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<blockquote data-quote="RugersGR8" data-source="post: 709956" data-attributes="member: 56"><p><strong><em>GolfWhiskey wrote: "However, casting Murtha and others as disgraceful zealots who are willing to literally put these Marines in danger of losing their lives in order to score political points against a second term President is something I cannot understand at all."</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>GolfWhiskey, you say that casting people as disgraceful zealots is something that you cannot understand at all? The members of the Liberal Left do it all the time just to smear and demonize their opposition. But the "Double Standard Rule" only applies when the Left does and gets away with it. For instance, do you remember when Bill Clinton tried to blame the OKC Bombing on Talk Radio/Rush Limbaugh? The Left loves to use a very wide/broad brush when it is painting it's smear/demonizations of the Right. The following article kind of goes into the Left's SOP when doing this:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/you-might-be-a-radicalized-rightwing-extremist-if/" target="_blank">http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/you-might-be-a-radicalized-rightwing-extremist-if/</a></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px">You might be a radicalized rightwing extremist if </span></p><p>By Michelle Malkin April 15, 2009 10:47 AM </p><p> if you are heading out to a Tea Party today!</p><p>Heres my syndicated column on the DHS hit job. A few may be inclined to give DHS the benefit of the doubt. Andrew McCarthy reminds you of the many reasons why you should not.</p><p>***</p><p>You might be a radicalized rightwing extremist if </p><p>by Michelle Malkin</p><p>Creators Syndicate</p><p>Copyright 200</p><p></p><p></p><p>What and who exactly are President Obamas homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism, or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You.</p><p></p><p>DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has turned her attention away from acts of Islamic jihad on American soil (which she now refers to as man-caused disasters). Instead, her department is sounding the alarm over an un-quantified resurgence in rightwing extremism activity. On April 7, DHS sent a nine-page warning memo to law enforcement offices across the country titled Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.</p><p></p><p>The report includes a sweeping definition of the threat:</p><p></p><p>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 mainly antigovernment, 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.</p><p></p><p>You cannot ignore the context or the timing of this DHS report. Its no small coincidence that Napolitanos agency disseminated the assessment just a week before the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party protests. The grass-roots events organized by fiscal conservatives, independents, Libertarians, and yes, even some blue Dog Democrats were fueled by the current economic and political climate of bipartisan profligate spending and endless taxpayer-funded bailouts. The growing success of the loose-knit movement has invited scorn, ridicule, and fear-mongering from Obamas supporters. Liberal bloggers have likened the Tea Party movement to neo-Nazis, militias, and even Weather Underground terrorists.</p><p></p><p>These attempts to demonize the Tea Party movement come on the heels of widespread conservative-bashing over the recent shooting sprees in Pittsburgh and Binghamton, New York. Taking Hillary Clintons advice to never waste a good crisis, left-wing pundits and analysts have blamed the tragedies on everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Fox News to the NRA.</p><p></p><p>The DHS spokespeople I talked to on Monday insisted that the report was not a politicized document and that DHS had done similar assessments on leftwing extremism in the past. But past domestic terrorism reports have always been very specific in identifying security threats such as the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front and very specific in identifying their methods and targets, including repeated physical harassment, arson, and vandalism against pharmaceutical companies, farms, labs, and university researchers.</p><p></p><p>By contrast, the Obama DHS report is an overarching indictment of conservatives. Rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet continues to focus on the economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors, and home foreclosures, the assessment warns. When I asked DHS spokeswoman Sara Kuban to explain who was responsible for this extremist chatter, she could not and would not name names.</p><p></p><p>Moreover, the report relies on the work of the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center to stir anxiety over disgruntled military veterans a citation which gives us valuable insight into how DHS will define hate-oriented groups. The SPLC, you see, has designated the venerable American Legion a hate group for its stance on immigration enforcement. The report offers zero data, but states with an almost resentful attitude toward protected free speech: Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent.</p><p></p><p>Potential to turn violent? So did the hysterical fervor whipped up by Capitol Hill over the AIG bonuses, which prompted ugly death threats from across the country. No mention here, though. Not rightwing enough. Nor will you see Obama DHS warnings to police and sheriffs departments about self-proclaimed bank terrorists such as Bruce Marks of the aggressive Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America or the mob activists of ACORN who have committed burglary, stormed corporate executives homes, and vowed to conduct civil disobedience by any means necessary in response to the current economic and political climate.</p><p></p><p>If you can redefine dissenting opinion as hate, you can brand your political opponents as extremists and you can marginalize electoral threats. Antigovernment? Pro-enforcement? Disgruntled? Feeling taxed enough already and recruiting and radicalizing your friends and neighbors through chatter on the Internet?</p><p></p><p>We are all rightwing extremists now. Welcome to the club.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RugersGR8, post: 709956, member: 56"] [B][I]GolfWhiskey wrote: "However, casting Murtha and others as disgraceful zealots who are willing to literally put these Marines in danger of losing their lives in order to score political points against a second term President is something I cannot understand at all."[/I][/B] GolfWhiskey, you say that casting people as disgraceful zealots is something that you cannot understand at all? The members of the Liberal Left do it all the time just to smear and demonize their opposition. But the "Double Standard Rule" only applies when the Left does and gets away with it. For instance, do you remember when Bill Clinton tried to blame the OKC Bombing on Talk Radio/Rush Limbaugh? The Left loves to use a very wide/broad brush when it is painting it's smear/demonizations of the Right. The following article kind of goes into the Left's SOP when doing this: [url]http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/you-might-be-a-radicalized-rightwing-extremist-if/[/url] [SIZE="6"]You might be a radicalized rightwing extremist if [/SIZE] By Michelle Malkin April 15, 2009 10:47 AM if you are heading out to a Tea Party today! Heres my syndicated column on the DHS hit job. A few may be inclined to give DHS the benefit of the doubt. Andrew McCarthy reminds you of the many reasons why you should not. *** You might be a radicalized rightwing extremist if by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 200 What and who exactly are President Obamas homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism, or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has turned her attention away from acts of Islamic jihad on American soil (which she now refers to as man-caused disasters). Instead, her department is sounding the alarm over an un-quantified resurgence in rightwing extremism activity. On April 7, DHS sent a nine-page warning memo to law enforcement offices across the country titled Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. The report includes a sweeping definition of the threat: 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 mainly antigovernment, 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. You cannot ignore the context or the timing of this DHS report. Its no small coincidence that Napolitanos agency disseminated the assessment just a week before the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party protests. The grass-roots events organized by fiscal conservatives, independents, Libertarians, and yes, even some blue Dog Democrats were fueled by the current economic and political climate of bipartisan profligate spending and endless taxpayer-funded bailouts. The growing success of the loose-knit movement has invited scorn, ridicule, and fear-mongering from Obamas supporters. Liberal bloggers have likened the Tea Party movement to neo-Nazis, militias, and even Weather Underground terrorists. These attempts to demonize the Tea Party movement come on the heels of widespread conservative-bashing over the recent shooting sprees in Pittsburgh and Binghamton, New York. Taking Hillary Clintons advice to never waste a good crisis, left-wing pundits and analysts have blamed the tragedies on everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Fox News to the NRA. The DHS spokespeople I talked to on Monday insisted that the report was not a politicized document and that DHS had done similar assessments on leftwing extremism in the past. But past domestic terrorism reports have always been very specific in identifying security threats such as the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front and very specific in identifying their methods and targets, including repeated physical harassment, arson, and vandalism against pharmaceutical companies, farms, labs, and university researchers. By contrast, the Obama DHS report is an overarching indictment of conservatives. Rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet continues to focus on the economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors, and home foreclosures, the assessment warns. When I asked DHS spokeswoman Sara Kuban to explain who was responsible for this extremist chatter, she could not and would not name names. Moreover, the report relies on the work of the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center to stir anxiety over disgruntled military veterans a citation which gives us valuable insight into how DHS will define hate-oriented groups. The SPLC, you see, has designated the venerable American Legion a hate group for its stance on immigration enforcement. The report offers zero data, but states with an almost resentful attitude toward protected free speech: Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent. Potential to turn violent? So did the hysterical fervor whipped up by Capitol Hill over the AIG bonuses, which prompted ugly death threats from across the country. No mention here, though. Not rightwing enough. Nor will you see Obama DHS warnings to police and sheriffs departments about self-proclaimed bank terrorists such as Bruce Marks of the aggressive Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America or the mob activists of ACORN who have committed burglary, stormed corporate executives homes, and vowed to conduct civil disobedience by any means necessary in response to the current economic and political climate. If you can redefine dissenting opinion as hate, you can brand your political opponents as extremists and you can marginalize electoral threats. Antigovernment? Pro-enforcement? Disgruntled? Feeling taxed enough already and recruiting and radicalizing your friends and neighbors through chatter on the Internet? We are all rightwing extremists now. Welcome to the club. [/QUOTE]
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