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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Did you ask him where in the Constitution it said redistribution of wealth?
I was at a car wash this morning and someone came in with a mcclatchy newspaper. Letters totally ripped a UC for having a tea party. They said the students were denying government paid health care but receiving government paid tuitions. How would either of the letter writers know how the students were going to college? Or what their anger is about? That is the mentality of these selfish gimmes who are scared to death obama will not give them handouts.
It is very inflammatory, likely to provoke precisely the behavior it claims to spotlight. The devil himself could not have designed a more potent social explosive.
Indeed. The method in the madness.
Oh I forgot, the letter to the editor, one said that most of the average republican and democrats would see no tax increases. He could not understand why they were angry about taxes. Anybody got a word for pie in the sky ignorance?
Drudge has a headline up "Homeland Security Warns of Right-Wing Radicals" and links to The Washington Times "Federal Agency Warns of Radicals on Right"
See also Homeland Security on guard for 'right-wing extremists': Returning U.S. military veterans singled out as particular threats from World Net Daily.
Looks to me like its true and just beginning to break.
ESCAPE? Not likely.
Actually, I was being a little bit over optimistic. If you are the subject of a committed unannounced "raid" and you're unaware that you've been specifically targeted for such action, it'll be over before you can become fully awake from your sweet dreams. Because they will execute a "no-knock" warrant at about 0300HRS and will kill the dog or dogs within milliseconds of making the breach into your home with sound suppressors, called "Hush Puppies" for a reason.
The best you can hope for is to make the proposition very expensive for the intrusion team in terms of lives. That way, they may be a little reluctant to try it the next time on somebody else. The consequences for you are disastrous and final. So make your peace with God before you set out on such a course. It's kinda sorta like the mission of the American forces poised on the DMZ between North and South Korea. They're there solely as a means to rouse the alarm. Their primary purpose? Yell BANG & DIE. The secondary purpose (little known but valid still) is not so much to keep the North from moving South as to keep the South from moving North.
Referring to the raid scenario proposed above: If you gather intelligence from a variety of sources that you might be in line for a raid, you can grab your B.O.B (Bug Out Bag) and light out for your planned secondary or fall back position and hope they don't have it staked out as well. Or send the women and kids to her mom's while you start watching re-runs of The Alamo. Those are pretty much the choices. Of course this pretty much also presupposes that you are the first victim of such a raid. If you are, be sure they'll be looking to make an example of you in order to make the transition to tyranny smoother for the sheep. Start watching The Alamo again....
Disagree. IMHO we're seeing the preps for the rise of the Anti Christ and it ain't Obama! He's just smoothing the way. You want to know more about this read this book, written by a friend of mine and co founder of RAPTURE READY? Here is the book: AMERICAN APOCALYPSE
LIE.
This is warmed up Bill Clinton's "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" shit. Mix in a little Southern Poverty Law Center paronoia add liberal hate and FBI power grabs and you have the making of modern day JOOS - conservatives as scapegoats.
Are conservatives the next to go into totalitarian ovens. You think it couldn't happen here? That's what the German people would have thought - and yet - they became the world's monsters. It can happen here.
Will our 'liberals' become the New Totalitarians?
No.
It won't work. It's too late. The "tea party" movement is already to big - they'll stop the horror.
Dissent was patriotic, but now it’s racist.
FEMA camps for conservatives; that’s anyone that doesn’t follow the Messiah’s Socialism as dictated by his Gestapo and Brown Shirts. Instead of a Star of David, wonder what symbol the new Reich has designed for Conservatives and American Patriots? Since I’m Jewish, I will have my own special symbol to include being Jewish and a Conservative.
Dissent is dividing America. As Rush’s caller stepped around in her call today, this nation would be united if ONLY the Republicans would get onboard Obama’s agenda 101%.
Anybody got some advice about what to do when the police order you to put away the camera?
Because they tend to say that.
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[Mr] T
To me you are defiling the greatest American hero in our history. Why don’t you hit the ‘abuse’ button and have the mods remove this? They will happily comply. This isn’t funny in the least.
I wished I had it in me to put into words how I feel about this. I just don’t.
It’s almost like getting kicked in the gut by a horse and, at the same time, having the doctor tell you your Mother just died.
Move to the periphery and shoot from the hip.
Obama and Co. are trash.
I’m going to the DC Tea Party tomorrow, and I’m carrying a 3’x5’ Gadsden flag on a solid oak pole. Let them try something, please........
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