Okay, I’ll try to explain myself better.

I have a combination of beliefs that can be considered left wing, and some that are right wing, as most people do. I agree with the liberal-minded Thoreau who said that government is best that governs least. I agree with the Founding Fathers who set up the weakest federal government that was still able to hold the country together. I am repulsed by authoritarians of any type. I am repulsed by terrorists regardless of their beliefs, which this scumbag was.

I think the DHS report was a terrible piece of intelligence work in that it established overly broad categories of people to worry about, as opposed to the DHS report on the left wing, which mentioned specific groups. It’s not good intelligence if it’s not actionable. Having said that, I also don’t think that all members of Earth First! or the Animal Liberation Front or whatever are potential terrorists. I also don’t think it was a vast leftwing conspiracy to publish it on tea party week.