Homeland Security Warns Of Right-Wing Radicals
Law enforcement is being warned by the Homeland Security Department about the rise in “rightwing extremist activity.” With a recession, a black president, and angry returning war veterans, there is concern that white power militia activity will increase.
A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines “rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.
“It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration,” the warning says.
A nine-page document went to police and sheriff departments on April 7, entitled, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” The report says President Obama is being used as a recruiting tool.
“Most statements by rightwing extremists have been rhetorical, expressing concerns about the election of the first African American president, but stopping short of calls for violent action,” the report says. “In two instances in the run-up to the election, extremists appeared to be in the early planning stages of some threatening activity targeting the Democratic nominee, but law enforcement interceded.”
Of additional concern is increased hoarding of ammunition, the stockpiling of weapons, and paramilitary training activities. The threat of further gun control legislation is a rallying point, as is immigration reform. Stand by, as the report of this report inflames the right even further.
heaven forbid someone is keeping a reserve of ammunition for their constitutionally protected guns.
heaven forbid someone be active in promoting the constitutional powers of the state.
heaven forbid someone being opposed to open borders.
heaven forbid someone being opposed to abortion.
Though I would condemn any actual attack against our government, I won’t condemn anyone for exercising their rights and standing up for the constitution.
Kregg Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Guido: “…heaven forbid someone is keeping a reserve of ammunition for their constitutionally protected guns.
K: Guido, can I borrow some 9mm? The stores around here are completely bare…
April 14th, 2009 at 11:54 am
‘Homeland security office’ is so Soviet sounding anyway. I wonder… now that they are looking at rightwing groups with the same level of attention they have long eyeballed leftwing groups, will folks start being a little more creeped out that we have:
Various ‘Czars’ and a ‘Homeland Security Department’
The left is generally more passive and fatalistic about the attacks on their institutions and groups by governmental strongarm tactics, methinks the right will be a bit more aggressive in combating this stuff.
Kregg Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Um: The left is generally more passive and fatalistic about the attacks on their institutions and groups by governmental strongarm tactics, methinks the right will be a bit more aggressive in combating this stuff.
K: Once again the Right carries the water while the Lefties whine… ;-)
April 14th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Now that the Homeland Security department talks about the radical right, it is no longer relevant?
My, I wonder if they were talking about “Left Wing Elements Arming” what the radical right would post?
The amping up of radical right rhetoric, playing upon the insecurities people feel in troubled economic times like these, simply enhances the probability of one of these nutcases “taking it to the streets”. Remember those right wing campaign rallies when the nut cases were all hyped up for McCain to get angry and “do something”?
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
we all know the left wing elements arm themselves with hugs and sunshine.
Robert Blair Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Especially for you, Guido…hugs, baby, hugs!
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
ooooh I feel so warm and fuzzy, maybe I’ll stop believing in God and become a humanist.
Um Cara Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
ooooh I feel so warm and fuzzy, maybe I’ll stop believing in God and become a humanist.
I don’t believe in humans, and anyone who does is a superstitious, backwards, redneck!
TDro319 Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Hugs and sunshine? No way baby! Nothin’ says lovin’ like a pink AK15 assault rifle with a “hello kitty” emblem on the stock.
http://www.2dayblog.com/…/?lang=en
April 14th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Where were these phony “guardians of liberty” when the Bush DOD was infiltrating Quaker groups?
April 14th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Where were these phony “guardians of liberty” when the Bush DOD was infiltrating Quaker groups?
For me, if folks are combating the government overreaching itself, I don’t care nearly as much that they didn’t combat it before than I care that they have woken up and are ready to combat it now.
We don’t need ‘Czars’ of any type in the United States of America.
We don’t need a ‘Department of Homeland Security’ in the United States of America.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
doesn’t homeland security really just mean defense?
Um Cara Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Well, we have a Defense department, so I suppose it means something else.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
They are talking about the folks that read the turner diaries wanting a new ordor and a bunch of nazi crap using fear as a weapon grabing fresh recurits coming back from war.
Yes, we have the right to bare arms,but this coming from the extreme right,beyound party and country.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
“I won’t condemn anyone for exercising their rights and standing up for the constitution.”
The constitution of the radical right is not the constitution preserved in the National Archives, because the members of the radical right, and especially the radical evangelical right, recognize no authority higher than themselves.
They are radical anti-American subversives—routinely threatening the rest of us with violence and murder. They are the true enemy within and many present a far more grave threat than Osama bin Ladin ever did.
steve Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Very true,with gang and extreme groups from the left and right.
You got the Mob and various forms of it. Biker Gangs,street gangs,they want this country to run amok.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
the radical evangelical right, recognize no authority higher than themselves.
—
if you asked them…I assume you’d get a different answer.
I definitely believe that we should go through legal avenues to affect change, the beauty of the constitution is that there is a legally proscribed method to change it, and sacred method that has been invoked only 16 times…including once to correct a correction (I exclude the Bill of Rights, because they were in essence part of the original passage of the constitution)
However part of that constitutional right is to keep and bear arms. The framers of the constitution felt that this was necessary for the protection of the citizens…even up to and including their own government.
OldLefty Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
RPGs for EVERYONE!!!
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
sure…why not.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Timothy McVey….wasn’t he part of a militia? Didn’t he stock up on arms…of all kinds?
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I think it was Ben Franklin…“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
however I just googled this and I found it phrased about 10 different ways and attributed to 4 different founding fathers…but I’ll go with Benny Frizzle for now…plus it sounds like something he’d say.
another good one from Ben
“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed”
OldLefty Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Yeah, but Ben Franklin was a commie,like Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower; he also said,
“All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.”
–Benjamin Franklin
OldLefty Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
And stinger missliles for all, because, you never know when the government will come for you with fighter jets.
Robert Blair Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
You might be able to get a stinger at the tea bagging parties the radical right is sponsoring tomorrow…of course, the folks don’t really know what “tea bagging” means in todays language…..
urbandictionary.com
I hope all the radical right enjoy their tea bagging each other.
OldLefty Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
God help us!
VegasLib Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Haha… teabagging parties. Good one, Rob.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
if they can afford it…I see no issue with a private citizen having a stinger missile…just so long as they only use it if they are being attacked. It’s the actions done with weapons that concern me, not the actual weapon.
on the flip side, I would push for my neighborhood to be zoned “no stinger missiles”
OldLefty Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
By the time they take the plane out of the sky, it’s to late.
Robert Blair Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
So, when somebody has their own suitcase atom bomb, it won’t bother you…as long as the zoning doesn’t cover it?
Guido, I rarely try and convince someone to change…only to tolerate my opinion…but, in this case…I might suggest you reconsider your position…only a suggestion, though.
steve Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Stinger missles,i am willing to bet their are some nut cases out their with 1.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
radioactive material has to be properly handled and I believe that’s one issue where the government has the right to step in and control it. I would say no to the atom bomb, but not from a 2nd amendment standpoint. Does that make sense?
The zoning issue was kind of a joke, as I’m opposed to most zoning standards.
RDM Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
You need to know your weapons. We have PATRIOT missles to shoot your SCUDS>
OldLefty Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Who said anything about Scuds?
April 14th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Notice how a lot of libs get all excited over the thought of radical right-wingers. “We were right…they’re all evil, gun-toting, redneck, Jesus-fearing evildoers! Hahaha!”
But, yes, with a black president, a bad economy, and gun stockpiles, Homeland Security SHOULD monitor for crazy right-wingers. I would hope they protected Bush from crazy left-wingers, so the reverse should be true.
I’m actually in favor of giving President Obama even MORE protection because of the assassination risk.
Robert Blair Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
I don’t mind radical right wingers…as long as they aren’t armed, angry, tea bagged, and ready for action LOL
steve Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
FLAP
A very good post,mainly paragraph 2 and 3.
I wonder,can hardline conservatives point out extreme right wing freaks and tell law enforcement ?
April 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
DHS…what a bunch of propaganda!
April 14th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I hear all kinds of seditious nonsense on American Family Radio. The militia groups of Tim McVey seemed to just be starting to insert “God” into their cause of “country.” Now, the fundamentalists and evangelists are making anti-Obama speak part of a crusade. It’s amazing how often they’ll attempt to “correct” any callers who take up for Obama, or speak ill of the previous administration.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
anyone notice hannity posting a video on his site called “communist colmes”….that guy makes me sick to my stomach…literally
April 14th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
…the radical evangelical right, recognize no authority higher than themselves.
“…if you asked them…I assume you’d get a different answer.”
That’s because they make one fundamental error: they re-define God to support their own opinions. Which is how you end up with a Jesus who supports greed and capitalism and gun rights and war and the profit motive and interest on loans and capital punishment and bigotry and bias against gays and illegals and the rejection of science, etc., etc.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
but they do recognize that God is their higher power…even if they’ve bastardized his teachings.
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
That’s like saying they recognize Obama as their president even though they have him confused with Stalin.
If you think Jesus approves of war you ain’t no Christian. You’re living in a dream.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 10:54 am
If you think Jesus doesn’t approve of physical removal of opposition you ain’t no religious scholar.
If you believe that the OT is related to the NT than war is not only condoned, but commanded of God under the right circumstances.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Good grief, God has nothing to do with this issue. This is a display of a cold, calculating, unemotional man (BHO) using the government in an attempt to destroy his domestic opposition. (Remember, he did not use the “bitter clingers” comments accidentally.) Obama’s political philosophy his entire adult life has been one of contempt for the American non-left. He is more than willing to bow to the King of Saudi Arabia, insult this country on foreign soil, and make excuses for Islamic terrorists. What he can’t stand is a bunch of American middle-class and lower-middle class guys who enjoy having guns. They are his targets.
Sarah Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Wow, God has nothing to do with this issue? Someone better tell the Religious Right, who believe God has everything to do with
Sarah Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
EVERY issue. (Sorry, I had to belch. just kidding.)
TDro319 Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
You bet! Obama is a communist, marxist, facist, solialist, capitalist Muslim (did I forget anything) hell bent on destroying America!
Oh and I heard he carries a grenade launcher and bazooka in case he runs into a group of right-wingers.
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
“This is a display of a cold, calculating, unemotional man (BHO) using the government in an attempt to destroy his domestic opposition.”
That’s one of the most idiotic things ever posted to this blog. Please do not post while drinking.
“Remember, he did not use the “bitter clingers” comments accidentally.”
Neither do I. You’re bitter the radical right is out of power and you’re clinging to guns and your twisted view of religion because your life is otherwise sad and empty. Try getting a therapist.
maryalice Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Uhh, I don’t own a gun, so I can’t cling to it. I’m a Presbyterian; how twisted can that be? I grew up with the best Mom, Dad, brother, and sister in the world. I believe this country is special, and I’m thankful to have been born here. (The bitterness toward my fellow citizens/posters is not coming from me.)
April 14th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
You guys prove EVERY day that Obama was right about the bitter comment.
We despaired for our country when Bush lied about no nation building, then WMD, then started bypassing the FISA courts, ate cake while NO drowned, and had lawyers write torture memos….a man who made much of his money wilth the bin Ladins, then claimed he didn’t “think much about him”.
We were told to “love it or Leave it”
Yes, you guys and your clowns on the radio and TV who cater to sore losers DO prove the bitter comment.
Why don’t you go tell it to the families of the Pittsburgh police officers who were ambushed and murdered by one of your phony patriots?
KAC Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
By tone of your rant, one might get the impression you are somewhat……bitter?
Sarah Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Bitter that right-wingers defend the actions of Timothy McVeigh and Randy Weaver?
I know I’m still incredulous that a right-winger on here asked what I did to provoke being threatened with a gun years ago.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
who defends Timothy McVeigh or Randy Weaver?
Sarah Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I wish I could remember the name of the guy who posted a defense for McVeigh, basically saying the government provoked him.
Also, I have uber-conservative family members and in-laws who have mentioned the Ruby Ridge travesty. They paint Weaver as a martyr and scapegoat, instead of the guy who resisted arrest and fired on law enforcement.
He was a mild-mannered, guns-for-fun kinda guy, too, wasn’t he.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I don’t remember all the details of Ruby Ridge…but in my opinion once the government has gone through the proper channels and issued an arrest warrant you should give yourself up peacefully, or you should expect to hit, beat and/or shot.
Generally I’m not a big fan of the big raids on civilians, unless of course they’ve refused to give themselves up. I think part of the outrage of Ruby Ridge (and the Koresh compound) is that children were involved…if I’m remembering correctly.
But knowing police officers and talking to them I can see why they favor the surprise raid, as it is much safer for them in most occasions, especially if you know for a fact the other side is armed.
As for McVeigh he has about as much justification in his act as the 9/11 terrorists did.
OldLefty Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I am bitter towards those who during the last administration, told me to shut up, or called me a traitor, or to love it or leave it, but who have no problem with these guys like Lars Larson telling people to “empty their ammo” when the government comes, THEN defends them when kooks do just that.
But you are right, I shouldn’t be bitter, these are the 27%ers being mobilized by billionaires.
KAC Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
And you paint everyone with a “conservative” view with the same broad brush. I have never seen a conservative on this site tell you or anyone else to “shut up”. However, I have received that remark from a couple of your “liberal” cohorts.
GuidoVanHorn Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 10:55 am
shut up you traitor…and while you’re at it you can love it or leave it..;)
Sarah Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
KAC, if gun-nuts killed each other with their pseudo-penis pistols, that would be one thing.
I can’t remember, who was the guy on here who defended Tim McVey and Randy Weaver? Essentially saying that the government PROVOKED these two radical right-wingers?
Found it interesting that one of the right-wingers on here asked me what I DID to a pawnbroker to “deserve” getting threatened by a gun.
KAC Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Yeah, we ALL have our war stories to tell about our engagements with the “other side”…
April 14th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
MaryAlice: “What he can’t stand is a bunch of American middle-class and lower-middle class guys who enjoy having guns.”
What MOST of Americans can’t stand is that there are a bunch of paranoid Americans who have violent histories, insane tendencies, and/or exhibit negligent parenting habits and you want to fight for THEIR rights to own weapons they can use against innocent people.
OldLefty calls it well. You personify the “bitter, paranoid” comment beautifully with your post.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
SEan Hannity is not only pitty, but an idiot.
He does not understand the role of the president
as commander in chief.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Sarah, There is a great difference between my “middle-class and lower middle-class guys who enjoy having guns” and your “paranoid Americans who have violent histories, insane tendencies”. It’s apples and oranges.
(Also, name-calling does not add to the intellectual crediblity of any argument.) I have read some earlier very good posts from you.
Sarah Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
MaryAlice, if the “middle-class and lower middle-class guys who enjoy having guns” didn’t hemorhage cash into the NRA to fight against any and all restrictions on gun ownership, I’d agree with your “apples and oranges” theory.
Unfortunately, these “guns-for-fun” types want to make it so every man, woman and child in America can have a weapon that is used to kill people, regardless of mental health, previous criminal history, or negligent behavior.
Sarah Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Incidentally, I have to leave, but I’ll try to check back to see if you can explain how I’ve indulged in name-calling, but you painting painting people as “cold, calculating, unemotional” is NOT name-calling.
maryalice Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
OK, I’ll give it a try. If I personify “bitter, paranoid”, it means that is what I am as a person. That is not a criticism of my writing, it is a criticism of me, the human being (which, to me is name-calling).
As to the other, there has long been much greater leeway when writing or talking about a public, political figure than there is when writing or talking about a private citizen. Unemotional is an adjective BHO’s great fans have used to describe him. Calculating is an American president calling America arrogant on foreign soil because he thinks it might buy him friends in other parts of the world. Cold, is my adjective for him, because I believe him to be very distant. I try to refrain from using real name-calling terms; like liar, fool, traitor, stupid, jack-ass, etc.
Whew! I think I worked too hard for this.
OldLefty Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Sorry, I just saw this: So then is this what you guys called “Bush Derangement Syndrome”?…because we saw the same thing with Clinton.
Sarah Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Ah, I see. When I criticize YOUR behavior, it’s name calling. But when you criticize the president’s behavior (which many of us on here naturally agree with, it being a site that attracts people of similar, liberal mindsets) it is NOT name-calling.
Then you go on to re-define name-calling in your next-to-last sentence.
But whatever.
“Unemotional” is not a term I’ve heard among Obama’s “great fans.” Unless it means the equivalent of “level-headed, sensible” etc.
MaryAlice, I hope you’ll entertain the notion that keeping knee-jerk emotions controlled might be more of an asset than a liability these days. Then again, someone who introduces emotion in order to squelch an argument they’re losing (”I grew up with the best Mom, Dad, brother, and sister in the world. I believe this country is special, and I’m thankful to have been born here.”) might not understand the benefits of reason, logic, and thought as contributors to progress and compassion for fellow Americans.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
LMOA – whatever happened to ” If you haven’t done anything wrong you shouldn’t have anything to fear”?
April 14th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
“”"That’s because (the religious far-right) make one fundamental error: they re-define God to support their own opinions. Which is how you end up with a Jesus who supports greed and capitalism and gun rights and war and the profit motive and interest on loans and capital punishment and bigotry and bias against gays and illegals and the rejection of science, etc., etc.”"
Well said, and therefore worth repeating…
April 14th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
How to spot a rightwinger?
No sense of humor and deeply authoritarian.
steve Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
They highjacked GOD with guns as well.
Kregg Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Dave: How to spot a rightwinger? No sense of humor and deeply authoritarian.
K: I don’t find that funny at all. STOP SAYING THAT!
Um Cara Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I’ve seen some pretty damn authoritarian liberals as well, Dave.
You don’t have to look any further than this blog to see liberal authoritarian kooks.
Sarah Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Which, of course, would be anyone who doesn’t agree in lockstep with prevailing liberal views, apparently.
willy Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Hey Dave–Ever hear the saying, “It takes one to know one”?
Um Cara Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Dave’s not here, man.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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April 14th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
We are surely radicals. We believe that every able bodied person pay their own bills. We believe in keeping a Christian nation. We believe in fair taxes. We believe in our right to bear arms. We believe in Duty, Honor and Country. That is really something to warn liberals about.
If it takes a civil war to keep our nation from falling to a Socialist Country, I’m sure we will believe in that too. Who exactly are the people who crafted this report, and what are their credentials and expertise in this field? Can we have their names published like the names of the AIG bonus receipients were published? Maybe we can have some busloads of true Americans visit them after the next Tea Party and explain the Constitution to them. I’ll be willing to drive the bus!!!!!
baD mR fRosTy Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
That’s funny…keep rattling your sword there pal, lol….
…not sure who you’re threatening…the gov’t? The office of Homeland security? Law enforcement? the tea-baggers? The REAL perps of 9-11? area 51?
Whoever it is, they’ll be quaking in their boots to hear you and your magic bus full of “radicals” are a’comin’!
Don’t forget your tin-foil hat you certifiable anti-American loon…
JaredfromTexas Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
McFROSTY,
Did you seriously just call someone else “anti-American”?
That’s rich!
April 14th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
“…defines “rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.”
K: Does this include those of us who reject federal authority to take over private companies, force states to take bail-out funds, and pay bonuses to private persons with public tax moneys?
steve Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Most states want the bailout money and that goes for Palin,s state as well.
GOP lawmakers pushed a bill led by Phil Gramm in 1999 that reverse deregulation measure put inplaced by FDR. Look at the banking system now.
Those bonuses where allowed by that bill with some added spice from Franks. Both parties are at fault. Clinton sign the stupid bill,but the GOP ran the house and senate from 1994 to 2006 using a ton of bad judgement regarding the economy.
We need smart regulation and compaines need money from those bailouts. Or perhaps,you rather be in a soup line and watch alot of other people get in 1 as well.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
When I heard Gibson going nuts on his radio talk show about this, I knew it was a good thing. That turkey misquoted and twisted the information and message so much it came out that ALL veterens were to be considered probable militia militants….good grief…and the poor suckers listening probably never read a newspaper or saw any real news about it…so they bought it…hook…line…and tea bag.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:38 am
but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.
Would “sanctuary cities” fall into this category then?
Robert Blair Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Probably…also, the state of Texas….at least now that the Governor wants to eat at the trough, but whine about state’s rights after his mouth is full of federal pork.
JaredfromTexas Reply:
April 15th, 2009 at 4:13 am
heehee…good one…typical politician.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:57 am
“…angry returning war veterans.” Where did you pull that one out of Alan? I watch the news daily and I have yet to see any “angry returing war veterans”.
Where exactly were you going with this anyway Alan?
I go out and buy a little extra ammo and a gun or two and you become paranoid along with the rest of your liberal buddies. Last time I checked buying guns and ammo is still legal and the feds have no business where, when, what, and how much I buy.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:37 am
maryalice Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
…I’m a Presbyterian; how twisted can that be?
——————————
Every day when I walk out my door, the first thing I see is Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. A lovely building, but it’s about as twisted as a church can be. (Well, the building isn’t really twisted, but I’m sure you know what I mean.)
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April 18th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Nobody has a problem with the fact that they are basically saying. People who believe the contitution as written are now extremist.
“A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines “rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.”
placefield Reply:
April 19th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
That is not what they are saying. They are saying there may be groups with that agenda who may be prone to using extreme tactics. Not that everybody who believes that is an extremist.
April 19th, 2009 at 12:24 pm