West Point Think Tank: Beware ‘Anti-Federalists’

Another of the laws of the universe, c. 2013, is that we are to be subjected from now until the end of time to reports by government think-tanks warning us that people who believe in minimal government violence are themselves dangerous and violent. Thus the so-called Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is urging Americans to beware of “anti-federalists” who “espouse strong convictions regarding the federal government, believing it to be corrupt and tyrannical, with a natural tendency to intrude on individuals’ civil and constitutional rights. Finally, they support civil activism, individual freedoms, and self government.” Seems like I must be making this up. But you know better. It’s real.

Anonymous

It’s always mind-boggling to me that the people whose entire philosophy can be described by something called the “non-aggression principle” are portrayed as the violent ones.

Sorry, I can’t even see the irony here. It’s hiding behind the endless stacks of dead bodies (I’m sorry, collateral damage) the state has left behind.
TJ

Check out Graph 2 on page 87 of the report. The writer’s own statistics show “attacks” falling from a 2008 high mark; the main rise occurred from 2006-2007. There is no “rise” in attacks even with his own numbers, unless the context is over a 20 year period.

He also fails to provide an example of a single attack by an “anti-federalist” organization, nor does he provide the name of a single group that falls under the definition or why he chose to include anti-federalist as a far-right group. All the attacks he cites are conducted by Neo-Nazi/racial supremacy groups or extreme anti-abortion groups.

Additionally, according to the report’s statistics on page 96, the states with highest number of attacks since 1990 were New York and California; the only Southern state to appear in the top 10 was Texas, and the number of attacks was pitiful compared to those states. The writer admitted that “the states which were mostly associated with the American far-right in the past are mostly ranked in the middle or the lower third in terms of number of attacks.”
http://twitter.com/reeldealpro Justin Machacek

Thanks for keeping us up on these things! We’ll keep fighting the good fight!
http://twitter.com/fairestfiona ^..^

Completely agreed. It’s amazing really, listening to those people.
They think the ones that want individual freedom and constitutional rights are the “nut-jobs”.
Yet the ones that want to point guns in your face and threaten you with violence/imprisonment so they can tell you how to live your life are doing it “for your own good”! They know what’s best for you more than you do.

-_____- smdh
http://twitter.com/jasontgordon Jason Gordon

Mercifully, they stop short of employing Orwellian newspeak to claim my political orientation leans toward “liberterrorism” and that I am a “volunterrorist”
Anonymous

It has been obvious for some time now that West Point is the Harvard of militaristic Fascism. The elite young minds of the Military/Industrial Complex are programmed there to defend the Welfare-Warfare state and attack it’s enemies by whatever means are at their disposal. Today those means include think tank monographs and obnoxious gun laws.Tomorrow maybe it will be loss of voting rights or mass incarceration for gun owners who refuse to register their semi-auto’s. Throw in some Waco style ATF/FBI attacks on gun rights activists to intimidate us and then perhaps a presidential decree of martial law in some of the more recalcitrant states and you can see how the progression develops.

Think it can’t happen here? Papers like the one referenced above prove that it can, and if we don’t do something now, it will happen here. The elite cultural institutions of the nation are all organizing against us and using their massive, well funded propaganda machinery to marginalize all opponents of the regime. Once we have been effectively marginalized and scapegoated we become sub-humans in the eyes of our fellow citizens. Then, anything goes and suddenly we are in the same situation as Japanese Americans during WWII.

We have been traveling down this road, the road to serfdom, for 100 years. Don’t act like your surprised now. Feel like your back is against the wall? That’s because it is.
Anonymous

Just to clarify the issue a bit, violence in defense of life, liberty and property is perfectly justifiable under the non-aggression principle. Libertarians aren’t pacifists, we’re peaceful and tolerant people but even we can be pushed too far.
TRA

Tom Woods needs to read “The Red Amendment”.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=531542888 Bob Bobson

As someone who read the CTC more then most (as the token “neocon” as many of you would describe me)I have noticed a sever lacking in anything of substance since the inauguration of the last president. Re hashed over bloated tripe and nonsense proliferates its pages. There has been a sever drop in in interesting and insightful works and documents. From original captured AQ pictures and documents,direct refutations to Ayman Al Zarhaie,Inside look at AQ operations in Africa, and AQ operations and tactics and suggestions for counter, I found the CTC a valuable resource to the inner workings of AQ from a heavily researched academic standpoint. This is a sad state of affairs when an institution with so many deep thinkers and smart researchers that i regarded highly offers up this kind of cheap political theater.