ONCE AGAIN, IT'S FREEDOM LOVING AMERICANS WHO REPRESENT THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT...

Yet another 'new' study enthusiastically funded by our rampaging, and thoroughly out of control, Department of Homeland Security has now once again characterized Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as being, yup you guessed it, “extreme right-wing” terrorists. This latest piece of garbage to be produced by some anti-freedom, pro-government group is entitled, 'Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970-2008'. This most recent study is a product of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism which is located at that little socialist enclave known as the University of Maryland. The organization was launched with the aid of DHS funding to the tune of a whopping $12 Million dollars. Stimulus money no doubt, used to create these highly important jobs.



The supposed outcome as presented by this biased, politically skewed piece of dog squeeze of a study, makes it completely unworthy of even being used for butt wipe. Because while largely omitting Islamic terrorism altogether - the report fails completely to mention the 1993 World Trade Center bombing – the study does focus, and primarily so, on Americans who hold beliefs shared by the vast majority of conservatives and libertarians and puts them in the context of radical extremism. So once again our very own government sees as being a bigger threat than those crazed fanatics who murder innocents in the name of their so-called 'religion of peace' those of us whose only apparent crime, is that we love freedom and smaller, less intrusive government, and believe in the sanctity of human life. And for that we are called terrorists. Have things not now gotten so upside down, or what?


This is where things really get more than just a little creepy at least as far as pointing out to us just what the motivating factors might have been behind this little group's rationale for doing this little study, as well as what was behind the DHS's desire to fund it, because the report takes its rather peculiar definitions from a 2011 study entitled 'Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism', produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, in which the following characteristics are used to define terrorists:
- Americans who believe their “way of life” is under attack;
- Americans who are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”;
- People who consider themselves “anti-global” (presumably those who are wary of the loss of American sovereignty);
- Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”;
- Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty”;
- People who “believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”
Oh, and by the way, the report also goes on to list those people opposed to abortion, as well as those “groups that seek to smite the purported enemies of God and other evildoers”, as terrorists.


As has been pretty exhaustively documented in such places as INFOWARS.com, and on any number of occasions, federal authorities and in particular, the Department of Homeland Security, have been involved in producing, what can only be described as being, a very substantial deluge of literature which portrays liberty lovers and small government advocates as being among those that make up the most serious terrorist threat that our nation now faces. The most flagrant example of which was the rather infamous 2009 MIAC report, published by the Missouri Information Analysis Center and first revealed by Infowars, which framed Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag, as potential terrorists. So because I fly a flag in my front yard, I'm assumed to be a bigger threat than some murdering rag-head.


The rush to denounce legitimate political beliefs as thought crimes, or even mundane behaviors, by insinuating they are shared by terrorists, is something that has become much more prevalent over the course of the last 3+ years and has actually accelerated in recent months. Under the FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism program, the bulk purchase of food now ranks right up there with the purchase of large quantities of certain fertilizer and taking certain type of flying lessons as being labeled as a potential indication of terrorist activity, as is even using cash to pay for a cup of coffee, and showing an interest in web privacy when using the Internet in a public place. Ah yes, highly suspicious acts, all. So this is what we've come down to, law abiding citizens who desire nothing more than to be left alone are not increasingly viewed by their government as being some sort of threat.


As has been documented on numerous occasions, the federal government routinely characterizes mundane behavior as extremist activity or as a potential indicator of some strangely perceived terrorist intent. As part of its ‘See Something, Say Something’ campaign, our Department of Homeland Security 'educates' the public that generic activities performed by millions of people every day, including using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application,” are all potential signs of terrorist activity. The DHS stoked controversy last year when it released a series of videos to promote the See Something, Say Something campaign in which most, if not all, of the terrorists portrayed in the PSAs were white Americans. So, fear not those Muslim murders, it's those evil, freedom loving white Americans that you need to fear the most.