Sounds like more of that ZOG stuff to me
Mar 15, 2009 Americana, Oppression
Tim Neal of Miller County was shocked recently when he heard a radio program about a strategic report compiled by state and federal law enforcement agencies to combat terrorism.
Titled “The Modern Militia Movement,” the report is dated Feb. 20 and designed to help police identify militia members or domestic terrorists. Red flags outlined in the document include political bumper stickers such as those for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, talk of conspiracy theories such as the plan for a mega-highway from Canada to Mexico and possession of subversive literature. . . .
“If a police officer is pulling me over with my family in the car and he sees a bumper sticker on my vehicle that has been specifically identified as one that an extremist would have in their vehicle, the guy is probably going to be pretty apprehensive and not thinking in a rational manner,” Neal said. “And this guy’s walking up to my vehicle with a gun.”
Oh, I get it. Generalizing about people with Ron Paul stickers — people who are obviously completely comfortable with the borderline-Nazi views of that creep – that’s enough to garner the sympathy of Instapundit, who is nothing if not a bumper-sticker-rights absolutist! But generalizing about frothing, fascist, jack-booted, itchy-trigger-finger police thugs? No problem.
“I was going down the list and thinking, ‘Check, that’s me,’ ” he said. “I’m a Ron Paul supporter, check. I talk about the North American union, check. I’ve got the ‘America: Freedom to Fascism’ video loaned out to somebody right now. So that means I’m a domestic terrorist? Because I’ve got a video about the Federal Reserve?”
No, you’re not a domestic terrorist. Necessarily. You’re just a loon who does a lot of things that domestic terrorists also do. More:
Roger Webb, president of the University of Missouri campus Libertarians, also took offense. “It’s absolutely obscene,” he said of the report. “It seems like they want to stifle political thought.”
Oh, that’s those intellectual, rational libertarians. No wonder this is their “moment.” Identification of correlations between dangerous wingnuts and certain … obsessions … by law enforcement: “Absolutely obscene.” And clearly stifling, well, not just political thought. Stifling thought. This is our new libertarian vanguard, the “rationalists,” the “objectivists.” Give me a break.
These guys are every bit as bad as the left-wing crybabies who run to the courts every time one of the Men in Black starts taking license-plate numbers at a “die in for Palestine” demonstration. The big, bad FBI is virtually incapable of running its own agency, much less preventing much terrorism, but secretly it’s in control of the whole world because they’re letting everyone in on the open secret that you can’t tell the local tepid “Tea Party” from another weekend outing on the green by Faculty Families for Fairness without looking for the “Don’t Tread on Me” banner.
I’ve been observing a serious right-wing crackup, and I’ve never felt more sure that it’s upon us right now. So by all means keep those Ron Paul bumper stickers on your cars, okay? Because I absolutely want to know when you get near my neighborhood.
UPDATE: Here‘s a sober perspective.
March 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
The people who want to run their own police state see real-life police as having the same objectives. Talk about projection!
March 22nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Libertarians are okay as long as you beat them with a cluebat a couple times every week. I’ve tried being friendly and reasonable with them, but they took it as weakness and a chance to call me a ‘statist’. I’m a Conservative. Get it right, fanatic zealots. If you’re talking low taxes, I’m with you. If you’re talking about the sixty times larger and more energetic than you Socons need to be kicked out, or how Israel is the chief source of our ills, then let me remind you…This is a Conservative Party. Leave your loony opinions at home.
March 22nd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
So citizens who believe in the Founding Father’s view of the role of government (severely limited), and feel that perhaps the time is rapidly coming (as the Founding Father’s eventually concluded)where patriots will have to rise up in rebellion in order to return our government to Constitutional levels are “loons that do things a lot of domestic terrorist do.”? You obviously have a problem parsing a domestic terrorist who targets people for terror’s sake from citizens who see rebellion as rapidly becoming the only way to ensure their rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Countries like Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela are full of useful idiots like yourself who are more than willing to abandon your freedoms to an overbearing dictatorial government.
March 22nd, 2009 at 7:43 pm
You should be such an idiot like me, Glocker.
I also believe in the Founding Father’s view of the role of government, but I recognize we live in the year 2009, not 1775, and it’s a far more complex and dangerous world than it once was. We can disagree on that, though.
But if you mean what you say — “that perhaps the time is rapidly coming (as the Founding Father’s [sic] eventually concluded) where patriots will have to rise up in rebellion in order to return our government to Constitutional levels” — on the one hand, I do not lack all sympathy. It does seem as if wiping the slate clean is the only way to ever get back to the kind of freedom to which we ascribe.
But the idea of actually advocating, much less planning, the kind of instability, bloodshed, resentment, vengeance, anarchy, such a rebellion would engender in modern times, in a society that is no longer agrarian and in a land largely undeveloped, but in a complex, technological, globally integrated and socially, ethnically and religiously diverse modern superpower does not occur to me. And failing to contemplate how such a state of affairs would appeal to those who loathe our country almost as much as you do, and who would not hesitate even a minute to take advantage of the situation and impose on us one or more regimes of unfreedom beyond your wildest nightmare of black-helicopter oppression — that, Glocker1, is the exclusive territory of a loon.