Liberals Setting Up Conservatives to Take the Fall for Leftist Violence
By Gary Starr for American First Principles October 13, 2009
The world of the Left is a dark, forbidding place inhabited by the narcissistic phony intellectual, the miscreant, the irrational whiner, and the perpetually angry nihilist. It is also filled with imagined right-wing conspiracies all designed to keep the “oppressed minorities” of the world in their place. the Left lives in a permanent pit of despair.
From the Kennedy assassination to the 9-11 Truthers the Leftist worldview constantly looks for and “exposes” the hidden hand poised to destroy all that is ‘good and right’. In his movie JFK, director Oliver Stone twisted himself into a pretzel detailing the vast right-wing conspiracy that brought about Kennedy’s assassination. In the film Lee Harvey Oswald was an agent of the CIA who was on some sort of mission and 1) pretended to defect to the Communists after moving to the Soviet Union and 2) came back to the United States and tried to get to into Cuba via Mexico, all the while pretending to be a left-winger handing out pro-Cuban leaflets in New Orleans while really still being a right-winger and still working for the CIA on the original mission, all during the summer of 1963. Meanwhile Lyndon Johnson, the CIA and the military industrial complex were upset that Kennedy wouldn’t greenlight a second invasion of Cuba after the disastrous Bay of Pigs operation so they brought in a bunch of trigger men to gun down Kennedy in Dallas and made Oswald the patsy. Not at all convoluted and contrived…it’s perfectly believable, until you start taking apart the plot.
As always, the simplest explanation is usually the truth. Obviously Oswald was a Communist (a failed one at that) and he acted alone. Not a shred of evidence in forty-six years has proven otherwise.
The John Frankenheimer film Seven Days in May details a plot to kidnap a weak liberal president who has just given away the nation’s security store to the Russians by signing a nuclear disarmament treaty. A group of rogue generals is exposed by a lowly colonel and the country is saved in the nick of time.
In the Western World, particularly in academia and the mainstream media, the historical narrative has been controlled by the Left. To perpetuate their control of the historical record the Left always has the United States falling into the hands of a vast right-wing conspiracy. Thus Kennedy wasn’t killed by a Communist, it was the nebulous ‘climate of hate fostered by America’s obsession with guns’. In LeftistLand Radical Muslim jihadist cowards didn’t fly planes into the Twin Towers because they hate our way of life and freedom and they are basically insane…it is our support of Israel and our oppression of Muslims that drives them to terrorism.
With the August 2009 Healthcare Townhalls the Left is now warning us of the latest climate of hate and fear supposedly originating from Conservatives. Protestors are labled Nazis and angry mobs (Nancy Pelosi), racists (Jimmy Carter, Bill Cosby, Walter Mondale) and gun-toting right wing crazies with hair-trigger emotions just waiting to be activated. It's all pure projection.
Nancy Pelosi's crocodile tears recalled the violence in San Francisco 30 years ago: "I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco, this kind of rhetoric ... it created an environment in which violence took place." What she doesn't mention is that violence came from her left.
A quick review compiled by Glenn Garvin of the Miami Herald proves that, more often than not, the violence comes from the Left:
The revolutionary nihilists of the Symbionese Liberation Army, assassinating an Oakland school superintendent, kidnapping Patty Hearst and finally shotgunning an innocent bystander during a bank robbery.
There were the cop-killing drug dealers of the Black Panthers, who began murdering their own sympathizers to keep them quiet.
The Black Liberation Army, a Panther offshoot that bombed a church where a policeman's funeral was being held.
Jim Jones and his communal cult ended in an orgy of murder and mass suicide in 1978. Most Democrats like Rosalynn Carter, Walter Mondale and Jerry Brown were enthusiastic supporters of the Leftist Jones until his little Kool-Aid party.
The 1979 murders of lefitst politicians George Moscone and gay activist Harvey Milk by a Democrat rival, Dan White
At the most recent G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, in fact, at every economic summit for the last 10 years, violent mobs rioted smashing windows, destroying property and taunting police. These groups include many of the same folks who attend and organize the anti-war protests, Code Pink, International ANSWER, etc.
These people are communists and leftists. When reported in the dying mainstream media the protestors magically morph into misunderstood students and nebulous anarchists. Any leftist violence would reflect badly on the Leftist agenda.
Healthcare violence and racism from the right?...no so fast.
When in doubt, or when defeated by the facts, the Left always plays the race card..after all it has worked for thirty years...but that tactic is wearing thin.
Maureen Dowd
First there is our girl, professional self-hating guilt-ridden white woman Maureen Dowd wringing her hands over the harsh and racist treatment of our porcelain representatives in the NY Times:
Instead of a multicultural tableau of beaming young idealists on screen, we see ugly scenes of mostly older and white malcontents, disrupting forums where others have come to actually learn something. Instead of hope, we get swastikas, death threats and T-shirts proclaiming “Proud Member of the Mob.”
Actually Maureen, it was you guys that labeled the protestors an angry mob.
One should be reminded that Maureen wrote of white people in a previous column regarding the Sotomayor nomination hearing:
A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not know that a gaggle of white Republican men afraid of extinction are out to trip her up.
After all, these guys have never needed to speak inspirational words to others like them, as Sotomayor has done. They've had codes, handshakes and clubs to do that.
We at Neville have never seen anyone so desperate to be one of the sisters. C'mon Maureen be proud of who you really are...an old white woman.
MSNBC's Carlos Watson
Today I want to talk about a word that we're hearing more and more, and that's the word socialist. You hear it from a lot of conservatives these days, that's usually critiquing the President, or more broadly Democrats. And while that's certainly a legitimate critique, there certainly is an ideology that can and should be critiqued at certain times, it also some times is just a kind of a generic conservative bludgeoning tool. And that's alright, too, because you hear it on the Democratic side as well: rightwingnut, what have you.
But what concerns me is when in some of those town hall meetings including the one that we saw in Missouri recently where there were jokes made about lynching, etc., you start to wonder whether in fact the word socialist is becoming a code word, whether or not socialist is becoming the new N-word for frankly for some angry upset birthers and others. I hope that's not the case, but it sure does say to you what David Brooks said the other day on T.V. which is that more credible conservatives have to stand up and say that there's a line that has to be drawn, that there's a line of responsibility that's important, and that extends to the words that we choose including how choose even legitimate words like socialist.
Amazing. Now that we have a black president, words that have been used in our country for decades -- words that have real meaning -- suddenly stand for something else altogether that imply a racial slur.
Ed Schultz -- Lib Radio Talk Show Host
"Sometimes I think they want Obama to get shot. I do. I really think that there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out. They fear socialism. They fear Marxism. They fear that the United States of America won't be the United States of America anymore."
NY Times "writer" Frank Rich compared anti-healthcare tea-party rallies to "the walk-up to the Kennedy assassination, (when) there was all this hate talk about Kennedy." MSNBC's Chris Matthews said that "the mood we're in right now" reminded of him of when "Jack Kennedy was killed in an open car in Dallas." As we mentioned Kennedy was killed by a Communist. Rich has made a career of predicting mass murder by the right. He has written column after column warning that Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of The Christ would touch off worldwide slaughter: "Its real tinder-box effect could be abroad, where anti-Semitism has metastasized since 9/11."
It's odd because the Left said the film supposedly blamed the Jews for Christ's murder. And it's from the Left that anti-semitism arises since the Six Day War in 1967.
We at Neville are still waiting for the rampaging Christian right to start killing the Jews, just as we're still looking for the anti-Asian bloodshed that was certain to follow the 2001 film Pearl Harbor,...or the angry white male who was, we were repeatedly assured, behind the Washington Beltway sniper murders of 2002. (Actual killers: a pair of black Muslims.)
Frank Rich of the NY Times on the Rachel Maddow Show: I'm just old enough, I was a kid, I remember I woke up in 1963 to the horrible events in Dallas. Even as a kid, I happened to be growing up in Washington, D.C., it was palatable to me all this hate talk about Kennedy and this sort of crazy fear.... But there were a lot of threats. There was a lot of stuff going on that in tone resembles this.
Frank Rich writing in the NY Times:
In April the Department of Homeland Security issued a report, originally commissioned by the Bush administration, on the rising threat of violent right-wing extremism. It was ridiculed by conservatives, including the Republican chairman, Michael Steele, who called it “the height of insult.” Since then, a neo-Nazi who subscribed to the anti-Obama “birther” movement has murdered a guard at the Holocaust museum in Washington, and an anti-abortion zealot has gunned down a doctor in a church in Wichita, Kan.
This month the Southern Poverty Law Center, the same organization that warned of the alarming rise in extremist groups before the Oklahoma City bombing, issued its own report. A federal law enforcement agent told the center that he hadn’t seen growth this steep among such groups in 10 to 12 years. “All it’s lacking is a spark,” he said.
This uptick in the radical right predates the health care debate that is supposedly inspiring all the gun waving. Nor can this movement be attributed to a stepped-up attack by Democrats on this crowd’s holy Second Amendment. Since taking office, Obama has disappointed gun-control advocates by relegating his campaign pledge to reinstate the ban on assault weapons to the down-low.
No, the biggest contributor to this resurgence of radicalism remains panic in some precincts about a new era of cultural and demographic change. As the sociologist Daniel Bell put it, “What the right as a whole fears is the erosion of its own social position, the collapse of its power, the increasing incomprehensibility of a world — now overwhelmingly technical and complex — that has changed so drastically within a lifetime.”
Bell’s analysis appeared in his essay “The Dispossessed,” published in 1962, between John Kennedy’s election and assassination. J.F.K., no more a leftist than Obama, was the first Roman Catholic in the White House and the tribune of a new liberal order. Bell could have also written his diagnosis in 1992, between Bill Clinton’s election and the Oklahoma City bombing. Clinton, like Kennedy and Obama, brought liberals back into power after a conservative reign and represented a generational turnover that stoked the fears of the dispossessed.
Ol’ Frank managed to hit the trifecta of liberal fear mongering in trying to explain the town hall protests, the rise of the birther militias, racism and potential violence and the Kennedy assassination’s ‘culture of hate.’ He was probably waiting a long time to work JFK into the healthcare debate. Amazingly, as successful and effective as the Clinton Administration supposedly was why were there dispossessed people afterwards? It must have been welfare reform that created all of those newly-minted dispossessed.
Contessa Brewer MSNBC: "A man at a pro-health care reform rally just outside, wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip.... The Associated Press reports about a dozen people in all at that event were visible carrying firearms.... There are questions about whether this has racial overtones. I mean, here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists.
Pathetic. At least Schultz admitted that Obama is a socialist and that the people pushing ObamaCare are Marxists. Every once in a while the mask slips And the guy who brought the rifle to the town hall turned out to be white.
Rise of the Mythical Militia Groups
We have the "non-partisan" Southern Poverty Law Center seeing right wing militias everywhere. They released an extra special report detailing a redoux of the 1990's:
The Second Wave
Return of the Militias
A Special Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center
Montgomery, Alabama
August 2009
by Mark Potok
http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=392
It's reminiscent of what was seen in the 1990s — right-wing militias, people ideologically against paying taxes and so-called "sovereign citizens" are popping up in large numbers, according to the report to be released Wednesday. The SPLC is a nonprofit civil rights group that, among other activities, investigates hate groups.
Last October, someone from the Ohio Militia posted a recruiting video on YouTube, billed as a "wake-up call" for America. It's been viewed more than 60,000 times.
The 1990s saw the rise and fall of the virulently antigovernment "Patriot" movement, made up of paramilitary militias, tax defiers and so-called "sovereign citizens." Sparked by a combination of anger at the federal government and the deaths of political dissenters at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas, the movement took off in the middle of the decade and continued to grow even after 168 people were left dead by the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City's federal building — an attack, the deadliest ever by domestic U.S. terrorists, carried out by men steeped in the rhetoric and conspiracy theories of the militias. In the years that followed, a truly remarkable number of criminal plots came out of the movement. But by early this century, the Patriots had largely faded, weakened by systematic prosecutions, aversion to growing violence, and a new, highly conservative president.
They're back. Almost a decade after largely disappearing from public view, right-wing militias, ideologically driven tax defiers and sovereign citizens are appearing in large numbers around the country. "Paper terrorism" — the use of property liens and citizens' "courts" to harass enemies — is on the rise. And once-popular militia conspiracy theories are making the rounds again, this time accompanied by nativist theories about secret Mexican plans to "reconquer" the American Southwest. One law enforcement agency has found 50 new militia training groups — one of them made up of present and former police officers and soldiers. Authorities around the country are reporting a worrying uptick in Patriot activities and propaganda. "This is the most significant growth we've seen in 10 to 12 years," says one. "All it's lacking is a spark. I think it's only a matter of time before you see threats and violence."
A key difference this time is that the federal government — the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy — is headed by a black man. That, coupled with high levels of non-white immigration and a decline in the percentage of whites overall in America, has helped to racialize the Patriot movement, which in the past was not primarily motivated by race hate. One result has been a remarkable rash of domestic terror incidents since the presidential campaign, most of them related to anger over the election of Barack Obama. At the same time, ostensibly mainstream politicians and media pundits have helped to spread Patriot and related propaganda, from conspiracy theories about a secret network of U.S. concentration camps to wholly unsubstantiated claims about the president's country of birth.
Fifteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote then-Attorney General Janet Reno to warn about extremists in the militia movement, saying that the "mixture of armed groups and those who hate" was "a recipe for disaster." Just six months later, Oklahoma City's federal building was bombed. Today, the Patriot movement may not have the white-hot fury that it did in the 1990s. But the movement clearly is growing again, and Americans, in particular law enforcement officers, need to take the dangers it presents seriously. That is equally true for the politicians, pundits and preachers who, through pandering or ignorance, abet the growth of a movement marked by a proven predilection for violence.
In April of 2009 the Dept. of Homeland Security issued a report that targeted conservatives as potential extemists.
The report is a sweeping indictment of conservatives. The report pinpointed the recent "economic downturn" and the "general state of the economy" for stoking "rightwing extremism." It asserts with no evidence that an unquantified "resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalizations activity" is due to home foreclosures, job losses, and…the historical presidential election.
Excerpted from the report:
From the report, p.2:
Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
From the report. p. 3:
(U//LES) Rightwing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment tool. Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment. From the 2008 election timeframe to the present, rightwing extremists have capitalized on related racial and political prejudices in expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential sympathizers.
(U) Exploiting Economic Downturn
(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet continues to focus on the economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors, and home foreclosures. Anti-Semitic extremists attribute these losses to a deliberate conspiracy conducted by a cabal of Jewish "financial elites." These "accusatory" tactics are employed to draw new recruits into rightwing extremist groups and further radicalize those already subscribing to extremist beliefs. DHS/I&A assesses this trend is likely to accelerate if the economy is perceived to worsen.
From the report, p. 5:
(U//FOUO) Over the past five years, various rightwing extremists, including militias and white supremacists, have adopted the immigration issue as a call to action, rallying point, and recruiting tool. Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent.
And echoing the anti-military bigotry last seen in that disgusting Penn State University training video, there's this on p. 7:
(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists-including lone wolves or small terrorist cells-to carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
From the report, p. 8:
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A will be working with its state and local partners over the next several months to ascertain with greater regional specificity the rise in rightwing extremist activity in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the political, economic, and social factors that drive rightwing extremist radicalization.
Coming on the heels of the now disavowed April 2007 Homeland Security report it became obvious that conservatives were going to be blamed if any acts of violence occurred.
Conservatives are being set up as the fall guys . With the increase of funding for Americorps any emergency (swine flu, riots, domestic terrorism, an attempt on the President's life) can now be used as an excuse for mobilizing Obama’s national security Americorps force as an excuse to suspend liberties.
