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TIMES SQUARE ATTACK RESPONSE:\u00a0 NONE DARE CALL IT THINKING<\/p>\n
On May 1, 2010, when news of the Times Square terrorist attack first broke, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, on national television, as to who might have done it, \u201cIf I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that, somebody who\u2019s homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn\u2019t like the health care bill or something . . . .\u201d\u00a0 Bloomberg was not alone.\u00a0 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano declared that there was no evidence that the attack was \u201canything other than a one-off,\u201d a British expression for \u201cone of a kind.\u201d\u00a0 At least the country was spared President Obama telling Americans that they should not \u201cjump to conclusions,\u201d as he did after the Fort Hood Massacre when the media reported that \u201cMajor Hasan . . . killed 13 and left 31 injured after he jumped on to a desk screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ – God is Great – and fired on defenseless colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Where did Mayor Bloomberg and Secretary Napolitano get the idea that the terrorist was a \u201clone wolf\u201d?\u00a0 Perhaps they were \u201choping\u201d like MSNBC reporter Contessa Brewer, \u201c[T]here was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country . . . .\u201d\u00a0 Or maybe it was this from The Nation [\u201cthe flagship of the left\u201d], where Robert Dreyfuss declared, \u201cIt seems far more likely to me [he] was either a lone nut job or a member of some squirrelly branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right.\u201d<\/p>\n
What makes Bloomberg, Napolitano, and Obama think\u2014if one can call it thinking or anything more than wishful thinking\u2014that Americans should fear terrorist attacks, not from those who embrace radical Islam, but from their countrymen with strong views on important issues of the day?\u00a0 The answer, perhaps, is an \u201cintelligence analysis report,\u201d released on April 7, 2009, by the DHS regarding \u201crightwing extremists\u201d and \u201crightwing terrorist groups\u201d in the United States, which Napolitano sent to sheriffs and police departments across the country with instructions that they report back to the DHS regarding any sightings.<\/p>\n
Entitled, Rightwing Extremism:\u00a0 Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, the report targeted unnamed individuals and groups because of their views on such issues as illegal immigration, centralizing power in Washington, D.C. rather than in state and local governments, restricting the right to keep and bear arms, abortion, and the loss of American sovereignty.\u00a0 The report asserted that people espousing these views are \u201crightwing extremists\u201d and are or could become members of \u201crightwing terrorist groups\u201d and that both pose a threat to national security.\u00a0 More shocking, the report singled out military veterans returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan due to their \u201ccombat skills and experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recently, in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demands for copies of the documents upon which the DHS relied in preparing its report, the DHS provided 411 pages of documents.\u00a0 As the basis for the claims made in the April 2009 report, these documents are laughable.\u00a0 In fact, one critic, after viewing them, called the report, \u201cfrighteningly kooky.\u201d\u00a0 Obviously, there is no basis, in those documents, for Bloomberg, Napolitano, and Obama to maintain that those who have strong political views regarding the actions of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are \u201crightwing extremists\u201d likely to engage in acts of domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n
There is a reason why Obama and his officials as well as Reid and Pelosi keep up the drum beat that those espousing strong views regarding the mischief afoot in Washington, D.C. are \u201cextremists.\u201d\u00a0 They seek to discredit and to silence their critics.\u00a0 It does not appear to be working; the American people believe that much is at stake, such as the future of the country.\u00a0 They remember Benjamin Franklin counseled that the Founding Fathers create, \u201cA Republic, if you can keep it.\u201d\u00a0 They intend to keep it.<\/p>\n
William Perry Pendley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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