DHS Thinks Constitutionalists are Extremists
“Never trust the government more than the government trusts you.” — Unknown
Apparently folks like myself who support the “Bill of Rights,” are anti-illegal-immigration and questioners for the truth are being seen as a threat by our dear federal Department of Homeland Security agency. I suppose we had to see this coming when the phrase, “Global War on Terror” became replaced with, “Oversees Contingency Operations.”
Here’s the report that is causing much consternation on the part of anyone who might think about speaking out against our present Administration. As Pamela Gellar of Atlas Shrugs explains:
The Department of Homeland Security banned Atlas two weeks back … the beginning. And the officers who read Atlas at the DHS tell me it’s still banned. And the DHS have targeted the tea parties (see this Atlas post).
I have documented and covered the most extreme anti-American leftist Islamic rallies across this country for the past five years, and have never seen garbage like this on the real enemies of this great country.
Federal agency warns of radicals on right Washington Times
9-page report sent to policeThe White House has distanced itself from the analysis. When asked for comment on its contents, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said, “The President is focused not on politics but rather taking the steps necessary to protect all Americans from the threat of violence and terrorism regardless of its origins. He also believes those who serve represent the best of this country, and he will continue to ensure that our veterans receive the respect and benefits they have earned.”
Here’s my whole report
SHOCKING NEW EPORT! OBAMA’S REAL TERRORISTS: TARGETING PATRIOTS AND THE RIGHTIt is the fascist blueprint to create a police state and legalize gulags. This is not a spoof. This is Obama’s “civilian army’s” MOB. (hat tip the Rockman)
What, exactly, was Ms. Gellar talking about? Check out the following:
An officer over at the Dept. Homeland Security – Customs and Border Protection sent me this screenshot when he tried to access Atlas. He is the third reader (who shall remain anonymous) who works at Homeland Security who cannot log onto Atlas. They had been able to access my site continually up until this week. “It went from to access to no access overnight”.
According to ABC, the President was “unaware of the tea parties.” Yes, those dangerous tea parties. Perhaps now federalism is the new extremism (via AmericasRight). Maybe it all fits the profile (via RedState.com) per DHS?
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:”
(Photoshop: Tennyson Hayes)
-Phil
The following is a preview of Obama’s Hate Crimes Legislation, whereby “We the People” who exercise our 1st Amendment Rights, will be considered “terrorists”…
Talk show host Michael Savage is on the banned list
Named and shamed: the 16 barred from UK
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/16-banned-from-britain-named-and-shamed-1679127.html
Sixteen people banned from entering the UK were “named and shamed” by the Home Office today.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she decided to make public the names of 16 people banned since October so others could better understand what sort of behaviour Britain was not prepared to tolerate.
The list includes hate preachers, anti-gay protesters and a far- right US talk show host.
“I think it’s important that people understand the sorts of values and sorts of standards that we have here, the fact that it’s a privilege to come and the sort of things that mean you won’t be welcome in this country,” Ms Smith told GMTV.
“Coming to this country is a privilege. If you can’t live by the rules that we live by, the standards and the values that we live by, we should exclude you from this country and, what’s more, now we will make public those people that we have excluded.
“We are publishing the names of 16 of those that we have excluded since October. We are telling people who they are and why it is we don’t want them in this country.”
She said the number of people excluded from Britain had risen from an average of two a month to five a month since October.
The list of the 16 “least wanted” includes radio talk show host Michael Savage, real name Michael Weiner.
“This is someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country,” Ms Smith told BBC Breakfast.
Also named are American Baptist pastor Fred Waldron Phelps Snr and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper, who have picketed the funerals of Aids victims and claimed the deaths of US soldiers are a punishment for US tolerance of homosexuality.
“If people have so clearly overstepped the mark in terms of the way not just that they are talking but the sort of attitudes that they are expressing to the extent that we think that this is likely to cause or have the potential to cause violence or inter-community tension in this country, then actually I think the right thing is not to let them into the country in the first place. Not to open the stable door then try to close it later,” Ms Smith said.
“It’s a privilege to come to this country. There are certain behaviours that mean you forfeit that privilege.”
Hamas MP Yunis Al-Astal, Jewish extremist Mike Guzovsky, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Donald Black and neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe are also on the list released today.
Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, the former leaders of a violent Russian skinhead gang which committed 20 racially motivated murders, are also banned from coming to Britain. Both are currently in prison.
Making up the rest of the 16 named by the Home Office today are preachers Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim, Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Safwat Hijazi and Amir Siddique, Muslim activist Abdul Ali Musa (previously Clarence Reams), murderer and Hezbollah terrorist Samir Al Quntar and Kashmiri terror group leader Nasr Javed.
Capitalism ‘threatens life on the planet’
http://rabble.ca/news/2009/04/declaration-cuman%C3%A1-capitalism-threatens-life-planet
“We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela [Willima Ayer's and Obama's friend Hugo Chavez]…
1. Capitalism is leading humanity and the planet to extinction…
2. Capitalism has caused the environmental crisis, by submitting the necessary conditions for life in the planet, to the predominance of market and profit…
3. The global economic crisis, climate change, the food crisis and the energy crisis are the result of the decay of capitalism, which threatens to end life and the planet…”
So, when does Obama apologize to the UN-Americans for the United States leading humanity and the planet to extinction, for the environmental crisis, for the global economic crisis, climate change, the food crisis and the energy crisis?
So, when does the DHS add “capitalists” to Obama’s list of “domestic terrorists”?
Feds’ ‘McVeigh excuse’ prompts response
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95917
“David Schippers, the chief counsel for the 1998 impeachment trial of President Clinton, probed the bombing with investigative reporter Jayna Davis, author of “The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing”, by WND Books. Davis asserts McVeigh and Terry Nichols [Left-Wing Extremists] were not the lone conspirators but part of a greater scheme involving Islamic terrorists and at least one provable link to Iraq. The explosion April 19, 1995, at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured another 684. “
The case for ‘incitement’
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710752105&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
“…It’s no secret that stories critical of government [Obama] polices …become fodder for those …with an [anti-American] agenda… But…our robust press is integral to civil liberties.
THE ISSUE of press freedom is very much on [Obama's agenda] the agenda at the Durban II conference in Geneva even though Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pathetic Monday performance hogged the media spotlight.
At stake is the question of whether [Obama] Muslim and Arab delegates will succeed in imposing their free press “standards” on other civilizations [Obama's Hate Crimes Legislation]. The conference will be voting on whether to include in its closing policy statement an innocuous-sounding clause prohibiting ‘incitement’…”
For Holocaust Deniers, Leftwing Extremists, UN-Americans, and “Illegitimizers”:
3 Auschwitz survivors with consecutive tattoo numbers come together for first time…
B-14594, B-14595 and B-14596
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/VideoPlayer&cid=1194419829128&videoId=1239710744822
Leftwing Extremists should be Waterboarded
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46949
United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a Right Wing Extremist
http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=897
“…the framers …understood that for liberty to exist the populace needed to be educated enough to understand liberty and to be able to defend liberty. They also understood that liberty was not on automatic pilot, that liberty would not exist simply because it was once started, and that having won it it was very delicate and had to be protected…”
Jacqlyn Smith says:
April 20, 2009 at 9:26 am
“and she’s a natural born citizen”
Have you personally seen her birth certificate? Of course not, you just take her word she was born in Idaho. You are *assuming* she’s a natural born citizen because she says so. Why does she get a pass?
JeffM says:
April 18, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Sue wrote:
Carol,
So I guess the governor of Alaska can look forward to a visit from DHS???
It looks like DHS is the least of Gov. Palin’s problems.
http://www.americablog.com/2009/04/in-major-repudiation-alaska-legislature.html
Thursday, April 16, 2009
In a major repudiation, Alaska Legislature rejected Palin’s pick to be the next Attorney General
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What does this have to do with the job Sarah Palin has done as Governor of the State of Alaska??? She hasn’t done anything illegal and she is a “natural born” citizen…more than you can say for the IMPOSTER in our White House…..so what if the Legislature didn’t like her pick of Wayne Anthony Ross….she still has a much higher approval rating than the IMPOSTER has ever had….even after the Liberal media and the Left-wing hate mongers (talk about radicals) totally have tried everything in their power to discredit her and her family!! They don’t want her anywhere near the White House because she just might clean up the corruption that is running rampant on Capitol Hill…..a place that drastically needs an overhaul!!!!
earl says:
April 18, 2009 at 8:39 am
Jacqlyn Smith says:
April 17, 2009 at 5:47 pm
“my concerns are with the THUG in the WH”
Yes, of course, that’s the bottom line for you. It’s not really that you thought the report “accused veterans” at all. It was that you don’t like Obama. At least you’re honest.
Saying this report “accuses” or “disrespects” veterans is like saying a warning from the police about pedophiles accuses or disrespects children.
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Earl—-If you ever get over your Bush Derangement Syndrome…you might be able to see past your nose!!!
The inept Secretary of Homeland Security…need I remind you who was appointed by the IMPOSTER… had to go on TV and apologize to the Veterns….I think her apology speaks for itself when saying she allowed a statement to go public that she now has to take back….if this isn’t profiling certain segments of our country….especially people who defend it…..then I don’t know what you call it…..STUPIDITY….on her part and others like her…looks like you might be included in that group!
Sue wrote:
Sue… You continue to detract from the overall issue here with political slanting nonsense that has nothing to do with the Consitutional crisis we are facing. Don’t get me wrong. Palin is just as corrupt as the rest of the Republicrats and needs removed. But attempts to derail the discussion is counterproductive.
Nevertheless, DHS is politically charged and will be removed with the rest of the cancerous federation we are up against. They know full well Patriots in this country will not let this go quietly into that goodnight. This will escalate and war will ensue. It’s written in history and will be written again in future history. When the time comes where our liberties are at vital risk, 80 million people will charge forward. I predict a massive revolution this country has never seen and the wrongs will be righted. I don’t like the thought of this, but when the system is clearly broken as evidenced in so much of the problems we’re seeing (DHS, bailouts, centralization of the census, ineligibility, etc), there are few alternatives for citizens as their rights would have been stripped and people start to become imprisoned for political reasons.
Jacqlyn Smith says:
April 17, 2009 at 5:47 pm
“my concerns are with the THUG in the WH”
Yes, of course, that’s the bottom line for you. It’s not really that you thought the report “accused veterans” at all. It was that you don’t like Obama. At least you’re honest.
Saying this report “accuses” or “disrespects” veterans is like saying a warning from the police about pedophiles accuses or disrespects children.
Sue:
I was referring to her stance as anti-abortion. Her rejection of pick for AG has nothing to do with her position of anti-abortion.
I stand by my other comment. Not one place in Bush’s document, which you say is fact, is there a concern for people peacefully protesting, those anti-abortion or anti-immigration. And I do understand your referral to horse farms et al, that illegals do the work that others in this country may not want to. Then we should get them legal as soon as possible.