Obama's List of Extremists Offically gets Smaller

Ah, for those simple days...

According to an article in the Washington Times:

WASHINGTON — The same Homeland Security Department office that categorized veterans as potential terrorists issued an earlier report that defined dozens of “extremists” ranging from black power activists to abortion foes. The report was nixed within hours and recalled from state and local law enforcement officials.

Whites and blacks, Christians and Jews, Cubans and Mexicans, along with tax-hating Americans were among several political leanings listed in the “Domestic Extremism Lexicon” that came out of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) in late March.

The lexicon lists definitions for key terms and phrases used by Homeland Security analysts “that addresses the nature and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the United States,” the report said.

What’s most interesting is that you can read the entire report here.  You get to learn about all sorts of “threats” you don’t generally hear about such as anarchist extremism, Aryan prison gangs, something called the black bloc (nice alliteration), and something very PC called ethnic-based extremism.  If it has a hyphen, it must be bad.

There are over 52 groups named in this report.  You have to wonder what the government thinks the biggest threat to our security might be.  My favorite is the racial Nordic mysticism group.  Apparently, these people embrace “Odinism” and “Asatru” and maybe listen to too much heavy metal?

Last time I checked, we had one white guy blow up a building (Timothy McVeigh) and all the rest have been Muslim terrorists.  The report goes out of its way to say it is covering all of the “non-Islamic extremism” but, if you look at the facts, how many of these groups have really done anything?

Maybe the only one we should be concerned with is the group called leftwing extremism because the report says:

The term also refers to leftwing, single-issue extremist movements that are dedicated to causes such as environmentalism, opposition to war, and the rights of animals.

The only reason I bring this up is because I think some of these people are serving in the Obama administration and are trying to get Cap-and-Trade passed in Congress and they tried to prevent the Surge from happening in Iraq even though that effort is largely responsible for the quelling of violence in that country.

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