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A New Anti-Terror Front?
Yes, the Government Thinks
It’s ‘Right-Wing Extremists’
National Review Online, by John Fund
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/19/2013 10:29:59 AM
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| The world is beset by terrorists — witness the American hostages taken in Algeria this week — but portions of our federal government continue to obsess about alleged home-grown threats from the “far right.” The Combating Terrorism Center, which is based at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, has issued a new report on its website entitled “Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right.” Normally, the center’s activities are focused on al-Qaeda and other violent Islamic groups seeking to topple governments around the world. But
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 1/19/2013 10:59:40 AM (No. 9126352)
This was just the product of 1 Israeli born ´expert´ on staff at the think tank. But, releasing the paper opens the entire operation up to ridicule.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
STLstudent, 1/19/2013 11:00:49 AM (No. 9126354)
Is there anything about the federal government that is not despicable?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 1/19/2013 11:02:55 AM (No. 9126360)
Prepare yourselves folks, they will be coming...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
paulfromTexas, 1/19/2013 11:08:40 AM (No. 9126374)
They had best be worried about the center of us.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
justamom, 1/19/2013 11:08:43 AM (No. 9126375)
What I want to know is what instances of violence are they talking about. I haven´t heard of any violent incidents committed by right wing militants.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/19/2013 11:10:20 AM (No. 9126380)
So we are supposed to pay no attention at all to the fact that the political affiliations for the mass shooters has been of the wacko left variety or atheist?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
tusker, 1/19/2013 11:12:02 AM (No. 9126385)
Liberals (aka Marxists, socialists, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, etc.) are mentally ill, most terminally, and should be excluded from the political process.
Deport them all to Cuba, where they want to be anyway, to get the treatment they deserve.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Italiano, 1/19/2013 11:16:38 AM (No. 9126395)
It´s all part of the plan. Newtown was the answer to their prayers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mws50, 1/19/2013 11:20:24 AM (No. 9126406)
Leftards are terrified about cutting spending and reducing the size of the federal government, so it does seem they could believe any normal person could be a terrorist...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LudicrousSextus, 1/19/2013 11:21:51 AM (No. 9126408)
Most amusing! Reading up on the ´attributes´ of the ´report´ - they´re pretty much describing the Obama-Approved ´Occupy´ movement.
Pretty much without fail - the crap emanates from the left - including the *dangerous* crap.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
eoddad, 1/19/2013 11:58:28 AM (No. 9126498)
A few years ago DHS I&A released a similar report and they were almost shut down and they are still running scared. Some General at West Point has some testifying to do. Speaker Boehner and Head of the Armed Services committee in the house where are you.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hot coffee, 1/19/2013 12:09:24 PM (No. 9126520)
Obama, the MSM and the rest of the Democrats are far more interested in trying to score political points than in actually protecting Americans.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
scottc, 1/19/2013 12:11:43 PM (No. 9126522)
Meanwhile left wing extremist Occupiers are building bombs and planning assassinations.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
grampstosix, 1/19/2013 12:20:58 PM (No. 9126538)
#13 Agreed. It has been the leftists like Bill Ayers and the black panthers that have done the killing and caused all the mahem over the years.I can´t recall any right wingers causing that kind of trouble.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/19/2013 9:06:50 PM (No. 9127228)
We might not be able to sue a gov´t agency but we can darn sure sue the companies & individuals that prepared the research to substantiate these claims.
Time for some aggressive class action lawsuit on behalf of conservatives & Tea Partiers. Returning military from combat assignments should join too, as Big Sis is trying to get them classified as mentally damaged... and not fit for a gun license.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/19/2013 9:18:21 PM (No. 9127241)
Poster #15... Major Hasan has been scrubbed from all terrorist records. He was on Obama´s 2008 transition team. He said after the shooting that he acted because Obama was taking too long. He also stated he was never supposed to be assigned to an arab nation where a conflict was being fought.
It´s also why he was allowed to spew Islamist hatred wherever he was assigned, without ever getting written up. Comrads in high places.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/20/2013 1:21:59 AM (No. 9127424)
Home grown jihadists muslims are no problem tho. If ever you wonder whether the Muslim Brotherhood is embedded in the goobermint, now you know.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/21/2013 8:50:59 AM (No. 9129575)
The Conservative Treehouse has a piece on this today with links to information on Arie Perliger, the West Point instructor who is the Daddy of this report.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/01/21/the-government-will-never-hurt-good-people/
Here is the detailed deconstruction of Arie Perliger and his report, originally posted last September:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-new-threat-to-us-army-anti.html
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/21/2013 8:59:11 AM (No. 9129591)
From the second source in #19, a sample of Perliger´s commission´s report in which militias and the patriot movement are relabeled the "Anti-Federalist Movement".
The important point is that Perliger has managed, by describing these "violent right-wing extremists" as "anti-federalist", to expand, elide and conflate these perceived enemies and, I´m sure, to present to the cadets at West Point the specter of "constitutionalist terrorists."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/21/2013 9:01:39 AM (No. 9129599)
Re #20, it should have said:
From the second source in #19, a sample of the blogger´s deconstruction of Perliger´s commission´s report, in which militias and the patriot movement are relabeled the "Anti-Federalist Movement".
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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