Take Me To Post Comment Form Remember in the very first months of the Obama administration when the Dept. of Homeland Security published its report on the threat posed by right wing terrorists?

Work on the report had begun during the waning months of the Bush administration, but that did not seem to matter. It was condemned as the precursor to an attempt by President Obama to shut down conservative voices.

In view of several incidents over the past few years, including two within the past week or so, the DHS report is proving to be a lot more credible than its critics.

And please do not accuse me of presenting these incidents as typical of all American conservatives. That is neither my belief nor my point.

My point is that it is not incidents such as these violent acts that I think reflect poorly on conservatives. It is when out of their own version of political correctnes, they condemn research and analysis that turns out to be true. In my opinion that is what does harm to their credibility

Here is what the report published in early 2009 said, followed by a synopsis of the latest of several incidents.

The profile of the individuals responsible for these two most recent incidents are an exact fit for the characteristics described in the DHS report.

The bottom line is that despite the criticism and codemnations, the report was accurate. I will take accuracy over political correctness of any stripe, every time.

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf

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.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0305/John-Patrick-Bedell-Did-right-wing-extremism-lead-to-shooting

John Patrick Bedell, whom authorities identified as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting on Thursday, appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings.

If so, that would make the Pentagon shooting the second violent extremist attack on a federal building within the past month. On Feb. 18, Joseph Stack flew a small aircraft into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Mr. Stack left behind a disjointed screed in which, among other things, he expressed his hatred of the government.