Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.

Who will be the ultimate arbiter of what is protected speech under the First Amendment and what is deemed hate-orientated extremism?

I would expect this type of document to come out of the governments of Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, or Saddam Husein.

It reads like a “How to identify” Gestapo guide or should I dare say O-stapo.

Most of the activities mentioned are neither extreme nor illegal; they simply are activities or beliefs that the author disagrees with. The effect works something like (for example)

“Extremist = Terrorist Wacko = Timothy McVeigh = Returning Military Member = Typical of Military Members = Second Amendment Defenders = …Extremists?”

None of this is political, yet “rightwing” is by definition political.

This paper is an attempt to defame a political movement as being somehow extreme, irrational, and illegal, when in fact the individual activities being examined are squarely mainstream and Constitutionally protected.

In fact, it’s clever propaganda and a dangerous statement of orientation if genuine, and a fantastic parody of the Left’s approach to political debate if it’s fake.

And by divider, I mean the opposite of a uniter. That didn’t work so well.

“Welcome to the party, pal!”

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Truth is, one of the first things I plan to do once I have a full-time job again and we’re back on our feet financially, is to buy a gun, and a LOT of ammunition. Not because I feel I need a gun to protect my family from the government (and God help me if I ever do, cuz, well, “three shots for three kills off the faintail of a destroyer at sea, at night with a few seconds warning” - DANG!). Nope, I want that handgun because it’s my right to own one, and no one has the right to tell me that I can’t (except maybe the wife, but that’s another story)

Count me in.

Please honor me with adding me to the “list”.

Simply priceless, no doubt they will be coming for me soon.

“What does this ex-ray look like to you!”

“Don’t ask me, I’m trying to administer a drivers test!”

Thank you for the enlightenment.