DHS Wants to Know What You’re Thinking

National Review ^ | April 19, 2009

[Steelfish]

April 17, 2009

DHS Wants to Know What You’re Thinking The Obama administration defines extremism down.

By Andrew C. McCarthy

For eight years, we’ve been treated to hysterical rhetoric from Democrats, including Barack Obama, about the scourge of “domestic spying.” Now that the Obama administration is openly calling for domestic spying — the real thing, not the smear used against President Bush — they’re suddenly silent.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in coordination with the FBI, has issued an intelligence assessment on what it calls “Rightwing

Extremism.” It is appalling. The nakedly political document announces itself as a “federal effort to influence domestic public opinion.”

It proceeds, in what it acknowledges is the absence of any “specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence,” to speculate that “rightwing” political views might “drive” such violence — violence, it further surmises, that might be abetted by military veterans returning home after putting their lives on the line in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And for good measure, in violation of both FBI guidelines and congressional statutes, the Obama administration promises scrutiny of ordinary Americans’ political views, speech, and assembly.

[KevinDavis]

Not one peep from the ACLU...

[Texas Eagle]

Well, we’re not thinking what Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Ted Kaczynski or Lee Harvey Oswald were thinking if that’s what they’re thinking.

[chicagolady]

What am I thinking? I am thinking Janet Reno.....Oh I mean Janet Napalitano should RESIGN!!

[vetvetdoug]

I'm thinking that I'd like to have sex with Janene Garofalo. (that'll mess em' up real bad...)

[Tarpon]

two words, charismatic dunce. Up to them to figure out who I was thinking about.

[Texas Eagle]

According to Obama’s DHS, it refers to groups that are “primarily hate-oriented” on ethnic grounds (perhaps DHS hasn’t heard of the National Socialist party) and those that are violently anti-government because of economic and social grievances...

Ohhhhhh...they're talking about groups like the NAACP, Rainbow/PUTSCH, the Congressional Black Caucus, etc.

Stupid, DHS. Those aren't right-wing groups.

[GeronL]

The jackboots cometh

[muawiyah]

It’d undoubtedly have to be “forced sex” with her getting four or five very strong men to hold you down.

[GeronL]

when the domestic army begins going door to door rounding up those opposed to Obama there will be massive cheering by the media and parades held in O’s honor.

count on it.

freedom dies, not with a bang, but with resounding applause

[McGruff]

For eight years, we’ve been treated to hysterical rhetoric from Democrats, including Barack Obama, about the scourge of “domestic spying.” Now that the Obama administration is openly calling for domestic spying — the real thing, not the smear used against President Bush — they’re suddenly silent.

Excellent point!

[Caipirabob]

Most people are thinking that DHS may pose a greater threat to the American way of life than terrorists if they continue with this intolerable BS.

[Yaelle]

freedom dies, not with a bang, but with resounding applause

Scariest post of the day.

The year.

[Piquaboy]

I think that is the biggest collection of idiots I have ever seen in an administration.

[Steelfish]

Very true. If you salute our flag, stand up for Judeo-Christian values, insist on maintaining the historical and cultural foundations of our country, applaud strict constructionists like Justices Scalia and Thomas, demand a strong military, insist on “English-only,” work for strong controls on immigrations, and cheer-on the Sarah Palins, and keep “Third-World” countries in their place, you are branded “dangerous” or “racists”. These are charges from the feeble-minded and expose the weakness of their position.

[river rat]

I no longer respect or trust them..
They could easily become Obama’s “brown shirts” and Gestapo.

[GeronL]

I think I stole that from Queen Amadalia of the Star Wars movie

[cripplecreek]

I was thinking about becoming a duisgruntled vet but the military won’t take me at my age so I’ll have to settle on being just plain disgruntled.

[river rat]

Yeah, I get all the bull dykes confused to...
They DO all look alike, don't they.

They also seem to gravitate to positions of power.... I guess the big ugly ones are naturally dominatrix prone...