Posted on 01/23/2013 3:34:14 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Recent media coverage of a report from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point raised concerns among activists who consider themselves the typical, God-fearing American “right.” The report by West Point professor Arie Perliger, Challengers from the Sidelines – Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right, includes some descriptions of the “far right” that many conservatives have found shocking. Angela West, wife of former congressman and new PJ Media spokesman Allen West, posted a scathing response on her Facebook page, which included a photo montage. “Pigs certainly now fly and birds are doing the backstroke!” Angela West wrote in her Facebook post.
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Angela West can say what she likes, but Obama’s intentions are clear enough.
It’s not for nothing that the Department of Homeland Security has accumulated literally billions of rounds of ammunition.
Thanks SWAMPSNIPER.
“The New Litmus Test of Leadership In The Military Is If They Will Fire On US Citizens or Not”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2980966/posts
The lions share of gun crime is committed with hands guns, and yet the current gun control focus is on “assault rifles”. Whar are they really worried about: murder, or insurrection?
It’s all part of the creep plan.
One law leads to the other and they keep creeping up total disarmament.
Don’t let anyone Bullsh*t you this is the plan.
agreed. its obvious to anyone with a semi functional frontal lobe
Question: Where are the 350 ‘right wing’ attacks?
Anyway—from the commie perspective, they are absolutely right to fear both the right and the ex-military. We are mostly trained and have armed ourselves. We have taken the OATH to the CONSTITUTION (NOT barry and his Choom gang) and seem to remember the part about defending it from enemies both foreign AND DOMESTIC.
And—whom might those ‘domestic enemies’ be?
Mass killings like Aurora or Newtown are of BENEFIT to the federal government in that they open new venues for power-grabbing.
And the feds have no real responsibility for limiting or “solving” such occurrences so it’s a double score—they can proceed however they like without even creating phony metrics for measuring success later on. The states or localities will get the “blame” when the time comes.
So, then, there is nothing to lose and everything to gain in grabbing guns or limiting magazines or rationing bullets or registering (black-listing) gun owners, etc. There need not be a Master Plan for the feds to seek out “remedies” that cost them nothing to apply and will un-empower the citizenry in any case.
And given that it is the same federal government that has turned the education system into an incurbator for malcontents and loony birds like these shooters in Aurora and Newtown and Tucson, it is only a matter of time before new gains for the central government will become available.
You just grab more and more power and figure out what to do with it later on.
The report repeats many discredited "talking points" as if they were fact. For example, the author characterizes the Viper Militia as a serious threat, but neglects to mention that most of the accusations against them in the press and by the government were subsequently debunked, and the supposedly highly dangerous militia members sentenced to jail terms as short as 1 year.
It is hard to tell without access to the data set used by the author, but it appears that he considered vandalism to be violence, so every time some teenage spray painted a building it gets counted.
The author concludes that the KKK and affiliates is responsible for something like 1 or 2 deaths per year, with a membership around 10,000 which if true suggests that their membership is no more likely to commit homicide than any other group, and is less violent than many groups in our society. (And no, I'm not defending that bunch of racists, just pointing out how weak the analysis in the West Point report is.)
The report concludes that there has been a big upswing in violence by right wing groups, like the KKK, but the evidence just isn't there. The report is shoddy scholarship at best, and doesn't reflect well on the institution that published it.
It sounds like they have a “motive” to encourage such events.
If it was Russia we would say Putin did it.
“...the Department of Homeland Security has accumulated literally billions of rounds of ammunition.”
Anyone posting a map of locations?
The Journal News?
NYT?
CNN?
MSNBC?
Strictly in fulfillment of “the public’s right to know” and “the interest of pubic safety”, “freedom of the press”, etc, etc... , of course.
Just another group in history justifying their own total control. And as history goes, people are falling for this crap.
There is something I’d like to point out to some and to remind the others. WE (you know who) swore an oath to Defend and Protect the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies etc etc.
I must “point out and remind” that while our “length of service” generally had a discharge date, that sacred oath HAD NO TIME LIMIT APPENDED.
I raised my hand and took that oath in 1953, out in 1957, but consider the oath STILL binding.
What about you guys?
More to the point, why is this “West Point professor” still employed? By now, whoever is responsible for faculty hiring and firing at West Point should be answering several pointed questions:
1) Who hired this individual? Are they military or civilian?
2) Why has he not had his employment terminated?
3) Why has the administration of West Point not yet issued an apology for allowing the publication of “hate speech” under the guise of threat assessment?
4) Where is the official retraction of this publication?
Sorry, but that includes a good portion of the military as well.
Do any of you have information about other DHS calibers? They also bought 12g ammo, but so did everyone else.
Do any of you have information about other DHS calibers? They also bought 12g ammo, but so did everyone else.
It sounds like they have a “motive” to encourage such events.
the real question is who is spoonfeeding the original story to the MSM?
Did the professor make a press release?
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