Sunday, October 18, 2009

Right Wing "Threats" Actually Fevered Imagination

Yah, well, it was important, or something.

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) and the Missouri Highway Patrol for admitting it has retained no records of a controversial report entitled, “The Modern Militia Movement” that was issued by the federal fusion center in February.

In the “Militia Movement” advisory, police across Missouri were told to keep an eye out for Americans who were highly concerned about unemployment, taxes, illegal immigration, gangs, border security, abortion, high costs of living, gun restrictions, FEMA, the IRS, and the Federal Reserve.

The MIAC advisory also stated that potential domestic terrorists would be attracted to gun shows, shortwave radios, action movies, movies with white male heroes like Rambo, Tom Clancy novels, and presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin.

Some minor details couldn't be produced under FOIA.

...“[b]ackground material was not retained by the author during drafting” and “[t]here is no record listing the individual who wrote the report.” In fact, the only record the state of Missouri apparently claims it has of the report was its single draft version.

Not to worry. It's all good because Morrie Dees says so!!

Much like the controversial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “rightwing extremism” memo, MIAC’s unsubstantiated report directly cited the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a top source of information.

“In fact, there are entire passages in the MIAC report that are lifted verbatim from Southern Poverty Law Center,” said Wilson

SPLC/Morrie Dees is exceptionally good at reading minds (not to mention being anti-Catholic.) That's why all the warnings were valid.

Right.

HT: Of Arms

3 comments:

Jay Bullock said...

Yep. All a myth.

Except ...

The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service, according to government officials and reports, raising new questions about the 144-year-old agency’s overall mission. [. . .]

The domestic threat is also growing, fueled in part by Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president, according to specialists who study homegrown radical movements.

Obama, who was given Secret Service protection 18 months before the election - the earliest ever for a presidential candidate - has been the target of more threats since his inauguration than his predecessors.

Dad29 said...

Unhhh...as you noticed from the post, Jay, NOTHING in the Missouri "report/bolo" indicated Secret Service sources.

Zip.

Further, Jay, when one reads the link you provided and separates the buckwheat from the BS, one finds that the SS is 'overburdened' partially from having far more people-under-protection than it's used to.

Yes, someone SAYS there are 'more' threats against the Pres--but I don't find a source for that; all I find is (surprise!!) Morry Dees' SPLC again.

Grim said...

...potential domestic terrorists would be attracted to gun shows, shortwave radios, action movies, movies with white male heroes like Rambo, Tom Clancy novels, and presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin.

Wow, that's like my late father in law. Except he was not a domestic terrorist... just an officer in the US Army Air Force, then the US Air Force, and later an aerospace engineer with a security clearance who designed important parts of the Stealth program.

I guess we just got lucky, since he had all those markers of a terrorist!