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Always To The Right on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:29:35 PM
Michelle has it covered pretty well, but I looked at the DHS report on “right-wing extremism” myself, and it’s every bit as bad as she says, and as Roger HedgecockLiberty Papers
first reported. The DHS fails to provide any specifics at all,
preferring instead to smear half of the country or more as kooks for
criticizing the government’s handling of the economy. As Eli Lake reports, the DHS has all but declared war on federalism, which used to be the founding concept of our republic
The first question we should ask is whether the DHS is reacting to any specific threats at all? Er … no
This gets repeated over and over again during the report. They have no
threat information. In fact, the report can’t even say definitively
whether “extremists” are gaining “new recruits”. In order to find
that, they’d have to identify the actual groups, note the recruiting
patterns, and determine whether in fact they’re gaining recruits or
losing members. Bottom line: DHS has no actual data. They’re pulling threats out of their collective arse and publishing them without any supporting research whatsoever.
and the
DHS also manages to make several hysterical references to returning
veterans. I’ll highlight the weasel words and provide the translation
at the end:
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.
Gee, it could lead? What evidence does DHS have of this? Oh, yeah, Timothy McVeigh was a veteran … and that’s it. I’m not joking:
After Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991, some
returning military veterans—including Timothy McVeigh—joined or
associated with rightwing extremist groups.
So let’s be terrified of veterans! Let’s treat them all like potential suspects, even though we don’t have one iota of evidence of any wrongdoing at all. Yeah, that’s the American way.
Imagine, if you will, what the Left would say if we took this entire
document and replaced all references to “military veterans” with
“Muslims”, and all references to “abortion” with “universal health
care”, and then predated this DHS report to 2008, during the Bush
administration. They’d be screaming about being smeared as traitors
for their political beliefs, and they’d be right to do so. That’s
exactly what the Obama administration and Janet Napolitano has done
here.