Rightwing Extremist Zoo Creatures Through The Regime’s Eyes

 

In the not so distant days before the Regime takeover, being an American Rhodie, speaking your mind and living your life used to be called “being an American”.  That was then.  This is now.  As you Rhodies have surely read elsewhere, we’re the object of pretty thorough Regime scrutiny (e.g., West Point). Because it’s useful to know what your adversaries think of you, I was reading about us today through the Regime’s eyes, specifically their 7 April 2009 “Unclassified/For Official Use Only” U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis Assessment’s Extremism and Radicalization Branch’s Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. Now, this spectacularly balanced and insightful piece of intel has already been thoroughly evaluated (and skewered). But at a remove of several years, it’s aging well.

And it was just absolutely too irresistible to help DHS out a little bit by annotating their report on us – only, I assure you, for the most strictly “Official Use Only”.  This, readers, is going to be FUN!

“This information is provided to federal, state, local, and tribal counterrorism and law enforcement officials so they may effectively…preempt…terrorist attacks against the United States. Federal efforts to influence domestic public opinion must be conducted in an overt and transparent manner, clearly identifying United States Government sponsorship.”

OK. Try not to spit out your coffee through a mix of fear and chortling here.  Preemption is what they do with drones to American citizens with no due process, right? Glad we got that one clarified. I have to hand it to them – they don’t hide the eight ball about what they’re up to. Likewise, give the Regime credit for being WICKED OVERT AND TRANSPARENT about its efforts to influence domestic public opinion, because their efforts couldn’t possibly be more obvious. There is still some work to do about changing the NYT masthead to “New Regime Times”, because that will more “clearly” identify FedGov sponsorship.

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