Conservatives equated themselves with white supremacist extremists

[Enrique]

Last edited Mon Aug 6, 2012, 04:42 PM - Edit history (1)

Remember when the DHS report came out?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/?page=all

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in “rightwing extremist activity,” saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

What did mainstream conservatives say?

1.Good, we have nothing to do with these people, they are a threat and the government should be tracking them.

2.OMFG, this threat is made up, this is just the government hassling good conservatives! Everyone grab your guns, Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano are coming for us!

They chose #2, but now in hindsight they are going to Etch-a-Sketch it to #1.

update with an example from Michelle Malkin, "Confirmed: the Obama DHS hit job on Conservatives is real".

So that's what this is about? These people are "conservatives"? Ok you said it, Michelle, not me.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/14/confirme-the-obama-dhs-hit-job-on-conservatives-is-real/

Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled:

Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.

The “report” (PDF file here) was one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I’d ever read out of DHS. I couldn’t believe it was real.

I spent the day chasing down DHS spokespeople, who have been tied up preparing for a very important homeland security event later today: The First Lady is coming to visit their Washington office. Priorities, you know.

Well, the press office got back to me and verified that the document is indeed for real.

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[denverbill]

1. No, you forgot #3. "Nazis are Socialists so they are a left-wing group."

[freshwest]

2. Ah, the voice of Glennbeckistan.

[freshwest]

3. Either Etch-A-Sketch = Retroactively Retraction/Redaction. Or just lie about it again...

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Relevant op from yesterday.

Don't want to retype it



http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1077015

[phantom power]

5. The party that very deliberately rode the Southern Strategy to power? They own these racist nutbags

If there was any honesty in our public political discourse, that wouldn't even be a question.