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Reading this article only reaffirms my belief that Teachers, should not be trying to indoctrinate those that are still forming their own opinions.
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/17/top_stories/doc49e7f29d3da25751570801.txt
Homeland Security Memo Reveals A Larger Problem
Homeland Security Document Indicative Of Academic-Governmental Complex
By MICHAEL P. TREMOGLIE, The Bulletin
Friday, April 17, 2009
The April 7 memo by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that was distributed to law enforcement agencies across the country gave a sweeping generalization that many conservatives are “right-wing extremists.” Some criticize the Obama administration for writing it.
But it may be more indicative of a larger problem. It may reveal the left-wing orientation of the academic-governmental complex, which is a problem that transcends political parties. This left-wing orientation considers any conservative or right-wing idea a danger.
The nine-page DHS document is titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” The report defines right-wing extremists as belonging to one of two sets of groups. One set is “primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups).”
The other set is “mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”
This broad-brush approach is consistent with the leftist ideology that is pervasive in the nation’s college campuses. Since government intelligence analysts have undergraduate degrees and most obtain graduate degrees, usually in sociology or criminal justice, they are indoctrinated in the leftist dogma.
Ronald Rychlak is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi. He is also on the board of advisors for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and on the advisory board of the International Solidarity and Human Rights Institute.
Mr. Rychlak said that the document was not necessarily reflective of the Obama administration or Janet Napolitano.
“It was probably a long term civil servant who wrote this,” he said.
He also said that there is an “overwhelming left leaning bias in the academy.” The left feels wary and endangered by conservative attitudes.
“This fear, concern and lack of understanding was evinced by the president’s clinging to guns and Bibles comment,” he said.
It is from this background that the career civil servants who become the analysts who produce such reports originate. This report reflects the leftist attitudes they were taught on campus.
This problem was identified as early as 1973 in a treatise by Walter B. Miller published in the Northwestern University School of Law’s Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Prof. Miller was a Philadelphian and a preeminent anthropologist. He worked with the famous criminologist James Q. Wilson, who was the author of the “broken windows” theory of crime used by Rudy Giuliani to clean up New York City. He also collaborated with Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan about crime issues.
His study was titled “Ideology and Criminal Justice Policy: Some Current Issues.” Prof. Miller wrote, “Academic criminology, reflecting academic social science in general, is substantially oriented toward the left.”
He further said that the consequence of inserting ideology into the criminal justice field is that it evokes “the most passionate kinds of reactions and to become infused with deeply felt, quasi-religious significance that constitutes the crucial element in the difference between testable assumptions and ideological tenets.”
An example of how this ideology enters law enforcement is the FBI’s 1999 Project Megiddo report. The purpose of the report was to “analyze the potential for extremist criminal activity in the United States by individuals or domestic extremist groups who profess an apocalyptic view of the millennium or attach special significance to the year 2000.”
Much as the DHS memo did, the Megiddo report lumped white supremacist groups and readers of the Turner Diaries (a book which details a violent overthrow of the federal government by white supremacists), together with militia groups, Christian Identity advocates, followers of Odinism (Germanic pagans), and members of the Aryan Nation.
None of these groups committed a millennium-related terrorist act. Ironically, the most dangerous millennium terrorist plot was that of Muslim terrorists who wanted to detonate bombs at Los Angeles airport. They were caught by a vigilant border patrol officer.
The Megiddo report did not mention Muslim terrorists.
The idea that a government analyst, most likely with a postgraduate degree college, would produce a report that considers people who are opponents of abortion, illegal immigration, gun control or military veterans as recruits for right-wing terrorism should surprise no one. Still some people find it troubling.
Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College and the executive director of the Center for Vision & Values think-tank/policy center, finds the whole affair disturbing.
“There’s one section that lists three manifestations of ‘white supremacists,’ one of which is to be anti-abortion. That’s shocking, ridiculous, and quite scary,” he said.
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