Are you a terrorist?
The Department of Homeland Stupidity Security thinks you have the potential to be a terrorist if you fall under their skewed definition of “rightwing extremist” (pdf).
Homeland Stupidity sums it up for you:
Last week the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis published an “analysis” of “right-wing extremists” in the United States in which it claims, quite vaguely, that: “Rightwing 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.”
I would suggest that anybody and everybody has at least once in their life fallen into that broad-faced definition of “right-wing extremist.”
While reading up a little more on this I noticed that Michael Savage is suing DHS for this report that labels as “extreme” the vast majority of Americans:
“It is a civil rights action brought under the First and Fifth Amendments to the United States Constitution, challenging the policy, practice, and custom of the United States Government that targets for disfavored treatment those individuals and groups that are considered to be ‘rightwing extremists,’” the complaint announced today said….
According to the federal government, members of the suspect group of people include those who:
- Oppose restrictions on firearms
- Oppose lax immigration
- Oppose the policies of President Obama regarding immigration, citizenship and the expansion of social programs
- Oppose continuation of free trade agreements
- Oppose same-sex marriage
- Have paranoia of foreign regimes
- Fear Communist regimes
- Oppose one world government
- Bemoan the decline of U.S. stature in the world
- Are upset with the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China and India
Wow. That set of descriptions includes, I believe, every single person I have ever met or known.
Watch out folks. Big Sister is watching you. Smile for the camera.
I bet the King of England and his majesty’s armies in the original American colonies had a similar pdf scroll about those who would dare question his majesty’s rule back in the day. You see where that got them.
