Are You an ‘Extremist’? (Thomas Sowell)

Jewish World Review ^ | April 20, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If that’s the DHS definition of an extremist, I’m an extremist and proud of it!

NEVER allow them to name you like this.

Anyone who desires to make changes which would require a million more cops to enforce is an actual extremist . . . and when it gets to the point that you have to precede a word with "actual," the integrity of that word, and thus of the English language, has been subverted by just that much. As the subversion of the word "liberal" in the 1920s illustrates. Ever since then, we who advocate liberty have had to limit ourselves to a label - "conservative" - which is accurate in some ways, but is not suggestive of liberty.

[TheOldLady]

Would you care to comment on the actual content of the article? What is your take on what he has to say? Mai speling ayn’t soo grate neether. Sometimes.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Travis McGee]

I agree. Even Sowell is sniffing this danger.

[papertyger]

That people who have put their lives on the line for this country are made the target of what is called the Vigilant Eagle program suggests that this administration might be more of a threat than the people they are investigating.

I'm reminded of the scene in Robert Duval's "Stalin" where he wipes out the officer corps that brought him to power...

[RoadTest]

Tom, keep up the good work!

(signed) Many Proud Members of the Vast, RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY!

[RoadTest]

“I R a rite winged extreemist.”

-—and mye nukkles drag on the ground

[MrB]

I believe that the only way to God is through the Son;

Under the UN Rights of the Child treaty, teaching your kids this fact will be cause for their removal from your custody.

Yes, I know, over your dead body and the bodies of those who come to enforce it. Let's not let it come to that.

http://www.parentalrights.org SIGN THE PETITION
organized by Michael Farris, founder of HSLDA

[MrB]

Methinks these “returning soldiers” should consider networking with their friends and men of their church,

training them in the use of their “liberty teeth”.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article] If you fit into any of these categories, you may not have realized that you are considered a threat to national security. But apparently the Obama administration has its eye on you.

Hmmm, "the Eye of Sauron", eh? Well, I gotcher "eye" right here, Toothpaste Boy. Whyn'cha take a closer look?!

[lentulusgracchus]

Two words. Woodrow Wilson. If you disagreed with him loudly enough, you went to prison.

That's exactly right. One or two unfortunates actually swung from lampposts, thanks to mobs chummed up by the power structure.

And WW's wife was a piece of work, too -- didn't mind running the country for us while he was indisposed.

[Inwoodian]

I guess Elie Wiesel is an extremist.

[lentulusgracchus]

Yeah, this report would annoy me less if the foreign terrorists and the War on Terror itself had not been benignly redifined so recently.

A conservative columnist wrote a good article about 10-12 years ago, about "Defining Deviancy Up". That's part of the phenomenon you're describing: Minimizing the derelictions of terrorists and social deviants (like homosexuals), criminals and "political activists" who are actively trying to destroy the society is called "defining deviancy down". Blowing up the supposed faults of Middle America ("discovering" that every third white heterosexual father is a secret pedophile or perv, or a religious or ethnic bigot, for example) and magnifying them to decry them -- Frankfurt School destructive criticism -- is "defining deviancy up".

Articles like these are the Left's hatesmiths at work, twisting words and thoughts into weapons of ideological warfare against the fairest, most open, most clement society the world has ever seen.

[the OlLine Rebel]

‘right-wing extremists include “groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”’

This is just stupid. Leftists can’t be dedicated to single issues?

Anyone hear of Earth Worship? (BTW, screw Earth Day.)

[the OlLine Rebel]

Count me in your club.

[Tublecane]

“(BTW, screw Earth Day.)”

Yeah, what’re we? Pagans? Leave dirt-worship to people without highways, skyscrapers, and computers.

[SoldierDad]

Actually, it won’t be over my dead body, but those who come to enforce that crap - I don’t intend to die for those lousy scumbags.

[netmilsmom]

I will never say I worked for Baskin Robbins again!!!!!!!!

[netmilsmom]

Everyone needs to read “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg

[WOBBLY BOB]

proudly on my car every day: