Found this on a blog comment, sums it up pretty well:
Wow! Just read the report. On the surface, it looks like an indictment of anyone right of Pelosi. The conclusions read like a Daily Kos summary of the Conservative movement. They rely on fear, misunderstanding of conservatives and no visible facts. However, without knowing the underlying intelligence, it's difficult to tell whether there's a real danger. If the militias are trying to reconstitute, we should catch them sooner, rather than later. I wish we had some background on the politics of the team that wrote the report and the level at which the report was subject to political bias. That’s a sad thing to say, but in today’s age of continuously disingenuous communication between the government and the people, it’s difficult to consider such a report as valid without knowing the motivation of the author.
I'd also be curious to there’s an I&A report on left wing hate groups. It seems there's more evidence of liberal hate, than there is of right wing hate groups. Consider:
- The church where Palin worships was burned down, after she opposed gay marriage.
- A left wing, quasi-political group (ACORN), committed massive voter fraud during the last election cycle.
- Left wing activists targeted churches for harassment after the CA gay marriage referendum failed.
- Conservative workers lost jobs when activists thought they opposed gay marriage.
- A liberal state employee hacked records of a private citizen, then provided negative information to national media outlets. The MSM used that information to initiative a smear campaign against the private citizen.
- The liberal son of a dem. state representative hacked into Palin’s personal email, then published the results to embarrass her.
- A Democrat controlled Congress attempted to place a 90% tax on the legal bonuses of a series of private citizens who worked at a company out of favor with the public, the Congress and the left.
- Even though those same employees received death threats, both a liberal congressional committee chairman and a liberal state's attorney general demanded that employee names and addresses be publicly released.
- A liberal activist organization bused people to houses of those same employees to publicly embarrass, harass and perhaps vandalize the homes.
The timing of the report is somewhat troubling as well. Given it was released on Apr. 7, within a week of the tax day tea parties. The tea parties seem to be an enormous conservative demonstration against government spending. Many of the drivers mentioned in the key findings section of the report such as immigration, perceived economic hardship, and threats from other nations will undoubtedly be themes of the tea parties. Since there have been rumors that left wing activist organizations plan to infiltrate and attempt to disrupt and/or sabotage the tea parties. If there is a violent reaction to these disruptions, the report seems to provide a government platform for endorsing further adverse government action against people who attend and/or support the events.
By TheATLMac @ 04/14/09 03:12:33 PM |
