By Mark Anderson / Stop the Presses News
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After the Charlottesville melee in August 2017, will our government dare to define all conservative ideas as “far-right extremism” and even criminal? [also see the video directly above]
Well, on Sept. 12th, two panelists who addressed the House Homeland Security Committee come from organizations whose stock-in-trade is rooting out so-called right-wing “hate” speech.
Those two men are Oren Segal, director of the Center on Extremism of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL); and Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). They were joined by Knoxville, Tenn. Police Chief David B. Rausch, testifying on behalf of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Both the ADL and the SPLC have been shown to harbor an extremist bias against all virtually modes of conservative thought in favor of left-wing ideology and, by extension, leftist extremism. Problem is, they rarely acknowledge that Marxist-leftist agitators, several of whom have violently shut down peaceful conservative speaking events at colleges, are the ones who’ve been actually engaging in criminal acts to begin with. Indeed, they were the chief instigators of violence in Virginia.
Remember, on Aug. 12 in Charlottesville, the Unite the Right rally was legally arranged to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the famous West Point grad who fought to defend Virginia itself at a time, in the 1860s, when people identified with their home state, not with some nebulous, massive American "empire," or superstate. But the rally was shut down by violent, mostly-Marxist agitators.
However, as I’ve reported previously, so-called “conservative” U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa of Calif., who first announced Sept. 12th's committee hearing, is among those pinning the blame for all violent acts on the right. But to take things a step further, the panelists at that hearing have long been trying to get our government to criminalize right-wing activism and beliefs as “domestic terrorism.”
That would broadly attack our Bill of Rights, especially the First and Fourth Amendments.
In a recent letter calling for the Sept. 12 hearing and another hearing (Judiciary Committee) that was postponed, Issa also implied that everyone to the right politically in Charlottesville was either a neo-Nazi, white supremacist or KKK member.
But many were southern traditionalists and other conservatives who want no part of such associations---though in America, you're free to believe what you want. They still thought our history should simply be preserved, not torn down. And while not all the "counter-protestors" on the left were violent (though many were violent in varying degrees), and while a source of mine on the ground saw some identified with the "right" provoke or carry out violent actions in limited instances, there are increasingly convincing reasons to believe that the events in Charlottesville were more deeply orchestrated than initially assumed.
But here's the main thing to acknowledge: While we obsess over various Charlottesville details and theories, Congress, with very little publicity, is quietly toying with something much more valuable than historical monuments---namely, our constitutional rights. And if the Sept. 12 Homeland Security Committee hearing was a sign of where our government is headed, then it’s high time that readers and viewers of the above You Tube video call Congress and tell them to preserve free speech for all citizens, instead of listening to the heads of organizations that rake in millions of dollars by exploiting conflict and fostering distrust among Americans.
Remember, the action is in the reaction. Those who commit organized violence like the Marxist street gangs don't break stuff and hurt people just for sport. They do it to create a climate that brings legal actions against their ideological adversaries for long-range strategic reasons. That's why we need to direct much more attention to what Congress is doing.
The number to Congress for any House or Senate member is 202-224-3121. Contact the local / district / state offices of your House and Senate members, too.