Posted by
RME KRNL on Monday, June 22, 2009 11:20:40 AM
Oh, how the increasingly irrelevant mainstream media (MSM) like to take very few facts and blow them up into a sensational story to garner TV ratings or gain some newsprint readership. Hence, some play in the liberal MSM lately that recent domestic terrorist attacks lend credence to, perhaps even "validate," the April DHS "intelligence report," which DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano had to subsequently "apologize" for and withdraw for revision and update.
First, keep in mind that the April DHS report was supposed to be secret and issued only to law enforcement agencies across the country. So much for transparency in government. Second, remember that DHS Secretary Napolitano had to ineptly "explain" the poorly written report only because it was leaked and became known to the public, ending in her nonapologetic "apology" -- the typical political, "If YOU were offended, then WE'RE sorry." What, sorry that you got caught putting out such a so-called "intelligence report"? Or sorry that it was so indefensible that you had to offer at least some kind of apology for it? Third, the report was insulting, not only to anyone who is legitimately against illegal immigration or holds anti-abortion positions but also to our veterans, our currently serving troops, and any conservatives who generally disagree with Obama's left-wing policies, his spendthrift ways and his fascist takeover of, so far, three major sectors of the American economy. In addition, the DHS report was largely based on speculation and opinion rather than on empirical information or credible, citable intelligence.
Next, "Civil rights activists say a string of recent attacks blamed on right-wing extremists..." Did I miss something in the news recently? Let's see, (1) there was the killing of Dr. George Tiller, the "Baby Killer," by a lone, right-wing, anti-abortion nutjob with a pre-existing history, (2) there was the random gunning down of an American soldier outside a recruiting station by an American Black Muslim domestic "jihadist" bent on revenging an eye for an eye for what U.S. soldiers are doing in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and (3) there was the killing of a security guard at the Holocaust Museum, again by a lone, right-wing, white supremacist nutjob with a long history of anti-Semitism, white supremacy and Holocaust denial.
Well, since one of the three incidents involved an American Black Muslim domestic "jihadist," he's obviously not exactly a right-winger. And although two of the three incidents involved right-wingers, I still fail to see how that becomes "a string of recent attacks." Don't you need more than just two for there to be "a string"?
And since even those two incidents were perpetrated by long-time right-wing nutjobs, how does that in any way lend any credence to the DHS report which predicted a rising, current or future danger from those with any of several conservative positions in opposition to Obama's policies? Obama hasn't even been in office that long.
No, the attacks by the two right-wingers were based on long-standing feelings and beliefs as much as anything to do with Obama or his policies, as amazing as that may seem to him and his adoringly slavish media pals. In fact, one could argue that the attacks by the two right-wingers were almost personal, instead of political. Tiller's killer no doubt personally hated Tiller himself, not only what he was doing in performing late-term abortions of convenience by the thousands and becoming a millionaire while doing it. And von Brunn, the right-winger who killed the Holocaust Museum guard, probably blamed any- and everybody working at the museum for the Holocaust which he schizophrenically both despised and denied. However, for the Black Muslim murderer, his act was ideological and his victim selection was random. For him, any soldier to shoot and kill as a "symbol" would do.