Unsafe at any position!
Posted on 04/25/2009 9:47:39 AM PDT by radar101
I read the entire "U//FOUO" text of the Department of Homeland Security Assessment on Rightwing Extremism today.
A number of things struck me.
First, the department is completely out of touch with what constitutes a threat to the United States of America. Citing millions of Americans applying for criminal background checks so that they can buy guns legally is not evidence of an increased threat.
Criminals and terrorists do not register their weapons or submit themselves to the law when acquiring the tools of their violent trade. This is the true threat, and one that is impossible to measure.
A preoccupation with the domestic political "right" will make mitigating the threat of terrorism even more difficult, because the Department of Homeland Security is barking up the proverbial wrong tree.
Second, the department fails to recognize that supporters of the Ninth and Tenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution do not pose a threat to the United States of America. An increase in a movement supporting those amendments should be no more threatening than a surge in First or Fifth amendment support.
One would do well to recognize that the true threat to our Constitution, and subsequently to the American way of life, comes from those who despise its principles and would overthrow it - not from those who read, interpret, and agree with it.
Third, the "right" or conservative part of the population of the United States is proportionally less likely to be involved in criminal activity or terrorism than are the "left" or the apolitical. Witness the left wing "anti-war" movement of the 1960s and the gang activity among those who are uninvolved in the political process.
All who work for the security of our nation need to work hard to overcome personal and ideological prejudices and to focus on the threats to our country and our way of life in a rational and prioritized manner.
Fourth, linking a person's moral or religious views on abortion or same-sex marriage to extremist ideology espoused by "white supremacists" is supremely offensive.
No rational or logical connection exists between private morality and activities aimed at toppling the government of the United States or harming its citizens.
The authors of this assessment have let their morality color their views of all other belief systems. The prejudice is glaringly apparent in this part of the report. It will serve to blind the authors to the real threats to the nation's security.
And fifth, to imply that returning war veterans as a group are weak-minded and susceptible to recruitment and exploitation by an extremist group on either end of the political or ideological spectrum is patently repugnant and infinitely small-minded. As a veteran of the U.S. Army (1988 - 1999) I take personal offense for myself and professional offense for the fine people I served with. We swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
If the authors think that such people, willing to lay down their lives for the rights of people they have never met, are a threat to their idea of what government should be, perhaps they should reconsider their views.
This assessment has painted conservative citizens of the United States as "terrorists" while the Department of Homeland Security has whitewashed true terrorism with the euphemism of "man-made disasters."
I understand that this is one in a series of reports on terrorist threats to the United States. Please make the other reports public and available.
Jon N. Ellis is director of facilities for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He and his wife and five children have lived in Prescott for four years.
A mind-numbed public, too stupid to think for itself, inspired by sexual fantasies openly expressed by media types (Matthews) fell for the media hype about “first Black president,” and voted for the country’s first true marxist president, who promptly chose for his cabinet marxists more radical than himself.
Now we have to watch marxist policies cause untold havoc and destruction to a once-great country.
You’re preaching to the choir. :)
Now, get DU(h) to read this!
Applying for concealed carry licenses is only threatening to thieves, robbers, and murderers.
The people who are against honest citizens defending themselves from thieves, robbers, and murderers are on the side of the thieves, robbers, and murderers, and the criminal defense lawyers for the thieves, robbers, and murderers.
To the Marxist, any threats to their political power equals a threat to the nation. Political power is all that matters to them.
Janet, Watch your BOSS
Obama is the Subversive!
Unsafe at any position!
Glad to see that a few people are beginning to notice. I'll be bold and make a prediction. That prediction, "As the weeks and months of this year continue to unfold, the title of this posting will become more and more apparent." Sad, isn't it though, that it will be just too damned late for quite a number of people. As was said just before the tape self destructed, "The secretary will deny all knowledge."
Especially in front of your eyeballs!
I swerve over there every now and then just to keep an eye on the enemy. I stay as long as my blood pressure will hold up.
They live in an alternate universe. You're never going to make a dent in those people's hardened psychoses. That place is literally a lunatic asylum.
“Homeland Security has eye off ball”
That assumes they are playing the same game as we are.
Mexico Cheerleading
Janet Napolitano
Now she's head of the DHS!
The governor who vetoed legislation intended to prevent voting by foreign invaders........
Eye on the ball is only relevant if playing head to head against an opponent.
It is NOT needed when you take out the other team’s bench before the game even begins.
Janet, Watch your BOSS
Obama is the Subversive!
Bumper Sticker #2:
Janet Look in the Mirror
You are the Subersive!
“Eyes off the ball”, hell, the cow with the butch haircut is completely out of the game.
To us they have taken their eye off the ball. I think that to them, they have refocused to get to their real targets. People who vote republican. The are intentionally targeting American citizens who would not support this admin. Pay careful attention to what they do, and ignore what they say. They lie very effectivly and the press gives them lots of cover.
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