Well, it looks as if the new administration has it out for anybody who is opposed to their policies. In a newly declassified report put out by the Department of Homeland Security, their is a "possible" threat of an increase in right-wing extremist groups taking action now that the Democrats have regained power and the White House. The problem is, there is no credible threat.
In a recently declassified and released DHS Intelligence assessment, it was stated that the Department of Homeland Security has "no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues." These "emergent issues" include the economic downturn and the election of Barack Obama to the presidency.
What there is a lack of is proof of anything really happening. There is no real evidence that these extremist groups are planning anything on the scale of Oklahoma City in 1995, which was, by the way, only carried out by two men. Not really a "group" of right wing radicals bent on a violent overthrow of the government. It is just a ploy to say that anybody who is opposed to the policies of the president and Congress are, well, right wing radicals. There is no naming of specific groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or specific militia groups. There is instead a broad generalization being made. It is not even saying ultra-right wing factions, just right wing. This includes conservatives, libertarians, Constution party members, and the like.
It is time for the government to stop playing on the peoples fears. It is pithy and wholly impolitical for them to be even doing this kind of thing. The left complained about wiretaps and the like during the previous administration, but now the new administration is looking like it is going to do the very thing they decried for eight years. Where is the logic in this? If we are not careful, this nation will turn into a police state, with one party controlling the actions of all citizens. I doubt that is what the Founding Fathers would have wanted for this country.
Link to DHS assessment: http://images.logicsix.com/DHS_RWE.pdf
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