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Freeh: Real threat far right,Christian,Patriot,Militia..not from foreign sources

Posted on 09/16/2001 8:21:38 AM PDT by robnoel

Is it not ironic that the head of the FBI and the Clinton admin spent 8 years going after Americans...as Gary Aldrich pointed out yesterday

We were even given a new set of "enemies" to consider. Call it a distraction. We were told that the real threat was not from some Islamic fundamentalists who vowed to commit terrorist acts to bring us to our knees. No, Bill Clinton and Janet Reno and their friends on Capitol Hill and in the media spoke as one voice about the home-grown threat posed by church-going Americans, protesting against partial birth abortion.

And then they demonized well-organized militia groups with - gasp - actual guns! who were complaining about Clinton's liberal agenda. They were considered suspicious because they expressed absolute disgust for our Commander in Chief.

I submit these same bearded, flannel-shirted "suspicious characters" are now running the backhoes and girder cutters in New York City, working around the clock until they drop from exhaustion, attempting to do what real Americans have always done.

Meanwhile, the "girly-men" Liberals and their strident molls scratch their heads and wonder how and why Tuesday happened. After all, weren't they nice to these terrorists? Didn't they display the correct amount of tolerance for another peoples' religious beliefs? Didn't Hillary Clinton actually embrace and kiss Arafat's wife?

From a Salon piece..The hyping of domestic terrorism

Just over a year ago, on Feb. 4, 1999, Freeh testified on the subject of terrorism before the Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on the departments of Commerce, Justice and State. Freeh's testimony was overlooked in every news account this week, but his detailed evaluation makes the Bremer Commission's hold on reality appear tenuous. "The frequency of terrorist incidents in the United States has decreased in number," Freeh emphasized. Since the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, Freeh pointed out, "no single act of foreign-directed terrorism has occurred on American soil."

Support for violent revolutionaries emanating from Cuba and North Korea, he noted, "appear to have declined" with those nations' economic free falls. Even the American cells of violent Middle East political movements as Hamas and Hezbollah, Freeh declared, are devoted exclusively to "fundraising and low-level intelligence gathering."

Just how much terrorism is not much? Freeh testified that in fiscal 1998, the FBI prevented 10 planned "terrorist acts." Not one emanated from abroad. Nine of the 10 "terrorist acts" were planned by a single, small cluster of Illinois white supremacists hoping to assassinate Holocaust scholar Simon Wiesenthal and Morris Dees, the anti-Klan crusader who runs the Southern Poverty Law Center. The other forestalled attack involved a lone individual, a militia type, from Washington state.

Foreign students did not figure in Freeh's account at all. Indeed, Freeh told Congress that the main threat of terrorist violence comes not from foreign sources but from the overlapping constituencies of the far right: abortion-clinic assassins, Christian Identity militias and the like.

Talk about a blown call :-)


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1 posted on 09/16/2001 8:21:38 AM PDT by robnoel
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rob.....Perhaps now the Federal Cowboys will turn from bashing in the doors of Americans on any whim and expend their energy on the enemies of America.
3 posted on 09/16/2001 8:26:48 AM PDT by cynicom
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Perhaps now the Federal Cowboys will turn from bashing in the doors of Americans on any whim and expend their energy on the enemies of America.

One would hope.

4 posted on 09/16/2001 8:28:41 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse
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To: cynicom
I think the one great thing that has happened this week the term "patriot" is no longer the code word of the left and is back where it belongs.....Mel Gibson helped a little as well :-)
5 posted on 09/16/2001 8:31:43 AM PDT by robnoel
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To: Ron Fletcher
It appears that was a requirement to work in the previous administration.
6 posted on 09/16/2001 8:31:56 AM PDT by porte des morts
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To: robnoel
A big bttt^ to you, Robby.
7 posted on 09/16/2001 8:33:53 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: robnoel
Yeah, Looey. You got more to worry about from hard-working American stiffs than from some hanky-head bomb-thrower. How did you ever rise above your job as night janitor at 7-11?
8 posted on 09/16/2001 8:34:31 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: AR15_Patriot
Everybody knows that! (Especially the flannel shirted ones)

People like that have no business being in law enforcement. (I noted the sarcasm tag).

10 posted on 09/16/2001 8:42:37 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse
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rob.....One can recall the millions spent at Ruby Ridge, for one man, for a firearms violation that led to wrongful deaths. Then the FBI and other Federal Cowboys have the temerity to say they have not had enough resources to keep vigil of the foreign terrorists that abound in the United States. Perhaps the govenment has had its eyes opened as to whom the real enemy is and where they are.
11 posted on 09/16/2001 8:44:44 AM PDT by cynicom
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To: He Rides A White Horse
They will pursue anyone who stands in the way of safety, equality, and democracy.
12 posted on 09/16/2001 8:50:06 AM PDT by gjenkins
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Ron: I understand your feelings, but McVeigh is no better then these Muslim fanatics. Freeh did catch McVeigh after all. Yes, it was time for Freeh to go, but I believe he was an honorable person. Every law enforcement agency has screwed up, it can't micro-manage every worker or aspect of its operations. I know the Freeh family personaly and while I'm willing to admit there were mistakes made, his loyalty to this country is awesome. The only reason why Klinton never got rid of him was because both Repbulicans and Dems found him to extremely honest and forthcoming. I know personally when you look at the complexity of the legal system and the amount of crime that is out there it is no wonder that mistakes like this unfold.
14 posted on 09/16/2001 8:53:56 AM PDT by MagnusMat
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To: cynicom
Waco,Ruby Ridge etc were all designed to discredit and silence conservatives and with the help of the lame stream press they were very effective ...these same tactics help explain the motives of the folks who push "PC"...it is such a lame tactic I am still surprised how many fell for it...
16 posted on 09/16/2001 8:55:58 AM PDT by robnoel
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To: Ron Fletcher
That's what happens when you get lawyers and not police officers of the beat to run things at the FBI. THe FBI has been rotten to the core by lawyers.
17 posted on 09/16/2001 9:00:18 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: robnoel
"Indeed, Freeh told Congress that the main threat of terrorist violence comes not from foreign sources but from the overlapping constituencies of the far right..."

Speaking as one from the "far right".......Louie Freeh can kiss my lily white, Confederate flag waving @ss. Bill, Janet and Louie should all have to stand trail for their crimes.

18 posted on 09/16/2001 9:03:49 AM PDT by Godebert
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To: robnoel
"...Didn't Hillary Clinton actually embrace and kiss Arafat's wife?..."

Do you suppose that's all that happened?

And, if there was more, did she let Bill watch?

19 posted on 09/16/2001 9:03:57 AM PDT by DWSUWF
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To: MagnusMat
Can I disagree here....the big beef I have with him was he signed off on Project Megiddo which in large part said

Conservative Christian=Right-wing Extremist=Domestic Terrorist

For your reading pleasure:

The Making of Project Megiddo & THE SECRET AGENDA TO DESTROY CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA

This is a two-part study entitled The Making of Project Megiddo & The Secret Agenda to Destroy Christianity in America. It delves into the FBI's Project Megiddo (PM) report and into the writings of the three primary outside authorities who, it is believed, were relied upon for the report's support material. It appears that the personal beliefs and agendas of these sources are in large part now reflected in the government report.

20 posted on 09/16/2001 9:09:04 AM PDT by robnoel
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