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This is what patriotism, second amendment protectors and non violent disagreement have come to under Obama: they are regarded as dangerous threats.

The Southern Poverty Law Center sounded the “alarm” yesterday.

The number of conspiracy-minded antigovernment “Patriot” groups on the American radical right reached an all-time high in 2012, the fourth consecutive year of powerful growth by a movement that is becoming increasingly militant as President Obama enters his second term and Congress debates gun control measures, according to a report issued today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

In a letter today to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano , the SPLC warned of the potential for domestic terrorism and urged the creation of a new interagency task force to assess the adequacy of federal resources devoted to the threat.

“As in the period before the Oklahoma City bombing, we now are seeing ominous threats from those who believe that the government is poised to take their guns,” wrote SPLC President Richard Cohen , a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism Working Group. In October 1994, the SPLC wrote to then-Attorney General Janet Reno about the growing threat of domestic extremism; the Oklahoma City federal building was bombed six months later in the country’s deadliest act of domestic terrorism.

The SPLC found there were 1,360 Patriot groups in 2012 — an 813 percent rise since 2008, the year before Obama took office. The groups include 321 militias. These numbers far exceed the movement’s peak in the 1990s, when militias were inflamed by the 1993 Brady Bill and the 1994 assault rifle ban.

The SPLC also found that hate groups remained at a near-record level of 1,007 groups in 2012, a slight drop from the 1,018 groups documented in 2011.

The way is being prepared for arrests and detentions. The drone program is being used to spy on American citizens. Yesterday Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) spoke about the administration’s OK to use drones to kill American citizens in our own country.

The administration does not want any opposition as it tries to install unpopular and anti freedom programs.

Homeland Security Advice: Use Scissors

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Honest to God. When confronted by an “active shooter” Homeland Security recommends you hide and gives advice on that. If that doesn’t work, you can always use scissors. That’s what they show at about the 1:53 mark in this video.

Thanks, Janet Napolitano! He/she/they have guns. I have scissors. Sounds fair.

What’s next for our protection? Sharpened toothbrushes?

Words Heard This Week

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For a group that doesn’t like talk of “family values,” the administration gave birth to a new term this week that should scare every American.

The phrase “federal family” popped up in coordinated releases in Washington. First, Press Secretary Jay Carney used it to describe the government in reference to Hurricane-ette Irene. Then Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano used it, too. It popped up in FEMA directives as well. Suddenly the government wants us to think of them as our most intimate relatives. It is Father Knows Best. It is motherhood and apple pie. It is looking after our younger siblings. Huh? If anything, government’s more like a mooching uncle, money borrowing brother-in-law or scolding granny.

There is something so distasteful and wrong in the term federal family that most of us would prefer to be orphans, don’t you think? Big Brother and Federal Family belong in Orwell, not reality.

“Dog whistle” burst on the scene as well. Politico reports that black leaders “are tired of Obama dog whistling his support for a broad black agenda rather than explicitly embracing the kind of war on racism, poverty and economic segregation embraced by King.” This echoes another reference earlier in the summer when Biggovernment.com said Obama’s speech was “more likely a dog whistle to the left wing Astroturf – the signal to begin a carefully staged media campaign” against Republican plans for the debt ceiling.

Do liberals really want to refer to a big segment of their parties as dogs? Maybe it’s barking up the wrong tree.

Finally, there are words not heard this week but probably heard next week in Obama’s speech on jobs before a joint session of Congress. Jim Geraghty at the National Review suggests we’ll hear these phrases peppering the speech. You can keep a scorecard if you like:
“I inherited this”
“Prevented another Great Depression”
“saved or created”
“green jobs”
“repair our crumbling infrastructure”
“winning the future”
“we can’t afford not to invest in (fill in the blank)”

Of course “I” will probably be frequently used, too. Best not to play the drinking game on that one or you will be snockered early and miss marking your scorecard for the others.

Troubling Trends

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Share Your WealthDisturbing incidents keep popping up in the news lately. Nothing that’s an earth shaking story, but trends that don’t look good for our republic.

For instance, today President Obama told the Chamber of Commerce that corporate profits “must be shared by the American worker.” We got a whiff of this with Joe the Plumber and the redistribution of wealth comment. Does Obama feel confident enough in his ratings to start this push?

Also today, the  FCC has announced it will use the Emergency Alert System, those routinely sounded alarms, to make presidential announcements in the future. “The primary goal is to provide the president with a mechanism to communicate with the American public during times of  national emergency,” a spokesman said. Does this sound like the United States or a third world banana republic?

Recently, the Wall Street Journal quoted John Heilemann, co-author of “Game Change,” who wrote some interesting tidbits in New York Magazine. Washington players shared some thoughts with him such as “President Obama rarely consulted outside the tiny charmed circle surrounding him in the White House. What you had was really 3 or 4 people running the government. I thought they put a pretty good Cabinet together, but most of those guys might as well be in the witness protection program.” Another told him, “I happen to know most of the Cabinet pretty well and I get together with them indivdually for lunch,” said one of the most respected Democrat bigwigs in Washington. “I’ve had half a dozen Cabinet members say that in the first two years, they never had one call – not one call – from the president.”

So who are these unelected people running the country? Suggestions are the chief one is Valerie Jarrett, an old friend from Chicago. She also happens to have been born in Iran to American parents. She didn’t live here the first five years of her life. One wonders what her priorities are. And there is no way to check her power since she is only accountable to the president.

When Obama spoke at the National Prayer breakfast on Thursday, he once again said some things that caused many to prick up their ears. He said, “My father, who I barely knew – I only met once for a month in my entire life – was said to be a non-believer.”

This is troubling on several levels. First, Obama had previously said that his father and mother lived together in Hawaii until he was two. Another time there was the story of Obama Sr. visiting the Dunham clan in Hawaii Christmas 1971. Which is it? Why the discrepanacies?

Then, when you consider the term “non believer” is used by Muslims to describe everyone outside Islam, it strikes you as an odd choice of words.

There is also the recently disclosed information that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano secretly met with the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010.

Obama pals William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn helped the Free Gaza flotilla that engaged in clashes with Israeli  troops, as did Code Pink. What were they doing that for?

When you consider that we have a press that will gloss over any troubling thing he says, and refuses to delve into any of his background or motives,  you wonder how the truth can get out. And what don’t we know?