Posted on 04/13/2009 10:02:53 PM PDT by ebiskit
Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled:
The “report” was one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I’d ever read out of DHS. I couldn’t believe it was real.
I spent the day chasing down DHS spokespeople, who have been tied up preparing for a very important homeland security event later today: The First Lady is coming to visit their Washington office. Priorities, you know.
Well, the press office got back to me and verified that the document is indeed for real.
They were very defensive — preemptively so — in asserting that it was not a politicized document and that DHS had done reports on “leftwing extremism” in the past. I have covered DHS for many years and am quite familiar with past assessments they and the FBI have done on animal rights terrorists and environmental terrorists. But those past reports have always been very specific in identifying the exact groups, causes, and targets of domestic terrorism, i.e., the ALF, ELF, and Stop Huntingdon wackos who have engaged in physical harassment, arson, vandalism, and worse against pharmaceutical companies, farms, labs, and university researchers.
By contrast, the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives. And the intent is clear. As the two spokespeople I talked with on the phone today made clear: They both pinpointed the recent “economic downturn” and the “general state of the economy” for stoking “rightwing extremism.” One of the spokespeople said he was told that the report has been in the works for a year. My b.s. detector went off the chart, and yours will, too, if you read through the entire report — which asserts with no evidence that an unquantified “resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalizations activity” is due to home foreclosures, job losses, and…the historical presidential election.
In Obama land, there are no coincidences. It is no coincidence that this report echoes Tea Party-bashing left-wing blogs (check this one out comparing the Tea Party movement to the Weather Underground!) and demonizes the very Americans who will be protesting in the thousands on Wednesday for the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party.
From the report, p.2:
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.
From the report. p. 3:
(U//LES) Rightwing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment tool. Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment. From the 2008 election timeframe to the present, rightwing extremists have capitalized on related racial and political prejudices in expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential sympathizers.
(U) Exploiting Economic Downturn
(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet continues to focus on the economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors, and home foreclosures. Anti-Semitic extremists attribute these losses to a deliberate conspiracy conducted by a cabal of Jewish “financial elites.” These “accusatory” tactics are employed to draw new recruits into rightwing extremist groups and further radicalize those already subscribing to extremist beliefs. DHS/I&A assesses this trend is likely to accelerate if the economy is perceived to worsen.
From the report, p. 5:
(U//FOUO) Over the past five years, various rightwing extremists, including militias and white supremacists, have adopted the immigration issue as a call to action, rallying point,
and recruiting tool. Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent.
And echoing the anti-military bigotry last seen in that disgusting Penn State University training video, there’s this on p. 7:
(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
There’s no hackneyed left-wing stereotype of conservatives left behind in this DHS intelligence and analysis assessment. I asked both DHS spokespeople to tell me who, specifically, the report was accusing of “rightwing extremist chatter” and which “antigovernment” groups are being monitored as “extremists.” They say they’ll get back to me.
In the meantime, be aware of this from the report, p. 8:
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A will be working with its state and local partners over the next several months to ascertain with greater regional specificity the rise in rightwing extremist activity in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the political, economic, and social factors that drive rightwing extremist radicalization.
Better make a few last-minute signs for the Tea Party. Obama’s DHS is watching:
Honk if you’re a radicalized rightwing extremist!
Guilty of rightwing extremist chatter
Anti-government, pro-freedom: Sue me
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I fear that you're right. This kind of propaganda from some doctrinaire group like the SPLC (and the MSM) is somewhat to be expected, but when it emanates from a powerful law enforcement wing of the federal government it's something else. Clearly HS is ramping up for something, and I believe that Butch Reno clone who presently heads it is behind it (as is her boss).
First rob them blind, make them insecure, then conquer them completely. Spread propaganda to the useful tools, like lawyers on the gubmint payroll, so that ordinary citizens will be identified as the enemy.
This reminds me of that often-cited Milgram Experiment, also called the "obedience study", in which students gave increasingly powerful electric shocks to classmates at the direction of the psychological study administrator.
ITS MY FIRST AMENDEMENT RIGHT TO EXPRESS MY VIEWS....SCREW OBAMA
I hope to God you are wrong, but I fear you are right.
If you are “rejecting of Federal authority” and “favor state or local authority” you are labeled as a “right-wing extremist” by this document.
So, if I am “rejecting” of a federal tax rate of
35%?
50%?
75%?
90%?
that makes me a right-wing extremist?
If I don't want the government to digitize my private health records, that makes me a “right-wing extremist?”
and on and on...
A serious mistake by this administration is he let Pelosi and Reid blow his wad of spending way too early and there is not enough money that can be borrowed or printed to create his private enforcement army (”just as well funded as the military”).
For every one true “right-wing extremist” there are 10,000 patriotic Americans that have very good bullsh*t detectors. This paper is 100% bullsh*t.
It's the same kind of crap that went on during the Clinton years.
Rush was just talking about this document a few minutes ago.
The “Progre$$ives” advance their agenda , Totalitarianism, their placards held high for all to see... “Down with FReedom and Liberty!” and the mob, including the MuddyStreamMedia, cheers.. albeit somewhat stonily and drunkenly..
We need to find out who the lilly livered pansies are that wrote this tripe and demand they be fired ASAP
Well looks like the post racial president ain’t so much.
This started with the push for amnesty. If you believe in the law, you are a racist.
I so much agree with you that all of this seems surreal. As I read liberals scream we are extremists, fear mongers and conspiracy theorists, I really sit back and think, how can you not be in this atmosphere of obama turning everything upside down daily?
For instance, I use to get those emails of New World Order. B.O, before obama. I would look at them. Go to snopes or wherever and it was debunked. On with my day.
Since Barack, nothing seems to far fetched. I look and search everything. Then I pray what I find is not true.
Dick Morris told O’Reilly that always before New World Order theorists were all kooks. Not his exact words. He said no more. He said obama plans on New World Order and a Global economy.
Short story made long, I am always for truth. If this can be debunked then I will sleep better. At least until obama takes the stage again. /wink
I guess dissent is no longer patriotic.
I guess resigning from the FR and going off-grid and joining Acorn is too late for us all now huh?
Looking at the photos you posted, reminded me that McVeigh’s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma was not clearly an act of terrorism. It was more an act of revenge for Waco.
I was the same on New World Order theories. Now, I am also looking closely.
A former boss sent me an email saying that Obama is doing what the founders planned: A fair distribution of wealth. I wrote him back and said that is NOT in the constitution not anything near what the founders had in mind for this country. This man is a “mainstream” liberal Democrat. This is what we are dealing with.
I hope not.
Roger that.
It looks like a extension of the MIAC so compiling the information would be quick. Remember the MIAC was first reported in Missouri where they were not afraid to go after obama critics. To me it reads almost similar and Malkin said it was horribly written.
And in my conspiracy, right wing, terrorist (sarcasm) mode, obama wants to be sure to quiet tea parties dissent. He has no clue there is a whole boat load of democrats angry at him that are joining.
obama thugs are making it partisan to smear republicans and libertarians but in California some of the tea party organizers have asked that everyone leave their political or personal views at home and not make this about democrats or republicans. No talking about abortion policies or foreign aid, just who is going to pay for obama’s tripling of the deficit.
This morning on fox news the democrats are totally angry obama is keeping the states secrets and spying that he campaigned against last year. HA!! Could have told them so last year. obama is taking away more of our freedoms and keeping every single policy they screamed about with Bush too.
Looks like we have some wind for tomorrow. No, obama will not be speaking. hee!
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