Over the past few days, I’ve been feeling more and more fearful about the direction that our country is headed. The thing that really set me off is the recent report released by the Department of Homeland Security which basically labels anybody who disagrees with what the politicians are doing right now or hope to do in the not too distant future as a right-wing extremist that should be placed on a terrorist watch list. This may sound odd but I thought that it was OK to disagree with politicians in America. Apparently it’s not.
As I was listening to Glenn Beck yesterday on my way home from work, he started talking about this report and his words struck me to the very core. He was saying everything that I was feeling! Below are a few excerpts from the transcript of his monologue. (You can read the whole thing here.) I could not have even come close to saying it better myself.
A footnote attached to the report of the Homeland Security office of intelligence analysts defines rightwing extremism in the United States as not just including racist hate groups but also ‑‑ see if you fit into this category ‑‑ any group that rejects federal authority in favor of state and local authority. Wow, it’s a good thing that our founding fathers got out of Philadelphia. Otherwise they’d be an enemy of the state. That’s what we were founded on! I guess that makes Rick Perry an extremist. Now the governor of Texas who came out and said, you know what, the states don’t answer to the government. The federal government has no right to jam things down our throat and try to go around the governor and to the legislature and force us to take money and programs, et cetera, et cetera that we don’t want. You are an extremist if you believe that federal authority should not be subservient to state or local authority. It may include groups or individuals that are dedicated to the single issue such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
So if you are against immigration or abortion, oh, they’re now watching you because you might be an extremist. Really? See, I think if I’m against abortion, that’s just a political point of view. If I’m loading up a gun and I’m going to shoot abortion doctors in the head, then yes, I should not only be watched. I should be jailed. But I think there’s a difference. Call me crazy. What do I know? I’m ‑‑ what did the New York ‑‑ what did the Los Angeles say, that everybody who goes to these tea parties is insane? Thank you. So what do I know? I’m not just stupid now. I’m insane. I think there’s a difference between being antiabortion and killing abortion doctors. Fine line, I know. I also think there’s a difference between being against immigration and being against illegal immigration, but even being against immigration doesn’t make you a killer or a threat to our country. It just makes you wrong.
He goes on to say:
“Congressional debates about immigration and gun control also make extremist groups suspicious, giving them the rallying cry. It is unclear if a bill will be passed into law, nonetheless a correlation may exist between the potential passage of gun control legislation and the increased hoarding of ammunition, weapons, stockpiling and paramilitary training activities among rightwing extremists.”
So wait a minute. If you’re stockpiling ammunition because it’s getting harder and harder to get, they are moving towards legislation, they have stated, both the vice president and the president and several members of the House and Senate have stated that they need to limit guns, and some of them have stated they want to get rid of guns altogether, that you are only one vote shy on the Supreme Court from losing the right to having a gun. And because you’re gathering ammunition or buying guns because you don’t think they’re going to be available in the future, that makes you an extremist. Wow. So if there was a coming food shortage, if I went to the store and put a lot of food in my house, I wouldn’t be wise? I would just be an extremist? I don’t even understand this.
He finished with these words:
Let me just see if I have this right. We’re the extremists. George W. Bush and Barack Obama spent or put us on the hook for $12.8 trillion. I think that’s wrong, but I’m the extremist. Cap and trade is going through now in Washington. There’s no plan. There’s no document that says who pays the taxes, where the money goes. I think if you’re going to do it, we should have the debate and there should be a plan, but that makes me the extremist.
States are looking now to apply retroactive taxes. Money that you’ve already earned, you’ve already paid taxes on, they’re going back in time with the flux capacitor to take more money, but I’m the extremist. They vilify the AIG executives with ‑‑ did you hear the report that came out yesterday or the day before? No laws were broken. No laws were broken. These people were working for a dollar. Their salary came in the form of a bonus. They weren’t the people that caused the problem. The president and congress, They vilified these people. We had two Attorney General’s go and take their names and say we’re going to release them to the media! They were afraid for their lives and the lives of their children because they went out and said we’ll expose you for what you are! And what they are is just people who did their job as they asked and lived up to the requirement of their contract. There were no laws broken. I’m against this mob rule and yet I’m the extremist?
He concluded the monologue by saying that the left-wing of this country has made it a practice to attack the messenger because they knew that they can’t attack the message. These attacks started with Rush Limbaugh and then moved on to all of conservative talk radio. This his report is a perfect example of how they are now attacking all of us who believe a certain way.
I’m a gun owner who has been buying ammunition when I can find it knowing that there are a lot of people in Washington who despise the second amendment. I believe that abortion is wrong. I believe that the rights of the states should take precedence over the rights of the State. I am for immigration but only legal immigration. Jumping a fence, if there even is one, in the middle of the desert does not qualify as legal immigration in my mind. Anyone who does that needs to be sent back to where they came from. I believe that the framers of the Constitution were inspired by God and that when they wrote that amazing document, they did so to protect our God given, not government given, freedoms. Apparently, these thoughts make me a right-wing extremist. I’m sure that I’m now on some government watch list even though I have never made threats against our government, or anyone for that matter. I guess I’ll find out the next time that I try to board an airplane and I come up on the ‘do not fly’ list.
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