The Department of Homeland Security has issued a statement naming returning veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Americans that do not agree with the administration's stands on abortion and immigrations as "right-wing" extremists.
American Legion National Commander David K. Rehbein pointed out a sentence in the report suggesting that veterans are more likely than non-veterans to commit terrorist acts:
The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges into their communities could lead to the potential emergency of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.
The American Center for Law and Justice pointed out this part of the report:
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 anti-government, 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.
What does this say about the real agenda of the Obama administration? That it intends to stay in power by pitting one group of Americans against each other?
That Governors, such as Rick Perry of Texas, who are asserting States Rights should be considered a threat to the nation?
That the people who are involved with the Tea Party Tax Day protest should be considered Right-wing extremists instead of American's practicing the freedom of speech that is promised to them in the U.S. Constitution?
Poem based on speeches by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)
In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew;
By the time they came for me, there was no one left to speak up.
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Maybe just learning the tricks of the trade from the past administration. Where were you when any voice of disagreement was deemed treasonous? Where were you when Ari Fleischer warned Administration critics from a White House podium to "watch what they say"? Where were you when a disagreeing t-shirt could get you evicted from administration events, or quarantined miles away in so-called "free speech" zones? Where were you when criticism cost people their jobs? Please take some time to look in the mirror.
Given the violent history of the left ...
So does this mean Omama's buddies Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Loony Phleger, and Brother Louie Farrakhan will not be under srutiny??
Sorry I left out ACORN which is A Criminal Organization Of Registered Nitwits.
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