Stop blaming Bush for DHS hit job
Ed Morrissey nails the buck-passers on the DHS rightwing extremism assessment:
First, while the Bush administration might have wanted an assessment of right-wing extremist threats, it didn’t necessarily want one that painted returning veterans and conservative thought on abortion, illegal immigration, and federalism as extremist threats, nor did it want a threat assessment that couldn’t find a threat and had no data on actual, specific groups. Secondly, and most obviously, this report was dated April 7, 2009, almost 3 months after Bush left office.
Just when does the new administration take responsibility for reports they release? 2013? For people who thought Bush was such a dunce, they seem to give him remarkable powers to control government months after he’s retired to Crawford.
Now we see that this wasn’t just left lying around from the Bush administration. In fact, it was such a rush job that Janet Napolitano couldn’t wait to resolve the obvious civil-liberty concerns raised by her own lawyers before shoving it out the door. Napolitano would later have to backtrack on the exact same language flagged by the attorneys by claiming that she didn’t specifically approve the report issued by her office and that she would have changed the language in hindsight. She had the opportunity to fix it before its release, but the completely threadbare report was deemed such a high priority that it went out anyway.
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Related thought of the day from Michael Graham: Janet Napolitano was right. There were “hatemongers” at the Tea Parties: MSM reporters!
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JaNo was too busy changing the term Illegal Aliens to ‘Political Refugees’.
To be ‘briefed about this’ but, claim she didn’t understand the lack of evidence, is a brazen acceptance of her own incompetence.
We can certainly count on Nanny-State Libs to over-reach in their ideological quest for GuvMint-controlled everything.
What we can’t count on (at least not yet) is the aggregate intelligence of the American electorate to wake up and finally realize the entire DC cesspool needs major disinfecting.
We’ll just have to wait and see.
EXACTLY! The Left needs to get its narrative straight – either President Bush was a complete dullard at executive administration and decision making, or an intellectual giant at stealth governance and surreptitious rule.
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President Bush didn’t want to create the Department of Homeland Security–he correctly saw that it would be another bloated ineffective federal agency with little benefit to the U.S.A.
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The democrats, liberals, and Left Wing Media (not MSM) forced his hand. The DHS eats up resources that could be better used hunting terrorists. Their COLOR CODED THREAT LEVEL SCAM is stupid. If their is actionable intelligence on a threat–act on it immediately–don’t publicize it. If the threats are general and non-specific–investigate it.
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The computer world binary system logic should apply here. We are always in the “1″ state–the islamofachist enemies are biding their time and looking for another 9/11/2001 opportunity.
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Meanwhile–DHS is worrying about another Timothy McVeigh attack. The only thing DHS should learn from his attack is how to punish real terrorists–execution works quite well.
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I don’t think Janet Neopolitano and her army of clowns could find a Catholic in the Vatican–even when the Pope is holding audiences for the public.
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John Bibb
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Yep, GWB must be a powerful man. These same people, while calling him a dunce, said he was responsible for 9/11 and therefore were giving him the intelligence and power to manipulate the disaster. One of these days they are going to have to make up their minds just what he is.
That they’ve gotten away with this congenital cognitive dissonance for the last 8 years is just more proof that the LameStreamMedia have been their prime enablers.
Which is it, L’il Libbies: Bush is a smirking chimp, or the re-incarnation of Darth Vader?
Can’t have both (‘cept in Lib World, of course).
I thought Bush retired to a new place in North Dallas (University Park) so he could work on his new library at SMU.
(sorry just being anal – and not in the AC/DC360 way either)
Not to mention, the report was 9 pages long.
This complete moron should be asked to resign, not continue in a job she’s obviously not qualified to hold. No amount of apologies will make it OK, because she (and by default ‘Bambi’s administration) hold the very opinion her report outlines.
Hahaha. Another strong showing from party of perpetual outrage.
Stop blaming Bush for DHS hit job.DON’T GIVE ME A REASON NOT TO BE OUTRAGED!!Is there enough bandwidth to document and track examples of the ineptitude, buffoonery, stupidity, moral bankrupty, and outright sedition of this administration, cabinet, and congress? This woman is an incompetent boob. How the bloody-hell do these people get by on a daily basis? And how in the name of Pete, did they EVER get this far professionally? In the private sector, I feel confident that they would all be street corner panderers.
Weird RSS – I don’t see anyone foaming at the mouth or “outraged” in the postings so far…
Project much?
Couldn’t she at have read it before signing off on it? Oh wait, that’s how we do business in DC now days. Taking time to read something just slows up the paper work.
Imitation is the finest form of flattery. With many of the Defense and counter-terrorism related initiatives, Obama is following Bush’s lead and keeping the policies. I’m glad he is but it shows how he lied to get in office and how he continues to lie to the American public. Sometimes his lies work out for conservatives but more often than not, they work out for his Marxist agenda.
The liberals see conservatives of any flavor as the threat to be defeated. Forget about enemies from without. The same goes for their faux indignation at water-boarding and the threat of insects being used for interrogation. They should be made to sit and view the videos of beheadings by the Muslims for a few hours straight and then decide which they would rather endure if it were them.
Not that it surprises me, but the MSM heralds Obama’s “Bush look-alike” policies as innovative and brilliant while they continually criticized them when Bush implemented them.
Don’t they see the hypocrisy of their rantings that they feel passes for journalism?
I hope the people who want the news and not journalistic waterboarding will vote with their pocketbook and drive these people out of business. It seems to be happening but not quick enough. I long for the days of no Charles Gibson, Katie Couric, and Brian Williams or anyone who even resembles their brand of “news anchor”.
It’s really silly stupid how stupid Obama really is. It’s as if ZERO thinks America is made up of people like his brother hanging on the walls of his cardboard hut.
I like the European assessment, ZERO, charismatic dunce.
There are too many references in the DHS report to Obama and the aftermath of the election/recession/stimulus/porkulus to call this a “Bush” Administration sponsored document.
Napolitano is the head of DHS, and thus must take responsibility for this publication. The tired excuse that she would change the language if she could “do it over” is simply unacceptable. When is the Obama Administration going to take responsibility for its actions? When is Napolitano going to issue a public apology? Who was responsible for releasing this report? Did she approve of the release? Did she even read it? She should recall the publication and dismiss whoever wrote it.
I have noticed a few others licked up on my reference to J-NO as “Janet Reno Light” … cool … use away …
I posted yesterday that I absolutely do not believe the stated BS about this report (assessment) being in the works since last October …
If that really is the case I want an in-depth investigation into the true costs associated with preparing this “report” …
At a total length of 9 pages I suspect this report cost the taxpayers a ton of money … say about $10,000 per word … just guessing of course …
Regardless … I want my money back …
More likely that someone asked their 8 year old to write it …
In fact, if the wages are good enough I have several grandchildren that need to start earning money now so they can uphold their end of paying for all the bailouts … I expect they could crank out hundreds of 9-page reports monthly …
licked = picked … sheesh … fingers not working yet today …
April 7. This report was hodged together because of and issued just in time for the Tea Party. These dolts actually believed that there would be burning in the streets of America. After all, isn’t that what the libs do?
They simply cannot think outside of that shell. If the communists think they can capture America without firing a shot, can we not as easily keep that from happening without breaking a window?
Janet from another planet,
RESIGN ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this an example of the work product the Obama administration is getting from the out of work journalists it is employing? Just wondering, because it reads like a NYT hit piece.
And then we said, ewww.
Maybe she didn’t have a chance to read it. Some of our senators and congressmen also have become such sub-specialists: they can only write, but cannot read.
I have been wondering something for a day or two: What was the intended point of releasing this report? Supposedly it was for law-enforcement, yet it contains no specifics or anything the police might find to be valuable information (I’m not a police officer so maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like any idiot out there could see that pretty much anyone can become unhinged at any time.)
Contrast it to the report on left-wing extremists which actually listed certain groups to watch out for.
The pointlessness of it, plus it’s “leak” to the public, suggest several unpleasant possibilities… or am I just paranoid?
Janet is now being sued!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BREAKING GOOD NEWS!! Janet Napolitano is being sued!!
http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf…
The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that it has 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.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage, Gregg Cunningham (President of the pro-life organization Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc (CBR)), and Iraqi War Marine veteran Kevin Murray. The Law Center claims that Napolitano’s Department (DHS) has violated the First and Fifth Amendment Constitutional rights of these three plaintiffs by attempting to chill their free speech, expressive association, and equal protection rights. The lawsuit further claims that the Department of Homeland Security encourages law enforcement officers throughout the nation to target and report citizens to federal officials as suspicious rightwing extremists and potential terrorists because of their political beliefs.
If it is released on your watch, you own it.
Releasing it is the defacto proof that you approve the release as written.
While we’re at it, when will the Team Obama stop framing all of their statements and speeches with “We inherited this mess” and “It’s a global problem.”?
We get it. It’s not your fault and never will be whatever you do. Grow up already. Alright “guys”?
In fact, I think I will start calling these politicians “Congressional Specialists”-can’t read, but can vote. I wonder if they write an illiterate x in place of their name.
You got it Kid. J-No is an Obama licker and wanted this report out so they could use it against the protestors on tax day. They sped it up to get it out before Apr 15th and in their world, it made perfect sense. Then reality hit when non Obama lickers took a look at it and proved it was a hit piece on political opposition.
Wow. Just as former Atty General Gonzales was run out of town for firing Judges for political reasons (just like Clinton did), J-No should be fired for using Government for political purposes. It should be illegal, and probably is, but at best it is an abuse of power.
Obama is in charge so he too should take responsibility for abuse of power. Where is the transparency as he tries to hide beneath his rock and point his finger at everybody else? Thats not transparency. Thats lying, cheating, and blaming others for your actions. Putting that on others is the lowest form of dishonesty. It is dishonorable and despicable.
Be a man Obama and admit your mistakes! Hmm, where have I heard that before?
#29 Spot On This is quite interesting
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: “Treat [tea party] protestors as potential terrorists”, Citizens carrying a copy of the U.S. Constitution, labels it “political paraphernalia.”
Call me crazy — but Obama wants a revolution. What else could explain such insanity as what follows? Long time Atlas readers know I have been covering rallies for the past 5 years. Most of the rallies were by the lunatic left, the leftist Islamic alliance — the anti-war, pro-jihad, Code pink, Cindy Sheehag, anti- Israel, anti-America hate movement.
I have witnessed the most vile hate signage, hostility, violence — and the cops looked the other way. I have witnessed this. Freedom of speech — to which I heartily agree.
So WTF is this?
Md. Guard Issues Warning to Staff about Local TEA Party Protestors Southern Maryland (hat tip Randall)
CALLAWAY, Md. (April 15, 2009) – A document issued by the Maryland National Guard on April 9 warns full-time Guard personnel to be aware of threats from local citizens protesting income taxes during grass roots events known as TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Parties — one of which was held on Solomons Island March 22. The Guard document, “Planned TEA Party Protests (FPCON Advisory 09-004),” was believed to have first been revealed by a blog called The Jawa Report. A call today to Col. Kohler, Md. National Guard Public Affairs in Baltimore, confirmed the authenticity of the document. The document was officially classified as UNCLASSIFIED/FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY (U/FOUO). (The document appears in its entirety at the bottom of this article)
The Guard document describes the TEA Party protests as a movement. “Numerous entities have formed recently to express displeasure/anger over recent federal/state government actions: more taxes, increased spending, higher deficits, a surge of borrowing to pay for it all, bailout of the financial institutions,” stated the document under the heading of SITUATION.
The document appears to treat protestors as potential terrorists. The Point of Contact is identified as “Antiterrorism Program Coordinator” and provides a redacted army.mil email address.
The verbiage in the document advises Guard personnel to prepare for the worst. “Commanders are encouraged to update alert rosters and review emergency evacuation plans/rally points. Ensure all facilities have emergency phone lists posted (i.e. FBI, FIRE, POLICE, HOSPITALS, EMS, ETC…). Be aware of and avoid local protests.”
Despite the alarmist warnings in the document, the lead paragraph states, “there is no known direct threat to MDNG facilities and MDNG members, they may become a target of opportunity during plan protest activities throughout Maryland.”
The Guard document follows closely on the heels of a Dept. of Homeland Security document, released on April 7 that profiles American citizens who are concerned about gun rights and the “current economic and political climate” as potential rightwing extremists and domestic terrorists. The document is titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” and was recently profiled in a Washington Times article.
Yet another Homeland Security document from the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC), leaked to the press in March, profiles vocal supporters of Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin as potential domestic terrorists. The so-called MIAC document also cautions police to be aware of citizens carrying a copy of the U.S. Constitution, labeling the document as “political paraphernalia.”
Ron Miller, a prominent Republican from Calvert County who ran against Rep. Steny Hoyer in 2006, and one of the organizers of the TEA Party protests in Maryland, told somd.com that the revelation of the Md. Guard’s document was “kind of timely” given the discovery of the aforementioned Homeland Security document.
Miller said he had received reports from unknown sources that some individuals opposed to the TEA Party message might try to insert themselves into the protests to discredit the initiative. However, nothing happened at any event, to Miller’s knowledge, that supported the reports.
Miller was on the way home from today’s TEA Party protest in Annapolis when we spoke to him. The Annapolis event was specifically mentioned in the Guard document.
Miller said he estimated there were 2500 people at the event he attended. “There were no problems that we could determine,” said Miller. “Given the weather, it went very well.”
Protests were also scheduled today for Baltimore, Bel Air, Cecil County, Frederick, Cumberland, Havre de Grace, Salisbury, Westminster, and Washington, DC.
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RELATED INFORMATION:
Anti-Tax Protest Draws Hundreds on Solomons, April 1, 2009
HEADQUARTERS, MARYLAND ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
13620 Meuse Argonne Circle
Camp Fretterd Military Reservation
Reisterstown, Maryland 21136
JFHQ-MDARNG-G3 9 April 2009
MEMORANDUM FOR SEE DISTRIBUTION
SUBJECT: Planned TEA Party Protests (FPCON Advisory 09-004)
1. (U) This Maryland Army National Guard (MDARNG) Force Protection advisory is in response to a nationwide planned protest activities scheduled for April 15, 2009. Although there is no known direct threat to MDNG facilities and MDNG members, they may become a target of opportunity during plan protest activities throughout Maryland.
2. (U) FORCE PROTECTION CONDITIONS.
a. (U) USNORTHCOM FPCON baseline for the continental United States, Alaska, and Canada remains unchanged at ALPHA.
b. (U) MDARNG is not recommending a FPCON baseline change at this time.
3. (U//FOUO) SITUATION: Numerous entities have formed recently to express displeasure/anger over recent federal/state government actions: more taxes, increased spending, higher deficits, a surge of borrowing to pay for it all, bailout of the financial institutions, and etc. This movement can be identified by different variations of “TEA Party” or “Tea Party.” Past “TEA Party” events have been peaceful. There was a “Tea party” event at Solomons, Maryland, on March 22, 2009. “TEA” stands for “Taxed Enough Already.”
4. (U) KNOWN LOCATIONS AND EVENTS: According various websites and open source information, planned protest locations and time on April 15 in Maryland are:
*Annapolis, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Campbell Park (Dock/Boardwalk), Annapolis Harbor
*Baltimore, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, The Inner Harbor
*Bel Air, 12:00 pm, Bel Air Courthouse Plaza on Main Street
*Cecil County, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Elkton Christian Academy, 144 Appleton Road
*Frederick, 3:00 pm, City Hall then march to Winchester Hall
*Cumberland, 12:00 pm, Baltimore and Mechanic Streets
*Havre de Grace, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Tydings Park Gazebo
*Salisbury, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm, Downtown Salisbury
*Westminster, 6:30 pm, Legends Cafe off of Route 140 in Westminster
*Washington DC, 12:00pm-2:00pm, US Treasury Department – National Stage; 11:00am-3:00pm Lafayette Park – Grassroots Stage (not MD)
5. (U) FORCE PROTECTION RECOMMENDATIONS:
a. (U) Full-time personnel (i.e. armories) and recruiters need to be aware their surroundings. Contact local law enforcement when feel threaten by protesters or protesters trespass into MDNG property.
b. (U//FOUO) Commanders at all levels should establish relationship with local police in order to understand the local threats. Keep family members informed. Talk to other service personnel to share information. Practice OPSEC. Don’t provide personal information to anyone you don’t know. Avoid high risk areas.
c. (U//FOUO) Commanders are encouraged to update alert rosters and review emergency evacuation plans/rally points. Ensure all facilities have emergency phone lists posted (i.e. FBI, FIRE, POLICE, HOSPITALS, EMS, ETC…). Be aware of and avoid local protests. Report all potential protest activities to your next higher headquarters.
d. (U//FOUO) Continue implementation of RAM and a review of policies and procedures, especially in regards to cooperation or assistance with local emergency responders.
5. POC is Antiterrorism Program Coordinator, –[redacted- at (410) 702-[redacted] or by e-mail [redacted]@us.army.mil
[Redacted LTC author's name]
Where is the transparency as he tries to hide beneath
his rockthe Saudi King’s robe.Please don’t mind the alteration, Tbone. With the lawsuit against this wench, perchance this real story will emerge on the news somewhere.
#29 Read this you’re spot on
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: “Treat [tea party] protestors as potential terrorists”, Citizens carrying a copy of the U.S. Constitution, labels it “political paraphernalia.”
http://tinyurl.com/cex5xm
Doesn’t the one who signs the order to release get the credit?
Sort of like the fire order given by ZERO that had those three teenage voluteer coasties executed. I guess now the thrill is gone … And it doesn’t look so good. Oops.
Phil #27 …
The only time BO will take any kind of responsibility is if there is something good to report … then it will be all his doing …
That’s a really good point you made. The excuse that this has been in the works for a year doesn’t pass the smell test. I counted five references to Obama’s presidency in that nine page report.
I am totally convinced that this report was rushed out in an attempt to try to pre-empt the upcomming tea parties.
It would seem, in hindsight, that may have backfired somewhat.
Susan Roesgen? Is that you?
pre-empt in what way? Did DHS really believe the Tea Parties would turn violent?
or were they trying to piss people off even more and push someone over the brink?
Ready to govern on DAY ONE!
Technically Obamas administration cant blame ANYTHING on Bush…
They’re going to rush themselves right out of office if they keep ramming this crap down our throats.
Anyone who doesn’t think this directive came straight from the top is kidding themselves. Obama, Rahm and Alexrod have there names all over this. Every move they make is carefully calcualted to diminish the opposition.
#40 Right Wing
Exactly, I still believe this admin is looking for a way to institute Martial Law and try to throw the constitution out!
If in fact it does happen it will stop all elections to get him or the dems out of office until martial law is lifted. There will be no elections
Priceless!
What do you expect from Napolitano? I’m sure she leaves the house w/out her boxers some days…
This report is “shovel ready” just like the jobs that were going to magically appear the day after the bailouts.
OK, Lemme ‘splain what really went on here:
Obama gets elected by a threadbare margin and the MSM decides “threadbare” really means “landslide” (but with fewer votes).
So, the MSM convinces DemoCommies to believe their own BS and the narcissism takes over. Now, the Dems honestly think EVERYONE thinks like they do.
So, Ole Blue Lips and the butt head brigade convince Big Sis to include this stupidity in her report..
Wow! A. Someone actually read this drivel and B. Whoa Nelly! you mean some people actually think the USA is a force for good? Veterans are generally good people? America isn’t horrible? How could that be? Everyone thinks like a Democrat? Don’t they?
Suddenly, the Dems realize they made a mistake and backpedal (flip flop, vacillate, democratize.. whatever) and ask for the definition of “is” again.
For the Left, the love/hate relationship with George Bush was always built on the foundation that he was everything they needed him to be.
Need him to be an idiot to make yourself feel intellectually superior? Fine, he’s an idiot.
Need him to be Doctor Evil to justify your paranoia? Then Doctor Evil he is.
So at the same time that George Bush provided them with whatever they needed to make themselves feel better about themselves, he was also the source of great anxiety and hatred — because in the fevered imagination of the Left, Bush really was (is) “capable of anything.”
The preemption is the labeling. Democrats learned a big lesson when John F.U. Kerry was labeled a flip flopper and he could not overcome that label and that image.
This report was released for a similar effect. Target and label those protesters before people could really see what they were. If you can get that label out there, you can negate their impact because the sheeples will see them as right wing extremists. And that wasn’t the beginning or the end of their attack. They coupled that with MSM attacks, white rich labeling, Astrotruf (whatever that means) remarks by Pelosi, a speech by Obama to label himself as the tax saviour not the tax demon, etc.
The full court press was on to limit the power of the protestors. And it was all pre-planned and plotted with amazing Alinsky skill and Chicago politics style. Led by….Obama!
Don’t think the administration didn’t have meetings to coordinate their preemptive response to the rising tide of discontent. That is what they do best. Obama has been working that from day one. As Dick Morris said, when grading Obama, if a policy succeeds, Obama gets an A+, if a policy fails, Bush gets an F.
In my twenty-plus years in the United States Army, I never read such garbage in a operational document. The idiot that issued this order should have known better. I’d dearly love to ask him his justification for such an off the wall statement as “they may become a target of opportunity during plan protest activities.”
This moron is one of the few military members I’ve seen who I would worry about obeying an order to fire on law-abiding civilians.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force. National Guard officers should stay out of the political process unless there is a stated, verifiable, or reasonable threat to NG personnel or facilities. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!
ECS
FIRE JANET NAPOLITANO
OK, how stupid do you have to be to buy this. For one thing, the report specifically says right-wing hate groups are aggravated by “an African-American president.” Bush was African-American? Who knew?
Ja No skimmed over the report then released it…If I would have skimmed over an important book for an exam in Jr High, I would have FLUNKED…
You haven’t raised your grade a bit since hitting the big time my former governor…
I am noticing when ever I talk to Obama supporters on current spending, the first thing they say is “its George Bush’s fault”. Seems to be what Obama does also.
I think they should start a music group called Milli-Librini
They could sing their new hit song “Blame it George Bush” yea yea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrL9MV6jSk
I am noticing when ever I talk to Obama supporters on current spending, the first thing they say is “its George Bush’s fault”. Seems to be what Obama does also.
I think they should start a music group called Milli-Librini
They could sing their new hit song “Blame it on George Bush” yea yea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrL9MV6jSk
My grandson has just finished his 3rd tour with the 173rd Airborne (2 Afghanistan-1 Iraq)and now the FBI worries about him? I am ashamed of my
countrygovernment for the first time in my lifeGraniteMan,
The worst thing is if DHS is watching people like me and your son,(God Bless Him) are they watching the real terrorist? (What do the call them now, makers of man-made disasters? That DHS report did name us as right wight terrorist. I’m ashamed too)
55 &56 exactly right. illegal immigrants are political refugees, terrorists are disaffected youths unless they are white, conservative, and ex-military. then they are terrorists and they get executed in what 6 years from start to finish. we have terrorists in gitmo who blew up 2 buildings and killed 3000 people almost 8 years ago and they haven’t even been tried much less convicted and executed. sounds like a double standard to me.
There are better protection against violation of 1st Amendment rights in most states’ mental illness commitment laws.
Exactly, DHS spends more time finding reasons not to do its job then it spends actually doing things worthwhile.
Isn’t there the slightest bit of irony involved in asking the National Guard (many of whom are veterans) to protect us from the Veterans and others who (whether personally or professionally) believe in defending the Constitution?
Not to diminish the role of the National Guard in the US, but why would anyone attack a National Guard facility ?!?!?
Where would we hold the annual Kiwanis Club Pancake breakfasts from now on?
( I guess they could firebomb the rusted VietNam era Armored Personnel Carrier and the WWI machine gun that sit out front… )
Odumbo’s Actions speak louder than the words.
A church going Christian is a right wing extremist because he/she opposes abortion.
If the same church going Christian is for amnesty to illegal immigrants, is he/she a right wing extremist or a bleeding heart liberal?
Any doubts if Odumbo is a true Christian or born Muslim as his middle name suggests?
Sad thing is that the President Bafoon is branding almost half the US population as potential terrorist and then goes on world apology tours and bows to the real terrorist financiers.
Now that is the shining example of real leadership!!!!!!!!!
#61, actully depends on the National Guard. The NC ANG is equiped with M1A1 tanks, MLRS, and M2 Bradly IFV’s. But thats mainly as an unspoked rule that we are the Armored Fist for the 82nd ABD. But that “warning” was stupid, more so I bet all of us and this site are being watched.
Though that doesn’t frighten me in the least, as long as your arguments are creditable, and make sense, well the jailers might just turn on the Warden should such an event ever happen as outlined in that “report”.
The reason the report was written and released even though it had nothing to back up its assertions, is because the entire Obama administration thought it was obviously true and its warnings important.
Napolitano won’t be punished for it, either. Why when, to them, she’s only spoken the truth?
The left’s attitude toward the right is pure bigotry. They don’t need evidence of right wing extremism any more than they need evidence that change is good or that the sun comes up in the morning.
Understand that folks. They don’t respond to reason. They are bigots.
Personally I think the diagnosis of PTSD is over rated and over done–a lot of people have a jumpy period and then get over it. Bad TV and movies have placed our veterans in a bad light they do not deserve (I HATE Rambo). More than just a few of these clowns running around in BDUs have never seen combat or even been in service.
But this country, at least a large part of it, has been denigrating our service people and veterans for 40 years now.
Be firm, be vigilant, stay free. Beware of posting of your medical records on line–aware and afraid to the point of action.
It is apparent to me that the urgency to issue this hack job of a report was to diminish, demean and marginalize the Tax Day “tea parties” and their participants.
But, what is really disturbing and worrisome is that we have too few legitimate journalists to spread the truth about this report so that all those swing voters would realize just who it is they put in the White House and Congress. I suspect many of them (still?) have no idea this is what they were voting for.
True, I was kidding about that – more of an inter-service rivalry ribbing than fact.
And dont think Im not watching that black panel van with the satellite antennae on top that is always sitting down the block from me…. or the telephone repair guy that is always fixing the cable box too ( guys come on, im a technology expert, I KNOW that AT&T does not work on a TimeWarner cable box)
And seriously(j/k), just ask me for a DNA sample, and quit straining my sewer line with a sieve.
Oh I forgot about the tank. I had just gotten back from overseas when that idiot in San Diego who stole the tank from the NG facility there. I drove past that spot on the freeway, where he got stuck/killed, twice a day for years.
If you know where to look you can still see the repair in the concrete dividing wall…
The manufactured reaction to this report shows the right wing propaganda machine in action. They distort, then huff and puff and turn blue.
The report does not say conservatives are dangerous and violent. It does not say that about veterans. It does say that right wing hate groups like the American Nazi party and the KKK target vets and that vets make up too large a fraction of their membership. That’s the plain truth.
Well, Rusty at Ace of Spades says he had first hand knowledge that the report was started under Jorge Bush, which corresponds to his pro-illegal policies. No surprises there. It was just rushed out for Baraka Hussein Obama.
Isn’t this a contradiction of your previous position, on another thread, and your assertion that it was almost the sole product of the “Bushies?”
DBNinKY,
Forgive him. He can’t remember what an idiot he is.