Urgent! Please Read This Document!

[Munchkin Man]

To His Fellow Americans:

The Munchkin Man posts before you this evening with a heavy heart.

The situation is getting serious.

Extremely serious.

In November of 2002, President George W. Bush established The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with the purpose of providing American citizens with extra protection against terrorist attacks.

This organization did an outstanding job.

There were no further terrorist attacks against America during the remainder of President George W. Bush's tenure in office.

Unfortunately, President Barack Obama has now perverted the original mission of the Department of Homeland Security.

Under the leadership of Janet "Big Sister" Napolitano, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now being used to target patriotic American citizens who believe in preserving traditional moral values and America's national sovereigniy.

In a newly released DHS report, this organization has referred to these patriotic Americans as "Rightwing extremists."

That's right.

Instead of focusing upon potential Al Queda terrorist suspects and Islamofascist terrorist cells here in the United States, as well as domestic terrorists such as Doc Mercer, the DHS is now tageting real patriotic Americans who believe in right and wrong.

Do you think the Munchkin Man is joking?

Think again.

The Munchkin Man can supply the proof.

The Munchkin Man is now able to refer you to the actual document itself.

It bears the official seal of the Department of Homeland Security.

The title of this document reads as follows:

"Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic And Political Climate Fueling Resurgence In Radicalization And Recruitment"

When the Munchkin Man read this document, the Munchkin Man felt like the Munchkin Man was now living in a communist dictatorship.

The Munchkin Man now invites you to read this document.

It is only 10 pages long.

WARNING!

it may give you nightmares.

The Munchkin Man does not know how to provide a direct link to this document.

Therefore, please follow the Munchkin Man's instructions:

***Go to the following web site:

http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/

Don't let Michael Savage's name stop you.

This is too important.

Just be thankful that he was able to get a copy of this document.

***Then look for the words on the front page of his site:

"Read DHS report"

This is a direct link to this document.

CLICK ON IT!

READ IT!

THEN READ IT AGAIN!

AND AGAIN!

AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

DO IT NOW BEFORE THE BARACK OBAMA GESTAPO SHUT IT DOWN!

THEN GET GOOD AND MAD!

JOIN THE RESISTANCE!

For now is the time for all good men and women to band together and take back their country.

MAY GOD SAVE AMERICA!

Munchkin Man

 

[Mr. Sanderson]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO

awesome.. i love how the munchkin man takes such a serious tone.. im sure he is in front of his monitor crunching on cheetos or something while typing this "ALERT!!!" :LMAO:LMAO

thanks, fella. :+waving-5

 

[4625]

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Whenever you handclap for the destruction of someone else's Constitutional rights, you are handclapping for the eventual destruction of your own. Where were you in 2002 when the buffoon and Darth Cheney were treating the Constitution like toilet paper???????? It's all fun and games when they're only persecuting people with dark skin and funny names, but not so much when the beast turns on good white folk, is it?. . .You reap what you sow; welcome to political education 101. . . .

 

[4625]

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It looks like I gave the shorthand version above for what Greenwald copied from me in longer form here. . .
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[/FONT] <hr color="#cccccc" size="1"> [FONT=georgia, times new roman, times, serif] The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Conservatives suddenly embrace Terrorist Rights now that they are no longer in power. [/FONT] Glenn Greenwald
[FONT=times new roman, times, serif]Apr. 14, 2009 |
(updated below - Update II)

Right-wing polemicists today are shrieking in self-pitying protest over a new report from the Department of Homeland Security sent to local police forces which warns of growing "right-wing extremist activity." The report (.pdf) identifies attributes of these right-wing extremists, warning that a growing domestic threat of violence and terrorism "may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration" and "groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority."

Conservatives have responded to this disclosure as though they're on the train to FEMA camps. The Right's leading political philosopher and intellectual historian, Jonah Goldberg, invokes fellow right-wing giant Ronald Reagan and says: "Here we go Again," protesting that "this seems so nakedly ideological." Michelle Malkin, who spent the last eight years cheering on every domestic surveillance and police state program she could find, announces that it's "Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real!" Lead-War-on-Terror-cheerleader Glenn Reynolds warns that DHS -- as a result of this report (but not, apparently, anything that happened over the last eight years) -- now considers the Constitution to be a "subversive manifesto." Super Tough Guy Civilization-Warrior Mark Steyn has already concocted an elaborate, detailed martyr fantasy in which his house is surrounded by Obama-dispatched, bomb-wielding federal agents. Malkin's Hot Air stomps its feet about all "the smears listed in the new DHS warning about 'right-wing extremism.'"

It's certainly true that federal police efforts directed at domestic political movements -- even ones with a history of inspiring violence in both the distant and recent past -- require real vigilance and oversight, and it's also true that the DHS description of these groups seems excessively broad with the potential for mischief. But the political faction screeching about the dangers of the DHS is the same one that spent the last eight years vastly expanding the domestic Surveillance State and federal police powers in every area. DHS -- and the still-creepy phrase "homeland security" -- became George Bush's calling card. The Republicans won the 2002 election by demonizing those who opposed its creation. All of the enabling legislation underlying this Surveillance State -- from the Patriot Act to the Military Commissions Act, from the various FISA "reforms" to massive increases in domestic "counter-Terrorism" programs -- are the spawns of the very right-wing movement that today is petrified that this is all being directed at them.

When you cheer on a Surveillance State, you have no grounds to complain when it turns its eyes on you. If you create a massive and wildly empowered domestic surveillance apparatus, it's going to monitor and investigate domestic political activity. That's its nature. I'd love to know how many of the participants in today's right-wing self-victim orgy uttered a peep of protest about any of this, from 2005:

F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 - Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show.
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, John Ashcroft, who was then attorney general, loosened restrictions on the F.B.I.'s investigative powers, giving the bureau greater ability to visit and monitor Web sites, mosques and other public entities in developing terrorism leads. The bureau has used that authority to investigate not only groups with suspected ties to foreign terrorists, but also protest groups suspected of having links to violent or disruptive activities.
But the documents, coming after the Bush administration's confirmation that President Bush had authorized some spying without warrants in fighting terrorism, prompted charges from civil rights advocates that the government had improperly blurred the line between terrorism and acts of civil disobedience and lawful protest.
One F.B.I. document indicates that agents in Indianapolis planned to conduct surveillance as part of a "Vegan Community Project." Another document talks of the Catholic Workers group's "semi-communistic ideology." A third indicates the bureau's interest in determining the location of a protest over llama fur planned by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
The documents, provided to The New York Times over the past week, came as part of a series of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. For more than a year, the A.C.L.U. has been seeking access to information in F.B.I. files on about 150 protest and social groups that it says may have been improperly monitored.
The F.B.I. had previously turned over a small number of documents on antiwar groups, showing the agency's interest in investigating possible anarchist or violent links in connection with antiwar protests and demonstrations in advance of the 2004 political conventions. And earlier this month, the A.C.L.U.'s Colorado chapter released similar documents involving, among other things, people protesting logging practices at a lumber industry gathering in 2002.
The latest batch of documents, parts of which the A.C.L.U. plans to release publicly on Tuesday, totals more than 2,300 pages and centers on references in internal files to a handful of groups, including PETA, the environmental group Greenpeace and the Catholic Workers group, which promotes antipoverty efforts and social causes.
"It's clear that this administration has engaged every possible agency, from the Pentagon to N.S.A. to the F.B.I., to engage in spying on Americans," said Ann Beeson, associate legal director for the A.C.L.U.
"You look at these documents," Ms. Beeson said, "and you think, wow, we have really returned to the days of J. Edgar Hoover, when you see in F.B.I. files that they're talking about a group like the Catholic Workers league as having a communist ideology."
​

I was in Minneapolis and St. Paul during the 2008 GOP Convention and witnessed first-hand massive federal police raids and "preventive" arrests of peaceful, law-abiding protesters and even the violent arrests of journalists, and I don't recall any complaints from Jonah Goldberg or Michelle Malkin. I don't recall Glenn Reynolds or Mark Steyn complaining that the FBI, for virtually the entire Bush administration, was systematically abusing its new National Security Letters authorities under the Patriot Act to collect extremely invasive information, in secret, about Americans who had done nothing wrong. Russ Feingold's efforts to place limits and abuse-preventing safeguards on these Patriot Act powers in 2006 attracted a grand total of 10 votes in the Senate -- none Republican.

Indeed, thanks to the very people who are today petulantly complaining about politically-motivated federal police actions (now that they imagine it's directed at them rather than at people they dislike), the Federal Government today has the power to eavesdrop on telephone calls and read the emails of American citizens without warrants; monitor bank records without court approval; obtain all sorts of invasive personal records, medical and financial, without Subpoenas; and obtain and store a whole host of other personal information about American citizens who have not been accused, let alone convicted, of having done anything wrong. Also thanks to them (and things like the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, the Patriot Act, the FISA Amendments Act, etc. etc), most of this is carried out without any real oversight or safeguards, left entirely to the judgment and good faith of federal officials to wield these powers carefully and for proper ends. And, better still, federal officials can hide behind sweeping claims of secrecy and National Security to prevent courts from scrutinizing what they did and determine if it was illegal (we call that "the state secrets privilege").

So what's the problem? As the National Review/Bush-following-Right has been telling us for years now, there's nothing to worry about if you've done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide. The first duty of the Government is to protect us all -- keep us safe and warm from all the scary things out there, like a Good Daddy does -- and if they need to trample on some lofty privacy ideals and so-called civil liberties concerns and supposed Constitutional safeguards, well: that's just how it is. It takes a real paranoid hysteric to think that federal government officials have nothing better to do than target domestic political opponents. And besides, what good is the Constitution if we're all dead at the hands of domestic McVeigh-like Terrorists? After all, the Constitution isn't a suicide pact. Remember all of that? I certainly do.

This is all as laughable as it is predictable. Just a couple months out of power and they have suddenly re-discovered their fear of the Federal Government and their belief in the need to limit its powers. As I wrote in February about the Glenn Beck Movement that is taking over the Limbaugh/National Review Right:

What was most remarkable about this allegedly "anti-government" movement was that -- with some isolated and principled exceptions -- it completely vanished upon the election of Republican George Bush, and it stayed invisible even as Bush presided over the most extreme and invasive expansion of federal government power in memory. Even as Bush seized and used all of the powers which that movement claimed in the 1990s to find so tyrannical and unconstitutional -- limitless, unchecked surveillance activities, detention powers with no oversight, expanding federal police powers, secret prison camps, even massively exploding and debt-financed domestic spending -- they meekly submitted to all of it, even enthusiastically cheered it all on. . . .
But now, only four weeks into the presidency of Barack Obama, they are back -- angrier and more chest-beating than ever. Actually, the mere threat of an Obama presidency was enough to revitalize them from their eight-year slumber, awaken them from their camouflaged, well-armed suburban caves.
​

I can't wait until these limited-government, super-principled "conservatives" start putting these bumper stickers back on their cars:



For now, though, one can't help but note that these "conservatives" seem so very angry about a federal government program designed to do nothing other than protect the glorious Homeland from Terrorists. And we know that this is the purpose of the DHS program because that's what the Government said its purpose is. So what else is there to know? That's the lesson we all learned over the last eight years: Bush said that all of his secret surveillance programs were only directed at Al Qaeda, so how can anyone say otherwise?

Apparently, though, the Right has forgotten these important lessons about Trusting Our Political Leaders and instead is now embracing a newfound and quite disturbing devotion to Terrorist Rights. To borrow from Sarah Palin, they are apparently more worried about whether the Timothy McVeighs and Eric Rudolphs of the world can plan their next violent attack without interference from the DHS than they are in having the Government keep us all Safe. What kind of twisted, warped, subversive political movement prioritizes Terrorist Rights over the Safety of Americans like this?



UPDATE: In comments, e_five perfectly summarizes the Bush-following Right (as distinct from the small faction of Ron-Paul/Bruce-Fein/Bob-Barr conservatives who stayed true to their limited-government principles during the Bush era): "When they have a club in their hands, no one is more sadistic. When the club is removed, no one is more whiney." Precisely.

And Brendan Calling has some very related thoughts on this right-wing scandal du jour that are worth reading.



UPDATE II: The Right's self-victimizing outbursts are always as fact-free as they are self-pitying. Just marvel at this (h/t sysprog):

Jonah Goldberg, today:

Yes, DHS has done reports on anti-war, environmental, and other groups. But my understanding is that they didn't ? and wouldn't ? use the all-purpose term "left-wing" to describe those threats. . . . If the Bush administration had issued a sweeping indictment of "left-wing" groups in America, arguing that they needed to be monitored, something tells me we'd be hearing a lot about it.
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From the very same Washington Times article he linked to that started the whole scandal:

In January, the same DHS office released a report titled "Leftwing extremists likely to increase use of cyber attacks over the coming decade."
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That was in the precise article that he linked to. Also, the Bush Department of Energy published an April, 2001 document entitled "Left-Wing Extremism: The Current Threat." The woe-is-us whining (this would never happen to the Left -- only us!) is just revolting.

Meanwhile, Drudge -- who never bothered objecting in the slightest to the extreme surveillance abuses under Bush -- adds fuel to the fire with big screaming headlines featuring scary pictures of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, playing the role of Janet Reno, with this warning: "She is watching you." But Drudge doesn't mention that preparation of the report began more than a year ago -- when Bush was still in office -- and that similar reports have been issued about, and actual surveillance programs directed to, so-called "Leftwing extremists." As I said, they're as fact-free as they are unprincipled, hypocritical and self-pitying.
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[Mr. Sanderson]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

Munchy cracks me up with his phony over-the-top distress messages. :LMAO

 

[Doc Mercer]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

Munchkin is getting nervous ...

Dont worry .... ya can visit Beck on weekends

 

[Doc Mercer]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

I bet Munchkin is burning all back issues of the Limbaugh Chronicles as we
speak ....

You watch how he changes his tune in this forum and stars slamming
Glenn Beck as a "disgrace to what I stand for with other real Americans
like Doc Mercer ..."

Munchkie: Too late ... the Feds know about your love and admiration for
Glenn Beck so start watching reruns of the Shawshank Redemption

 

[diggin'4gold]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

4625 nails it! The sheep think everything is just dandy as long as their personal rights don't become infringed.

<dl><dd>"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn?t speak up because I wasn?t a Communist;</dd></dl> <dl><dd>And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn?t speak up because I wasn?t a trade unionist;</dd></dl> <dl><dd>And then they came for the Jews, And I didn?t speak up because I wasn?t a Jew;</dd></dl> <dl><dd>And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."</dd></dl>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

 

[4625]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

I bet Munchkin is burning all back issues of the Limbaugh Chronicles as we
speak ....

You watch how he changes his tune in this forum and stars slamming
Glenn Beck as a "disgrace to what I stand for with other real Americans
like Doc Mercer ..."

Munchkie: Too late ... the Feds know about your love and admiration for
Glenn Beck so start watching reruns of the Shawshank Redemption

You're in competition form, tonight, Doc!!
:LMAO:+excited-:cheers

 

[Doc Mercer]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

When the Munchkin Man read this document, the Munchkin Man felt like the Munchkin Man was now living in a communist dictatorship.


MUNCHKIE: ya need to coordinate with your boys

Brucefan calls BO a Marxist
Joey C calls him a Socialist
You are calling him a Communist


How does this work ?

Days that start w S: BO is a Marxist

Days that start w M, T & W: Bo is a Communist

Day that start with F : BO is a Socialist

 

[4625]

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Oh, before I forget; don't worry about those pom-poms you were waving around when our government was torturing. . .they wouldn't do that to good white folk Americans. . .Would they?

 

[Munchkin Man]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

MUNCHKIE: ya need to coordinate with your boys

Brucefan calls BO a Marxist
Joey C calls him a Socialist
You are calling him a Communist


How does this work ?

Days that start w S: BO is a Marxist

Days that start w M, T & W: Bo is a Communist

Day that start with F : BO is a Socialist

Michael Savage calls him a Neo-Marxist, a Socialist, AND a Communist.

Munchkin Man

 

[Munchkin Man]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

Munchy cracks me up with his phony over-the-top distress messages. :LMAO

If you read that document like the Munchkin Man told you to, then you just might stop laughing and get serious.

Munchkin Man

 

[Munchkin Man]

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Oh, before I forget; don't worry about those pom-poms you were waving around when our government was torturing. . .they wouldn't do that to good white folk Americans. . .Would they?

The Munchkin Man does not believe in the discriminatory administration or denial of torture for deserving individuals on the basis of ethnic or national origin, race, color, religion, sex, or disability.

Munchkin Man

 

[Munchkin Man]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

I bet Munchkin is burning all back issues of the Limbaugh Chronicles as we
speak ....

You watch how he changes his tune in this forum and stars slamming
Glenn Beck as a "disgrace to what I stand for with other real Americans
like Doc Mercer ..."

Nope.

The Munchkin Man's moral and political beliefs do not change with the wind, even when it is aimed at the Munchkin Man.

Munchkie: Too late ... the Feds know about your love and admiration for
Glenn Beck so start watching reruns of the Shawshank Redemption

The Munchkin Man is preparing his psyche in the event that the Munchkin Man spends his last days in an Obama concentration camp.

If this is what comes to pass, then so be it.

The Munchkin Man's only regret will that the Munchkin Man will only have one life to live on behalf of his efforts to help put an end to the fascist dictatorship that Barack Obama is trying to bring to America and to help return America to the good hands of the good patriotic citizens who form the moral backbone of this nation.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Munchkin Man

 

[driver8]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

So now Obama is a Communist, trying to bring about a fascist dictatorship?

That does not make any sense.

 

[Doc Mercer]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

Munchkin:

After your 3rd bong hit ... is that when ya hear Reagan speaking to ya
from the ceiling?

 

[Munchkin Man]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

So now Obama is a Communist, trying to bring about a fascist dictatorship?

That does not make any sense.

It makes perfect sense!

Munchkin Man

 

[Doc Mercer]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

Munchkin does not speak unless his words are approved by the GOP Talking
Spermless Whale that Sea World calls "Rush"

 

[driver8]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

It makes perfect sense!

Munchkin Man

No, it really doesn't.

It's like saying Obama is an extreme liberal and is pushing an ultra conservative agenda. Fascism and Communism are at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

 

[Munchkin Man]

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No, it really doesn't.

It's like saying Obama is an extreme liberal and is pushing an ultra conservative agenda. Fascism and Communism are at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

Greetings Driver8:

The very common fallacy you have expressed above has been refuted in the writings of Ayn Rand.

The Munchkin Man refers you to the following article:

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/fascism_and_communism-socialism.html

The following are a couple of excerpts:
_____

"For many decades, the leftists have been propagating the false dichotomy that the choice confronting the world is only: communism or fascism?a dictatorship of the left or of an alleged right?with the possibility of a free society, of capitalism, dismissed and obliterated, as if it had never existed."
_____

"It is obvious what the fraudulent issue of fascism versus communism accomplishes: it sets up, as opposites, two variants of the same political system; it eliminates the possibility of considering capitalism;"
_____

Fascism and communism can coexist to further a common agenda to destroy capitalism -- and that is what the Munchkin Man perceives that Barack Obama is trying to do.

It is not an issue of fascism vs. communism.

It is not an issue of fascism or communism.

It is an issue of fascism and communism.

Fascism and communism are like Coke and Pepsi.

If you still think it is an "either-or" issue, then pick your poison.

Here is one more excerpt:
_____

"Mussolini came to power by claiming that that was the only choice confronting Italy. Hitler came to power by claiming that that was the only choice confronting Germany. It is a matter of record that in the German election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis?with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy: capitalism and its parliamentary form of government."
_____

Do you really want to see the United States head further into a similar direction?

Either pick your poison -- fascsim or communism -- if you still adhere to the fallacy of the dichotomy.

Otherwise, please wise up and come to the correct realization that both are variants of the same evil and fight both of them as one.

This means fighting for capitalism and the American way.

This means fighting against socialsim, communism, fascism, Marxism, all of which are variants of the same evil, and all of which are antithetical to capitalism and the American way.

Best Wishes,

Munchkin Man

 

[Road Dawg]

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You REAP what you SOW.

 

[Doc Mercer]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

socialsim, communism, fascism, Marxism,

Hmmmm ....


RONALD REAGAN - SOCIALIST

BUSH 43 - FASCIST

BUSH 41 - MARXIST


Problem with those 3 is they are not as talented as BO as he is ALL 3 and a Communist also !!!

 

[driver8]

Re: Urgent! Please Read This Document!

socialsim, communism, fascism, Marxism,

Hmmmm ....


RONALD REAGAN - SOCIALIST

BUSH 43 - FASCIST

BUSH 41 - MARXIST


Problem with those 3 is they are not as talented as BO as he is ALL 3 and a Communist also !!!

Might as well throw in terrorist, rascist and sexist while you're at it.

 

[Doc Mercer]

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Good pt ...

Bad Bowler as well

Likes to make fun of Special Olympians

Doesn't get it that being divorced 2 or 3 times like Limbaugh and Gingrich is
a sign of being Macho

 

[Road Dawg]

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Giving credit to Jon Stewart... as he stated...

"Losing is SUPPOSED to taste like a SHIT taco!" Deal with it neo-cons!