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Confirmed: No Supporting Evidence For DHS "Rightwing
Extremism" Report
Agency compiled report based on random postings of a
known disinfo website
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A freedom of information act request has revealed that the Department
of Homeland Security's now infamous "rightwing extremism"
report, released in April, was not based on any reliable supporting
evidence whatsoever.
According to the DHS, the report was compiled
based purely on around 50 internet articles, the credibility
of which is severely questionable.
The revelation comes from the group Americans
for Limited Government (ALG), which bills itself
as an "independent, nonpartisan political movement that
fights for hardworking taxpayers against the special interests
that continually push for big government nationwide."
The group filed it's FOIA
request shortly after the release of the leaked
security intelligence assessment which equated
veterans and gun owners with violent terrorists.
The document, entitled Rightwing Extremism:
Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in
Radicalization and Recruitment (PDF
link) characterized 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.
It also listed those opposed to abortion or immigration as
potential extremists, and cited groups that reject federal authority
in favor of state or local authority as potential sources of
hate crime.
ALG asked for all data, studies, reports and documents
that had led the DHS to these conclusions.
The shocking response
from the DHS indicates that it undertook no statistical
analysis at all, failed to conduct any interviews with the groups
it went on to demonize and complied the report based purely
on a scattering
of web posts from some extremely dubious sources.
"We expected to receive back some hard-core
analysis, some data analysis, looking at crime statistics and
current trends that would back up conclusions in the report,"
said Nathan Mehrens, a news contributor to Americans for Limited
Government and a former Labor Department official.
"Instead what we got was a list of URLs to various Web
sites, all kinds of news stories across the board," Mehrens
told
FOX News.
Amongst the 50 or so links provided by the DHS
are news articles from the New York Times, Washington Post,
LA Times and USA Today, along with a smattering of other media
sources. These represent subjects including rising gun sales,
the activity of minority white supremacist groups and speculation
that economic woes will fuel more hate groups.
More noteworthy is the fact that the DHS also
cites substantial material from both the Anti Defamation League
(ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
How disgusting it is then that when it was leaked,
these two politicized and establishment funded groups that masquerade
as "civil rights" organisations, immediately pounced
on the DHS report and used it to justify their materials and
agendas.
In the months that followed, they also returned
to the report again and again to tie it in with
incidents such as the tragic shooting at the Holocaust museum
in Washington DC.
It is no coincidence that the SPLC was also cited
as a research source in the equally inflammatory
Missouri Information Analysis Center report, which
characterized Ron Paul supporters as extremists.
The news also comes in the wake of another
sustained effort on behalf of the establishment
media and the Southern Poverty Law Center to float the talking
point that militia groups and worried gun owners are growing
in the United States and that this could portend a violent act
of domestic terror.
(Article continues below)
Perhaps the most damning aspect of the revealed
sources for the DHS "rightwinger" report, however,
comes in the shape of 11 links to a website called "WhatDoesItMean",
which is a well known source of disinformation among the blogging
community.
The site acts as a dumping ground for legitimate
news articles, but mixes them in with pure conjecture, unverified
stories and plain lies on subjects as far reaching as extra-terrestrial
aliens and imminent armageddon.
For the DHS to cite this website far more than
any other in order to substantiate its accusations against veterans
and other so called “rightwing extremists” is an
absolute joke.
This pathetic list of links represents nothing
more than a couple of hours of idle internet surfing and Google
searches on behalf of the DHS. They have simply thrown together
a series of barely related web posts in a ridiculous attempt
to provide proof for their outrageous accusations where there
is none.
A tenth grader could have complied a more compelling
source list.
Here then we have proof definitive that this behemoth
agency that was supposedly created to protect the United States
from the ruthless terrorists hell bent on its destruction, spends
its afternoons surfing the web, compiling useless lists of links
in order to paint up everyday American citizens as extremist
racist killers.
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