{"id":23829,"date":"2011-06-09T18:34:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T22:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23829"},"modified":"2011-06-09T18:46:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T22:46:45","slug":"splc-backon-the-right-wing-terrorist-kick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23829","title":{"rendered":"SPLC back on the right-wing terrorist kick"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> is getting back in the Homeland Security Department’s face again about how right wing terrorists are a bigger threat<\/a> than anyone else;<\/p>\n

The Southern Poverty Law Center this week urged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reassess the resources it devotes to investigating non-Islamic domestic extremism. The request came as the SPLC published an interview with a former top DHS analyst who charged that the department effectively dismantled the unit he once headed following the political right\u2019s unjustified criticism of a 2009 report on right-wing terrorism.<\/p>\n

“The department\u2019s work should never be compromised by misguided criticism from any quarter,” SPLC President Richard Cohen wrote in a letter sent this week to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you mean like criticism from the Southern Poverty Law Center? The same people who called the American Legion a right-wing hate group?<\/p>\n

Daryl Johnson, who headed the DHS unit responsible for analyzing security threats from non-Islamic domestic extremists, was the principal author of the April 7, 2009, report “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.”<\/p>\n

The report was intended only for distribution to law enforcement agencies. But after it was leaked to the media, a firestorm erupted among conservative commentators who wrongly claimed it equated conservatives with terrorists. Within days, Napolitano had disowned it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, so we weren’t supposed to know about it? Is that the whole problem? Maybe the whole problem was that the report was based almost exclusively on SPLC’s biased research. SPLC…the same people who toss the New Black Panther Party in the mix when they’re adding up the number of new right-wing hate groups.<\/p>\n

Johnson, who was interviewed for the upcoming summer issue of the SPLC\u2019s Intelligence Report, said that following the controversy, the DHS dismantled the intelligence team that studied the threat from right-wing extremists and that the department no longer produces its own analytical reports on that subject. When the 2009 report was written, there were six analysts in the unit, including Johnson. Today, he said, there is one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It took six people to cut and paste the SPLC’s report into the headers for the DHS? Then I guess we’re lucky that there’s only one guy now – we saved some money. Looks like Johnson is still cozy with the SPLC;<\/p>\n

“DHS stopped all of our work and instituted restrictive policies,” said Johnson, who has since left the department. “Eventually, they ended up gutting my unit. All of this happened within six to nine months after the furor over the report. Since our report was leaked, DHS has not released a single report of its own on this topic. Not anything dealing with non-Islamic domestic extremism \u2013 whether it\u2019s anti-abortion extremists, white supremacists, ‘sovereign citizens,’ eco-terrorists, the whole gamut.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eco-terrorists? Who is he kidding? DHS doesn’t give a furry rat’s ass about ELF or ALF or ATM or whatever they call themselves. And if I’m not mistaken all of the terrorists who’ve been rolled up lately don’t belong to any of those groups. And the fricken Hutarees don’t count. (whatever happened to those guys anyway?<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“What worries me is the fact that our country is under attack from within, from our own radical citizenry,” Johnson said in the SPLC interview. “My greatest fear is that domestic extremists in this country will somehow become emboldened to the point of carrying out a mass-casualty attack, because they perceive that no one is being vigilant about the threat from within. That is what keeps me up at night.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What worries me is that the Homeland Security wienies will take their eyes off the real threat to mollify the left wing pseudo-intellectual nutballs at SPLC.<\/p>\n

head spaz, mark potok gets the laugh line;<\/p>\n

Mark Potok, director of the SPLC\u2019s Intelligence Project, said Johnson\u2019s 2009 report was wrongly maligned and falsely characterized by conservative pundits.<\/p>\n

“The fact is, the DHS report accurately predicted the sort of radical-right terrorism that we\u2019re now seeing across the country,” Potok said. “It\u2019s troubling that the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security would bow to unfounded criticism from the political right.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s really troubling that the Department of Homeland Security bowed to the SPLC’s unfounded research in the first place.<\/p>\n

Thanks to TSO for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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