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So who wrote that "Right Wing Extremism Report?
Posted by: G. I. Joe ()
Date: July 26, 2009 04:00PM

VETERANS! Nice to know who our "friends" are.

From today's Black Velvet Bruce Li blog:


By Greg L | 25 July 2009 | National Politics |

When the Department of Homeland Security published that wonderful report entitled “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” about how returning veterans are potential terrorists, and that anyone who thinks that Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States is actually meaningful are “extremists”, a few folks out there wondered just how DHS could come to such outrageous conclusions. One blogger out there decided it was worth submitting a FOIA request to learn the basis by which the Obama Administration made these determinations, and the answers aren’t terribly surprising, although they’re pretty outrageous in themselves.

Here’s part of the exchange between DHS and this blogger:

1. With respect to “(U//FOUO) DHS?I&A notes that prominent civil rights organizations have observed an increase in anti-Hispanic crimes over the past five years,” found on page 5 of 9 of the document, you requested the following:

** Names of the cited “prominent civil rights organizations,” as well as any references used to create the document or this citation within the document…

A search within the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OI&A) for records that would be responsive to your request produced a total of 127 pages, all of which are publicly avaliable. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ss552(a)(1) and (a)(2), DHS need not make available under the FOIA records that are published elsewhere. As the responsive documents are publicly available and you specifically requested “website links,” we have not enclosed hard copies with this response.

With respect to Item 1, the following website links are provided:

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/10/29/anti-latino-hate-crimes-rise-for-fourth-year/
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=886
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=763
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=845
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=415
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/topics/nativism-in-the-news/
http://www.adl.org/civil_rights/anti_immigrant/
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HatCr_51/5403_51.htm
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/PWC_Conference.htm.
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/PWC_Conference-update.htm.
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/ShawnaForde.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/10/national/a161853S92.DTL
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-11-12-2775952356_x.htm
http://www.fbi/gov/ucr/hc2007/victims.htm

Now isn’t that just peachy. The SPLC is setting policy to the Obama Administration. This is the same crackpot shakedown operation that preys on rich, paranoid old liberals, and was condemned by the Northern Virginia Journal, saying

“If you don’t particularly want your charitable donations to go towards somebody’s mortgage or country club dues, give your hard-earned dollars to a real charity, not a bunch of slick, parasitic hucksters who live high on the hog by raising money on behalf of needy people who never see a dime of it.”

The Better Business Bureau slammed these folks for spending 89% of their income on administration and fundraising, and their reporting is so consistently littered with false information that they’ve even tried to publish a report first, and afterwards call to get the facts. This racial huckstering version of ACORN is nothing more that a grievance-mongering fundraising operation, and now the Obama administration is taking policy direction from them, albeit at a terrible political price.

This is hardly surprising, but as it is increasingly becoming clear, Obama is handing the levers of federal power to leftist extremists bent on remaking America into something the founding fathers would seriously disapprove of. This isn’t the change so many voted for, unless those voters were mistaking Barack Obama for Daniel Ortega. At this point, I can understand such confusion, unfortunately.

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Re: So who wrote that "Right Wing Extremism Report?
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: July 26, 2009 04:18PM

G. I. Joe Wrote:
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> Obama is handing the levers of federal power to leftist extremists bent on remaking America into something the founding fathers would seriously disapprove of
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Re: So who wrote that "Right Wing Extremism Report?
Date: July 26, 2009 07:08PM

Not like we have seen right wing extremists shooting up major museums or anything.

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Re: So who wrote that "Right Wing Extremism Report?
Posted by: fairfaxdude ()
Date: July 26, 2009 10:31PM

G. I. Joe Wrote:


> When the Department of Homeland Security published
> that wonderful report entitled “Right-wing
> Extremism: Current Economic and political Climate
> Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and
> Recruitment” about how returning veterans are
> potential terrorists.........

I actually read the whole report, all 9 pages of it. Nowhere did it say "returning veterans are potential terrorists"...in fact what it said was "returning veterans, with their (warfare) skills, are attractive recruits to pursue by right wing extremist groups"(paraphrased, but almost an exact quote). Nice attempt at incendiary, Limbaugh--esque spin, but you FAIL. Next, you'll try to tell us that Timothy McVeigh didn't fit this same profile perfectly.

> This is hardly surprising, but as it is
> increasingly becoming clear, Obama is handing the
> levers of federal power to leftist extremists bent
> on remaking America into something the founding
> fathers would seriously disapprove of. This isn’t
> the change so many voted for, unless those voters
> were mistaking Barack Obama for Daniel Ortega. At
> this point, I can understand such confusion,
> unfortunately.


None of the SPLC, et al. contributions to the report were anything other than anecdotal and/or statistical addendums that document that fact that hate-based crime, especially against Hispanics, has been on the rise in the US over the last 5+ years, and that many of those crimes have been laid at the feet of right-wing extremist groups, or lone wolf whackos mouthing right-wing extremist motivations for their acts. The FBI was another key source. Or do you disagree with that conclusion too?

I understand your confusion, unfortunately. It sucks when the facts don't support your conclusions, or even your spun-up conclusions, as you'd like.

If you're actually a veteran, please use your GI benefits to take a course or two; perhaps better reading comprehension, more critical thinking, and LESS HATE would help you become a citizen with more positive things to contribute.

Oh, and thank you for your service.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2009 10:35PM by fairfaxdude.

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