re: #530 DANEgerus

My complaint against the scripted leak of the DHS report was that it’s contents reflected a clearly deliberate effort to demonize any who might dissent from the administration, and members of the US military, by commingling them with the more classic militia nutjob type like a Scott Roeder.

No one says there aren’t rightwing extremists, but to paint with such a broad brush, as the DHS clearly did, was a deliberately crafted partisan smear.

The Leftwing blogs use of Scott Roeder as a “poster boy”, when he is in fact clearly an exception to the “rule” they attempted to create I would argue is further proof of the intent of the DHS report’s “leak”.

There was no broad brush, and the report did not smear all conservatives or all veterans. It was very narrowly focused on extremists, and was very careful in fact to say that only a few veterans might be susceptible to recruitment by extremist groups.

Those are the facts. The picture you’re painting of the report is exaggerated and distorted.