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Was DHS "Rightwinger" Report Hyped As Pretext
To Crack Down On Tax Protests?
Legitimate protest movements being misrepresented as
"right-wing backlash"
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wave of mainstream media attention has led to increasing speculation
that the Homeland Security report on "the rise of the right
wing" was deliberately leaked and hyped as part of an effort
to falsely categorize, demonize and crack down on legitimate
protest movements that have nothing to do with the right-wing.
Yesterday the Washington Times picked up on the newly uncovered
document which we covered in our
article on Monday. Now over 500 stories on the
report pop up in a cursory google news search.
The report, entitled Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic
and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and
Recruitment (PDF
link) was leaked to the Internet a few days ago.
It equates gun owners with violent terrorists and states that
radical extremists are “stockpiling” weapons in
fear of an Obama administration gun ban.
The document characterizes concerns about the economy, unemployment,
the loss of U.S. sovereignty and the move towards global government
as “rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet”
which itself is defined as a potential tool for terrorists to
network, build bombs, and send encrypted messages to each other.
A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland
Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing
extremism in the United States" as including not just racist
or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority
in favor of state or local authority.
The fact that the report also draws on the extrememly
recent Poplawski cop-shooting incident, which was universally
seized upon by the left leaning media and attributed to the
influence of a right-wing backlash, has some asking questions
over the timing of the leak.
A Reuters
report from yesterday revealed that the DHS completed a similar
assessment of "left-wing radicals" in January and
had it distributed to federal, state and local police agencies.
However, no media attention was garnered from the report.
(Article continues below)
Take this
BBC article as one mainstream article as an example
of how the DHS assessment is now being presented by the corporate
media.
"Some more moderate conservatives have criticised the
Homeland Security study. They believe the White House could
use it to justify tougher gun laws and restrictions on conservatives'
freedom of speech."
Restrictions on conservatives' freedom of speech,
as if only conservatives should concerned with upholding the
first amendment. Forgive me if I'm wrong but last time I checked
the US Constitution applied to every man, woman and child in
America.
"The issue is being keenly debated on right-wing blogs
and talk shows."
Instead of highlighting, questioning and decrying the fact
that the DHS has labeled those concerned about the economy as
right-wing extremists, the mainstream media is pushing and amplifying
the very same notion.
Many have also questioned the timing of the surfacing of the
new DHS report, just days before the nationwide "tea party"
tax protests.
In the wake of the DHS right-wing revelation, the Maryland
National Guard has been put on alert in anticipation
of today’s protests, while the DHS has refused to deny
that demostrators will be surveilled by the agency.
Of course, tea party protesters are not "dangerous rightwingers",
many of them are not even conservatives, but rather libertarians.
Indeed there has been increasing chatter regarding the notion
that the tea
party movment has been hijacked by Republicans.
For direct evidence of this, one only has to look to the gaggle
of Fox News anchors that have taken over protests throughout
the country today.
This is an example of a concerning trend where anyone continuing
to criticise the government beyond the lifespan of the Bush
administration is now being lumped into the category of "rightwingers".
Talking heads such as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, whose only
real loyalty lies with their corporate masters, are seizing
upon any movement now critical of the federal government in
order to push their tired brand of brainwashing.
The problem is that the real grassroots patriot movements and
defenders of the constitution are now being scurrilously affiliated
with such universally derided filth.
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