Posted on 05/08/2009 8:10:32 AM PDT by pissant
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter) is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to condemn the statements written as part of an assessment by the Department of Homeland Security classifying disgruntled veterans as a threat to U.S. security and potential recruits for right-wing extremist groups. The report was distributed among law enforcement agencies throughout the country earlier this week. When I was back home in San Diego, our El Cajon police department had actually gotten this memorandum classifying me. Because I served three tours overseas with the United States Marine Corps, two in Iraq in Operation Iraqi Freedom and one in Afghanistan in Operation Enduring Freedom, I am a possible terrorist.
So, Mr. Speaker, I would just like to go over some stuff with this DHS memorandum. It is the ``Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.'' And here is a picture of it here. This is an actual Department of Homeland Security memorandum that went out to every local, State and Federal law enforcement agency in the entire country.
I would just like to go over a few points of it. It first starts off by saying that ``the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis has no specific information that domestic right-wing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence.'' So they don't have any evidence for anything, but they are still going to call people like me possible ``terrorists.''
We read further down: ``The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.''
I wasn't paranoid before, Mr. Speaker, but if we are going to pass new regulations on firearms, we are going to change the Second Amendment. And the fact that I would like to keep my own guns and that I'm a veteran who has served, that makes me a possible terrorist, as stated by our own government, by our own administration.
I read further down: right-wing extremism--and by the way, it is interesting that they don't talk about left-wing extremism or liberal extremism or progressivists. It is just right-wing extremism, and that is okay to talk about. It is okay to scorn those people that are right wing. They aren't as American as everybody else. ``Right-wing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements and adherents that are primarily hate oriented,'' I'm quoting here from this memo, ``those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting Federal authority in favor of State or local authority.'' That means every single one of our Founding Fathers was a possible terrorist because they believed in local authority. They believed in States' rights. They didn't want an all-encompassing, dominating Federal Government.
It also includes groups of individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration. I'm quoting again.
So I'm pro-border security. I think that illegal immigration is called ``illegal immigration'' because, well, it is illegal. That once more makes me a possible terrorist. I'm pro-life. That makes me a possible terrorist too.
I keep reading down: ``Returning veterans possess combat skills.'' That is me. I possess combat skills. So do millions of other Americans that have served in our Armed Forces since 2001--``combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists.''
The DHS, our own government, is concerned that right-wing extremists, I guess that's me, will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities.
That sounds pretty scary. I must be pretty scary. I wonder if DHS is on their way here to get me right now. I will stay here and wait for them for a little bit longer.
I read further down: ``Many right-wing extremists are agnostic toward the new Presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs''--that is a new one. If you don't like the expansion of social programs, you're a possible terrorist, too--``and restrictions on firearms ownership and use.'' If you weren't paranoid before, you ought to be getting paranoid now.
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I will keep reading: ``Right-wing extremists were concerned during the 1990s with the perception that illegal immigrants were taking away American jobs through their willingness to work at significantly lower wages. They also opposed free trade agreements, arguing that these arrangements resulted in Americans losing jobs to other countries.'' Are Americans not losing jobs to China, to Communist China, to India and to Mexico? If you believe that American jobs are worth fighting for, then you're a terrorist.
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My heroes—Duncan Hunter Sr. and Junior.
Go Hunter!!!
I think the thoughts and words of a veteran carry MORE weight, not less.
Duncan Hunter/Sarah Palin !!!
Tell you Daddy to run again. A true conservative for sure.
Ooooo, I like that combo!!!
>>I read further down: ``Many right-wing extremists are agnostic toward the new Presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs’’ <<
So not you don’t have to oppose the policies of the great anointed one, but merely be “agnostic” about him and you are a considered a possible enemy of the state??????
What’s next, if you don’t support the anointed one’s policies ENOUGH you get put on a watch list???
A true American patriot through and through. How the L/MSM feared him during those presidential debates.
Seriously, the Hunters are like a breath of fresh air. It's a shame that more folks don't know about them, but with a press like ours' these days, they will never be heard.
The DHS as well as many other “Government” are themselves extremist as well as anti-American and dangerous to average citizens in this country.
Duncan Hunter, proud to say from my home district, does terrorize...liberals.
I admit I’m challenged on new websites - tried to find your post on the Congressional Record. Nothing comes up in 110th Congress (I guess that’s the default) for Duncan D. on the House Floor. Has it been removed? (it can’t be removed, right?) Help me find it please. Thank you.
Lucky dog you! I have Schumer & Gillibrand. YCK!
The problem with the congressional record is that you have to query to find stuff, and the link it takes you to expires.
So go here
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/r111query.html
And click on ‘browse daily issues’, then go to may 5th.
You are so RIGHT ON! Now all the freepers who bitch about not having a conservative candidate would actually realize that they have one, it would be a blessing. Hell I am going to post this on line. FREEPERS WAKE UP!
I am afraid that stepping on their throat doesn’t bother the democrats because they know that most Americans are not listening to or are interested in Congressman Hunter’s defense of conservatives anyway.
OK, I want to make sure I have this straight. Someone who is an American citizen and serves his country by pledging to preserve protect and defend the Constitution with his life is a threat to the country but one who can’t or won’t prove his citizenship and whose actions are contrary to the Constitution is not considered a threat to the country.
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