April 14, 2009
Posted by Claire
I’m not holding my breath, but this is good…
I am not going to hold my breath waiting for a liberal in this Administration to admit to messing up and doing something wrong. Does anyone else find it ironic that this same Administration was seeking to negotiate and work with “Moderate Taliban” but they want to label hard working, patriotic citizens and Veterans as a threat? It’s a preposterous lie, right? Unfounded and outright lies about groups of people and their supposed “threat” to a population is not a new concept.
I had to add this quote from Wikipedia:
… The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda
I don’t normally pull the Nazi label into politics in the US because I think it’s overused and quite stupidly used in a lot of ways that are inappropriate, but now we are talking about a Government official sending out word that a segment of the population should be “feared” because of their beliefs and not because of any founded reason for them to be feared… yeah, that’s a little too parallel for my own comfort.
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HOTAIRAmerican Legion to Napolitano: Apologize
posted at 12:55 pm on April 14, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendlyOf all the smears listed in the new DHS warning about “right-wing extremism,” none are more dastardly and despicable than the insinuation that returning military veterans represent a security threat to the nation they willingly served. The Commander of the American Legion has sent the following letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano explaining to her that military veterans are not the enemy:
Secretary Janet Napolitano
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528April 13, 2009
Dear Secretary Napolitano,
On behalf of the 2.6 million-member American Legion, I am stating my concern about your April 7 report, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence and Recruitment.”
First, I want to assure you that The American Legion has long shared your concern about white supremacist and anti-government groups. In 1923, when the Ku Klux Klan still yielded unspeakable influence in this country, The American Legion passed Resolution 407. It resolved, in part, “…we consider any individual, group of individuals or organizations, which creates, or fosters racial, religious or class strife among our people, or which takes into their own hands the enforcement of law, determination of guilt, or infliction of punishment, to be un-American, a menace to our liberties, and destructive to our fundamental law…”
The best that I can say about your recent report is that it is incomplete. The report states, without any statistical evidence, “The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.” READ MORE
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April 14, 2009
I guess it;s another week-so that means yet another attack on our Vets (sigh) and their families. When I heard this on the news I could not believe it! I cannot imagine this being said during World War 2.
April 14, 2009
There should be a petition for this!
Claire, I feel like I’m losing my mind, has the whole of Washington gone bonkers? I’ll be forwarding this to the Marine League.
Semper Fi, Hank
April 15, 2009
Aimee, I know. I wonder if Michelle Obama is jumping Napolitano’s butt since the First Lady cares so much about military families.
Hank, seriously, the inmates are running the asylum. In a right side up world, we are the sane, but in this universe we are being run by insanity. You are as sane as they come. As long as their insanity doesn’t make sense to us, I think we are on the right side of the fence.
April 15, 2009
As the Wicked Witch of the West said, “Ahhhh, what a world, what a world”. Are we in Oz yet??
April 15, 2009
If we are … I want a flying monkey! Those things rock.
April 15, 2009
BTW … the “Leftish” version of the report? Eh, fails to do the same justice to lefties as righties.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/15/the-vaunted-left-wing-extremism-report/
But the MSM wants us to think it does. Gosh. You think the MSM is lying to us or something? Nah. Couldn’t be. Right? Right?
Oh well. I’m off to my radical Tea Part to get my number tatooed on my arm so that when the lefties line us up to get into the box cars on our way to the gas chamber I’ll know my proper place in line …
April 15, 2009
Mr Hooah! “the msm lying to us”?????? I am SHOCKED, I tell ya, at the mere suggestion.
Be that as it may, lucky for us, we know lots of great writers who are getting the truth out there.(I even referenced a few you might recognise in my piece…lol)
The msm is a dinosaur….going going…
April 17, 2009
Bob Pinkstaff GySgt USMC Retired April 17th, 2009 17:21
I wouldn’t piss on her, barack hussein obama, michelle obama, jane fonda and murtha if their guts were on fire!
“IT’S THE MILITARY ACTIVE DUTY AND VETERAN, NOT THE PREACHER, NOT THE REPORTER, NOT THE POET, NOT THE CAMPUS ORGANIZER, NOT THE LAWYER AND NOT THE POLITICIAN WHO WILL ULTIMATELY RESCUE OUR COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FROM THE EVIL TERRORIST, COMMUNIST “ILLEGAL INVADER”, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, AND HIS EVIL WIFE MICHELLE OBAMA, JANE FONDA, MURTHA AND HER!
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
GOD BLESS ISRAEL!
Bob Pinkstaff
Gunnery Sergeant
United States Marine Corps Retired
AMERICAN CITIZEN BY BIRTH, UNITED STATES MARINE BY CHOICE!
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