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Celerity

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Mon Oct 31, 2022, 07:01 PM Oct 2022

Flashback: DHS Report Warns Of Right Wing Extremists (April 2009)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-report-warns-of-right-wing-extremists/

Conservatives are up in arms about a report from the Department Of Homeland Security entitled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic And Political Climate Fueling Resurgence In Radicalization And Recruitment." (Here it is, in PDF form.)

The report is "one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I'd ever read out of DHS," writes Michelle Malkin, who deems it a "piece of crap report" that serves as "a sweeping indictment of conservatives."

Coverage of the report presently occupies both the top spot on the Drudge Report and a prime second location on the site, where it comes with a picture of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the words "SHE IS WATCHING YOU."

The "Key Findings" section of the report opens with these words: "The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment."

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Flashback: DHS Report Warns Of Right Wing Extremists (April 2009) (Original Post) Celerity Oct 2022 OP
Yeah, having a "negro" in the "white" house pushed them over the edge. PSPS Oct 2022 #1
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