Obama supports extending Patriot Act provisions: "...The lone wolf provision was created to conduct surveillance on suspects with no known link to foreign governments or terrorist groups.... The roving wiretaps provision was designed to allow investigators to quickly monitor the communications of a suspects who change their cell phone or communication device."

Coast Guard: 'Shots fired' on Potomac was just a training exercise: "Reports of the Coast Guard firing on a 'suspicious vessel' in the Potomac River panicked D.C.-area residents and officials today as President Obama made his way to a nearby Sept. 11 commemoration. CNN broke into its scheduled programming to report on radio traffic announcing that the Coast Guard fired 10 rounds at a vessel..... Turns out there were no shots fired and that it was all a training exercise." See Homeland Security and the Transformation of America

Obama Appoints 2 Devout Muslims to Homeland Security Posts: "Obama has appointed Arif Alikhan a devout Sunni Muslim to assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Alikhan was instrumental in taking down the LA Police Department's plan to monitor it's Muslim community. Alikhan is affiliated with MPAC, the 'Muslim Public Affairs Council'. Founded in 1988, ... MPAC's Senior Advisor, Maher Hathout, who has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and espouses the radical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, was invited to address the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles in 2000.

      "...earlier today at a ceremony held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in ADC National Executive Director Kareem Shora as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC)."

Guess who's supporting Sotomayor? "The way to end 'right-wing' terrorism in the U.S. is to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court justice, boycott Fox News and support Barack Obama's plan for nationalizing health care, the Communist Party USA said in an editorial in its newspaper, the People's Weekly World today. The organization blamed the murders of late-term abortionist George Tiller in Kansas and Holocaust Museum security guard... on the 'extreme right,' explaining that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's much-criticized report warning about the threat of violence by 'right-wing extremists' was in fact prophetic. 'Republican right denounced her timely report as an 'attack' on veterans, anti-abortionists, and anti-immigrant crusaders,' the editorial said. 'Some even called for her resignation.'...

     "The solution? The party said: "[T]he best answer is to defeat the hatemongers politically. Boycott Fox News. Demand Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, latest target of hate. Build maximum unity to win healthcare for all... an end to wars, and a more inclusive, tolerant democracy in our country.'" See The Enemy of the People

Napolitano adds adviser with ties to terror backers: "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in to her official advisory council the head of an Arab American organization [ADC] whose officials have labeled deadly anti-U.S. jihadists as 'heroes' and opposed referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization....

     "Last week, Napolitano swore in Damascus-born Kareem Shora, the ADC's national executive director, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that advises the secretary. Shora is the first Arab rights advocate on the panel....The ADC takes an openly anti-Israel line. Its official material has accused the Jewish state of 'apartheid' and 'atrocities' against the Palestinians."

Obama Appoints Devout Muslim to Homeland Security: "Our Islamic loving President Obama has appointed Arif Alikhan a devout Sunni Muslim to assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Alikhan was instrumental in taking down the LA Police Department's plan to monitor it's Muslim community."

Demand: Root out pro-life 'terrorists': "The murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller in Kansas has prompted a call upon the Department of Homeland Security to crack down on pro-lifers as just the kinds of 'right-wing extremists' that the government identified earlier in a controversial report that sparked outrage across the country.... NOW, the National Organization for Women... released the following statement: 'Bringing the killers to justice is not enough – the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security must root out and prosecute as domestic terrorists and violent racketeers the criminal enterprise that has organized and funded criminal acts for decades.' ... 'We call on the new attorney general, Eric Holder, and head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to treat these murders in the same way they would treat politically-motivated domestic terrorism of any other kind...."

"Prolonged detention" for Americans who may break a law? Biblical Truth is clearly a major focus of the "Hate Crimes" bill. When it becomes law, Christian moral guidelines could be blamed for such contemptible acts as the murder of abortionist Dr. Tiller. In fact, that tragic killing could well be used to speed the passage of the bill -- and to vilify Christians who have no desire to hurt anyone. As Hillary Clinton said, "Never waste a good crisis."

       OBAMA: "My administration has begun to reshape the standards that apply to insure that they are in line with The Rule of Law. We must have clear and lawful defensible standards for who shall fall into this category. ... Our goal is not to avoid a legitimate framework. In our constitutional system, prolonged detention [based on potential "threat" not proof of guilt] should not be the decision of any one man."

      In other words, a new set of legal standards will allow the government to bypass constitutional "rights" and imprison a person based on suspicion of "threat."

Repeated Bill creates detention camps in U.S. for 'emergencies': "The proposed bill... appears designed to create the type of detention center that those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents.... The bill also appears to expand the president's emergency power....

     "The broad specifications... contribute to concern that the 'national emergency' purpose could be utilized by the secretary of homeland security to include any kind of situation the government wants to contain or otherwise control."

The Religious Right Didn't Kill George Tiller: "Tiller's alleged killer, Scott Roeder, is a long-time radical antiabortion activist with reported ties to a militant antigovernment organization called the Freemen. Within hours after the murder, every antiabortion group in the country denounced the attack. The organized antiabortion movement has always opposed violence against abortion providers. That has never stopped opportunistic prochoice activists, however, from conflating their passionate rhetoric with the behavior of individual criminals. True to form, on Sunday, Mike Hendricks of the Kansas City Star accused anyone who had criticized Tiller as a murderer (Tiller aborted healthy, nine-month old fetuses) of being an 'accomplice' to his death....     

       "In addition to fighting violent, Muslim jihadists abroad, some liberals argue that America must deal with its own, homegrown terrorists. These are not just people who commit violence but millions of socially conservative evangelicals and Catholics -- 'Christianists' -- who comprise the base of the Republican Party and threaten the stability of the country.... If 'Christianists' were anything like actual religious fascists they would applaud Tiller's murder as a 'heroic martyrdom operation' and suborn further mayhem.... The manifestos of Islamic militant groups are replete with paeans to killing infidels."

Doctor who provided late-term abortions is shot to death in his church: "George Tiller, the nation's most prominent provider of controversial late-term abortions, was shot and killed Sunday in the lobby of his Lutheran church in Wichita, Kan.... Hours later, police stopped and apprehended Scott Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas. ...The FBI and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are involved to determine whether others were part of the attack and whether the suspect had any connection to antiabortion groups. ....

      "'Tiller's murder will send a chill down the spines of the brave and courageous providers and other professionals who are part of reproductive-health centers that serve women across this country,' said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.... Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, whose group is based in Wichita... said he was 'shocked' by the killing. 'Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means.... We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning.'"

May 2009

Late-term abortion doctor decries Tiller killing: ‘This is a fascist movement': "Hours after the Sunday morning shooting death of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Wichita, Kan., a Boulder physician — who says he could be the only doctor in the world still performing the procedure — said Tiller's assassination was the 'absolutely inevitable consequence' of decades of anti-abortion fanaticism. "...we have a fascist movement in this country.... We don't have to invade Iraq to find terrorists. They're right here killing abortion doctors.'...."Dr. Tiller is dead by an anti-abortion assassin, and this is the absolutely inevitable consequence of 35 years of anti-abortion fanatic rhetoric and intimidation and assassination violence and exploitation by the Republican Party of this movement.'"

      These ominous accusations suggest that the deplorable murder will draw countless innocent people into the government's spreading web of reprisals.

Panel votes for probe of 'extremist' report: "In a rare bipartisan move, the House Homeland Security Committee unanimously approved a resolution of inquiry that calls for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to turn over all documents used to draft the report 'Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.'...

      "'Certainly its definition of 'right-wing extremism'... raised considerable concern,' Mr. Thompson said. 'So did the suggestion that returning war veterans posed a potential threat to the homeland.'"

Homeland Security. Domestic Extremism Lexicon, 26 March 2009: "Prepared by the Strategic Analysis Group and the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division.... Definitions were derived from a variety of open source materials and unclassified information, then further developed during facilitated workshops with DHS intelligence analysts knowledgeable about domestic, non-Islamic extremism in the United States.

~ "aboveground... extremist groups or individuals who operate overtly and portray themselves as law-abiding....

~ "antiabortion extremism... groups or individuals who are virulently antiabortion and advocate violence against providers of abortion-related services... [The "Hate-Crimes" law may equate Biblical quotes as incitement to violence.....

~ "anti-immigration extremism.... groups or individuals who are vehemently opposed to illegal immigration... and who have been known to advocate or engage in criminal activity and plot acts of violence and terrorism to advance their extremist goals. They are highly critical of the U.S. Government’s response to illegal immigration....

~ "rightwing extremism.... groups or individuals who can be broadly divided into those who are primarily hate-oriented, and those who are mainly antigovernment and reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority...

~ "single-issue extremist groups.... Groups or individuals who focus on a single issue or cause—such as animal rights, environmental or anti-abortion extremism—and often employ criminal acts."

Department of Homeland Security a "Man-Caused Disaster": "The new risk that DHS is preparing for, of course, is the government's 'fear' and 'risk' of right-wing opposition to the radical totalitarian policies of the Obama Administration. Americans have begun to fear their own government." See My High Tower: Seeing the world from His perspective

April 2009

Compare the first statement with the next one (both released on April 29). Might the need for a crisis have spurred the contradictions?

 

Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO. "A member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu.... Vivienne Allan, from WHO's patient safety program, said the body had confirmed that worldwide there had been just seven deaths - all in Mexico - and 79 confirmed cases of the disease."

U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency in Wake of Swine Flu: "...the Obama administration announced measures Sunday to contain the sometimes deadly virus." See Gorbachev's Plan For A United World

Rightwing Extremism: "DHS/I&A assesses that lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent rightwing extremist ideology are the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States. Information from law enforcement and nongovernmental organizations indicates lone wolves and small terrorist cells have shown intent—and, in some cases, the capability—to commit violent acts." See The Enemy of the People

Napolitano on extremism: "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has released a statement explaining the DHS report on 'right-wing extremism' ...that has attracted attention and controversy over the past few days: ... 'The document on right-wing extremism...  is one in an ongoing series of assessments to provide situational awareness ... on the phenomenon and trends of violent radicalization in the United States. I was briefed on the general topic, which is one that struck a nerve as someone personally involved in the Timothy McVeigh prosecution. 'Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We ...must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence." See the next link:

Seed of Persecution. You Might Be a "Radicalized Right-Wing Extremist" if… : "Department of Homeland Security Sec. 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 unquantified 'resurgence' in 'right-wing extremism activity.'...

      "The report [on supposed "Right-wing Extremism"] includes a sweeping definition of the threat: 'Right-wing 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.'...

      "It's no small coincidence that Napolitano's agency disseminated the assessment just a week before the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party protests.... The growing success of the loose-knit movement has invited scorn, ridicule and fear-mongering from Obama's supporters. Liberal bloggers have likened the Tea Party movement to neo-Nazis, militias....

      "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.'....

     "If you can redefine dissenting opinion as 'hate,' you can brand your political opponents as 'extremists' -- and you can marginalize electoral threats. 'Antigovernment'?...Feeling taxed enough already and 'recruiting' and 'radicalizing' your friends and neighbors through 'chatter on the Internet'? We are all right-wing extremists now. Welcome to the club." See  Why hate crimes laws would ban Biblical Christianity

 

     This is an amazing example of intentional vilification of ordinary Americans who value peace and freedom. Do they expect us to plan violent attacks? Or are those suggestions just part of the psychological assaults on peaceful conservative Americans? Have we become their strategic enemy -- just as Hitler mobilized hatred for the Jews? Remember what Hitler wrote:

"The art of truly great popular leaders in all ages has consisted chiefly in ... concentrating always on a single adversary.... It is part of a great leader's genius to make even widely separated adversaries appear as if they belonged to one category..." See The Enemy of the People

Homeland Security on guard for 'right-wing extremists': "The report, titled 'Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,' dated April 7, states that 'threats from white supremacist and violent anti-government groups during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts.' However, the report goes on to suggest worsening economic woes, potential new legislative restrictions on firearms and 'the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.'.... It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.' ....It adds that 'growth in these groups subsided in reaction to increased government scrutiny as a result of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing...."

Are You an "Extremist"? by Thomas Sowell: "While the rest of us may be worried about violent Mexican drug gangs on our border... the Director of Homeland Security is worried about 'right-wing extremists.' Just who are these right-wing extremists? ...the Department of Homeland Security 'has no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence.' But somehow they just know that you right-wingers are itching to unleash terror somewhere, somehow.... So-called 'honor killings' by Muslims in the United States... does not seem to arouse any concern by the Department of Homeland Security.... When it comes to the thuggery of ACORN -- its members harassing the homes of bankers... the Department of Homeland Security apparently sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil.

     "...it can be sinister as a revealing and disturbing sign of the preoccupations and priorities of this administration -- and their willingness to witch hunt and demonize those who dare to disagree with them.... What would be different about a new federal police force, as compared to existing law enforcement and military forces? It would be a creation of the Obama administration, run by people appointed from top to bottom by that administration....  In short, a federal police force could become President Obama's personal domestic political army, his own storm troopers."

Spies 'infiltrate US power grid': (not as friendly as Obama claims?)The US government has admitted the nation's power grid is vulnerable to cyber attack, following reports it has been infiltrated by foreign spies. ...Chinese and Russian spies were behind this "pervasive" breach. It said software had been left behind that could shut down the electric grid.

Obama Census Plan: No Illegal Alien Left Behind: "I have seen the electoral future, and it is rigged. With fraud-prone, ideologically driven interest groups swarming the census-gathering process, the left is solidifying its chances of a permanent ruling majority.... The volunteer groups Locke is entrusting to protect accuracy and fairness include the voter registration con artists of tax-subsidized ACORN, the amnesty activists of Voto Latino and the labor bosses of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The fate of $300 billion in federal funding -- and, most importantly, the apportionment of congressional seats -- rest in their hands....

    "Obama's census partners are using the process to pressure homeland security agents to halt interior enforcement efforts and workplace raids so that illegal alien cooperation with the national survey is maximized. Inclusion of the massive illegal alien population has resulted in a radical redrawing of the electoral map." See Resting in Him

March 2009

'Fusion Centers' Expand Criteria to Identify Militia Members: "If you're an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia supporting a third-party candidate or a certain Republican member of Congress, if you possess subversive literature, you very well might be a member of a domestic paramilitary group. That's according to 'The Modern Militia Movement,' a report by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC), a government collective that identifies the warning signs of potential domestic terrorists for law enforcement communities. ...

     "MIAC is one of 58 so-called 'fusion centers' nationwide that were created by the Department of Homeland Security, in part, to collect local intelligence that authorities can use to combat terrorism and related criminal activities. ... 'It's certainly an attempt to stifle political thought...." See A Terrorist? Me?

Waiting for the American Jihad: "Last October, Shirwa Ahmed blew himself up in a homicide bombing in Somalia. What distinguished Ahmed from other jihadists is that he was a 27-year old college student from Minneapolis and a naturalized American citizen.

      "...more than a dozen Somali-American youths have disappeared so far this year. They are suspected to have returned to Somalia to wage jihad. ... .If terrorist organizations can recruit American Muslims to travel to Africa to wage jihad, what’s stopping them from recruiting American Muslims to wage jihad in America? ...'That kid that blew himself up in Somalia could have done it here in Minneapolis.'.... A culture of Islamic radicalization already exists in America. But most Americans do not know about it because it’s happening in places most of us do not go -- our prisons....

     "In the opening weeks of the Obama administration, the term 'war on terror' has been all but abandoned by the State Department. Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano recently became the first DHS secretary to leave out the words 'terror' and 'vulnerability' from remarks... focusing instead on the threat of natural disasters."

Homeland Security Has Plan for Border Chaos, War: "A top Homeland Security official told a House panel Thursday that Mexican drug cartels are the biggest organized crime threat to the United States. Homeland Security official Roger Rufe said a department plan to respond to escalating violence on the southwest border includes — as a last resort — deploying military personnel and equipment to the region....  Rufe, echoing comments a day earlier from President Barack Obama, said now is not the time to militarize the southwest border." See Signs of the times

February 2009

‘Undeclared War’ on Mexican Border Greater Challenge than Afghanistan: "The violence along the U.S.-Mexico border is the biggest threat to the nation’s security.... 'We are in a state of undeclared war on the southern border that has already spilled over [into the United States].'... Witnesses said drug dealers use gliders and a massive network of tunnels to surpass border security.

     "...seizures of cocaine have increased 119 percent in the last fiscal year.... 'If you are arrested in the Tucson sector, crossing into the United States illegally, carrying less than 500 pounds of marijuana, you have a 99.6 percent chance of never being prosecuted and never go to jail for more than a few hours, which is a source of great frustration to your border agents, isn’t it chief?'  'Yes, sir,' Aguilar said....

     “...there are wildly different levels of enforcement, the border is wide open in Tucson, we found the solution in Texas, and it’s real simple,' Culberson said. 'It’s law enforcement.'” See Signs of the times

February 2009

Napolitano backs TSA body scanners: "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano endorsed the use of body scanners Wednesday to screen airline passengers despite concerns that the machines create vivid images of people under their clothing.... 'We actually have an I-care-deeply line,' Napolitano replied, saying that passengers who don't want to go through a body scanner can opt to walk through a metal detector."

China Hired for Homeland Defense: "A company run by the son of Chinese Pesident Hu Jintao, who does business with Iran, Cuba and Venzuela, was hired a year ago for $1.9 million to X-ray cargo being loaded on to cruise ships in Los Angeles.... But were the motivations beyond securing the contract other than monetary?... Or, maybe the company so closely tied to the Chinese government wanted to get hooked up to the Department of Homeland Security's databases.... A handful of members of Congress are trying to alert the public to the threat. "We should not be depending on Chinese technology for our national security," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher..."

Mayor Cheye Calvo describes raid in e-mail to friends: "Yesterday evening... a heavily-armed county SWAT team burst through our living room door and shot and killed both of our dogs.... In the sights of two high-caliber weapons, I was ushered downstairs in only my boxer shorts before I was bound and forced to kneel on the floor. My mother-in-law was bound face down in the kitchen. The dead body of my bigger and older dog, Payton, laid in a pool of blood... The county police then proceeded to turn our house upside-down.... Blood from my dogs was pooled and tracked throughout the house. Our belongings were pulled from drawers, closets, and trunks and tossed about, piled in the middle of rooms...." Swat Team conducts food raid

Bill creates detention camps in U.S. for 'emergencies': "The proposed bill... appears designed to create the type of detention center that those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents.... The bill also appears to expand the president's emergency power....

     "The broad specifications... contribute to concern that the 'national emergency' purpose could be utilized by the secretary of homeland security to include any kind of situation the government wants to contain or otherwise control."

FEMA Camps Outed on Fox: "During the Bush Administration, FEMA was given hundreds of millions of dollars to retrofit former military bases and other existing infrastructure so they can be used as "camps." Not camps as in summer camps. Camps as in prison camps and perhaps even concentration camps. One of the first thing the Obama Administration did was to legitimize their existence. These camps, which can be found in every state in the union, currently sit empty and are intended to be pressed into service in the event of an "emergency." Funny that we've made it over 200 years without needing a national network of on-demand concentration camps. Why do we need them now?"

Notice the double standard: More militant police officers controlling ordinary Americans, while our elitist leaders evade legal and moral standards other must follow!

Dog and Man in Washington: "Rogers, a 54-year-old regional sales manager for Georgia-Pacific, was sleeping under the stars when a large dog suddenly vaulted over a wooden fence and sank its teeth into his left arm. ... Rogers struggled desperately to free himself from the dog....

    "The TriCity Herald offers a more descriptive account: 'Deke [the dog] latched onto [Rogers] and in the struggle bit him several times on the hand, back, neck and face while three [police] officers beat him.'...

     "Supposedly, all of this was justified because the police were hot on the trail of a criminal suspect. One would presume that they were seeking a burglar, a rapist, or some other practitioner of criminal violence. One would be mistaken: The police officers who beat Ken Rogers had been summoned as backup by Sgt. Richard Dopke after he had spotted someone riding a mini-moped without a helmet or turning on the lights."

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