1) I find the language of LEFT WING newspapers rampant...for instance in the 2nd amendment discussion (gee there's a radical document to defend, huh?):
'observers say', 'analysts think', may attempt? I may fart in a crowded room or jump out the window on a bad day. You might swear at your wife or husband.Because debates over constitutional rights are intense, and parties on all sides have deeply held, sincere, but vastly divergent beliefs, violent extremists may attempt to co-opt the debate and use the controversy as a radicalization tool.
2) Foreign studies on foreign people with foreign traditions and VERY different histories are used to predict american behavior, and justify conclusions:
I guess that makes Alvin York a dangerous radical.
According to a 2007 study from the German Institute for Economic Research, there appears to be a strong association between a parent's unemployment status and the formation of rightwing extremist beliefs in their children--specifically xenophobia and
antidemocratic ideals.
3) The race card is key, AND plagued with conclusion 1
Let me rephrase that... Strict constitutionalists, and economic conservatives have been very loud in their condemnation of and opposition to the first truly socialist-leftist, and BELIEVING president, whose claims that no crisis should go to waste have alarmed many as to his intentions regarding both the founding document and the idea that property is sacrosanct, and basic to American freedom as outlined by the founding brothers. These constitutionalists and economic conservatives do not believe they need to remove their consent to be governed and therefore are not planning ANYTHING ... except in extremis, civil disobedience.
Rightwing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, mobilize existing supporters, and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning.
Listen, those who 'have not yet turned to attack planning' from 2000-2008 list among their members, John Conyers, Barney Frank, Al Franken, Rhandi Rhodes, Judea Benjamin and all the others who claimed Bush stole the election, illegally invaded Iraq, was a torturer and should be impeached. In other words those who exercised FREEDOM OF SPEECH to heavily criticise the govt.
Where Charles Johnson went way off the rails is to conclude that what the DHS is after is Aryan Nation and other such hate groups as the focus of this report ... CONSIDER THIS
This is Homeand Security using the SPLC as sacrosanct arbiters of definition and fact regarding hate groups.
Now I have been a PRIME THINKER along the lines that the SPLC has a lot to be congratulated for, but the ENTIRE focuse of their lives is to find, and excoriate the hate groups that fit the profile that the KKK filled. That is a descending curve (which will never be eliminated, though) One note song. One tool carpenter, and when all you use is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
SPLC doesn't even BOTHER with islamic extremism calling for overthrow of the US, and the outright hate and racism and calls for violence streaming from that which are undeniable, and that is what is missing from the outlook of DHS as well.
SPLC, for instance, considers that ALL attempts to stop illegal immigration are racist in nature and that therefore those who believe in a secure border and act on that are dangerous hate group members, and now we have DHS using them as definers of fact.
(UPDATE POWERLINE WEIGHS IN ON THE SPLC WITH THIS)
Given the facts of statements of the Obama admin, the plans admitted to since election of attacks on the right, attacks on people like Mr Limbaugh, I find that this DHS report, following on the heels of the Missouri police report is CONSONANT with the idea that what is intended is INTIMIDATION of political opponents. It is this admi saying .."Let's see what we can do" and inspiring among those seeking to enhance their careers, typical organizational behavior.
Groups like the KKK, Aryan Nation, Christian Identity loons, Stromfront etc, and their prettier face, the CCC ARE FREE to be assholes. But so long as they JUST keep talking about being assholes they are within the rights of this nation no matter how much I hate it. The same rights Judea Benjamin excersized. The DHS' job is to PROTECT those rights, not squeeze them by the massive intimidative power fo the federal govt. Whether we like it or not we have to protect the rights of the most obnoxious americans among us, if we are to protect our own.
It is amusing and offensive both to find 'disgruntled war veterans', an icon of the left since Viet Nam held up as volunteers brought to these hate groups, BY THE FEDERAL GOVT.
It is no defense for the left to believe that all who stand in oppostion to their ideas of social and economic justice, even if they are one inch to their right, must be some kind of evil and therefore should be watched and intimidated.
This is all a case study in how to create a strong, organized and well motivated politcial opposition out of one the greatest opportunities in american history to garner bypartisan support.
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Nice piece.
The SPLC is a bunch of nut-tards (the polite way of saying it) with a fruitloop for a leader. Morris Dees long ago sold his credibility to turn a profit. The SPLC is a huge, profitable non-profit. The last I read, they had something like $180 million in holdings. They're a bunch of leftwing neosocialists with complete disregard for the US Constitution. Like in any dictatorship, they are free to spew their hatred against anything right of Stalin and it's a "service." When we speak out against them we're terrorists.
DHS document, Just words? Say it ain't so Obama!
Obama's on record . . . albeit plagerizing Deval Patrick's 2006 speech called "Just Words", informing his constituency that words matter.
The buck stops at Obama . . .Napolitano must go.
It is necessary to eject at long last from our language the political terminology that has been used to define our factions. The words right and left no longer have any meaning. They are terms from 19th century French politics.
While the statist using positive sounding terminology. I suggest every constitutionalist American who wishes to preserve our republic read the following publications: Eric Hoffer's True Believers and Bruce Walker's Sinisterism: The Secular Religion of the Lie.
The weapons of those who wish to rebuild this nation into some monstrous utopian tyranny need to have the weapon of their lying lexicon rendered powerless by truth. We need to save our language from the liars who define us and make us believe their realities.
Epa,
My criticism of the SPLC is the same as yours; that they are a one-note piano. It has bothered me for several years now that they have not focused their energies on the enormous spewing of anti-Semitism and anti-Infidel rhetoric, and action, coming from the Islamic Jihadists among us.
If the DHS is using the SPLC's definition of hate groups as it's barometer, then we truly are in trouble - And, it does sound that way - because that means the DHS will turn a blind eye to Islamic extremism.
Now, that being said, it seems to me this report is not necessarily outlining the entirety of the DHS' plans. It is an outline of one aspect of their concern.
The vagueness of the language in the document can either make the document extremely useful, or absolutely useless, depending upon one's assumptions about the Obama Administration.
As you correctly point out the Missouri police report does support the idea that this DHS report is possibly the beginning of an entirely useful vagueness in redefining extremism in this country as being those of us insist upon sticking to what our Founding Fathers meant when they wrote the Constitution.
By the way, some people may not know about the Missouri Police report story, so here is a link:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/missouri_police_given_chilling.html
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