'Rightwing extremism' Homeland Security focus as ideology overtakes reason
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 4:10PM A new Homeland Security report titled ‘Rightwing Extremism’ seems to defeat itself within its own rhetoric. 
You can view an original copy of the US Constitution online at the Library of Congress.One passage says, “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.” The whole report is available at The Liberty Papers website.
Statist columnists immediately seized another opportunity to attempt to marginalize anyone who doesn’t believe in socialism and big government. An essay in Salon, categorizing murderer Richard Poplowski as an extreme right winger because he was afraid the government was going to take his guns away said, “Such obsessions don't come out of a vacuum. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the GOP have been whipping up hatred and fear of Obama and ‘liberal Democrats’ for years.”
What about Al Franken, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann [the King of Vitriol] and Bill Maher? What about David Letterman? These are all entertainers who despise anyone at odds with Democratic dogma. How about Al Sharpton, whose racially charged rhetoric can amass a mob in a moment? Did Lovelle Mixon kill 4 police officers because left-wing rhetoric sent him over the edge? Did all those black people who marched, calling Mixon a hero as families of the dead policemen grieved, do so because left-wing radicals brainwashed them? Do you suppose left-wing vitriol is somehow kinder than right-wing criticism? How many people does Sarah Bernhard fire up with her anti-Christian rants? Any law enforcement agencies looking at her?
Is Homeland Security looking into rabid left-wingers and anarchists? Hopefully they’re at least keeping an eye on the illegal gang members here in the country, especially since we’ve lost innocent children to their bullets. You can check Department of Justice reports on that matter; I suppose there are a few 'right wing extremists' there?
Sometimes my government embarrasses me. With all the security issues at hand, the administration chooses to play politics.
The right will never match the left for venom, or for that matter, for trying to silence the voices of others. I've often wondered why someone doesn't make a good left-wing conspiracy movie simply because there's so much fodder available. You could start with how John F. Kennedy managed to get himself elected president (with lots of help from his father of course).
Janet Napolitano, as predicted, is not exactly blowing anyone away with her approach to homeland security. Napolitano’s bio says as US Attorney, she helped lead the domestic terrorism investigation into the Oklahoma City Bombing. Perhaps for Napolitano, those were her good old days; thus she is forever tuned in to domestic terrorism when logic dictates the problem isn’t quite the way it seems to the rest of us. Apparently, all the radical jihadists have surrendered.
In addition to the passage cited earlier from the report, the blog Right Wing Nut House [ironic in the context of what we’re talking about] pointed out another passage in The Homeland Security report: “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.”
Notice how the report does not reference ‘illegal immigration,’ but rather just plain ‘immigration.’ This sort of misleading terminology reflects poorly not only on the administration but creates a complete misimpression that negatively exacerbates discussions of what to do with approximately 12,000,000 people in the country illegally, creating a $16 billion net deficit even if you calculate payroll taxes withheld. I’ve had enough Democrats bend my ear about illegal immigration that I can declare authoritatively people of all political persuasions are upset with our open border policy. It’s not an immigration problem, it’s the lack of adhering to law that’s the problem. Both political parties have catered to advocacy groups, not in an honest attempt to remedy our lack of a guest worker program but in an attempt to purchase votes via political promises.
The men who set up and killed policemen did so, not because of their politics, but because of their lack of mental stability and lack of regard for human life.
The latest Homeland Security missive is another in a line of several efforts to target conservatives, attempting to paint all with a single brush stroke because we happen to disagree with the way our government is being run.
Our government is painting law enforcement and homeland security with an ideological hue based on very sketchy data that excludes law breakers who may be flaming liberals for all we know. That should disturb anyone truly interested in the wellbeing of our country whether you drink soy milk or bourbon.
As a conservative, I’ll offer a final confession. I pray for our president every single night. I want him to remain healthy and of sound mind. Because if President Barack Obama wasn’t in the Oval Office, Joe Biden would be our president. Need I say more?
'Rightwing Extremism' Homeland Security focus as ideology overtakes reason by Kay B. Day
Kay B. Day, Editor
Really good post on this, with links to updates at Loud Talker: http://theloudtalker.com/2009/04/14/rightwing-extremism/
Reader Comments (2)
An EXCELLENT post Kay!
Thanks--it was the wording in that report that blew my mind. Still does. best, kay