• Influential study published by an Israeli academic at America’s top military school seeks to brainwash future military leaders into believing those who advocate small government, individual sovereignty, freedom and liberty are the enemy
By Victor Thorn
...a new 148-page report released on January 15 is urging enlisted men and women to be on alert for “terrorists” in the form of those who consider themselves patriots.
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Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right.” Its author, Jewish Professor Arie Perliger, the Director of Terrorism Studies at the Combating Terrorism Center and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, holds membership in the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, as well as being a
former instructor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
...Perliger placed a bulls-eye on those who “espouse strong convictions regarding the federal government, believing it to be corrupt and tyrannical, with a natural tendency to intrude on individuals’ civil and constitutional rights.”
...Perliger asserted that other so-called extremists fall into the categories of anti-federalists, fundamentalist Christians, survivalists, gun-rights advocates, libertarians, pro-lifers, and those who oppose high taxation.
“Some groups are driven by a strong conviction that the American political system and its proxies were hijacked by external forces interested in promoting a New World Order.”
...constitutionalists, those wary of a growing police state, and political activists such as some tea partiers. Perliger equates those interested in preserving their individual freedoms with skinheads, neo-Nazis and militia members. ...he smears conservatives as being backward, archaic and living in an era that has passed them by. In contrast, Perliger applauds liberals as future-oriented and progressive in their views.
Dr. Herbert W. Titus, a constitutional law professor and former dean of the Regent University School of Law...
...Titus said. “Perliger is not a serious scholar, but a propagandist for the existing regime.”
...Bill Wilson of Americans for Limited Government...
...Wilson replied, “Perliger’s report isn’t an isolated incident. We’ve seen this type of demonizing ever since Obama took office. The left is going for the kill by using raw partisan political propaganda. The author of this report wants people to look those of us with traditional conservative values who support limited government as dangerous and suspect. He’s saying: this is somebody you don’t want to be. Instead, Perliger favors those who always submit to collectivism and the group. But this type of mindset is what doomed the former Soviet Union.”
Wilson added, “The military implications are really dangerous because Perliger wants to breed a whole generation of officers that may not respect sovereignty and autonomy.”
In a January 28 article, Wilson expanded on this notion. “[We] are being taught to view freedom-loving Americans as violent racist terrorists-in-waiting as part of the federal government’s ongoing jihad against common-sense fiscal conservatism and constitutionally limited government.”
“In 2009 the Department of Homeland Security offered a course curriculum prepared by the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC] that was meant to cast suspicions on returning vets because they might harbor right-wing affiliations,” he said.
“The mainstream media is owned by a handful of corporations that are completely compliant in their worldview that government is always best and correct, and those who don’t support it are wrong,” he said. “Real journalism doesn’t exist in the mainstream media any more.”
“The hard left,” Wilson stated, “is far more violence prone that anyone on the right. Groups like the Earth Liberation Front and animal rights advocates will sabotage train tracks, spike trees, and have threatened to destroy the Keystone Pipeline.”
“Every day the First Amendment is being shutdown, and now Obama is trying to kill the Second Amendment. Why shouldn’t everyone be suspicious of what they’re doing? The left is waging an incredible assault on our Bill of Rights by undercutting and taking away this contract between the American people and the states.”
“In the past, we didn’t let politics get involved in the military,” said Wilson. “But Perliger gave the officer corps pure political indoctrination as if they were the old Red Army. What used to be a very important feature—the non-political nature of our military—is now being turned on its head.”
The Thought Police’s infiltration of West Point is part of a much larger trend that AFP has been keeping readers abreast of for years. All couched in the guise of fighting terrorism, these efforts to spy on Americans and create citizen snitches have been coordinated by an extensive array of forces, including the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, various think tanks working in unison with universities, and powerful congressional members.
In 2010, DHS initiated a campaign known as ”If You See Something, Say Something™.” Officials called on sports fans, mass transit riders,Walmart shoppers—every American—via posters and other literature to be alert for “suspicious activities.” The following year DHS expanded public service announcements into 1.2M hotel and motel rooms across the U.S.
This far-reaching program dovetailed with previous studies that sought to paint conservative Americans as terrorists. These included the University of Maryland’s “Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes” and “Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism,” and the RAND Corporation’s 2005 “Trends in Terrorism.” In 2007, the House of Representatives passed legislation entitled “The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.” During the Bush presidency, Representative Jane Harman (D-Calif.), who sponsored the above bill, teamed with DHS head Michael Chertoff to investigate 9-11 “conspiracy theorists” during their “war on terror.”
Using cash during transactions could be one example, as well as showing an enthusiasm for gold investments. Stockpiling food for emergencies could also be deemed questionable behavior. Finally, exhibiting any type of dissenting opinion against the Federal Reserve, Internet privacy and centralized authority at the global level are, according to these studies, obvious red flags that should be reported.
SPLC spokesman and publications director Mark Potok revealed his organization’s true colors in regard to their opponents. “Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate groups and so on. I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them.”
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