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发帖数: 29846 | 1 July 11, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Are you a patriotic American that thinks that our American way of life is in
danger? Are you a Tea Partier? If so, Obama’s Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) wants you to know that you might be a terrorist. Or, at least
, the DHS wants to characterize you as a potential terrorist, anyway.
Once again the DHS is warning that believing in American exceptionalism or
hailing from the right side of American politics is a dangerous thing, just
as they did in 2009. It might be recalled that in 2009 the DHS released a
report that said our veterans or anyone that held a conservative viewpoint
should be eyed suspiciously by government as a potential domestic terrorist.
This new report, titled Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the
United States, 1970-2008, has a different way of defining the exact same
position as the 2009 report that brought so much embarrassment to Obama’s
administration. Apparently police should be suspicious of anyone that feels
their way of life is endangered, anyone that is religious, and anyone that
might be interested in “personal liberty,” or “national sovereignty,” or
firearms.
That’s a pretty wide net, isn’t it?
Here is how the new report defines the “extreme right-wing”:
Extreme Right-Wing: groups that believe that one’s personal and/or
national “way of life” is under attack and is either already lost or that
the threat is imminent (for some the threat is from a specific ethnic,
racial, or religious group), and believe in the need to be prepared for an
attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or
survivalism. Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to
universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of
centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty, and believe
in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and
/or personal liberty.
Interestingly, the report breaks down terror attacks by the counties in
which they were perpetrated. From 1970 to 2009 the report finds that nearly
one-third of them occurred in five heavily urban counties run by Democrats.
The report identifies those counties as Manhattan, New York, Los Angeles
County, Miami-Dade County, San Francisco County and Washington, D.C.
One good thing, though, we finally got the federal government to sponsor a
study that says Islamic extremism is dangerous. Even still, in the data
there seems to be several instances of Islamic terror missing. Patrick Poole
of PJMedia recently highlighted these interesting omissions.
But there seems to be some data missing when it comes to known Islamic
terrorist incidents in New York City and Los Angeles. The study shows no
religious terrorism in Manhattan during the 1990s. How about the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing? Or the 1994 Brooklyn Bridge Jewish student van
shooting by Rashid Baz that killed 16-year-old Ari Halberstam after Baz
heard a fiery anti-Jewish sermon at his local mosque? Or the 1997 Empire
State Building observation deck shooting by Ali Abu Kamal that killed one
tourist and injured six others before Kamal took his own life?
It is intersting that so many instances of Islamic terror are being ignored
by this report, isn’t it? And yet, you Tea Partiers? Well, Obama wants you
to know that you just might be a terrorist. |
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