posted May 16, 2009 07:43 PM         

LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
'Extremists' offered identification card
Identifies those who support 2nd Amendment, oppose abortion
Posted: May 16, 2009
12:30 am Eastern

With little fanfare and no effort for any significant level of publicity, a law firm specializing in defending the constitutional rights of American citizens has begun offering an identification card for "Right-Wing Extremists" – as labeled by the Department of Homeland Security.

And the phones have been ringing off the hook.

The card is from Liberty Counsel and states:

Official Liberty Counsel card-carrying Right-Wing Extremist. If confronted by an agent of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), or any other law enforcement official who has read the DHS Intelligence Assessment dated April 7, 2009, on so-called Right-Wing Extremism call Liberty Council at 1-800-671-1776.

Front of ID card

Mathew Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel, told WND it sends a message, "if the government considers me an extremist because I'm pro-life, pro-veteran, pro-family, pro-self defense and pro-limited government, then I'm proud to wear this as a badge of honor."

It's also a protest of the government targeting people and ideas that made America great, he said.

"We have had this overwhelming response from people about the country," he said. "They want that card now."

He said the feeling has been: "If they are going to call me an extremist, so be it."

He said more in line with reality is that the government has become extremist, and is out of step with the values, ideas and fundamental values on which the United States has been built.

The card pictures a Minute Man, with the statement, "The 18th Century version of a Right Wing Extremist, as cited by the DHS Intelligence Assessment, was a Colonial Minute Man!"

On the back, it says: "I'm proud to be a Right-Wing Extremist … as described in the DHS Intelligence Assessment of April 9, 2007. I have taken one or more of the following positions: The right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution, killing unborn babies is morally wrong, lower taxes are better than higher taxes, local and state solutions are usually more efficient than federal expansion, interpreting the Bible literally is not a crime, and veterans deserve honor, not special monitoring by Big Brother."

Back of ID card

Ironically, the Washington Times reported at the same time the DHS was confirming that it had pulled the report that identified those involved with "right wing extremism" as veterans and individual opposed to abortion.

posted May 17, 2009 01:17 PM         

please tell me who is challenging the right to bear arms? you are still entitled to own weapons. what is your complaint?

and since you will never forget that i mistakenly used the word indictment (thru misinformation) instead of investigation and accusation -

and since you believe libelling a politician is not right "just because you don't like them" -

posted May 17, 2009 10:13 PM         

Not that I'm a right wing extremist or a leftist looney (though I got called both for saying almost the same exact thing in less than a month once). I just didn't agree with the government's official line on everything, and got listed as a possible danger as a result.

posted May 18, 2009 01:45 PM         

Nothing voluntary about it at all.

However, this incident shows the total lack of judgment on the part of O'Bomber who appointed this idiot in the first place.

Image that, O'Bomber placed this idiot in charge of protecting the United States from attack by terrorists and labeled returning service personnel prospective domestic terrorists...of whom law enforcement personnel should be suspicious. Not to mention anyone who stands up for their 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 10th and 14th Amendment rights.

As a result of this idiot report, a citizen was stopped, questioned and lectured for having a bumper sticker on his car which said..."Don't Tread on Me". Someone of whom law enforcement should be suspicious.