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2009-04-14 Home Front: Politix

And so it begins: Federal agency warns of radicals on right

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Posted by CrazyFool 2009-04-14 08:34|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 It's not just the One. The "radical" right wing wants smaller government. That means the jobs and way of life of hundreds of thousands of beltway bureaucrats. Of course they view that as a fundamental threat. This act of Prime Directive, self preservation, by the bureaucracy is a signal that we've long past the point of any thing less drastic surgery on the corpus Civil Service and the extent of federal government.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-14 09:40|| 2009-04-14 09:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Right wingers are scary 'cause they know how to use guns and bullets and stuff.

/Lefty

Posted by Parabellum 2009-04-14 10:16|| 2009-04-14 10:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm a bit of a tin foil hat here. Bear with me.

Governments cycle through consensus and authoritarian phases. This is our government moving into an authoritarian phase.

Authoritarian governments recognize that effective opposition has to be organized, so they destroy/infiltrate/control NGO's.

Examples would be: Demonize the militia, Control of church appointments, control of PAC's, outlaw opposition parties. There are still a few more nails to be pounded into the coffin.

The best guardian of democracy is a well trained volunteer militia. Being armed and organized encourages debate.

Sorry, I become more tin foil hat every day.

Posted by flash91 2009-04-14 10:47|| 2009-04-14 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Get used to it. The smear job has barely begun. All conservatives need to think about how they will respond to these charges. How the Left smeared Governor Palin and her family, and continues to do so, is a sampling of the techniques that will be used on some of us.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-04-14 10:51|| 2009-04-14 10:51|| Front Page Top

#5 8 years ago a left leaning centerist would now be considered to the right of the current situation. Remind people of that when they start throwing out identity politics like this report out there.

Violent organized gangs are subsidized by leftist policies such as food stamps (can be used to barter for drugs), welfare (I steal to make money - I use my welfare to buy drugs), early prison release (not parole, early unearned release), lax border control (people drugs arms traffic). What is the growth rate on them and their cost to society?

Take an area of Wichita for example, 30 new participants in right-wing activity (anti abortion, overtax protests) and 30 new in gang activity (organized theft and drug sales) and assume both groups have at least access to a firearm (safe assumption IMHO). RW has an initial population of 30, gangs have initial population of 100. It can be easy to point at the 200% increase in RW, but the real information is that it is 60 to 130 but the 30% increase in the gang activity has less 'pop' and obscures the facts with emotion.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-04-14 11:40|| 2009-04-14 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 These people have lost all of their damn minds.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-04-14 11:41|| 2009-04-14 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Let's just get it on. It's coming anyway.

Posted by Hellfish 2009-04-14 12:33|| 2009-04-14 12:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Makes me laugh every time I think about it.

Posted by Iblis 2009-04-14 12:35|| 2009-04-14 12:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, DHS is not threatened. They got human walls of bureaucrats in layers 100 deep to protect the hive.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-04-14 13:25|| 2009-04-14 13:25|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm with Hellfish on this one. I'm tired of doing the syphullatic monkey two-step with these idiots. Let's just get on with it and win it. The good Gov of Texas just delivered the line in the sand - the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution. I pray that more Red States follow suit. Let observe if populations follow up. If so, we know where the fault lines are. My nest HQ could very likely be Amarillo.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2009-04-14 17:25|| 2009-04-14 17:25|| Front Page Top

#11 I doubt this is DHS, but the political appointees at the top of DHS issuing propaganda under the DHS letterhead. And those appointees wouldn't issue such a doc w/o being directed to by Rahm & Co.

Posted by Cynicism Inc 2009-04-14 17:57|| 2009-04-14 17:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Michelle Malkin is all over this - its real.

here is a link to the PDF report (again hosted on Michelle's site). Enjoy!

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-04-14 18:20|| 2009-04-14 18:20|| Front Page Top

#13 The Tea Parties are having the desired effect.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-14 18:27|| 2009-04-14 18:27|| Front Page Top

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