Saturday, April 18, 2009

Right Wing Extremists!

From Phil at http://www.therightsideoflife.com/?p=5608

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WorldNetDaily is also reporting on this by asking, “Why call Americans ‘extremists?’“:

The
Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, Mich., says it has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Homeland Security demanding why it calls Americans who oppose abortion, support 2nd Amendment gun rights and dislike lax immigration law enforcement “extremists.”

“This is not an intelligence report but a diatribe against those who oppose the policies of the Obama administration,” said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel for the organization.

“It is a declaration of war against the American people and our constitution. It is a prelude to extreme gun control legislation and hate speech laws targeting Christian churches and others who oppose abortion and same sex marriage,” he continued. “The federal government should be focusing its attention on the 35 radical Muslim compounds in the U.S. training its followers on how to kidnap and kill Americans.”

The report had been unveiled earlier by
talk-radio host and WND columnist Roger Hedgecock.

WND reported the DHS’s report had alerted police across the nation to watch out for those who may have anti-abortion bumper stickers, claim the 2nd Amendment right of personal possession of weapons or express loyalty to U.S. Rep. Ron Paul or third-party political candidates.

The Law Center’s request seeks the “basis” for the “assessment.”
The report, called “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” specifically singled out military veterans as vulnerable to rightwing extremism.

And guess what? Secretary Napolitano is
not backing down:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report, which lists returning veterans among terrorist risks to the U.S. …

In her statement Wednesday, Ms. Napolitano defended the report, which says “rightwing extremism” may include groups opposed to abortion and immigration, as merely one among several threat assessments. But she agreed to meet with the head of the American Legion, who had expressed anger over the report, when she returns to Washington next week from a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Fortunately, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) is asking questions:
But the top House Democrat with oversight of the Department of Homeland Security said in a letter to Ms. Napolitano that he was “dumbfounded” that such a report would be issued.

“This report appears to raise significant issues involving the privacy and civil liberties of many Americans - including war veterans,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in his letter sent Tuesday night.

The letter was representative of a public furor over the nine-page document since its existence was reported in The Washington Times on Tuesday.
Update: Michelle Malkin
holds DHS accountable:

You cannot ignore the context or the timing of this DHS report. It’s no small coincidence that Napolitano’s agency disseminated the assessment just a week before the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party protests. The grass-roots events organized by fiscal conservatives, independents, Libertarians, and yes, even some blue Dog Democrats were fueled by the “current economic and political climate” of bipartisan profligate spending and endless taxpayer-funded bailouts. The growing success of the loose-knit movement has invited scorn, ridicule, and fear-mongering from Obama’s supporters. Liberal bloggers have likened the Tea Party movement to neo-Nazis, militias, and even Weather Underground terrorists.

These attempts to demonize the Tea Party movement come on the heels of widespread conservative-bashing over the recent shooting sprees in Pittsburgh and Binghamton, New York. Taking Hillary Clinton’s advice to “never waste a good crisis,” left-wing pundits and analysts have blamed the tragedies on everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Fox News to the NRA. …

If you can redefine dissenting opinion as “hate,” you can brand your political opponents as “extremists” – and you can marginalize electoral threats. “Antigovernment?” “Pro-enforcement?” “Disgruntled?” Feeling taxed enough already and “recruiting” and “radicalizing” your friends and neighbors through “chatter on the Internet?”

We are all rightwing extremists now. Welcome to the club.
It makes me wonder: who’s running the Executive branch of the federal government: Barack Hussein Obama or Saul Olinsky? Perhaps it’s the former in the flesh and the latter in spirit?

Update: AmericanThinker
opines:
If you didn’t vote for Barack Obama, if you’re unhappy with our tanking economy and the government’s complicity in said tanking, or perhaps more odiously, you are a war veteran - you are, for all intents and purposes, an enemy of the state, subject to surveillance by law enforcement and security officials, who have been officially advised of the danger you represent.


So let’s see: I didn’t vote for Obama. I am unhappy with the government’s complicity in our economic decline and the power grab that is the ultimate goal of the Fed’s fiddling. But, I am not a veteran. Well, two out of three ain’t bad. …
But today, dissent has become, well, if not unpatriotic, unfair and downright mean, to quote Michelle Obama. We have to give Barack Obama a chance. A chance to do what? Good question.

Our framers intended for the government to serve its citizens, not the other way around. As our government seeks more control
over the markets and other segments of American society, average Americans are seeing the light and getting fed up with it. And if my not being afraid to say so makes me a “radical right wing extremist,” then so be it.

The only thing I ask is that my cell has a clean mattress.
I’ll end this posting with the ultimate group of “extremists:”


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5 comments:

Leo the Lawyer said...

It is good to see Black People like Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) criticize the LEFT WING EXTREMISM of the BO Administration.

I wonder what catagory BO will put Democrats like the Congressman into. Maybe BO & MO will label them just "downright mean."

Kathy said...

Here's my letter to "Mz" Napolitano:

Secretary Janet Napolitano April 17, 2009
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528

Mz. Napolitano,

I am writing to you today to express my outrage at your incredibly arrogant and ignorant actions to allow the release of the most-biased, discriminatory, anti-civil rights piece of crap ever to come out of a federal government agency!

Lady, let me tell you who I am: I am a believer in Jesus Christ, the Ten Commandments, the rule of law (including only legal immigration!), the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, Second Amendment rights, the sanctity of human life starting in the womb, fair taxation, and a marriage only between a man and a woman. And you have the unmitigated, completely-off-the-wall gall to call me a “domestic terrorist”!

As a retired federal employee, I never abrogated or in any way retrieved my oath as a federal employee to “support and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” It is in support of the Constitution as the supreme law of this land, that I declare to you that YOU, Mz. Napolitano, are the right-wing extremist that you so hypocritically castigated and marginalized in your incredible and despicable memo. Even your own civil rights employees tried to warn you against the civil rights violations that were all over that memo. What fascist mentality you must obviously possess to even think, let alone publish, such a horrendous assault upon the rights of freedom-loving, law-abiding American citizens! I have to ask: what planet did you just step off of, Mz. Napolitano? What were you thinking? Who the hell are you?

You are a disgrace to all the precepts and principles set forth in the founding fathers’ documents of this country, to everything that is good, orderly and decent, and you need to step down NOW! You do not deserve to hold public office, let alone serve as the head of a federal agency. You have trampled upon millions of American citizens, and have slaughtered and greatly impugned the reputation of our great military veterans.

One last thing: before you step down, get down on your knees and APOLOGIZE TO AMERICA!

Fighting and mad as hell,

Greg Goss said...

God bless Judd Gregg for coming to his senses, and lets pray Colman can prevail. I am just in awe at all of this and how fast it is happening. God help us all.

Anonymous said...

This should clear up the confusion about the Constitutional differences between a Grand Jury and a Petit Jury.

Grand Juries and a Petit Juries are two distinct sets of Juries.

A Grand Jury constitutionally should be controlled by Citizens. The Petit Jury is to be guided by a judge according to the Constitution.

Every Judge tells the Petit Jurors to disregard evidence that is obtained unconstitutionally.

I agree that the parts of the FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE referenced in Mr. McGrew’s Pravda Article regarding GRAND JURIES are unconstitutional.

However, the 4th Amendment instructs judges to instruct PETIT JURORS to DISREGARD unconstitutionally obtained evidence, and that is why every judge Every Judge tells Petit Jurors to "disregard that remark or disregard that evidence" which is illegally obtained.

hymns that preach said...

I have started a new volunteer registry for anyone who is proud to be labeled a "domestic terrorist" by Janet Napolitano. Let me know if you would like your name and blogsite added to the list. The list can be viewed at http://rightwingregistry.blogspot.com