{"id":4587,"date":"2009-04-16T07:49:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2009-04-16T07:49:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T12:49:48","slug":"all-you-angry-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4587","title":{"rendered":"All You Angry Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember like 25 years ago,when Hollywood was portraying Vietnam Veterans as one of three things; homeless bums, psychos and dangerous psychos (with the sole exceptions of “The A Team” and “Rambo”)?<\/p>\n

Vietnam vets’ groups complained; the vast majority of ‘nam vets were adjusted to civilian life just fine at that remove, and they were not especially more likely to have crippling psychological problems than the general population.<\/p>\n

You’d think the left would learn from their mis…<\/p>\n

…er, never mind:<\/a><\/p>\n

The US Homeland Security Department, under fire for saying US forces returning from the Iraq and Afghan wars were potential right-wing extremist recruits, said Wednesday it honors US veterans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Honor, slander – tomayto tomahto.<\/p>\n

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sought to douse anger among conservatives and veterans groups like the American Legion over a report from her department warning of a rising threat of right-wing extremism.<\/p>\n

“We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not — nor will we ever — monitor ideology or political beliefs,” Napolitano said in a statement amid charges that the department had done just that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, to be fair to Napolitano’s critics, the anger is more about the report’s rolling slinky of casual defamation, covering virtually every conservative constituent in the United States, not about allegations of monitoring.<\/p>\n

Yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

American Legion chief David Rehbein on Tuesday blasted the report as “incomplete, and, I fear, politically-biased” and took special aim at its warning that returning veterans having difficulties reintegrating society could be recruited by right-wing groups for possible terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Napolitano, Rehbein underlined the document’s mention of Oklahoma City bombing author Timothy McVeigh’s US Army background and called it “as unfair as using Osama bin Laden as the sole example of Islam.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it’s not just veterans, of course; the DHS report slanders the gun, life, tax and property rights movements.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it follows tacitly through on the campaign-era slur that voting against Obama was a sign of racism.<\/p>\n

There is no way a responsible Administration would let Napolitano survive this.<\/p>\n

Well, there’s your answer, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember like 25 years ago,when Hollywood was portraying Vietnam Veterans as one of three things; homeless bums, psychos and dangerous psychos (with the sole exceptions of “The A Team” and “Rambo”)? Vietnam vets’ groups complained; the vast majority of ‘nam vets were adjusted to civilian life just fine at that remove, and they were not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}