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West Point center cites dangers of ‘far right’ in U.S.
A West Point think tank has issued a paper warning America about “far right” groups such as the “anti-federalist” movement, which supports “civil activism, individual freedoms and self-government.”
The report issued this week by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., is titled “Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right.”
The center — part of the institution where men and women are molded into Army officers — posted the report Tuesday. It lumps limited government activists with three movements it identifies as “a racist/white supremacy movement, an anti-federalist movement and a fundamentalist movement.”
The West Point center typically focuses reports on al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists attempting to gain power in Asia, the Middle East and Africa through violence.
But its latest study turns inward and paints a broad brush of people it considers “far right.” ...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/17/west-point-center-cites-dangers-far-right-us/#ixzz2IMuFU8JV
Even a Monty Python sketch could not have come up with something this good. These wild violent far-right groups believe in such things as 'individual freedoms'! And--brace yourself--'self-government.' Shocking!
All this reminds me of the Southern Poverty Law Center and their increasingly unhinged reports, passed on by the media as fact, about there being ever more countless lawless violent right-wing extremist groups all over the country! Which is also consistent with what comes out of Hollywood.
Just one obvious flaw:
If they actually exist, by the definition of "violent," in a nation this huge, wouldn't there be a nightly body count of at least a dozen or so victims? If there were, God knows the news media would be eager enough to shout such news to the rafters. Yet, you get one sad case here and there, like the doddering old guy who shot and killed the black museum guard many months back--as the staggeringly disproportionate black-on-white violent crime rate is soft-peddled by the news media at every opportunity.
And who was responsible for this West Point report? Dr. Arie Pelinger. From Dr. Pelinger's West Point faculty bio page:
Arie Perliger is the Director of Terrorism Studies at the Combating Terrorism Center and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, US Military Academy at West Point. After completing his PhD in Political Science at the University of Haifa Israel (2007), where he was also a fellow at the National Security Studies Center (NSSC), Dr. Perliger became affiliated with the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellow (2007-2008). On August 2008 Dr. Perliger joined the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was a Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor until the summer of 2010.
http://www.usma.edu/sosh/_layouts/wpFacultyBios/DisplayBio.aspx?ID=a366e139-4bd4-489f-abf2-86550732b152&List=a26ecd8e-d8ee-49e0-b26d-417868009c02
I believe the best explanation for much of this can be found in Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique.
http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Critique-Evolutionary-Twentieth-Century-Intellectual/dp/0759672229/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358549065&sr=1-1&keywords=the+culture+of+critique
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