Before we go on, just a flashback NOT FROM INFOWARS.COM:
One more: Egyptian Press Confirms Washington Infiltrated By Islamists
Manual lists people concerned with “individual liberties, states’
rights, and how to make the world a better place” as potential
extremists
Adan Salazar
24 August 2013
24 August 2013
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently obtained a Department of Defense training manual
which lists people who embrace “individual liberties” and honor
“states’ rights,” among other characteristics, as potential “extremists”
who are likely to be members of “hate groups.”
Marked
“for training purposes only,” the documents, obtained Thursday through a
Freedom of Information Act request submitted in April, include
PowerPoint slides and lesson plans, among which is a January 2013 Air
Force “student guide” distributed by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute simply entitled “Extremism.”
Judicial Watch’s FOIA request asked for “Any and all records
concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of
training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by
the Air Force.”
As the group notes, “The document defines
extremists as ‘a person who advocates the use of force or violence;
advocates supremacist causes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender,
or national origin; or otherwise engages to illegally deprive
individuals or groups of their civil rights.’”
The manual goes on to bar military personnel from “active
participation” in such extremist organization activities as “publicly
demonstrating,” “rallying,” “fundraising” and “organizing,” basically
denying active-duty military from exercising the rights they so ardently
fight to defend.
It begins its introduction of a section titled, “Extremist ideologies,” by describing the American colonists who sought independence from British rule as a historical example of extremism.
“In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and
movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British
rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern
states are just two examples,” according to the training guide.
In a section drawing inspiration from a 1992 book titled “Nazis,
Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in
America,” the manual also lists “Doomsday thinking” under “traits or behaviors that tend to represent the extremist style.”
Extremists often predict dire or catastrophic consequences from a situation or from a failure to follow a specific course, and they tend to exhibit a kind of crisis-mindedness. It can be a Communist takeover, a Nazi revival, nuclear war, earthquakes, floods, or the wrath of God. Whatever it is, it is just around the corner unless we follow their program and listen to their special insight and wisdom, to which only the truly enlightened have access. For extremists, any setback or defeat is the beginning of the end.
“Nowadays,” the manual explains, “instead of dressing in sheets or
publicly espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of
individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better
place.”
Judicial Watch also acknowledges the Southern Poverty Law Center* “is
listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced
several times throughout the guide,” even though the group itself was directly responsible for a “hate crime” perpetrated on the Family Research Council after it was listed on the SPLC’s “hate map.”
Infowars readers will find much of the training guide’s contents
unsurprising as they merely reinforce what we have exhaustively
documented in the past.
In 2009, Infowars obtained the “law enforcement sensitive” contents of a Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC)
report entitled “The Modern Militia Movement” which listed supporters
of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as
potential “militia” influenced terrorists.
Also, in July 2012 Infowars blew the lid on a Department of Homeland Security-funded study, produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland, that characterized Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists.
Indeed, the latest report echoes scenes from Alex Jones’ prescient documentary 9/11: The Road to Tyranny,
made over a decade ago, which covered the fact that FEMA and other
government bureaus have for years been training law enforcement agencies
to regard people who espouse conservative ideologies, such as those
represented by the Founding Fathers, as terrorists.
It can no longer be denied that military and local law enforcement
crosshairs have gradually been realigned from targeting phantom
terrorists overseas to targeting domestic “extremists,” a broad,
all-encompassing term that accommodates anyone generally challenging or
questioning the status quo.
As Judicial Watch notes, although the documents were obtained through
the Air Force, the fact that they originated in a DOD office means they
have likely been distributed throughout the government’s various
agencies.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton concluded that the documents fall
in line with the Obama administration’s “nasty habit of equating basic
conservative values with terrorism,” and that the language closely
“echoes the IRS targeting language of conservative and Tea Party
investigations.” “And now… its Defense Department suggests that the
Founding Fathers, and many conservative Americans, would not be welcome
in today’s military… After reviewing this document, one can’t help but
worry for the future and morale of our nation’s armed forces.”
Reminder: The Southern Poverty Law Center are the same kooks that have listed the leaders of the New Black Panther Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz, as a leader of the
RADICAL RIGHT.
I'm doing a separate piece debunking the SPLC's idiocy to be posted soon.
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