Janet Napolitano Opens Her Fat Mouth Again – Lawsuit Filed Against DHS

To add insult to injury and as if the “lovely” Janet Napolitano hadn’t done enough already, she suddenly has a hankering for crow.  I was also thinking foot, since she likes to open her mouth and insert accordingly.

Sunday,  on CNN, Napolitano tried explaining that the DHS doesn’t see these vets as threats.  The DHS sees them as saps who don’t know any better than to fall into extremist traps:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Sunday portrayed veterans as victims – not perpetrators – of right-wing extremism as she sought to combat the political controversy arising out of an April 14 Homeland Security memo warning that returning soldiers could be ripe for domestic terrorism participation.

“The report is not saying that veterans are extremists.  Far from it,” Napolitano said on CNN’s State of the Union. “What it is saying is returning veterans are targets of right-wing extremist groups that are trying to recruit those to commit violent acts within the country. We want to do all we can to prevent that.”

So Janet feels that the men and women who have the strength, honor, and dignity to go overseas to fight our enemies lose that heart and determination, as well as character, when they return and are liable to fall prey to all those right-wing extremists?

The absurdity is the fact that there are no “right-wing extremists” as this report claims nor are conservatives usually the type of people who protest or get in other peoples’ faces, as we have seen from those on the left.  Conservatives are usually just hard working, faith-based Americans who are known as the “silent-majority.”

The report was nowhere near credible.  It truly was just an example of partisan “hackery.”  I feel as though a five-year-old could have written that report using better English, grammar, elaboration, and at least some citations for heaven’s sake!

Both political parties have one issue voters, that’s been the case for years and as much as I don’t agree with any side only voting on one issue, I will not call them extreme, some other words maybe… but not extreme and certainly nothing near a threat to society.

The report presumes that veterans have a predisposition to become violent extremists because of the difficulties that they have “reintegrating into their communities.”  It’s the latest corollary to the every-Vietnam-vet-is-a-powderkeg belief and it makes me sick to my stomach.  I know a lot of great men who served in Vietnam, Korea, Desert Storm and Iraq/Afghanistan and I would never classify them as anything less than gentlemanly, friendly and a lot of fun!

With discriminatory reports coming out of DHS and the Secretary of Homeland Security, it should come as no surprise to anyone that a Federal lawsuit has now been filed:

The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced last week that it filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The lawsuit claims that her Department’s “Right-wing Extremism Policy, ” as reflected in the recently publicized Intelligence Assessment, “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, ” violates the civil liberties of combat veterans as well as American citizens by targeting them for disfavored treatment on account of their political beliefs. Click here to read the complaint filed by the Thomas More Law Center.

Napolitano tried to blunt the public furor over the Report by a half-hearted apology to veterans, but she left out of her apology all of the other Americans her Department has targeted because of their political beliefs. In fact, officials in DHS now admit that their internal office of civil liberties objected to the language in the extremism report, but the Department issued it anyway.

Janet Napolitano is lying to the American people when she says the Report is not based on ideology or political beliefs. In fact, her report would have the admiration of the Gestapo and any current or past dictator in the way it targets political opponents. This incompetently written intelligence assessment, which directs law enforcement officials across the country to target and report on American citizens who have the political beliefs mentioned in the report, will be used as a tool to stifle political opposition and opinions. It will give a pretext for opponents of those Americans to report them to police as right-wing extremists and terrorists. You can imagine what happens then.

The Report specifically mentions the following political beliefs that law enforcement should use to determine whether someone is a “right-wing extremist”:

• Opposes restrictions on firearms
• Opposes lax immigration
• Opposes the policies of President Obama regarding immigration, citizenship, and the expansion of social programs
• Opposes continuation of free trade agreements
• Opposes same-sex marriage
• Has paranoia of foreign regimes
• Fear of Communist regimes
• Opposes one world government
• Bemoans the decline of U.S. stature in the world.
• Upset with loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China and India

. . . and the list goes on.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host, Michael Savage, Gregg Cunningham (President of the pro-life organization Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. (CBR)), and Iraqi War Marine veteran Kevin Murray. The Law Center claims that Napolitano’s Department (DHS) has violated the First and Fifth Amendment Constitutional rights of these three plaintiffs by attempting to chill their free speech, expressive association, and equal protection rights. The lawsuit further claims that the Department of Homeland Security encourages law enforcement officers throughout the nation to target and report citizens to federal officials as suspicious right-wing extremists and potential terrorists because of their political beliefs.

The Obama Administration has declared war on American patriots and our Constitution. The Report even admits that the Department has no specific information on any plans of violence by so-called “right-wing extremists.” Rather, what they do have is the expression of political opinions by certain individuals and organizations that oppose the Obama administration’s policies, and this expression is protected speech under the First Amendment.

The Law Center is asking the court to declare that the DHS policy violates the First and Fifth Amendments, to permanently enjoin the Policy and its application to the plaintiffs’ speech and other activities, and to award the plaintiffs their reasonable attorney’s fees and costs for having to bring the lawsuit.

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