essential ingredients of right-wing extremism, according to Freilich, require an emphasis on paramilitary action and generally involve individuals who ascribe to vast conspiracy theories about a hostile force which threatens America’s way of life.

How is this different than the left during the past eight years?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

( Right-Wing Extremism Explored ) ...... and they don't think there is a problem with Left wing radical extremism ??

Take about the lunitics taking over the asylum..... this would be the prefect example of that saying....
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest.....

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Morris Dees is a terrorist, and a pervert!

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Southern Poverty Law Center, two men and their dog stored in the garage in case the leftards need someone to quote in the media about right wing extremists.

Never fails, every time the Democrats win, out pops this turd — Doesn't say anything just shows up, the media laps his boots, then goes back to his garage.