Do you consider them a “left-of-center bullhorn”?

who happens to be a whacko white supremacist is hardly the beginning of the VWRC uprising. Yet I fear it will provide them with the inciting incident they’ve been waiting for. They plowed this field with the DHS “report” and endless insinuations based on that meme. Now some whackjob gives them the entre they need; we won’t hear the end of this anytime soon. Invest in precious metals!

was a cheap way of avoiding ascribing any actual opinions to any actual people. I think that in this case, though, the “some” in question is clearly the SPLC and ADL.

Also, while the article clearly mentioned conservatives and Republicans, it was in the context of their opposition to the DHS report. Nowhere did anyone use the term “violent Holocaust-denying racists,” much less link that phrase to conservatives and Republicans. In fact, the person from the ADL clearly says that the threat is from the “right wing extremist movement” in this country.

Now, granted, it’s all too often that, in order to strengthen their case, people on both sides of the aisle tend to paint their opponents as “extremists.” Both the president and Rush Limbaugh have been described as such by their adversaries. However, I think that people on both sides of the aisle need to distance themselves from the real extremists on both sides. In that way, they can call out all extremists and return to a more civil discussion of the problems at hand.

In other words, the recent events in Washington, Wichita and Pittsburgh all seem to offer at least some veracity to the DHS report, which warned of the emergence of “lone wolf” extremists, which the perpetrators of all three of those incidents apparently were.

Was that it was very unspecific and vague, and that a vast majority of those that fall under the criterion laid out by the report are peaceful, if not some of the most law-abiding citizens in the US, and it’s stupid to think that this memo was some sort of clairvoyant literature, or that it will lead to effective policies to limit domestic terrorism.

Note that I hate terrorism, and if there is a serious threat from right-leaning schools of thought, I would advocate for policies to limit said terrorism. However, this memo is not serious, and really tells you, in short, that right-wing domestic terrorists are right wing (duh!). That’s not helpful, and it does lead to the impression that the current administration is more concerned with scoring political points than responding intelligently to real and stoppable threats, such as radical Islamist threats.

From the little information that I have seen regarding von Brunn’s military service, I tend to doubt that service.

The available information stated that he had enlisted as a “Midshipman” in the Naval Reserves in 1943. Another item stated that he served as a PT boat commander in the Pacific.

I hope that some of the bloggers who post on Blackfive, Obiter Dicta and the other blogs who investigate “Phony Soldier” stories do some digging on this matter.

The last time I looked it was the conservatives (right) that supports Israel and condemns Muslim terrorism, not the Daily Kos, or Politico or the activists at Berekley…

Sometimes the ‘left’ (marxists) and the ‘far right’ become the same…. there was little difference between Hitler and Stalin accept for their stated ideologies. It turned out to be the same dictatorial tyrants and murderers who cared more for the “State” than they did the individuals who lived in them.

That is, of course, the difference in the US….our fundamental beliefs through our Constitution and Declaration of Independence insures that individual rights are preeminant. We are a government “for the people, by the people, and of the people”. We are ‘endowed’ by our creator with certain inalienable rights”. and Obama doesn’t have the right to take them away..

It won’t be the left that demands the US give assistance to Irael if Iran or any other muslim country attacks them once again…..And it isn’t the left that regards Judism as part of the Judeo Christian ethic that led to the founding of this country. Obama can claim Islam and the Muslim world as his own….. I claim the US with it’s fundamental beliefs derived from Judism and from Christ.