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Homeland Security Memo Reveals A Larger Problem

hypocritexposer

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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.

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.

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/17/top_stories/doc49e7f29d3da25751570801.txt
 

Tam

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note to Reader and nonothing I read this and found it interesting

Reading this article only reaffirms my belief that Teachers, should not be trying to indoctrinate those that are still forming their own opinions.

The teachers are not just indoctrinating older students they are starting in grade school.
Remember the video of the teacher asking the grade school aged kids who they were supporting in the election and one little one said McCain. The teacher gave the kid a speech on how McCain wanted to keep her daddy that was in the military in Iraq forever. :roll:

That teacher is to teach reading and writing not who a child should support in an political election. :x
 
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Anonymous

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You think the problem could be handled if some Republicans went off and got an education and committed themselves to the profession of teaching :???:
 

hypocritexposer

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Here's an idea, how's bout we come up with a ciriculum that is factually based and leave the politics/religion out of it.

And these things can be monitored. When I was a kid we had provincial exams. every 3 yrs. I believe it was.

the students were graded on their scores, and the teachers were rated by how well they taught the common curiculum. They also watched for political and religious teaching trends.

One reason parents home school is for this very reason. I wonder why the liberals want to regulate that also?
 

Ben H

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I can't agree with keeping the religion out, I did while I was indoctrinated under the public screwl system. It was our founders belief that religion would in fact be taught in school. BUT....it was not to conflict with different religious groups, only the unviversal beliefs. Such as "though shalt not commit murder" (kill is the incorrect translation from hebrew). The book The 5000 Year Leap does an excellent job discusing and refrencing this.

I don't really care about Democrat vs. Repblican, they're both just the two mob families competing for control. Control is slavery, living under Tyranny is slavery. Our Constitution does not grant rights to us, it tells the government what they are allowed to do, and only what they are allowed to do. The bill of rights does not give us rifhts from any man or the government, those are rights every man is born with given to us by the creator. We will stand up, the sleeping dragon has been re-awoken.
 
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