This Department of Homeland Security report is crap.
Read this from the report above:
The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.
Chris Brewer Interpretation: “Many people are concerned about the direction our government is taking its people. People who are overtly concerned about this and who organize rallies in order to raise awareness to and protest against newly enacted government policies pose a threat to our government’s iron grip of power. The fact that Obama is black also means they’re all racist.”
The worst part of the report:
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.
Chris Brewer Interpretation: “F.U., veterans, and thanks for serving.”
This smacks of nothing more than an attempt by the liberals in the highest levels of government to silence and shut up those who disagree with them by branding their stances on current issues as “anti-government” and “illegal.”
Right-wing extremism, my left foot.
I’ll believe it when I see the DHS report on the Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, et al.
Why does it not shock me that many liberals cheer on Janet Napolitano, yet they were critical of the same tactics used during the Bush administration?
As for me, I wouldn’t be opposed to Napolitano resigning over this. The report is so poorly worded and paints such a broad brush that it clearly signals an attempt to undermine any conservative voice that even so much as questions the current actions of our government.
I’m an Iraq War veteran and a libertarian, so I guess I should go turn myself in now.
If you dont go turn yourself in, I will. I’ve always thought something was aloof about you and now thanks to this report, it makes sense.
In all seriousness though, think about the way many right-wingers reacted to Obama being elected, the vile hate, the doomsday theories, and the hope that he fails. The liklihood is small, and this report is a step too far, but its certainly something to think about.
Well I think that people can be as pissed and protest as much as they freaking want about our sucky government! It is our right! So shut it all you liberal screwballs who did THE SAME CRAP when George W. Bush was elected. Everybody can stuff it for all I care.
Oh yeah, Jas, that’s the Christian spirit! NOT
Now you know how I felt in college when the Secret Service and my local Sheriff’s Department kept tabs on me because I wrote columns critical of George W. Bush.
At least this report is trying to separate the Tim McVeighs and D.C. snipers from the rest. That courtesy was not extended in the Bush years.
“At least this report is trying to separate the Tim McVeighs and D.C. snipers from the rest. That courtesy was not extended in the Bush years.”
So that’s an excuse to paint countrymen with a different political ideology as potential terrorists, with the broadest brush possible? There is absolutely no difference between Bush’s philosophy of spying on everyone in existence and the Obama administration-led DHS’s latest report branding veterans as potential terrorists.
I said this before and I’ll say it all again, it is SO different when you’re on the other end of the spectrum.
The report doesn’t come off to me as that broad. It’s focusing more on the groups that might recruit veterans rather than the veterans themselves.
In any case, if we’re going to make all people take their shoes off before flying just as a precaution, then maybe it wouldn’t hurt to also make sure our nation’s trained killers haven’t lost their sanity after multiple tours in the Middle East. Again, it could be as simple as making sure veterans have all the resources they need once they get home.
“Again, it could be as simple as making sure veterans have all the resources they need once they get home.”
Yeah, like the resources the President was trying to withhold.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/17/obama.veterans/
Um if you are a ‘countrymen with a different political agenda’ whose agenda includes assasinating the president, or attacking blacks in retaliation for the election and ‘keeping america white’…yea, you are a racist. Im surprised that anyone would have the balls to defend such people…but neoconservative, excuse me, post-republican ‘libertarians’ have been surprising me often nowadays