I know I’ve been labeled as "extremist" by some who visit, but IMO many are also not seeing the big picture and the April 7 report from DHS. Although it does an injustice to military vets by demeaning them with implications that they are fertile targets for radical, violent groups and that conservatives are inclined towards racism; this speaks nothing of the comments made by the head of DHS, Janet Napolitano.
She linked the hundreds of thousands of returning vets to one (1) nut case, McVeigh that happened to be a vet. So she made a feeble attempt to apologize for the wording, not the link. In the news conference she held she then went on to say, "we do not — nor will we ever – monitor ideology or political beliefs."
When you read the report for yourself it is obvious that either she or someone in her charge are not only monitoring the ideologies and political beliefs of conservatives but also poisoning law enforcement agents with a bias against them and suggesting their beliefs lead to violence against the government.
The report came out after a similar remarks by the head of the Missouri Troopers were recently reported. So now if you voted for a third-party candidate, have a bumper sticker on your vehicle advocating pro-life, anti-gay, anti illegal immigration or a Christian religious symbol, if you voice opposing opinions of the current administration and/or its policies; you are scrutinized by law enforcement as possible extremist.
Since when has it been extremism to be voice political opposition or express your faith with a t-shirt with a religious (specifically Christian) symbol? Yes, there have been incidents of abortion clinic bombings and other horrible examples that the opposing side like to point out whenever statements like this are made. But these have been rare and the right-wingers have been just as outspoken against them, if not more so, than those using them as an excuse to justify their accusatory attempts to discredit the ones offering objections to the mischaracterizations.
Since when is being patriotic and operating when in God given, constitutional rights of freedom of speech and the practice of ones faith labeled extremism? At the risk of incurring the scrutiny of the DHS, as if I haven’t already, I will say the report and statements made Napolitano are outrageous. No one is playing on "fears about several emergent issues" more than the current administration.
The President hasn’t made a speech regarding the economy or while on his overseas ‘apology tour’ that he hasn’t played on those fears and anxieties so he can justify dropping another spending plan, or private industry take-over by the government in the very near future.
If you think this report is unbiased and shouldn’t raise public alarm, how do you explain the fact there was not mention of the whacked out leftist from Hollywood, or any of the members of the other left-wing groups that are guilty of disrupting political conventions, etc. I could go on, but many of you will again blow it off as, whatever it takes to get our agenda implemented and besides this guy is an extremist.
This should make every American that truly loves their country take notice of just what our government is capable of and possibly buy some more ammo. That is what the second amendment was for, remember?
