Posted on 04/17/2009 10:06:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Senators to Napolitano: Show us the data By Michelle Malkin • April 17, 2009 12:58 PM
Senators Coburn, Brownback, DeMint, Burr, Murkowski, Inhofe, and Vitter sent the following letter to DHS Secretary Napolitano yesterday concerning the DHS conservative hit job:
April 16, 2009
The Honorable Janet Napolitano Secretary The Department of Homeland Security 310 7th street, S.W. Washington, DC 20528-0150
VIA FASCMILLE
Dear Secretary Napolitano,
We write today concerning the release of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” prepared by the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, of the Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division.
While we agree that we must fight extremists who are both foreign and domestic we are troubled by some of the statements your department included as fact in the report titled above, without listing any statistical data to back up such claims.
First, your report states that “Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to rightwing extremists…” without listing any data to support such a vile claim against our nation’s veterans.
Second, the report states that the millions of Americans who believe in the Second Amendment are a potential threat to our national security. Why? Do you have statistics to prove that law-abiding Americans who purchase a legal product are being recruited by so-called hate groups?
Thirdly, the report states that those that believe in issues such as pro-life legislation, limited government, and legal versus illegal immigration are potential terrorist threats. We can assure you that these beliefs are held by citizens of all races, party affiliation, male and female, and should not be listed as a factor in determining potential terror threats. A better word usage would be to describe them as practicing their First Amendment rights.
Also, you list those that bemoan the decline of U.S. stature and the loss of U.S. manufacturing capability to China and India as being potential rightwing extremists. We would suggest that the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs in the manufacturing industry to foreign countries are not potential terror threats, but rather honest Americans worried about feeding their families and earning a paycheck.
In closing, we support the mission of DHS in protecting our country from terror attacks and are proud of the many DHS employees who make this possible in conjunction with our state and local law enforcement. We ask that DHS not use this report as a basis to unfairly target millions of Americans because of their beliefs and the rights afforded to them in the Constitution. We also ask that you provide us with the data that support the unfair claims listed in the report titled above and to present us with the matrix system used in collecting and analyzing this data?
Finally, we look forward to your prompt reply and we offer our assistance to DHS in our shared effort to fight terrorism both home and abroad by using data that is accurate and independent of political persuasion.
and if that doesn’t work, we shall sent you another very stern letter.....
Keep the HEAT on folks!
Write your Senators!!
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Write your reps!!!
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Great job..... I like in your face approaches to a problem.
If the single case of Timothy McVeigh means all Veterans should be monitored as possible terrorist does the same hold true for the 9/11 hijackers?
sincerely,
McGruff
Tim McVeigh had connections with Iraqis in the USA but Clinton never followed up on it.
Perhaps:”Why do you lump the American Public into every victim group you can define? Returning servicemen are not easy prey for radical recruiters. Nor are people who love the US Constitution and/or abhor abortion mindless Single Issue robots. Why do you think Americans are Single Issue robots? Why do you categorize us in voting blocks? Do you not think we can make decisions for ourselves? What makes you think you are capable of managing that department? Please resign at once!”
OJ Simpson murdered his white wife. Should all black men married to white women be surveilled just in case they decide to decapitate their wife?
Anyone here go to the gun range and smile like a grinning fool?
I doubt she ever fired that shotgun.
We don’t have any like that in Wisconsin.
I heard Mike Savage yesterday announcing his lawsuit—he is counting on all his listeners to contact their legislators and DEMAND Napolitano resign.
“We also ask that you provide us with the data that support the unfair claims listed in the report titled above and to present us with the matrix system used in collecting and analyzing this data?”
????? Did they really use a question mark???????
Why? I would have used, in the least, a period. At the most, an exclamation point! And I wouldn’t have used “ask,” I would have written “demand!”
I say Go Michael.
. . .and they will hear back; when it hell freezes over?
“If veterans should be watched because of Tim McVeigh, shouldn’t Muslims be watched because of Osama bin Laden and Mohammad Atta?”
Problem solved. Nepalolitano can send the $50 million typically spent for these studies to DuncanWaring along with a letter thanking same for common sense.
Handicapper General Diana Moon Glampers. Look it up.
Yes. I like what you say. See there are thinking sane people in the world.
Bingo! Call Rush. . .And e-mail Fox News. . .have not heard that perfect rationale yet!.
This needs not to go away. If it’s allowed to be buried (and the MSM would be only too happy to oblige) the DHS becomes just another tool for domestic politics. Napolitano insists that ideology isn’t part of this but the report reeks of it. The McVeigh smear on veterans is proof of it. Napolitano knows she’s crossed the line; what she and her people are waiting to see is what happens when they do and how much more they can get away with if nothing happens.
Don’t forget Barack Hussein Obama. Seriously needs watching. He’s the most dangerous threat alive to our continued freedom, our national security and sovereignty. Definitely a domestic enemy of the constitution. Well, domestic? No documentary proof of that.
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