Posted on 04/13/2009 10:02:53 PM PDT by ebiskit
Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled:
The “report” was one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I’d ever read out of DHS. I couldn’t believe it was real.
I spent the day chasing down DHS spokespeople, who have been tied up preparing for a very important homeland security event later today: The First Lady is coming to visit their Washington office. Priorities, you know.
Well, the press office got back to me and verified that the document is indeed for real.
They were very defensive — preemptively so — in asserting that it was not a politicized document and that DHS had done reports on “leftwing extremism” in the past. I have covered DHS for many years and am quite familiar with past assessments they and the FBI have done on animal rights terrorists and environmental terrorists. But those past reports have always been very specific in identifying the exact groups, causes, and targets of domestic terrorism, i.e., the ALF, ELF, and Stop Huntingdon wackos who have engaged in physical harassment, arson, vandalism, and worse against pharmaceutical companies, farms, labs, and university researchers.
By contrast, the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives. And the intent is clear. As the two spokespeople I talked with on the phone today made clear: They both pinpointed the recent “economic downturn” and the “general state of the economy” for stoking “rightwing extremism.” One of the spokespeople said he was told that the report has been in the works for a year. My b.s. detector went off the chart, and yours will, too, if you read through the entire report — which asserts with no evidence that an unquantified “resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalizations activity” is due to home foreclosures, job losses, and…the historical presidential election.
In Obama land, there are no coincidences. It is no coincidence that this report echoes Tea Party-bashing left-wing blogs (check this one out comparing the Tea Party movement to the Weather Underground!) and demonizes the very Americans who will be protesting in the thousands on Wednesday for the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party.
From the report, p.2:
Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
From the report. p. 3:
(U//LES) Rightwing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment tool. Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment. From the 2008 election timeframe to the present, rightwing extremists have capitalized on related racial and political prejudices in expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential sympathizers.
(U) Exploiting Economic Downturn
(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet continues to focus on the economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors, and home foreclosures. Anti-Semitic extremists attribute these losses to a deliberate conspiracy conducted by a cabal of Jewish “financial elites.” These “accusatory” tactics are employed to draw new recruits into rightwing extremist groups and further radicalize those already subscribing to extremist beliefs. DHS/I&A assesses this trend is likely to accelerate if the economy is perceived to worsen.
From the report, p. 5:
(U//FOUO) Over the past five years, various rightwing extremists, including militias and white supremacists, have adopted the immigration issue as a call to action, rallying point,
and recruiting tool. Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent.
And echoing the anti-military bigotry last seen in that disgusting Penn State University training video, there’s this on p. 7:
(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
There’s no hackneyed left-wing stereotype of conservatives left behind in this DHS intelligence and analysis assessment. I asked both DHS spokespeople to tell me who, specifically, the report was accusing of “rightwing extremist chatter” and which “antigovernment” groups are being monitored as “extremists.” They say they’ll get back to me.
In the meantime, be aware of this from the report, p. 8:
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A will be working with its state and local partners over the next several months to ascertain with greater regional specificity the rise in rightwing extremist activity in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the political, economic, and social factors that drive rightwing extremist radicalization.
Better make a few last-minute signs for the Tea Party. Obama’s DHS is watching:
Honk if you’re a radicalized rightwing extremist!
Guilty of rightwing extremist chatter
Anti-government, pro-freedom: Sue me
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Previous: Missouri retracts report linking militias, 3rd party candidates.
BTW, I don’t think by “virtue” he meant *only* civil language and a concern for “proper” behavior. He meant things like public spirit, patriotism, and a willingness to defend the rights of man.
When I was looking up the reference for the quote that I posted (thank goodness for Google), I skimmed through quite a bit of Washington’s Farewell address. It is though Washington COULD see into these times and what we could degenerate into, and was warning us about what we need to guard against. Amazing & thought provoking:
“It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.”
It’s as thought he could see ahead to the use of Executive orders, judicial tyranny, etc.
Oh, good. I was hoping I hadn’t needed a sarcasm tag-a-ma-gig.
Thanks for your response. :)
Well, as far as I'm concerned, they have been. I can't think of a place on earth that isn't aware of Christianity or hasn't been touched by a missionary.
Good perspective, DBrow.
Doesn't matter much. It's the keys that are important, not the design of the mechanism for applying them.
Three letters
PGP
downloadable from the MIT website
The initials mean “Pretty Good Protection” (the most stunning understatement on the net)
To the best of my knowledge, when properly used, it has not been successfully broken.
A.A.C.
Since reading this, I have felt chilled to my very bones.
This is not about advancing a gun control agenda, nor is it about supporting abortion, protecting illegal aliens or ANYTHING like that.
In fact, this document is unlike ANYTHING EVER issued by the federal government in its entire history.
It is a propaganda document urging local law enforcement agencies, with the support of the Federal law enforcement agencies, to target Americans for surveillance based on their political thoughts and service to this nation - based on political views that at least 57 million Americans - those who voted against the fraud in the White House, espouse.
Any American with the SLIGHTTEST bit of patriotism who reads this should feel the same. We can thank Obama’s predecessor for having created, at the urging of the Democrats who are apparently ready to employ it as a former of thought police, the Department of Homeland Security - America's new version of the Gestapo.
NO MORE BUSHES!!
Our only hope, as patriotic Americans, is to support efforts to force the release of Obama's birth certificate. If he is NOT a natural born citizen, the Courts would have the authority to declare his nomination and election invalid. There is no way the Republic will be able to survive four years of this monster.
” I can tell you that to the person over there they like Obama..they think he is good and they think Bush will go down in history as one of the worst presidents we have had.”
They are WRONG about Obama and RIGHT about George Bush.
But of the entire tribe of western European socialist idiots, the Scandanvians are the most degenerate.
I hope a lot of veterans are angry at this as well as anti-abortion people.
Our best defense is to circulate this thing EVERYWHERE and make everyone we know aware of it.
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Thanks!
(Semi-rhetorical question) - Are they? I wonder if we have become too complacent and too afraid of upsetting the apple cart to take the kind of actions it will require to stop this?
Long before the election, I made something of an unwelcome pest of myself by proclaiming that I believed our political system to be irreparably broken. It seems that today, as more and more people wake up to what the Obamoron and his leftist sycophants in the Congress are doing as well as the corruption at ALL levels of government, more folks seem to be agreeing with me. But, when does agreement on a forum such as FR turn into action? When do people look at the obvious corruption of elections by the likes of Al Franken and the leftist judges in MN decide that they have had enough??
The Tea Parties are a great start and I applaud the folks who came up with the idea. But, if the leftists believe that having Tea Parties is the limit to which we will take our opposition to their unprecedented power grabs and usurpation of rights and liberties, will we prove them right??
(Semi-rhetorical question) - Are they? I wonder if we have become too complacent and too afraid of upsetting the apple cart to take the kind of actions it will require to stop this?
Long before the election, I made something of an unwelcome pest of myself by proclaiming that I believed our political system to be irreparably broken. It seems that today, as more and more people wake up to what the Obamoron and his leftist sycophants in the Congress are doing as well as the corruption at ALL levels of government, more folks seem to be agreeing with me. But, when does agreement on a forum such as FR turn into action? When do people look at the obvious corruption of elections by the likes of Al Franken and the leftist judges in MN decide that they have had enough??
The Tea Parties are a great start and I applaud the folks who came up with the idea. But, if the leftists believe that having Tea Parties is the limit to which we will take our opposition to their unprecedented power grabs and usurpation of rights and liberties, will we prove them right??
But.....the Constitution states clearly that the authority not specifically granted to the Federal Government is reserved to the States and the People.
I plead totally guilty of promising to Protect and Defend the Constitution and this Nation, and will continue to do so as long as I live.........
It could be done.
Why they would want to do it that way I don't know.
More could be done on the sly.
Regardless of his politics, his quote was, and still is, spot on.
LOL! That would be a great idea, IF the bees could be trained to attack only ninja.
“While it looks legit...even with Malkin’s confirmation, it is kind of hard to believe that the government could have created, approved and distributed it in 3 days.”
Much of this Utopian grand-machination crap is already on hand w/ left-wing groups and their lap-dogs in congress/fed.
It is basically their political mindset. Only a sick, twisted unConstitutional opinion that has been federalized by fiat.
It just never sees the light of day until putting a govt approved bow on it & then sending it out to the bureaucracy zombies.
This was timed to either tamp down support for the rallies or to inflame the Constitutional Extremists.
It all depends if you are wearing a tin-foil at the time.
As for me, I wear tin-foil underwear. Damn rash.
Constitutional Extremist,
tahDeetz
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