Is Obama building internment camps for dissidents?
Question by Lady Laissez Faire: Is Obama building internment camps for dissidents?
An ad campaign featured on a U.S. Army website seeking those who would be interested in being an “Internment/Resettlement” specialist is raising alarms across the country, generating concerns that there is some truth in those theories about domestic detention camps, a roundup of dissidents and a crackdown on “threatening” conservatives.
The ads, at the GoArmy.com website as well as others including Monster.com, cite the need for:
“Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. I/R Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to U.S. military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; and coordinate activities of prisoners/internees and staff personnel.
The campaign follows by only weeks a report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warning about “right-wing extremists” who could pose a danger to the country – including those who support third-party political candidates, oppose abortion and would prefer to have the U.S. immigration laws already on the books enforced.
The “extremism” report coincided with a report out of California that the Department of Defense was describing protesters as “low-level terrorists.”
The new ad says successful candidates will “provide external security to … detention/internment facilities” and “provide counseling and guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106304
Best answer:
Answer by Spud
If what you believe is true then we can’t trust ANY of our Congressmen, ANY of our military personnel, or ANY of our fellow citizens. If what you believe is true it’s already over.
I have more faith in my fellow Americans.
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The Fall and Rise of Political Extremism in Weimar Germany, 1924-29
The changing fortunes of the Nazi party in Weimar Germany
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Q&A: What’s the extended metaphor or comparison in this selection?
Question by sweet Thing: What’s the extended metaphor or comparison in this selection?
Open Your Minds America
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — As people shout over each other and tune out diverging views in town hall meetings, the health care debate is proving to be symptomatic of a major ailment threatening our nation:
A contagious culture of closed-mindedness threatens to suffocate our progress as a society.
Why has it become so difficult to even consider changing our minds about important issues?
Here’s my diagnosis.
Increasingly, the willingness to change one’s position on political issues has been misread as a mark of weakness rather than a product of attentive listening and careful deliberation.
During the 2004 Presidential campaign, the successful branding of John Kerry as a flip-flopper doomed his bid. Fear of “flip-flopper syndrome” is apparently catching like the flu, because today’s politicians are not alone in their determination to adhere to partisan positions despite the changing needs of our nation.
Nearly everyone’s so reluctant to appear wishy-washy that they stand firm even when the evidence is against their views.
Three factors exacerbate this paralysis by lack of analysis: labels, lifestyles and listening.
First, the labels ascribed to many potential policy tools render sensible options taboo, loading what could be rational, economic or social measures with moral baggage. This narrows our choices, hemming in policy makers.
Any proposal including the words “government-run” elicits cries of “socialism” and “communism.” Any argument invoking the words “God” or “moral” sparks accusations of “right-wing extremism,” “fascism,” or “Bible-thumping.” Instead of listening to each other’s ideas, we spot the warning label and run the other way.
Second, our lifestyles favor knee-jerk reactions. The way we think, work and live in the Digital Age demands we quickly categorize information without investing time into rich interaction, research and understanding.
We’re hesitant to ask questions because we don’t have time to listen to the long, complicated answers that might follow. And we lack the time to fact-check competing claims. In our haste, it’s easier to echo our party’s position than drill down, questioning whether party leaders are motivated by our best interests or the best interests of their biggest contributors.
Third, we tend to listen only to like-minded opinions as media fragmentation encourages us to filter out varying perspectives. If you’re a liberal, you avoid FOX News. If you’re a conservative you revile MSNBC. The dynamic is even more pronounced online, where a niche media source can be found for any outlook.
This silences the opportunity for meaningful dialogue and deliberation that might lead to reformulating positions, forging sustainable compromises, and developing consensus crucial to moving our nation forward on complex issues.
So how can we overcome this challenge, starting with the health care debate? How do we open our minds to the possibility that we could actually learn from somebody else?
a)
liberals and conservatives
b)
people who can’t make up their minds to politician John Kerry
c)
politicians and right-wing extremism
d)
the health-care debate to an ailment or sickness
Best answer:
Answer by patrick b
The article talks about what ails the country. Basically people have stopped thinking and have started making decisions based on gut instinct and ingrained (misplaced at times) loyalty. I believe the answer is a) liberals and conservatives
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Did you see Janet Nepolitano has a lawsuit filed against her…?
Question by Vote Republicrat: Did you see Janet Nepolitano has a lawsuit filed against her…?
for the “right wing extremism” report?
http://www.examiner.com/x-2684-Law-Enforcement-Examiner~y2009m4d20-Federal-lawsuit-filed-against-Homeland-Security-Secretary-Napolitano
The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced Friday evening that it filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
The lawsuit claims that her Department’s “Right-wing Extremism Policy,” as reflected in the recently publicized Intelligence Assessment, “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” violates the civil liberties of combat veterans as well as American citizens by targeting them for disfavored treatment on account of their political beliefs.
According to the Law Center, Napolitano tried to blunt the public furor over the Report by a half-hearted apology to veterans, but she left out of her apology all of the other Americans her Department has targeted because of their political beliefs.
According to the lawsuit, officials at the Department of Homeland Security admitted that their internal office of civil liberties objected to the language in the “extremism” report, but the Department issued it anyway.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center stated, “Janet Napolitano is lying to the American people when she says the Report is not based on ideology or political beliefs. In fact, her report would have the admiration of the Gestapo and any current or past dictator in the way it targets political opponents. This incompetently written intelligence assessment, which directs law enforcement officials across the country to target and report on American citizens who have the political beliefs mentioned in the report, will be used as a tool to stifle political opposition and opinions. It will give a pretext for opponents of those Americans to report them to police as right-wing extremists and terrorists. You can imagine what happens then.”
Do you agree or disagree?
Best answer:
Answer by WASP
Led by Savage.
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Q&A: Do you still smirk…when political correctness takes the place of common sense?
Question by Lowly: Do you still smirk…when political correctness takes the place of common sense?
The Pentagon report’s silence on Islamic extremism “shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become,” he told TIME on Tuesday. “It’s definitely getting worse, and is now so ingrained that people no longer smirk when it happens.”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1954960,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0dAQsUKYc
Appointing muslims to key posts within the department of homeland security definitely avoids the “bigot” tag…so not being bigot is better than being reasonably cautious ?
Did a “smirk” accompany any of your answers? ps…unofficial bonus for smirk….!
Best answer:
Answer by Chatban
Time + CNN = BS…
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