I Am An Extremist (Oliver North)

Townhall.com ^ | April 17, 2009 | Oliver North

[jazusamo]

OLIVER NORTH PING!

Please Freepmail me to be added to the Ollie North ping list.

[xuberalles]

[DB]

Count me as an “Extremist” too.

[pallis]

Fact is, to communist minded people, anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a rightwing, radicalized extremist, even if they fit comfortably into the mainstream thinking of a conservative society.

[jazusamo]

Praise the Lord, there’s a lot of us.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Most Americans will just see this as other law abiding , Conservative, church going, home owning Americans labeled as “
EXSTREMEIST and hauled off to some concentration camp, and just laugh at those in Government who are making the false accusations of these American Patriots.

[Texas Fossil]

Barry Goldwater stated:

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.

And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

[Fiddlstix]

Nailed It !

[Just A Nobody]

I love this guy! Please note he DOES NOT refer to the usurper in the people’s house using the “p” word. LOL!

[bray]

Guess who’ll get blamed for the next Al Queda attack???

Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure

[jazusamo]

You’re so right, Justa and I looked for it when reading the piece. :-)

[Billthedrill]

Mr. Obama should disavow this report publicly and fire the officials responsible for issuing it.

Yes, but he didn't, and he won't. And the reason he won't is that they really do believe every word of it. How could they possibly believe such arrant nonsense?

It's very simple. They classify as "extremist" everything that they are not. It's pure, sophomoric class identification. They are not (1) veterans, (2) gun owners, (3) Christians, (4) interested in the idea that the basic nuclear family is anything but a font of oppression. Anyone who is, is outside their comfortable, insular little world. These are not populists although they occasionally condescend to posing as them. They are elitists, they have identified who they wish to associate with, and the ones on that list aren't among them.

Don't laugh at this. These people really believe it.

[OneWingedShark]

>>Barry Goldwater stated:
>>I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
>
>And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

HOT DAMN! That’s _exactly_ the reply I have been looking for. I haven’t been doing to well on some issues, because, I think my sense of Justice is so rankled and it seems that there is nobody who wants to see justice done who is in power. Anyway,what people keep telling me is that “the world isn’t so black and white” and things that are, for all intents and purposes, advocating moderation in the pursuit of Justice!

[jazusamo]

Bump to that, Bill! You’re exactly right.

[The Cajun]

Col. North talks the talk, but also walks the walk. I rate him right up there with General Patton when it comes to patriotism and guts.......Scares the hell out of the commie bastards.

[Travis McGee]

We’re all extremists now.

[jazusamo]

I agree and he’d make one fine President!

[Ben Hecks]

Thanks for the ping, Jaz - this is really over the line and no apology will suffice. Napolitano needs to go! (and take her boss with her)

[rockrr]

Mr. Obama should disavow this report publicly and fire the officials responsible for issuing it. Those who prepare his remarks for the occasion should insert in the teleprompter former Sen. Barry Goldwater's words on the subject: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."

The lefties I spar with on other sites say that the reaction by the right-wing to this "assessment" is overblown and a sign of paranoia. They usually follow up with the old saw, "You got nothing to be afraid of if you're not doing anything wrong" which is rich irony coming from a group who went ballistic over the imagined catastrophic loss of rights under the Patriot Act.

The obvious problem with this "assessment" is that they don't cite specific groups or incidents, but rather paint with a very wide brush entire groups of otherwise law abiding citizens whose only particular attribute is that they AREN'T dhimmis (at least not yet).

The reaction is real; it is broad; it is passionate. If the O'bumbler DIDN'T buy this "assessment" he would have, like Mr. North suggests, spoke to it and made an effort (any effort) to assuage those concerns. He didn't because he does believe that we are his enemies. Enemies to be marginalized.

The O'bumbler's silence tells me everything I need to know about his intentions.