Michael Steele works up a nice head of paranoia over the fake DHS controversy
By David Neiwert Saturday Apr 18, 2009 9:04am
Well, we knew that the fake controversy over the Department of Homeland Security's domestic-terrorism report was really all about whipping up paranoia among the Republicans' right-wing-populist footsoldiers.
But we really didn't expect their leading officials and pundits, like Michael Steele and Sean Hannity, to be hearing the black helicopters whupping overhead already:
Steele: You know, they've got their eye on the 3,000 Americans who assembled in Indiana last night, in Evansville, Indiana, to profess their continued effort to save the life of the unborn. Sarah Palin and myself and 3,000 other Americans who're concerned about the life issue were gathered there. And I'm sure there was somebody in the room with a notepad and a camera taking snapshots and writing down names.
Of course, Steele is just doing his part. The more paranoiac, the merrier.
I'm realizing why so many people at the Seattle Tea Tantrum were looking at me so suspiciously. It wasn't that they thought I might be liberal; it was that they thought I was a DHS agent.
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Step along and fetch a julip for massa Rushbo!
calls him a House Negro. In Chicano parlance, he could be a tio-taco or coconut. I queried a poster that has hinted his race was Black if the more biting N word could be used for people like him and some commenters jumped all over me and accused me of racism.
If you have not been to Field's blog, you should take a look.
But.. it was okay to spy on and infiltrate peaceful anti-war groups?
I don't get it, these people sat back and allowed their president to crush their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights because they weren't the ones being looked at; and now they are and it's time to get insanely butthurt?
Well, the likelihood of DHS sending an agent to monitor an anti-abortion rally is so low as to be laughable. Maybe an Army of God gathering, but that's about it.
The DHS is interested in the activities of neo-Nazis and other extremist groups because of their potential to commit criminal acts. So they monitor them. That's all this report said -- that, and these groups use mainstream issues for recruitment. That's neither news nor a big surprise.
These people are blithering morons.
But it will work to get the brain dead out in '10 to vote against their best interests IMO
the electronic voting machines.
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Various non violent anti-war protest groups.
DHS,FBI,DoJ,IRS target and cause trouble for anybody or any group who might cause political embarrassment for the leaders in DC.
Treehuggers, PETA, pro choice, Code Pink, all were valid targets for the jackbooted feds during the Bushco regime.
So now its all hunky dory and gloves on regarding these and their counter groups on the right !!!???
Your cointelpro underwear is showing David.
Were one of the few groups in the US actually going out and bombing American citizens and premises.
Real hardcore killer terrorists. THEY KILLED PEOPLE.
I agree! How many people were killed by peaceful, anti-violence protesters? But the flip side of that is how many have been killed in clinic bombings by anti-abortion extremist? Or how many were killed in Oklahoma City?
This item reminds me of something I once read in a science fiction novel: Rats always think everyone else thinks like a rat.
Of course Steele and other conservatives are worried. They spy on liberal/left people, so they naturally assume that the liberal/left will spy on conservatives. Republicans are always afraid that they'll get the same treatment they dish out.
The DHS Report only speaks the truth about these right wing extremists. Too bad if Michael Steele cannot handle the truth about the sick and deranged people associated with the Republican Party today.
The DHS Report needs to take a good look at all these right wing extremists which includes the radio show hosts whom are deliberately fomenting violence. They would have to prove otherwise at this point for me to believe they are not stirring up hatred, resentment, and violence on purpose. The DHS Report is spot on about these creatures. They do not like this type of exposure which calls their behavior out for the entire nation to see. Do not relent on this kind of truth when it comes to these right wingers, either.
I will say it again and again that Glen Beck, Michael "Savage" Weiner, Sean "Hannity" (his real last name is Hennedy,) William "Bill" O'Reilly, Rusty Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Mike Gallagher, Mike Reagan, Hugh Hewitt, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, Neil Boortz, G. Gordon Liddy, William Bennett, Joe Scarborough, (locals here in the state of Connecticut--WTIC 1080 a.m.'s Jim Vicevich and Ray Dunaway; WDRC 1360 a.m.'s Brad Davis, and Dan Lovallo), Mark Levine---are all Right-Wing Extremists. Yes, these Right-Wing Talk Radio Show Hosts are Right-Wing Extremists!! Too bad if they cannot handle the truth about themselves. The local radio hosts and what I call "Baby Rush's and Little Sean Satan's" are just as bad as their cue masters.
Yes, these people like to cry and whine about the DHS Report. Well too bad about them. These people stir up trouble and rabble rousers every time they get behind the microphone, but, whine and cry like big babies when called on the carpet about their actions. Yes, they have "free speech" rights, but so don't we who think they are spouting traitorous words on the public air waves. All of these people have very serious mental problems, which needs to be treated by psychiatrists. I am not kidding that these right wing hosts are psychotic and deranged. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand how disturbed they are. If anyone has mental disorders, it's these right wing talk show hosts mentioned above and their followers. These right wingers are very deranged people. They need to be locked up in the nearest mental hospital because they are a danger to not only themselves but to others. Yes, individuals can be committed to mental hospitals if it is determined one is a threat to others or society. These right wingers meet this criteria and then some. Deal with the truth about who you are and what you say, right-wingers!
And of course, Lou Dobbs---he always needs to be mentioned with these right wing extremist-racists. Dobbs is a racist if I ever saw one.
What about the anti-war protesters that they put on the do not fly list? If some anti-abortion protesters were put on the same list what would be the outcry?
Weren't the Olympics bombed by an anti-abortion nut?
How many people have been killed by non-violence activist, and yet it was OK to spy on them...and yet how many people have been killed by anti-abortion activist????
Why isn't everyone saying this over and over? THE SECOND WORST ACT OF TERRORISM IN THIS COUNTRY WAS DONE BY A RIGHT WING NUT WHO WAS FORMER MILITARY!!!
When REAL Americans perpetrate acts of intense violence
it is PATRIOTISM!
/snark
(i think i made myself throw up a little)
invited all the trolls to dispute your claims and they are going to be swamping this thread with cases of left wing atrocities.
(snark)
crickets
they think that abortion is murder.
By their definition chemotherapy, which also kills living cells, is also murder.
Masturbation is also seen by right-wingers as a form of killing because it wastes "prospective seed" needed for pro-creation.
Let's take it one step further. Condoms and all forms of contraception should be considered potential murder weapons. Heck, we could even go as far as classifying them as WMDs for that matter
Yes, right-wingers have this hang-up about sex and I am sure in their circles they look at various things as "sexual terorism" or "sexual terrorist" acts....Yes, these people are crazy..............Thanks to these right wingers and their enablers on the air waves and the mainstream media, sex has been made into an awful thing.
WOULD be an awful thing.
Another form of torture, really.
... unusual?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
Eric Rudolph.....the right wing nut cases also hid him out for years too.
Keep in mind, the DHS report is literally describing the Eric Rudolphs of the world. Rudolph was a former military man, remember?
So was Timothy McVeigh, and Lee Harvey Oswald (except he's considered a leftie.)
He is accused of killing a lefty POTUS unless he was the scapegoat.
Well, there has been a RW talking point out there that JFK was more conservative than he was liberal. Guess that makes Oswald a lefty by default.
You mean they're rewriting history again? Damn!
Oswald lived in Cuba for awhile, but even the Communists didn't trust him.
He may've been attempting to kill Kennedy to make himself look useful to Castro (Bay of Pigs).
Then again, he may've wanted to be a hitman.
Part of a team, its pretty well documented by now, photos and writings.
Reminder Folks RE: Right-Wing Extremist Terrorist--Killer Mr. Eric Rudolph
Eric Robert Rudolph blamed the violence and death behind his four bombings in Georgia and Alabama on the legalization of abortion and homosexuality. Rudolph showed no regret or remorse in his 11 page statement for why he bombed a lesbian nightclub in Atlanta in February 1997. He said that homosexuality should be kept private, but that if society has to accept and recognize this behavior that it must be met with force . He also set off a pipe bomb at the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta on July 27, 1996 which killed a 44-year-old Georgia resident Alice Hawthorne while injuring more than 100 people, including her teenage daughter. A Turkish cameraman, who rushed to cover the aftermath, also died of a heart attack. Mr. Rudolph never said whether anybody helped him during his years on the run...
Now, you tell me that these right wingers are not dangerous or that their talk is not just the same as it was before Rudolph did his terrorist duties on behalf of his beloved right wing followers and fellow spit shooters. These guys can justify any kind of violence, folks. Here are some excerpts from this right-wing extremist who like all those right wing radio spit shooters is obsessed with abortion and homosexuality. Now you tell me if this does not sound familiar as to what we continue now!
Excerpts from Eric Rudolph’s 11-Page Statement Here:
“…The fact that I have entered an agreement with the government is purely a tactical choice on my part and in no way legitimates [sic] the moral authority of the government to judge this matter...Abortion is murder. And when the regime in Washington legalized, sanctioned and legitimized this practice, they forfeited their legitimacy and moral authority to govern. At various times in history men and women of good conscience have had to decide when the lawfully constituted authorities have overstepped their moral bounds and forfeited their right to rule. This took place in July of 1776 when our Forefathers decided that the British Crown had violated the essential rights of Englishmen, and therefore lost its authority to govern. And, in January of 1973 the government in Washington decided to descend into barbarism by sanctioning the ancient practice of infanticide by that act consigned 50 million unborn children to their graves. There is no more legitimate reason to my knowledge, for renouncing allegiance to and if necessary using force to drag this monstrosity of a government down to the dust where it belongs. I am not an anarchist. I have nothing against government or law enforcement in general. It is solely for the reason that this govt [sic] has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington. Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified and in an attempt to stop it. Because this government is committed to the policy of maintaining the policy of abortion and protecting it, the agents of this government are the agents of mass murder, whether knowingly or unknowingly. And whether these agents of the government are armed or otherwise they are legitimate targets in the war to end this holocaust, especially those agents who carry arms in defense of this regime and the enforcement of its laws. This is the reason and the only reason for the targeting of so-called law enforcement personnel....”
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That's the right wing talking.
Masters of denial and rationalization.
Some things never change.
Was the one who first said,God ok'd killing abortion doctors
He was sued for it and had to pay couple hundred thousand and send his flock a letter saying it wasn't legal to kill abortion doctors
michael steele is trying so hard to get some attention. there have been reports like these regarding liberals/dems in the past. palin and steele two opportunistic losers. steele is NOT a leader he's a follower
limpbaugh proved that. i can't take steele seriously. he's NOT creative or intellectual.
Payback's a bitch. Your own monster now wishes to destroy you. I'm sure flat top and the RNC house negro had no problem when the govt was watching the IVAW.
Bigot bei Gott!
Forget about the rights of the unborn. What about the rights of the undead?
http://www.donttelleveryone.com/assets/images...
is an example of the GOP "big tent."
It seems to me that whenever the Pukes allow a person of color or a woman to take a high profile position
they are generally more stupid and/or vicious than the average wingnut eg Clarence Thomas or the crazy lady from Minnesota.
would have to be nutz to be a black man in the GOOP
Steel thankfully is doing a tremendous job of again making the Reslugs look hilarious, foolish and proving that Limp-Dick, Lard-Ass, Blimpaugh is truely in charge of the GOP and Steel is just floundering.
These people are really seriously unhinged already and becoming more so by the day. Wonder if any of these asshats feeding the fear and frenzy will ever be held to account when the bottom feeders snap and take violent, futile action.
We already beat a dead horse in November.
His name was John McCain.
This is too easy.
Where does the GOP get these nut cases. Steele is a real gift from the GOP. Put him, Rush and Sean Hannity in a bag and shake them up what do you get? Answer: A bag of hot winded narrow minded idiots or typical Republicans these days.
going to find a bag big enough to fit Rush in?
...a frozen wooly mammoth the other day.
...its scrotal sack is intact.
perhaps...
Do you have pictures?
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisl...
That is the biggest nut sack I've ever seen.
that this report was commissioned by the Bush Regime? That it is also NON POLITICAL; it's just the way things have gone, since Newt's 'Contract On America.'
He's also very well up on how the FBI and other agencies have been infiltrating and keeping track of organisations for decades.
posted earlier (by Susie) and about to go on to page two, with very little comment, draws attention to the kind of people warned about in the report, returning rednecks who joined to get their rocks of "killin' desert rats" and, by the way getting used to killing.
Propped up by regional red-neck reactionaries, glamorized, endorsed and publicized by fox (i.e., fomenting social unrest against perceived threats to the borders of their occupied lands), they are a boiling caldron of redneck violence.
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/2009041500...
Could someone remind Michael Steel that “Maryland State Police (MSP) engaged in covert surveillance of local peace and anti-death penalty groups for over a year from 2005-2006.” You know who was the Lt. Gov of Maryland during that period of time? MICHAEL STEELE!!!!!!
http://www.aclu.org/ police/ spying/ 36025prs20080717.html
Maybe he is just projecting?
...that David Niewert (in much the same way that Michael Steele is)...is also actually one who is actively working the paranoia angle. (they both seem to have their reasons)
I think David Niewert is (just as) as paranoid of (the exact opposite things) ...that Michael Steele is!
It looks like two extremists working off each other
...and thriving on the controversy.
that Michael Steele spreads the neocon fascist propaganda talking points is not the same as pointing out, as David does, the neocon fascist talking points that Steele and the rest of the neocon fascists are spreading daily on radio and cable TV.
...Steele is out there on radio and cable...But Niewert can proudly say he is active on one of the more popular liberal blogsites on the net...and that almost trumps Steele.
dont you get most of your news from the net (and not) cable?
I guess (I) can't/won't say that David Niewert "spreads Neolib propaganda" but...
He is definitely "afraid of racist extremists" and I think he "propagandizes" in that direction. or is at least (influenced by) "other peoples" propaganda.
I dont see all the redneck racist extremists that Niewert does. although they do exist...they are not our nations biggest threat.
The biggest threat is the right wing neocon fascists on radio and cable TV who spread the propaganda. They do stir up the right wing extremists who then themselves become a threat. I do get most of my news from the internet but probably 90%+ of the population get their news from radio and TV.
I can only presume that you live in one of those fabled liberal paradises that I keep hearing about and have not been paying attention for the past 30 years. Out here in the wilderness (I grew up in Oklahoma and now live in Montana), the view is a tad bit clearer and those "redneck racist extremists" are all around us, though not all of them are immediately ready to take violent action at this very moment. These people have committed more acts of terrorism against Americans not in a combat zone than everyone else combined, including the Murrah Office Building bombing and the Atlanta Olympics bombing. They have assassinated prominent liberals and healthcare workers, bombed clinics, robbed National Guard armories and armored cars, among may other violent acts. They are admittedly not very bright and not well organized, but they have a vast network of disaffected people to help them and they are excessively well armed. Both the SPLC and the FBI report a massive uptick in activity (+50%) by these groups since the election. They were pretty quiet for the past 8 years, but are now energized and pissed off.
Steele is probably just looking at the next item on the Republicans' endlessly rotating list of ways they can use fear and guilt to manipulate people.
And I'm sure there was somebody in the room with a notepad and a camera taking snapshots and writing down names.
Holy shit! One time few years back me and the kids were in the local park and this black guy with a camera came there and claimed to be from the local newspaper. He took snapshots of the kids, and asked for their names, which he then wrote down on a notepad!
This is how they operate!
Right wing extremists and left wing extremists are just two variations of the same lunacy. I say monitor all you lunatics or monitor none at all - at least keep it consistent.
You plan on applying for the job? All the hall monitors I knew in school were pretty much classified as dwheebs. Sounds like you'd be a shoe-in.
Of course that brings up the question: Who monitors the monitors?
Actually the FBI does. There was a companion report on left wing extremists, currently not as numerous or active as those on the right, which somehow gets overlooked in all this hyperventilating by conservatives and their enablers in the press.
...got any links to this "companion report?
Here you go:
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Leftwing_...
Take the time to fact check next time asshat.
seriously... I'm gonna go look at it now... I honestly did not know it existed.
Don't know how you missed it. Most of the liberal blogs commented on and linked to it when the original wrongwing shit storm broke. Interestingly that link is to a FUX Snooz website.
So the difference between right wing extremists and left wing extremists is right wingers buy guns and left wingers buy software.
Our lunatics are not currently quite so blood thirsty as theirs. I am old enough unfortunately to remember when that was not the case. It has been a very long time since the Weather Underground or anything remotely like it, however. Earth First and similar groups are as close as we get these days, but they so far have not actually killed anyone (though I suspect that is only a matter of time).
Our plan of using Wall Street greed to collapse the empire is coming along nicely. muhahaha
All it took was a word in Cramers and a few others ears.
The black helicopters make no noise. That's why they're so frightening!
I heard Laura Ingraham last week recounting the h i l a r i o u s
story of her young daughter horrifying the 'liberals' at the ski lodge they were staying at, saying (about Obama) " frow dat bad man in da fye-ah" (fire) ... that woman is sick....
I think the Republican leadership has embarked on a deliberate strategy of whipping up their far-right base and normalizing far-right concerns. Who woulda thought the Texas governor, bad as he is, would be openly espousing the positions of fringe-right state secessionist groups? Really, though, the line between far-right and mainstream right has always been blurry.
It only serves to further embarass the moderate wing of the Republican party and further fractionalize the party. Besides, it's funny to watch the hayseeds undulate uncontrollably.
When it's the "dirty liberals" under investigation, they don't say a damn word do they? It's just FINE to sick military trained ahd armed goons on Liberals to bash them up isn't it? And it's A-OK to write all the paranoid reports you WANT if the target it Liberals isn't it?
But turn it around on the Conservatives and all hell breaks loose HUH?
Didn't these jerks know that Liberals are Americans too?
Standing by while the rights and liberties of Liberals is threatened and saying NOTHING has consolidated the power of the goons and put THEM at risk.
Just remember this lesson from history: AFTER the BROWN SHIRTS won victory for Hitler, he had his SS kill all of them.
... this story exemplifies the brilliance of The Establishment and its ability to create fear. The story gets the right scared of being persecuted politically and terrifies the left of the nut cases on the right.
I'm not saying there's no danger from these nut cases, but, like Al Qaeda, we are individually in more danger of being hit by a bolt of lightening than by a terrorist.
So the end result appears to be a paranoid and dangerously frightened right wing keeping a check on any "leftist tendencies" in the administration, and a fearful left some of whom are willing to turn to and even trust The Department of Homeland Security.
How the heck did they manage that?
More likely to die from a malfunctioning crashing drone/UAV, 30% crash rate so they say.
What does FOX and the Republican party have in common with the U.S. Banking collapse?
Deregulated?
Anything goes?
Greed?
Immoral practices?
Preditory abuses of the non suspecting?
Applying above the law status on themselves?
Creating a climate of misinformation to control the misinformed and blame them for their lack of knowledge?
Their loyalty to corporatocracies as the annoited ruling authority?
The only way FUX "news" can survive is to rely on an audience that either cannot or will not read. They have taken the DHS report and so completely distorted what it says that only someone who has not read the report could possibly believe what these idiot-liars are spewing. Unfortunately, there are enough dopes to keep FUX's ratings up. What a sad commentary on this nation.
explaining what data were compiled when.
Beware that silent birdie flying around the building high above.
And the best way is microwave beams focused onto the Goopers crowns and fillings.
And the old fashioned boring but effective method of people arriving with microphones and radios/recorders hidden under their clothes.
Every RNC event should start with a metal detector sweep of the delegates.
So I guess they also thought it was bad when liberal anti war protestors were videotaped by the FBI, right?
And all that police state brutality against the DNC/RNC protestors. I'm sure they are in a fix about that too right?
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