Does your US Government think you're a terrorist if you believe in its founding documents?

Apparently, yes.

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism And Response to Terrorism (START) quantifies "right wing extremism" as follows:

The extreme far right is composed of groups that believe that one's personal and/or national "way of life" is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent (for some the threat is from some specific ethnic, racial or religious group), and believe in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism. Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty, and believe in conspiracy theories that involve great threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.

The START brochure, for verification of this, exists here in PDF.

I suggest a brief dissection of that above paragraph as it relates to reality and Conservatives and, of course, myself and -- I suspect -- the bulk of my readers.

1. - Yes, I believe my traditional way of life is under attack on many fronts and angles;
2. - Yes, the threat is imminent;
3. - Yes, in terms of religion, I see Islam as practiced in ME the greatest threat to my nation;
4. - Yes, I believe in the need to be prepared for some type of radical national cataclysm;
5. - Yes, I don't believe in Globalist or Universal views;
6. - Yes, I believe in the sovereignty of my United States of America;
7. - Yes, the federal government has done its best to assure that it's primarily incompetent;
8. - Yes, the federal government has done its best to indicate it couldn't care less about taxpayers;
9. - Yes, I AM REVERENT of individual liberty!
10. - Yes, I believe our national sovereignty is under attack from Globalists;
11. - Yes, I witness our individual American freedoms eroded year-to-year, month-to-month;

Therefore, according to my OWN federal government, though I once swore an oath specifically to it, I am NOW a Terrorist.

Mr Obama is a Transnationalist. That is no way to defend us; that is instead provoking other nations to attack us. Mr Obama is completely over his head. Eric Holder is a liar and untrustworthy. The federal government is growing whilst, concurrently, the private sector and the state public sectors are greatly diminishing.

When the word "ideology" is utilized adjacent the word "Conservative," somehow that is perceived to be a pejorative in our national media and not so with regard to Leftists, Progressives, Demorats.

How sad that those who have sworn to uphold our foundational documents are now quantified -- by our very own federal government -- as "terrorists."

Who, now, is "us" and who is "them"?

To my federal law enforcement friends and acquaintances, and to our military personnel: are you an Oathkeeper? How far will you go? What orders will you obey or not? How scared are you? How much do you fear for your jobs if you refuse to comply?

And:

How much confidence do you have in your leadership?

To my readers: your thoughts?

BZ

P.S.
h/t to Right Truth!

Also: this post may "stick" for a few days, in order for the bulk of those who read this blog to digest its true import.