Did you hear? The charming and lovable Department of Homeland Security now classifies anyone who is “reverent of individual liberty” as being “extreme right-wing terrorists.”
Not mild. Not moderate. Extreme right-wing terrorist. That's us -- storing beans and rice, raising livestock, and canning peas. Pretty extreme.
According to this article, you're classified as an "extreme" right-wing terrorist if you're "suspicious of centralized federal authority" or "reverent of individual liberty."
Reverent. Y'know, I never thought of it in those terms, but reverent fits my attitude pretty well.
"The study says right-wing extremists are 'groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent," notes the article.
You mean like raw milk farmers who are attacked by SWAT teams and jailed for selling willing customers fresh wholesome milk? Is that the 'way of life' the DHS claims isn't under attack?
Right-wing extremism also involves a belief in “conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty,” the study claims.
It's not a conspiracy if it's out in the open. Our federal government has never hidden its desire to subjugate states under a federal umbrella and stomp on our individual rights to bear arms, drink raw milk, educate our own children, and otherwise be reverent of individual liberty.
"The FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism program recently classified things such as the bulk purchase of food and paying with cash at a coffee shop as indicators for potential terrorist activity... It appears that anyone could be considered a terrorist these days, depending on who controls the interpretation of the information."
Honestly, this is getting tiresome. By these definitions, Charles Ingalls (Laura Ingalls Wilder's pa) would be a terrorist. So would Ma. So would Laura, for that matter. Sheesh folks, get a grip.
So who's the "domestic terrorist" here...?
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