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Confirmed: No Supporting Evidence For DHS “Rightwing Extremism” Report
Agency compiled report based on random postings of a known disinfo website
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A freedom of information act request has revealed that the Department of Homeland Security’s now infamous “rightwing extremism” report, released in April, was not based on any reliable supporting evidence whatsoever.
According to the DHS, the report was compiled based purely on around 50 internet articles, the credibility of which is severely questionable.
The revelation comes from the group Americans for Limited Government (ALG), which bills itself as an “independent, nonpartisan political movement that fights for hardworking taxpayers against the special interests that continually push for big government nationwide.”
The group filed it’s FOIA request shortly after the release of the leaked security intelligence assessment which equated veterans and gun owners with violent terrorists.
The document, entitled Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment (PDF link) characterized concerns about the economy, unemployment, the loss of U.S. sovereignty and the move towards global government as “rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet” which itself is defined as a potential tool for terrorists to network, build bombs, and send encrypted messages to each other.
It also listed those opposed to abortion or immigration as potential extremists, and cited groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority as potential sources of hate crime.
ALG asked for all data, studies, reports and documents that had led the DHS to these conclusions.
The shocking response from the DHS indicates that it undertook no statistical analysis at all, failed to conduct any interviews with the groups it went on to demonize and complied the report based purely on a scattering of web posts from some extremely dubious sources.
“We expected to receive back some hard-core analysis, some data analysis, looking at crime statistics and current trends that would back up conclusions in the report,” said Nathan Mehrens, a news contributor to Americans for Limited Government and a former Labor Department official.
“Instead what we got was a list of URLs to various Web sites, all kinds of news stories across the board,” Mehrens told FOX News.
Amongst the 50 or so links provided by the DHS are news articles from the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times and USA Today, along with a smattering of other media sources. These represent subjects including rising gun sales, the activity of minority white supremacist groups and speculation that economic woes will fuel more hate groups.
More noteworthy is the fact that the DHS also cites substantial material from both the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
How disgusting it is then that when it was leaked, these two politicized and establishment funded groups that masquerade as “civil rights” organisations, immediately pounced on the DHS report and used it to justify their materials and agendas.
In the months that followed, they also returned to the report again and again to tie it in with incidents such as the tragic shooting at the Holocaust museum in Washington DC.
It is no coincidence that the SPLC was also cited as a research source in the equally inflammatoryMissouri Information Analysis Center report, which characterized Ron Paul supporters as extremists.
The news also comes in the wake of another sustained effort on behalf of the establishment media and the Southern Poverty Law Center to float the talking point that militia groups and worried gun owners are growing in the United States and that this could portend a violent act of domestic terror.
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Perhaps the most damning aspect of the revealed sources for the DHS “rightwinger” report, however, comes in the shape of 11 links to a website called “WhatDoesItMean”, which is a well known source of disinformation among the blogging community.
The site acts as a dumping ground for legitimate news articles, but mixes them in with pure conjecture, unverified stories and plain lies on subjects as far reaching as extra-terrestrial aliens and imminent armageddon.
For the DHS to cite this website far more than any other in order to substantiate its accusations against veterans and other so called “rightwing extremists” is an absolute joke.
This pathetic list of links represents nothing more than a couple of hours of idle internet surfing and Google searches on behalf of the DHS. They have simply thrown together a series of barely related web posts in a ridiculous attempt to provide proof for their outrageous accusations where there is none.
A tenth grader could have complied a more compelling source list.
Here then we have proof definitive that this behemoth agency that was supposedly created to protect the United States from the ruthless terrorists hell bent on its destruction, spends its afternoons surfing the web, compiling useless lists of links in order to paint up everyday American citizens as extremist racist killers.
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August 12th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Not surprising in the slightest……….
Social Viability Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
You’re not surprised?
It doesn’t surprise you that politicians would use their authority to carry out political witch-hunts?
It doesn’t surprise you that the people they’re targeting are perfectly good people with perfectly healthy ideas?
It doesn’t surprise you that your government consists largely of malevolent parasites that cannot see the past their own greed and fear?
Of course you weren’t surprised. Neither is anyone else. And that’s the worst part. The fact that the government behaves this way is one thing, but when we’ve come to expect it we really know that the political system is thoroughly rotten and diseased.
I think it’s high time we rethink our social structure right from the ground up.
Don’t fight the system:
Replace it
http://socialviability.com/
jim shores Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Ask not what the government is trying to do to you, ask what you can do to the government. Recall them all before we fall.
freedom tastes good Reply:
August 13th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Alex Jones is such a brave and vocal patriot….
Well everybody out there in Internet land, This is the moment we’ve been waiting for… The people are waking up and getting ready to put a stop to this nonsense takeover of our world government at every level… The tension in the air is palpable… Tastes like freedom to me… I would like to invite you to check out http://www.thegrandawakening.com for a little more spiritual information about how to fight the dark forces with love and light. Please browse around and open your heart. Great days are ahead…
Peace
My Springfeild XD Reply:
August 13th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Social Viability,
How could it be surprising anymore if i’ve already know what you are talking about for at least half of my life. (i’m 32) So my surprise wore off about 10 years ago when I started to prepare for whats coming instead of being stressed about it. The best thing I have done so far in preparation is moving out of and far away from big cities and other heavily populated areas.
I think you misunderstand exactly what is not surprising to me. A agree with and understand you – we are on the same side friend.
jim shores Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
How many examples can we document of EXTREME ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL ACTS? How many examples of extreme tolatarian acts? How many lies can we document? How many TRAITOROUS acts can we document. How many examples can we produce documenting corrpt media disinformation? The NWO has the WEAKEST BS in history. They have two ponies they trot out: Racism (after Obama got the white vote) and right wing extremists How many? 2 or 3 that they built or created.
August 12th, 2009 at 10:56 am
We need to convince the American people that the Militias are bad, otherwise all those camps will stand empty.
QUANTUMMONKEYBUTT Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
If I May, I’ve Got A Short List Of Highly Dangerous Individuals That Should Be Captured And Held In Those Camps Immediately…
Tortured (In)Definitely…
Hung Hopefully…
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ar.....idejob.htm
QMB
Traitor Hater
August 12th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Just how dumbed down are the…
http://www.theamericansheeple.com
find out.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Google: From his grave: Sherman Skolnick exposes Rahm Emanuel
Google: The Murder of John F. Kennedy, Jr.-An Update by Sherman H Skolnick
i do not know how we stop the destruction of the USA at the hands of the corrupt officials in Washington. We are voicing our opposition to the healthcare plan and they do not care. To label loyal Americans to the Constitution, average Americans is treason. These people should be thrown in prison.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:07 am
So what do the “Sisters of Sorcha Faal and her western subscribers think of this. There must be a report in the Kremlin? I visit What does it mean once a week for the same reason I would buy Weekly World News. Comic Relief and to find out who the Grays endorse of course.
pitofdoom Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I do the very same entertainment thing,
for the comedy of taking heads get’s boring.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:14 am
So just like hollywood. The gov’t is using the internet along with conspiracy theorist websites against tue public. Labelling ron paul supporters as extremists? Last time I check firing a rpg at a group of people is extreme. They are trying to make anyone that is going to stand up against the gov’t, be cast out by the community labelled an extremist and probably be arrested for thinking differently. They will continue to do this. And anyone that isn’t going to follow their protocol needs to refrain from launching attacks against them with any form of violent or explosives. Basically they are starting the agenda of turning the people against the people before we unite against them, because that is what is happening as we speak. The healthcare reform protests are unifying people against the gov’t. And they can’t have that… its backfiring on them. We as the informed public, that have knowledge that the gov’t is doing too many things in their interests and not ours. We need to capitlize on it and continue to protest in a non violent and extreme manner. Don’t give them any ammunition against us. We need to stand peacfully in protest… no extremes. Good luck people, we are gaining a foot hold against them
August 12th, 2009 at 11:18 am
i thik that level of you security is high, but now I must change view. So botch report. But when go level of security offices go down maybe go new world order to hell
August 12th, 2009 at 11:45 am
But we must “go up around the bend” circling the kumbya tree wearing branches
from the nirvana bush of global RFID green NWO love!!
Leave behind your failed Sovereign Republic,
our Corp/Govt usury debt slavery into generations of caesars Tyranny shall save you!!
August 12th, 2009 at 11:46 am
lets see the Weehawken Five and Lord Chertoff and that old Belshevic from East Germany
that helped set up the show. Yea sure whatever. Like I think is going to happen so mabe they will wake up. The Zionist want WW3 with Iran that is they sdame scenerio before Iraq.
Unless you have a Bunker made of Gold we are all Guinea Pigs on the USS Liberty.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:50 am
had the 9/11 attack been as said it was there would have been no Weehawken Fives. Then they would not have been secretly escorted out of country. Call the security here Swiss Cheese. Not they were caught celebrating whle we were sad and worried they were happy.
Then Lord Chertoff shows up the Great All American that he is and that old Bolshevic from
East Germany shows up. yea sure.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:59 am
And well the government should fear the citizens. This is what keeps the government in line. This is why the founding fathers of the USA made sure the citizens have the right to bear arms.
The Chekas wrecked America Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
The Lawyers of the Governent need to do their jobs and reopen 9/11 investigation.
Unless they are part of the Cover Up. That is all that has to happen.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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August 12th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Kind of like what Prison Planet does on a daily basis…
August 12th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
http://www.KeepTheTruthAlive.com
August 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
As a Vet, I am considering a defamation of character suit against President Obama and the current chief of DHS. All Vets’ character was defamed based on the treasonous policies of the President Obama. I consider President Obama a traitor and must stand trial.
Horus Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Obama a traitor to whom? Maybe to you and me, but not to the people who put him in office. He knows who butters his bread.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
More noteworthy is the fact that the DHS also cites substantial material from both the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
How disgusting it is then that when it was leaked, these ………Just as I posted this A.M.,SPLC is a snake in the grass…and we all know what to do with snakes,right?? They are fabricators and two faced pythons, to say nothing of P.C. hitmen…IMHP….
August 12th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
RE: Dear officer “YEP”……Not True……
August 12th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
we have alot of Double Agents that run the Show.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
The NWO are really scared right now, not of revolution but,they are afraid of the masses waking up!
August 12th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
WOW!…Imagine that….They made a report…An official report at that, based on lies and bulls---. Sounds like business as usual for the nwo clan. How do you know they are lying? Their lips are moving and their reports are being produced.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Perhaps they should compile a leftwing extremist list.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Currently, American citizens find it shocking to imprison other citizens for political crimes, but the Government and main stream media will slowly alter this perception, and make it palatable to imprison American citizens for political crimes.
shocked and awed Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Ugggh. How disgusting, yet how reasonable and LIKELY it sounds.
jim shores Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I am ready to jail bogus broadcaters for political crimes.
August 12th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Bob Dylan Retains Same Illuminati Law Firm as George W. Bush in Fifteen Year Plagiarism Law Suit. Also suppresses Plaintiff’s First Amendment Rights acquiring a protective order designating all video taped depositions that are incriminating to Dylan confidential
Bob Dylan & his law firm acquired a confidentiality order in a fifteen year plagiarism law suit designating all discovery materials including fifty hours of incriminating video taped depositions as confidential suppressing Plaintiff James Damiano’s first amendment rights to warn the public of Judicial favoritism and corruption.
Camden NJ June 2, 2009 -Few artists can lay claim to the controversy that has surrounded the career of songwriter James Damiano. Twenty-two years ago James Damiano began an odyssey that led him into a legal maelstrom with Bob Dylan that, to this day, fascinates the greatest of intellectual minds.
As the curtain rises on the stage of deceit we learn that CBS used songs and
lyrics for international recording artist, Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan’s name is credited to the songs. One of those songs is nominated for a Grammy as best rock song of the year. Ironically the title of that song is Dignity.
Since auditioning for the legendary CBS Record producer John Hammond, Sr., who influenced the careers of music industry icons Billy Holiday, Bob Dylan, Pete Seger, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughan, James has engaged in a multimillion dollar copyright infringement law suit with Bob Dylan.
As per court papers it is judicially uncontested by Bob Dylan and or Bob Dylan’s law firms Manatt, Phelps & Phillips , Parcher Hayes & Snyder, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Heck Brown and Sherry and Sony House Counsel that Bob Dylan and people in Bob Dylan’s entourage have solicited James Damiano’s songs and music for over ten years and eleven months.
Interestingly enough Judge Jerome B. Simandle decided “This court will accept as true Plaintiff’s allegations that Sony represented to him that he would be credited and compensated for his work if Dylan used it. Judge Simandle also stated in his decision “Plaintiff has demonstrated a genuine issue of material fact as to whether defendants had access to his work.
http://www.jamesdamiano.com/
Richard Clark
uslawjournal@gmail.com
Horus Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Your posts don’t apply to the above article. Can’t you get your work published? Why do you have to bore us here?
August 12th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
I never knew that the Corporate Fascist Elitist govt needed any evidence to compile watchlists of political opposition.Fascist totalitarian regimes dont require evidence.
The DHS exists purely to monitor and spy on the opposition to the out of control illegal and unconstitutional US Federal Govt and its very existence proves that the US is a Fascist Police State.
The NWO and its subsidary hijacked federal govts days are numbered because they are going down.
August 12th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
SAY NO TO THE NWO
August 12th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
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August 12th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
This same Government says some people aren’t worth giving Dialysis, maybe their the extremist.
August 12th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
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August 12th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
These assholes don’t need evidence !!! They make up their own laws depending on the situation. We know what the constitution says. This is the law of the land, not what these assholes make up to suit their agenda. LOCK & LOAD !!!!!!
August 12th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
O.K. everbody I want you to all preview my newest film that I’m working on, it’s about these animals programmed by the Bilderbergers to attack on site……………….(deep breath) ………………(deep breath)………….I can’t do this anymore ….YOU THINK I LIKE DOING THIS!….my God this so sick …NOW THEY HAVE TURNED THE ANIMALS ON US. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LQ3ZmtKQM
Sean Hannity Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Alex you idiot you misspelled sight. Why don’t you just get off of the air already, you can’t compete with me and the big boys, you conspiracy kook.
Alex Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
ha ha ha ha ……….I GET ABOUT 2 HOURS SLEEP EVER NIGHT, CAUSE I’M UP HERE AT THE OFFICE WORKING ON MY NEW FILM AND YOU BUST MY CHOPS OVER A MISSPELLED WORD!………………(deep breath) WELL YOU AND O’RELLY AND THE REST OF THE VERMIN AT FOX CAN GO TO HELL…………were gonna defeat you….AND WHEN WE DO THE WHOLE WORLD WILL SEE THAT YOU ARE REALLY JUST AN UGLY ANGRY DYKE WITH A FOUL SMELLING ROTTED VAGINA
August 12th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Constitution keeps changing, Til it slips away…
My mind keeps wandering does anyone care…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrYDiUZCLA
For those who still support the Constitution and our Sovereign Right as a Free People
To remove all those who refuse to follow the Constitution…
(may you be engulfed in the wave of anger from treading on our rights)
August 12th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Let’s get rid of the Department of Homeland Slavery and send Napolitano, who would rather serve the new world order than the people of the United States, to prison.
August 12th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Sick of financial media spin? Losing your butt in the market? Sick of all the bail-outs? Then Stathis is your man.
Read this website for an economic reality check.
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August 12th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
When these Fascist, COMMUNIST scum called me and other AMERICANS, (”US Veterans and Christians”) potential TERRORISTS, INSTEAD of COMMIE/ NAZI ISLAMIC Fairy moon god loving scum TERRORISTS, as they AREand the USURPERS moslem FAMILY.
THAT”S IT!!!!!!!!!!! NO MORE MR. Nice GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY (the COMMIES) drew FIRST BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
f--- THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 13th, 2009 at 12:27 am
Lies, Lies Lies, that is all you will get from this illegit govt!
August 13th, 2009 at 7:59 am
…if you’ve ever seen a gun……..you just might be a terrorist!
August 13th, 2009 at 10:54 am
They love to scan the comments on these sites its gives them more amo to rain in the patriots, I think most are just people that because of the way the politicians have sold our country out to Mexico and china they cant find real jobs and they don’t have the guts to take a stand for the future of their own children, so they get jobs as government goons surfing sites making themselves believe their doing something constructive when in fact their helping destroy whats left of America simply by working for the criminal government that has led us down the road to disaster. Hitler called them useful idiots.
August 13th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Morris “scumbag” Dees and the Anti-Defication League up to their old tricks once again. They should be charged for supplying false information to the government.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Remember that the lying bastard El Presidente Jorge Boosh, the self-described “conservative” who ostensibly believed in “smaller government” unleashed this behemoth super-agency on us. Anyone with half a brain – which rules out those inside the Beltway! – could tell you this would be a giant dumping ground for unemployable HACKS! Just look at who’s leading it now – Nappy Napolitano has a nice cushy job at the federal trough when her AZ voters where chomping at the bit to throw her worthless hide out. Boosh had the guy who looked like Hoody Doody and was about equally qualified. Before that it was Tom “Stage Blue-Green-Yellow-Orange-Red” at the helm. You wouldn’t vote for any of these chuckleheads for local dogcatcher.
August 13th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
The Southern Poverty Law Center is itself a hate group. They hate any group or organization that isn’t in lockstep with the SPLC’s political agenda. For example, the SPLC has aligned itself with the radical race-based organization The National Council of La Raza (The Race), which supports illegal immigration. So if a group or organization speaks out in opposition to illegal immigration, they will be placed on the SPLC’s “hate list”. The SPLC’s actions are Naziesque in nature.
August 14th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
When the SPLC targets a group and labels it a “hate group” a report of that activity is forwarded to the FBI, HLS as well as the CIA and the U.S. Marshals’ Service. These Services then, in turn, submit to each other a DoJ form #302. This form allows these various services to then interface and implement a coordinated investigative background on any group in question. Then once the 302’s are evaluated for all the services, and initial action reports are drafted, all these 302’s are forwarded to a “Regional Fusion Center”. Then at which point, the Regional Fusion Center(s) bring all of the reports into Federal compliance. Once the 302’s are “stabilized” and are federally “compliant” they are then scrubbed or cleaned of high security-value information. The by now sanitized versions are made available then to local law enforcement, i.e. city, county, state.
Now, once a 302 is made available to local law enforcement, proactive measures may be taken and the enforcement of various “hate laws”, surveillance activities, etc. can begin. The point of this is that the SPLC is obstensibly a privately-owned, not-for-profit foundation. In point of fact, it is a major facilitator of illegally obtained materials and sources as a conduit to the Federal Government. This is CLEARLY illegal. I know for a personal fact that they use wiretaps, internet monitoring, photographic surveillance, as well as HUMTELL. Up to this point they have been beyond the reach of the law. Quite likely they will remain so, for they are a part of the organization. Without revealing too much, the SPLC attacked a local Traditional Latin-Rite Church, for the simple reason that this congregation venerated Pope Pius XII. They are also “guilty” of rejecting Second Vatican “reforms”. For this theological transgression, the SPLC made sure that the Fusion Centers will pursue them as hate criminals. I think I’ve made my point
August 15th, 2009 at 7:46 am
YA THINK THAT THERE JUST MIGHT BE ENOUGH NON CENSORED TRUTH ON WHATDOESITMEAN.COM THAT IT HAS DHS AND THE WHITE HOUSE NERVOUS. THERE IS A REASON THEY CHASE ALEX, THE SISTERS, CENTER FOR GLOBAL RESEARCH, CUTTING EDGE MINISTRIES, UAFF.US, STEVEQUAYLE.COM AND STRANGEDAYSSTRANGESKIES. BY NO MEANS LOOK UP THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION MENTIONED ON FOX BY GLENN BECK FRIDAY. YOU COULD GET IN TROUBLE FOR READING THEIR PLAY BOOK. NO WORRIES, THEY ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME AND THEY KNOW IT. TILL THE DAY…