Let The Purging Begin

The year was 1934. Stalin was growing increasingly paranoid about the opposition he was receiving from some of the Party members to some of his extreme policies of industrialization and collectivism. By the time Stalin purges were done in 1938, all Stalin’s opposition was dead, thousands of citizens had been executed or they were now residing in Siberia and the Red Army had been basically eradicated, especially the officer corps which had seen a 50% elimination.
How did this all start? Simple, the Party, namely Stalin, felt that any opposition to his policies and his design for the Soviet Union warranted the accusation of treason against the country. Even if a small portion of those affected was involved in some sort of conspiracy, the vast majority of the millions who perished during the purges, was just railroaded because they were vocal about their opposition to one man or just did not want to submit to his will.
The set up of kangaroo trials was all that it was needed for the government to conduct its business. Stalin was convinced, and he successfully convinced those who blindly followed him, that his vision for the Soviet Union was the best course of action at the time, so he employed his cronies to enact his plan.

Let’s now jump 65 years to today. Worrisome parallels appear on the horizon of American society. Organizations like OFA (Organization for America), ACORN, and the civil force Obama wants to have trained in similar fashion as the US Military remind us that our country is changing into a shadow of past social experiments that should be of great concern for the American people.
The scariest part of all this “organizing” that Obama is championing, and providing funding for on the shoulder of the American taxpayers, is that it is also advanced by governmental entities with, theoretically, the ability and the power to implement.
Think I am exaggerating? Well, check the news today. The Department of Homeland Security just published a report for law enforcement agencies called:
Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.
I have been trying to get my hands on the whole text but the jest of the document is to inform the law enforcement agencies across the country of the danger of a surge of right wing extremism.
Personally, any kind of extremism is to be rejected because it is an approach to national issues that is so narrow minded to naturally involve the abuse of some citizen’s rights. The disturbing part of this report is the qualifications necessary for DHS to label someone as a right wing extremist. For example (from the report):
Rightwing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment tool. Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use.
It is clearly dedicated to protect and defend the policies of the current President, making it a partisan statement, nothing to do with the security of the country.

It continues:

From the 2008 election timeframe to the present, rightwing extremists have capitalized on related racial and political prejudices in expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential sympathizers.

Again it centralizes the issue of dissent on Obama. It describes the opposition that many Americans have to the policies of Obama as a racial issue and a recruitment tool for people who want to switch their dissent from civilized, Constitutionally protected protest to the employment of violence. Basically, the scope is to flag authorities across the country to those who are vocal about their dissent, and identify them. The purpose is very troublesome, because a list of dissenting Americans could be eventually used for targeting on the part of a totalitarian regime.

The report also touches on the Obama goal of denigrating the Military:

DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.

As a growing multitude of Veterans is angry enough at the direction the Liberals are taking the country is planning to enter the political fray, this part is a pre-emptive strike against those Iraq and Afghanistan war Veterans that we all hope will be flooding the political candidate rosters in the elections to come. I can already see the headlines of any of the networks, any of the remaining newspapers, or any of your friendly Leftist nutcases attacking any of these candidates challenging their mental stability. It didn’t take long for the Commander of the American Legion to respond to Napolitano. David K. Rehbein sent a letter to the DHS secretary, pointing out that her report was incomplete and unfair and reminding her that terrorists are the enemies of America, not Veterans. I am very happy to see that this administration is being watched VERY carefully. God bless the American Legion!

And, I agree with Michelle Malkin when she says that this portion is probably the scariest:

DHS/I&A will be working with its state and local partners over the next several months to ascertain with greater regional specificity the rise in rightwing extremist activity in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the political, economic, and social factors that drive rightwing extremist radicalization.

Already in Missouri last month, a sheriff deputy stopped and interrogated a motorist that had an anti-abortion sticker on his car window. Upon looking into this matter, news media found that the Missouri law enforcement agencies had been instructed into a way to identify potential militia members, namely those who had stickers supporting Ron Paul, the NRA, Christian churches and anti-abortion. The situation in Missouri sparked a lot of controversy until the State rescinded the instructions to his LEOs, but it is my opinion that just the temporary implementation of such a discriminating application of authority and the silence of the ACLU on the matter is a telling story.

So is the DHS report the setting stage for the Obama purges to begin? I do not remember during the Bush Administration, after 9-11-01, any directive from any government agency that would direct the police forces to single out certain individuals for surveillance only because they had a sticker on their car denouncing or insulting W. Bush. Not only that was not the case, but no persecution took place of those who openly attacked, betrayed or undermined our Military in the middle of two conflicts. Does anyone remember the hoopla from the Left about the Patriot Act?
I also do not remember any DHS report on the associations of candidate Obama with convicted terrorists like Bill Ayers. And why is DHS not issuing a similar report addressing the Leftist nutcases like Code Pink (they already resulted to violence at the Marines recruiting office in Berkeley) or those environmental wacko who burn housing constructions down?
In my opinion DHS should almost be a non-partisan agency, dedicated to the safety and security of the country regarding of who occupies the WH or who is in power in Congress. But it appears that the place Obama and his administration wants to take America is the one where dissent will get a person singled out, identified and I let you imagine what else.
So the best that the Obama political biased crony Napolitano can do is to identify Conservatives as an enemy of the country, trying to intimidate those of us who will take the time on April 15th to take our dissatisfaction to the streets. According to this report from DHS, every person who will attend a Tea Party is a danger to the country, every person that believes life is precious is a danger, every person who believes in the US Constitution is a danger to the country.

Disarm America and the conversion is done.

Hey Obama, Stalin would be very proud of your accomplishments so far!


And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”