Video: Janet Napolitano’s Extremist Makeover tour
Janet Napolitano made the media rounds this morning to face the public firestorm over DHS’s hit job on conservatives.
I’m calling it the Extremist Makeover tour.
She offered an apology to veterans, saying it wasn’t her intention to offend. It may not have been the intention of the report authors or Napolitano to offend or overreach, but that was certainly the effect. And it remains a mystery why Napolitano felt it necessary to distribute a shoddy nine-page report that was supposedly in the works under the Bush administration for a year, as Napolitano claims, containing zero data backing up the claim of a “resurgence” of rightwing extremist violence — and was padded with analysis from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to stir fear of “disgruntled military veterans.”
On Fox and Friends this morning, Napolitano admitted that she would have changed the definition included in the report.
A reminder:
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.
So, how exactly would she rewrite the definition?
We rightwing extremists want to know.
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You are missing the entire point though. The idea is not to change the LE perception all at once. The idea is to instigate a subtle nuance using semantics in much the same way as has been done by calling our nation a “democracy” instead of a constitutional republic, calling illegal aliens “immigrants” and thus, to allow for a creeping change to begin that will only become effective over the course of time.
Interestingly enough, for people with an in-depth view of history (or those like me who simply have no real social life LOL) Ben Franklin also used this method very effectively to influence people’s thinking and decisions. Marx, Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, liberals and others, simply use(d) this method for more nefarious purposes.
As for the length (or lack thereof) of this report, it is actually an analysis of the report in order to give a summary of the completed report itself. Many departmental heads of large organizations need to have everything summarized in order to have a better view of what is going on overall. It certainly does pose some interesting questions about what is in the complete (and fully classified) report.
Just the two cents of a Gun-toting, Bible-thumping veteran right wing extremist.
Corrected:
Sorry for the sloppy syntax, folks; but that’s how it is when I try to do five things at once – one of them always goes awry.
As a veteran, I do not accept your apology Madame Janet Nepolitino and after reading the entire report demand that you either be fired or resign.
Midterms coming up in 2010!
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
I suspect anyone who is a Nationalist, and does not like the UN puke blue color is their enemy.
Dr. Savage said we have the enemy within. Perhaps, the enemy is feeling brave with a Marxist in office.
“It’s the violence we’re trying to PROTECT.” Huh?
Maybe she was talking about protecting the violence against Tom Tancredo at UNC. Does she means she wants to make sure that kind of thing goes undisturbed, unpunished and is protected? I’m confused.
FIFY
Leather neck – are you aware of how squarely you’ve hit that nail?
While DHS is out looking for their blond-haired, blue-eyed terrorist, the enemy is already IN the gate.
– MuscleDaddy
I downloaded this thing….it is not unreasonable to see this as setting up the legal framework for the killing of those who would protest this administration. We were a very peacefull group of citizens concerned about our God given rights and we are being set up as a “Perceived Threat So it seems the question is Should DHS protect an administration or protect the United States of America
Jim M,, well it should be a big deal when the attorney general castigates half the population, from pro life, anti illegal immmigration, anti military, and I bet everything I have she hates the military. She seems to be a bitter old fool and unfortunately she now has some power and I fear she could arrest people who disagree with her viewpoints as well as her boss. She and the BO could declare a national emergency and then arrest anyone who apposes her.
Thank you MtsEddge, and MuscleDaddy.
You folks have a great evening. I’m going to go cling to my religion, wife, and weapon.
Over.
Kissing butts of the people that all the new voters in the United States will really keep their allegiance to. Mexico City will let all the new Mexican Americans know to vote DEMOCRAT!!!! Besides, Mexico City butt probably seems tasty to Napolitano.
No I am not. War game what it will take in the way of effort to track and report on anyone that fits the description. Their whole system will break down from information overleoad.
Consider this. They are REALLY rolling the dice here. You have seen this report and what it implies. What will be the reaction of the American people if they are predisposed with us and Al Queada hits us again?
Napolitano will eaither resign or be crucified in the public arena. As I remarked in another post. It will be Carter’s Desert One times 100.
Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Clinton, control of Congress, liberal agenda, POOOOOOF. This report really set them up. They were stuipid.
Jim m, It’s okay to ask but the answer is probably “none of your business.”
If you don’t like that answer I suggest you start your own blog. The rest of us are happy with the job Michelle is doing.
By her own definitions, Reichsführer Napolitano has declared that about half of the citizens of this country are enemies of the state. Thank you enlightened voters, you really stuck it to us this time.
Go ponder it for a decade or two Jim then when you come down from the mountain you can enlighten the world with your findings.
So what about the HATE leveled at conservative Americans from the left. We are amercians Doesn’t that count. even though you won the election you have no right to charge one side with hate and the other gets away with murder. Did political correctness fall off the bus when the left won the election? Did the left use political correctness to get what they wanted then throw it away?
She Said she didn’t mean to Lump ALL Veterans in the Assessment..
Which Begs the question.. if not ALL…which ones were she targeting??
As a Vet.. how do I know if I am excluded or not..
You are not excluded. This bunch has hated us for 40 years. I saw this during Vietnam when I was in HS and later as a soldier.
They will only stop hating us when they eventually die of whatever kills them. If you think they care about you, go to The Wall. They did not care about winning and they did not care about us dying while they were playing they charade. There are 58,000 reasons on that Wall why you should never trust them and never doubt for a moment what they think about you.
All during the Iraq debate up until this moment, did you ever here ONE even ONE of them talk about the importance of winning. “Ending the war” is not winning. They do not care about the sacrifices made to date. They only want votes and power.
Those are the people in charge again. Never forget it and never trust them.
It must really irritate Janet Napolitano to dress like a girl.
She was not trusted here in AZ as Gov., that’s for sure.
On to the military. Liberals like her, and Obama, and pretty much the majority of liberals despise the military. Right now they have to pretend they do not, that the “support the troops”. That will change and before you know it they will be gutting the military budget. In thier minds vets as terrorists makes perfect sense. They really do think something has to be seriously wrong with anyone who would choose to go in the service. And once they get back from Iraq or Afganistan they cannot be trusted, they all have PTSD. I would not put it past them in the future to try and get having been in the military used to bar you from owning a gun.
Oh my bad. Not that it matters, cuz Im cool with the alternative lifestyles, but I thought that was a tranny…
Bad squirrel! Bad! Sorry, wrong website, wrong thread
She said she would have changed the definition.What that tells me is she didn’t bother to read it before releasing it.Does this sound familiar?
“It must really irritate Janet Napolitano to dress like a girl.”
On the weekends she can unwind wearing jeans, a flannel shirt, Doc Martin boots. Accessorizing, with a tasteful wallet with heavy chain attached to belt loop
Jim, would you also like to make some money off of this? What kind of question is this? In college, one of my professors used to say that there is no such thing as a stupid question but there are always exceptions for “unique individuals” (how is that for civil?) like yourself.
Would you like to start your own blog yourself? Work for yourself? Or are you just jealous being that making money or being a capitalist is considered a sin these days?
I don’t think this report was blown out of proportion. You try being a veteran or an active duty military member. Are you? It’s insulting for the DHS to suggest that vets have a propensity for violence because they may have experienced PTSD or served in the military (stateside or overseas). You try being the spouse of one of those military members (like myself) and get back to me.
You have either got to be the most uninformed person on the planet or just plain obtuse. Napolitano, like many libs, is ignorant about the military, and unconsciously carries a bias toward them. This shoddily done report, which I suspect was leaked, wasn’t meant to be released.
Whatever the circumstance, aren’t you even the least bit curious about why this report was released and the purpose behind it? Is this the appropriate use of our tax dollars? Do you possess any curiousity? Or, are you like many Americans who have decided to stop asking questions of your government in return for your own comfort?
Personally, I’d like to know YOUR motivations for being on a blog that appears to not be to your liking.
HOOAH!! I’m a Right Wing Extremist!
I always thought being a citizen, Soldier, veteran, and Chaplain of my Elks Lodge was enough to qualify
What I find interesting is this, what would make a government afraid of those who have sworn to give their lives in defense of it and the our constitution?