TagsTagsSome interesting stories from the past month that didn’t get much notice in the national media, on the nonexistent right wing extremist topic: Clearfield County man pleads guilty to distributing explosives. Perry Landis admitted that he sold illegal electric blasting caps to undercover police officers. But he denied that his cabin in ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Crime, Right Wing, Militias
After weeks of political grandstanding and misguided ranting from bloggers and talk show hosts over the DHS report on “right wing extremism,” Janet Napolitano announced yesterday that the DHS has removed the report from their websites: Napolitano defends security budget, extremism report. Napolitano, testifying before the House appropriations sub-committee on ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Veterans, napolitano
Here’s a very good piece by Deborah Rudacille (author of The Scalpel and the Butterfly and The Riddle of Gender) on the DHS “right wing extremism” report, and the absurd over-reaction from conservative bloggers and politicians, featuring some words from yours truly: Fables of the Reconstruction. The report is ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Conspiracy Theories, Alex Jones
Since people continue to rant about the Department of Homeland Security’s report on “right wing extremism,” saying things like: I won’t hold my breath waiting for a “left wing extremist” report. ... here are two more DHS reports on “left wing extremism,” available through Wikileaks, and just like the “right ...
The newest addition to the FBI’s “most wanted” list: a left wing extremist. WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, an accused domestic terrorist is being added to the FBI’s list of “Most Wanted” terror suspects. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old computer specialist from Berkeley, Calif., is wanted for the ...
Just when you think the ginned-up outrage over the DHS report on right wing extremism can’t possibly get any sillier, Michael Savage joins with the Thomas More Law Center to file what might be the silliest lawsuit in US history: Ann Arbor-based law center sues Homeland Security over ‘right-wing extremism’ ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Michael Savage, Thomas More Law Center
All you folks seething and yelling about the DHS report on “right wing extremism,” make sure to save some of your anger for the FBI, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division, the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, because they’re in on the ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Veterans, FBI
An update on the story of the neo-Nazis who were arrested last October for plotting a crime spree that would have ended with assassinating the president: Cowart’s grandfather testifies in federal court. The grandfather of Daniel Cowart testified today that when he saw a sawed-off shotgun, duck tape and nylon ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, White supremacism
Anyone think stories like this might have something to do with the Department of Homeland Security being concerned about right wing extremism? Bomb-maker talked of Obama, Clinton assassination, feds say. A Clearfield County man caught with several homemade bombs told undercover federal agents how he would hope to see Sens. ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, White supremacism
Absolutely freaking insane. Pat Robertson urges his drones to jam the phone lines of the Department of Homeland Security, to scream about the “right wing extremist” report, wasting DHS resources and possibly blocking important calls. Then he says that “someone down in the bowels of that organization is either a convinced left ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Pat Robertson, Fundamentalism, Christian Right
Anyone think stories like this might have something to do with the Department of Homeland Security being concerned about right wing extremism? Report: ‘Dirty bomb’ parts found in slain man’s home. BELFAST, Maine — James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Posse Comitatus, Bangor, Dirty Bomb, White supremacism
An editorial in the Washington Times is a perfect example of what I’ve been calling the “distortions” about the DHS report on right wing extremism: Smearing veterans. The whole piece is full of overheated accusations like this: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has defended her department’s outrageous claim that veterans are ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Posse Comitatus, Veterans, FBI, Washington Times
The revelation that the FBI’s investigation of white supremacists and militia groups included a focus on veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has prompted another round of outrage from the right wing blogosphere and talk radio—who seem completely unwilling to admit there could be a point to the investigation, and ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Posse Comitatus, Veterans, FBI
The hyperventilating continues, and now the Department of Homeland Security has been forced to respond to the flood of distorted stories. STATEMENT BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY JANET NAPOLITANO ON THE THREAT OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM The primary mission of this department is to prevent terrorist attacks on our nation. ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Posse Comitatus
Here we go again. The latest cause for hyperventilation in the right-wing blogosphere is a report from the Department of Homeland Security on the need for vigilance against extreme right-wing groups like Posse Comitatus, militias, “Patriot” groups, and neo-Nazis like the Christian Identity weirdos. Some bloggers, prompted by World Net Daily, ...
DHS, Right-Wing, Extremism, Militias, Neo-Nazis, Posse Comitatus
At the Chicago Sun-Times tonight: Left wing, right wing: Both sure can squawk. (Hat tip: Tasty Beverage.) The left-wing No More Mister Nice Blog at nomoremister.blog spot.com regarding right-wing criticism of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Syria: “. . . knuckle-dragging right-wing morons . . .” The right-wing Little Green Footballs at ...