|
Vulgar Commentators Pounce On Shooting To Justify DHS
Extremism Report
Right and left at each others throats in coarse and
pointless point scoring exercise
|
|
|
In an utterly disrespectful display of vicious political point
scoring, bloggers and commentators have jumped on yesterday's
tragic shooting at the Holocaust museum in Washington DC, insinuating
that it justifies the Department of Homeland Security's recent
classification of gun owners and veterans as dangerous right
wing extremists.
One case in point is Washington Post blogger Ed
O'Keefe's column, which is today titled "Does
Holocaust Shooting Validate Homeland Security Report?"
"Did that controversial Homeland Security
report on right-wing extremists get it right?" O'Keefe
asks, referring to the recently leaked Homeland
Security intelligence assessment that characterized
millions of American citizens as potentially violent terrorists
who are a threat to law enforcement.
All the usual politicized groups that masquerade
as "civil rights" organisations, while at the same
time lobbying for the complete elimination of liberties have
pounced
on the incident in their droves.
“I think this latest round of killing once
again shows how ridiculous the criticism from the right of the
Department of Homeland Security report was. That whole brouhaha
was absurd,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law
Center, the group cited as a research source in the recent MIAC
report, which characterized Ron Paul supporters as extremists.
“We felt the DHS report was pretty right
on,” said Deborah Lauter of the Anti-Defamation League.
“Clearly the election of Obama, the current financial
crisis, and the discussion of immigration reform –those
things have certainly fueled the right wing extremist movement
in this country….There are clear indications that the
rhetoric is manifesting. We hope it’s not the tip of the
iceberg.”
The fact that the 88-year-old shooter, James von
Brunn, was a retired veteran has provided ample ammunition for
those seeking to justify the broad demonization contained within
the DHS report.
To the surprise of some left wing bloggers, but
not to anyone who understands the bait and switch tactics routinely
utilized by Fox
News, host Shepard Smith was one of the first commentators
to make the connection between the shooting and the DHS report.
“This is a former military guy, and he’s
gone extremist,” Smith said firmly, shaking his head.
“They were warning us for a reason. They see signs that
this sort of thing is bubbling up.”
“There was something to it,” concluded Smith. “It
was not obscene … and it appears now that they were right.”
Other undignified bloggers have also seized on
the shooting in a childish attempt to justify their pathetically
entrenched political viewpoints.
"I hope that everyone who mau-maued the Department
of Homeland Security for expressing concern about this kind
of thing feels appropriately ashamed of themselves," Matthew
Yglesias of Think
Progress wrote.
"The Republican hysteria over the DHS report
-- which was, by the way, initiated by a Bush administration
official -- was always based more on a partisan scheme than
reality, but the incessant complaints look especially misguided
today," writes Washington
Monthly's Steve Benen.
Brian Beutler of Talking
Points Memo published a list of reasons why the
DHS report was correct.
(Article continues below)
The fact remains that it is patently stupid and completely
irresponsible to suggest that all veterans, supporters of the
second amendment, Americans with economic concerns and those
concerned with the loss of U.S. sovereignty are extremist racist
killers. And that is what the leaked DHS report insinuated.
The very moment the report hit the mainstream, those on the
right, such as Glenn Beck and Michael Weiner Savage, derided
it as some kind of massive left wing Marxist Obama administration
plot.
Of course, they uniformly failed to point out
that the document was created by the Bush administration and
that an earlier report produced by the Strategic Analysis Group,
Homeland Environment and Threat Analysis Division of the DHS
concentrated on “left wing extremism” ( Leftwing
Extremists Likely to Increase Use of Cyber Attacks over the
Coming Decade), again demonstrating the federal
government does not hold an ideological bias when it comes demonizing
groups and individuals that are opposed to it.
Now, in the wake of another shooting incident,
those on the left have wasted no time in using the incident
to hit back at the equally misguided fools on the right.
In reality these weak minded hacks have simply
allowed themselves to be goaded into defending and agreeing
with the ludicrous DHS security assessment.
This flurry of inane activity highlights how useful a tool
the false left/right political paradigm is. The left and the
right are so obsessed with bickering and winning pointless moral
victories over each other that the absolute destruction of everything
America stands for becomes a secondary concern.
Highlighting how completely isolated from reality they are,
those attempting to exploit this awful tragedy to score political
points, whether it be from the right or the left, is so far
beyond contemptible, it defies belief.
Meanwhile, the corporate and financial elite are happy to play
both sides off against each other while they carry on, almost
completely undeterred, with their freedom destroying Social
Darwinist agenda.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alex
Jones LIVE, A Fourth Hour Of Streaming TV Now Added To The Infowars
Radio Show
Click here to get your subscription today!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
|
|
