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About That DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremism

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Spare O'Lake4/14/2009 1:09:35 pm PDT

re: #480 Charles

Just to be very clear — I am NOT saying we should trust everything the government does. I would be the last person in the world to argue for that.

But this report is being distorted beyond recognition, by people who really should know better. Criticism is one thing, alarmism is quite another.

Charles, let’s assume that the report is 100% accurate.
It still should make one’s skin crawl because its focus is by definition political. A report like this creates the impression that the government is more concerned about extremism on the part of its political foes than on the part of its supporters.