Federal Lawsuit Filed Over DHS 'Rightwing Extremist' Report
Submitted by Richard Thompson on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 07:28
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This article never mentions Islam and many may question why FaithFreedom would publish such. The answer is because the United States Department of Homeland Security was created out of the ashes of the Islamic attack on the United States that happened on September 11, 2001. The idea behind its establishment was to place responsibility for homeland security under one roof and minimize the chance for another attack similar to 9-11.
Homeland Security has worked well as there has been no successful attack since 2001. But now only three months into the Obama Administration, we have seen Homeland Security’s apparent shift from terrorism from the outside to attacking the very people that have kept America safe since 2001. The United States, in its 233 years of existence has never been afraid of its soldiers until now. Only a handful of the millions of U.S. veterans have ever done harm to their country. The only mass murder executed by veterans is Timothy McVeigh, yet Secretary Napolitano is now targeting the very people she must depend on to keep America safe.
So FaithFreedom is very satisfied with the actions taken by the Thomas More Law Center. The whole purpose of the U.S. Constitution was to create a government that the people could trust and that would not turn against its own people. Now we must wait and see if the safe guards placed in the Constitution by the founding fathers, for the American people, will be enforced and keep the government from turning against it people.
The Editors.
Richard Thompson
The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced last week that it filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The lawsuit claims that her Department's "Rightwing Extremism Policy, " as reflected in the recently publicized Intelligence Assessment, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, " violates the civil liberties of combat veterans as well as American citizens by targeting them for disfavored treatment on account of their political beliefs. Click here to read the complaint filed by the Thomas More Law Center.
Napolitano tried to blunt the public furor over the Report by a half-hearted apology to veterans, but she left out of her apology all of the other Americans her Department has targeted because of their political beliefs. In fact, officials in DHS now admit that their internal office of civil liberties objected to the language in the extremism report, but the Department issued it anyway.
Janet Napolitano is lying to the American people when she says the Report is not based on ideology or political beliefs. In fact, her report would have the admiration of the Gestapo and any current or past dictator in the way it targets political opponents. This incompetently written intelligence assessment, which directs law enforcement officials across the country to target and report on American citizens who have the political beliefs mentioned in the report, will be used as a tool to stifle political opposition and opinions. It will give a pretext for opponents of those Americans to report them to police as rightwing extremists and terrorists. You can imagine what happens then.
The Report specifically mentions the following political beliefs that law enforcement should use to determine whether someone is a "rightwing extremist":
- Opposes restrictions on firearms
- Opposes lax immigration
- Opposes the policies of President Obama regarding immigration, citizenship, and the expansion of social programs
- Opposes continuation of free trade agreements
- Opposes same-sex marriage
- Has paranoia of foreign regimes
- Fear of Communist regimes
- Opposes one world government
- Bemoans the decline of U.S. stature in the world.
- Upset with loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China and India
Hurray for Mike Savage.
Hurray for Mike Savage. Excellent article.
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The following post was sent to me by Col. Smith. Just note the ranks of the fellows that he sent it to. This should tell everyone what the upper ranks of the U.S. Military thinks about the crap of being sold out by the Department of Homeland Security.
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Subject: Fwd: Fw: WOW - Ralph Peters on the Vet Threat
New York Post
April 16, 2009
The Vet 'Threat'
Gov't IDs Public Enemy No. 1
By Ralph Peters
HOLLYWOOD and countless professors warned us: Military vets are drooling trailer-trash who beat their wives and, at best, wind up as homeless street people -- at worst, as homicidal psychos deformed by war.
Now, thanks to our ever-vigilant Department of Homeland Security, the full extent of the danger has been revealed:
Our so-called "war heroes" are rushing back to join right-wing-extremist hate groups to overthrow our government.
Let's not quibble about little things like evidence. The Obama administration just knows that vets are all racist, Jew-hating crazies waiting to explode. Thank God, DHS has a fearless leader, Janet-from-another-planet Napolitano, who isn't afraid to call white trash "white trash."
In this administration's published opinion, those who've served in our military are a menace to society and the state. And DHS's racist, bigoted implication is that the only danger comes from white,
Christian vets (there's not a whisper about minority violence).
Thanks for bringing us together, Mr. President.
Racism is racism. The left-wing propaganda document published officially by your government under the title "Right-wing Extremism:
Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in
Radicalization and Recruitment" may be the shabbiest US Government publication of our time.
The report warns that "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
. . . carrying out violent acts."
The document's evidence? None. It contains no hard data, no statistics. It's nothing but a racist, anti-military opinion column that might pass muster in The New York Times, but shouldn't be issued by our government.
The report adds that "rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans" who "possess combat skills." The point? Our hayseed, uneducated, unskilled, wacko vets aren't able to think for themselves and will be patsies for right-wing fanatics. Guess that's how things look from Harvard.
Then the report warns us that "a prominent civil-rights organization reported in 2006 that 'large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis,
skinheads, and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the armed forces.' "
Which civil-rights organization? The Rev. Jeremiah Wright's? Why not
name it? Why accept this bigoted hearsay?
Where's the proof? Where's the data?
And where are those "large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis," anyway? Last time I checked, American Nazis had trouble mustering a couple dozen overweight losers in Halloween costumes.
Of course, Timothy McVeigh is invoked. Repeatedly. He's the sole example of a violent anti-government vet the report's drafters could produce. And there's no mention of the fact that, when he tried to join Special Forces, McVeigh promptly washed out and soon found his butt on the street. No, McVeigh will serve as eternal evidence that a homicidal nut lurks within every former soldier.
In just 8½ pages of text, the report manages to link our veterans to anti-Semitism, racism, economic failure and those dangerous citizens who think illegal immigration's a bad idea. Oh, and vets can't be trusted with firearms.
Your tax dollars at work.
But never fear: Obama's commissars at the Department of Homeland
Security have already responded that DHS simultaneously issued a report on extremist danger from the left. It's title? "Leftwing Extremists Likely to Increase Use of Cyber Attacks over the Coming Decade."
Get the point? Left-wing extremists aren't violent (and right-wingers are too stupid to understand computers).
Timothy McVeigh can be invoked, but let's not mention Bill Ayers, our president's good buddy (until he became inconvenient) or his murderous wife. Left-wing fanatics might make a little online mischief, but, hey -- kids will be kids.
Read both reports. You'll find that those on the political right (not just vets) are unable to cope with the stress of economic hardship, the real-estate crisis or job loss. Not a word about those issues driving leftists to extremes.
They're just defending animal rights and the environment (honest -- read the reports).
Narco gangs aren't a threat, either. And the real and present danger from Islamist fanatics resident in our country goes unmentioned -- even though there's plenty of data on that threat. The only anti-government violence DHS fears comes from crackers with carbines. And from chumps so dumb they joined the military.
We're the threat to our fellow citizens. You and me. Our first minority president just took a giant step toward creating the most bigoted administration since that of arch-segregationist Woodrow Wilson.
Apologize to our veterans, Mr. President. And send Ms. Napolitano back to the minors.
Ralph Peters is so stupid he served in our military for almost 22 years.
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