Posted by
RME KRNL on Friday, May 01, 2009 2:52:07 AM
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, our homeland security nanny who increasingly seems to have only a nodding acquaintance with her job and is quickly gaining on VP Joe Biden in the verbal gaffe department, recently released a so-called "intelligence assessment" report, which was based on policy and opinion rather than citing supportive studies or fact-based intelligence trends. Even more troubling, this "report" was never meant to become known to the public, much less to the people it targeted. It was released to law enforcement agencies only. Therefore, it was actually an attempt by a powerful agency of our government to act in secret, identify or "target" a sector of our population by inference, opinion and policy differences rather than any actual facts, and to have American citizens so identified "investigated" and "reported." But the so-called "intelligence assessment report" was somehow "leaked" and picked up by news media who made it public.
This report profiled and targeted veterans, Americans opposed to the social policies of President Obama, and those who oppose abortion, same sex marriages, restrictions on firearms ownership, and one-world government -- as "right-wing extremists" and "potential domestic terrorists."
Even worse, Napolitano called on state and local law enforcement agencies across the country to investigate and report on these so-called "right-wing extremists."
Well, up until recently, I thought of myself as a more-or-less friendly neighbor and a pretty good citizen, father, grandfather and friend. I was and am a conservative and an unashamedly proud American, but I didn't realize before this "report" that I might also be considered a "right-wing extremist."
Let's see, what would make me think that Secretary Napolitano would think I am a "right-wing extremist"? (1) I am a 26-year military veteran. Worse than that, I am a Vietnam veteran. And a disabled veteran to boot. Wow, look out! (2) I actually am opposed to many of Obama's social policies and think he and a Democratic Congress are pushing this country to the left as far and as fast as they can, using the current economic crisis as rationale (read: "cover" or "distraction") -- an economic crisis, by the way, clearly traceable back to at least 2001 and Democrats in Congress for refusing to regulate the GSE's (Government Sponsored Entities) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac whose collapse started the fall of the financial house of cards. And (3) I am opposed to: (a) abortion, except for cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's physical health, (b) same sex marriages but not civil unions, (c) any restrictions on Second Amendment rights to firearms ownership or use, and (d) one-world government, also known as "globalization," and advanced by such things as LOST (the Law of the Sea Treaty), the Kyoto Accords and other world-wide measures, often designed to inhibit developed nations' capabilities, co-opt their sovereignty and create some ideologically and idealistically utopian, world-wide "level playing field" in which nations yield their own vital self-interests to cooperate and compromise for the "betterment of all." (Of course, we should just wait for Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and others, to include any smart sovereign nation, really, to actually do that. Wait, but don't hold your breath.)
But, I digress. The point of this article is to "out" myself, I guess, and admit to my friends and neighbors that, at least according to Nodding, Nanny Napolitano, I must be a right-wing extremist -- and I live just down the street or across town from you and, for Madame Secretary, I live within 20 miles of Washington, DC. So, I guess you should all be afraid -- be very afraid. Not of me, but of your increasingly out-of-control, out-of-touch and inept government. After all, any government big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take all you have, or words to that effect by one Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Remember him? He seemed to know about Big Brother long before Orwell and 1984. I wonder if he would have been thought of, say, by the British and perhaps some of his own fellow Americans, as an extremist, too? Just a thought.