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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Previous: Missouri retracts report linking militias, 3rd party candidates.
So, when/where is the next Waco?
How about "a Waco every week?"
The really insidious aspect of this very dangerous development comes from several angles. 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.
It also shows how DHS has fallen completely to the Social Workers, and there was good reason to fear this must one day happen back at the creation of this Frankenstein - knowing full well it would inevitable fall into the hands of the Socialist mob.
It demonstrates the Reason-For-Being of DHS has become Self-Continuity, and the Terrorists, in the eyes of this administration are the People, as defined in the Constitution. They clearly fear the People more than Islam.
How does one fight this attempt to redefine the Center in a battle of perceptions? Tea Parties?
If this is just the first, what can we expect before an election policed by these mobsters and ACORN?
I can't help but wonder if we can wait for an election, as methodology such as this will only get stronger and more dangerous, dividing out individuals in a reign of terror and cowing the rest.
Do you imagine there will not be a disproportionate number of IRS audits awaiting those attending Tea Parties on Wednesday? They may even hope that word of such a thing is exposed, as it ignites the kind of direct action they want, and there just isn't any "media" anymore.
This is bad, bad business, friends. It is a clear and present danger to the safety of the Republic.
The real enemy of the puppet masters.
http://www.thelibertypapers.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/hsa-rightwing-extremism-09-04-07.pdf
Does this look like a unclassified homeland security document?
explain this a little more please?
What the government and media are doing is no different than the bully in the schoolyard trying to taunt you into a fight. Like the bully in the schoolyard they will continue to call you names and push you around until you lose your temper. Hopefully the incidents that the government and media are trying to create with their taunting will not materialize. What worrys me though is that the bully may give his self a bloody nose then run and tell the teacher you did it.
All I could think about at the time was “what would happen with that kind of power in the clintonista hands”
now we know.
“I can’t help but wonder if we can wait for an election”...
No...we cannot. The enemy is no longer at the gates, the enemy is in charge.
Added to the “the list”.
bttt!
There was a reason the Founders preferred a militia to a standing army: The concentration of power away from the people is too easily turned against them. That is but one reason why we had limited government in the first place.
The corollary is that concentrated power ALWAYS serves the interests of the politically dominant at the expense of everybody else, antithetical to a system designed to secure unalienable rights.
Just replace “rightwing extremists” with “scientists”, and you’d have a neat plot for a TV miniseries. Oh, wait...
Unconstitutional, gestapo trash.
Ouch! Prophetic no?
>and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority,
Like, say the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution... or perhaps the 9th?
>or rejecting government authority entirely.
Something like reading our federal and state constitutions, which are written in plain English and insisting that the pertinent governments play by _those_ rules?
>It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
Or, say, “support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” hm?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_enlistment
>”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.”
How odd, my state defines its militia as “consist[ing] of all able-bodied male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, except such as are exempt by laws of the United States or of this state.” I don’t se how the recuiting base could reasonably be larger... unless you’re in favor of drafring the women, too.
>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.
Oh, now this is just fun! Why shouldn’t veterans want to employ their skills against a regime of tryanny should it arise? Why shouldn’t military veterans be “disgruntled, disillusioned” when their jobs are turned into political fodder and they are defamed by the very politicians doing so? Why should they hold their peace while vast differences in law-applicability/requirements seperate them and their ‘leader’? {The last time I was up for a promotion packet I had to produce all the documentation supporting every awward/medal I recived, every course of military/school training, PT scores... and this guy can’t be bothered to produce his BIRTH CERTIFICATE and PASSPORTS!? WTF!?}
Yeah, and what about that the Congress’s members can fail to pay the very taxes their laws have put in place to little effect?
Heh, you betcha’!
“This “antigovernment” phraseology is inflammatory in that it gives the impression that following the Constitution is “antigovernment” when in fact it is just the opposite.
It is FOR government as the Constitution defines it.”
Exactly...
I am a “RADICAL CONSTITUTIONALIST”, and I don’t swallow leftist media propoganda blindly.
Which puts me on the enemies list of the current regime....
4 later
Worst kept secret since the ‘Bay of Pigs” invasion. Obama is a radical Che Guavera Marxist who wants to do what Reagan did for conservatism for liberals. Change the direction of the country.
In other Breaking News: Pro Wrestling is fake.
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