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What Right Wing Extremists?

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Arbalest4/17/2009 6:28:54 pm PDT

James G. Cummings does not fit several of the profiles listed in Janet Napolitano’s report.

Several takeaways from the link provided at the top of this thread:

James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, …

She [Amber B. Cummings, 31] allegedly told police that Cummings subjected her to years of mental, physical and sexual abuse. She also said that Cummings was “very upset” when Barack Obama was elected president.

Robbins, who worked on the house for a month last summer, described Cummings as an angry person who was verbally abusive to his wife. He said Cummings apparently was independently wealthy and did not work. Robbins said Cummings talked incessantly about his love of guns and his fascination for Hitler. He said Cummings repeatedly berated his wife about home-schooling their daughter. He said Cummings had a controlling personality and wanted to know his wife and child’s every move.

… it appears that the actual source of his wealth was a trust fund established by his father, a prominent landowner in the Northern California city of Fort Bragg. An Internet search of the James B. Cummings Trust indicated that it has an annual income of $10 million.

Is he a veteran? The answer seems to be “no”. The Nazi memorabilia and membership application suggests he wasn’t brave enough to do a tour.

Unemployment seems to be not an issue for him, as do unavailable credit or home foreclosures; he doesn’t have to work, as he’s a trust fund boy.

This doesn’t make him less of a threat (although maybe it does, because he was obviously stupid), but it does show that he was more like Billy Ayres (wealthy parents, angry boys) than American servicemen and veterans.

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I downloaded what I believe to be a true and accurate .pdf copy of Napolitano’s DHS report; there are too many places where the words “veteran” and “rightwing” are specifically used, when no supporting evidence is provided to indicate that “veteran” and “rightwing” are appropriate and “leftwing”, “social activist”, etc., are not.

The DHS report smells of propaganda. Its concluding paragraph, as written. sounds conspiratorial, and implies that actions have already been undertaken.

Janet Napolitano (a rather high ranking government official) seems to be happy to defend it, so I choose to take her words and this report at face value.