Obama will now benefit from a good ‘unseen enemy’, like Clinton benefitted from ‘the vast right wing conspiracy’. She pointed out that most of the potential extremists are ‘unidentified’, and that will help Obama.

Exactly. That’s the point of this report. That’s why it is so vague. Every agency is somewhat politicized anyway, just by the nature of the beast, but very much so under BHO, who has adopted all of Bush’s “imperial presidency” rulings and added his own. DHS, DOJ, Census work for him, not the nation.

Because it’s vague, any pundit and petty bureaucrat can use it as they see fit, to continue smearing and delegitimizing, and probably surveilling and harrassing. The onus is now on YOU to prove you are NOT a crazy, not the other way around. That’s the point.

Sorry, Charles, I really appreciate how even-handed you try to be, to make sure when you do get exercised your assessment is credible. And I agree with you about evolution and the nationalist European parties and I am glad you are taking your stand on those things. I do give Obama kudos for - finally - allowing the military to do its job in the pirate attack.

It is very difficult to decide at what point to get alarmed, without being either paranoid or in denial. Someone can always make the case that you are seeing things that aren’t there, right up to the point the star chamber hearings begin. I’m 56. I’ve been a fair-to-middling but not doctrinaire libertarian my whole adult life, watching Dem and Pub admins come and go. Most of my friends have been nice middle class liberals. I never vilified John McCain or threatened to stay home on Nov 4th. I have never owned a gun. I think abortion and gay marriage should be legal but I respect the arguments against. I am about as far from being a conspiracy nut as it is possible to be.

But this administration disturbs me greatly. This kind of report is exactly the kind of thing they would do. It is akin to the scapegoating of the AIG execs in its attempt to fan populist flames by picking a target and smearing it. It is a leftist admin and the report is full of leftist tropes. It is an opportunistic admin and the vagueness of this report is opportunistic. it is a politicized admin and this report is highly politicized. Obama has been very clear about where he wants to take the country. Leaders with his mindset and ambitions and history don’t play fair. He (taking over a private industry by fiat) and Pelosi (making retroactive bill of attainder law) and Holder (overruling his legal council on DC voting) have already shown they don’t respect rule of law or the Constitution (and there are other examples). It is not far-fetched to read into this report what we are reading into it, based on their actions since Obama took office.

The danger of pushing back on any specific thing is that you can be crying wolf too often. The danger of not pushing back on any specific thing is that at some point it is too late. I trust my judgment and this report has to be “denormalized,” as Ezra Levant would put it. Dissected and described for what it is. And everybody come out for your local tea party tomorrow and if you see any militia or ACORN or KKK types, get between them and the journalist trying to interview them and get him to interview you instead.