Pat Robertson has decided to chime in with some wisdom about the DHS report warning of right-wing extremists.

It shows somebody down in the bowels of that organization is either a convinced left winger or somebody whose sexual orientation is somewhat in question. But it’s that kind of thing, somebody who doesn’t think that we should have abortion on demand, is suddenly labeled a terrorist! It’s outrageous!

[Robertson now gives out the number for dept. of homeland security]

And if you jam up their telephone lines, good for you.

So not only is the DHS report clearly the work of militant gays, but concerned citizens should jam the lines of homeland security.

The DHS report didn't refer to "somebody who doesn’t think that we should have abortion on demand". It referred to far right hate. The report cited Richard Poplowski as an example.

The alleged gunman’s reaction reportedly was influenced by his racist ideology and belief in antigovernment conspiracy theories related to gun confiscations, citizen detention camps, and a Jewish-controlled “one world government.

There is a world of difference between being anti-abortion and believing in a Jewish controlled government that wants to confiscate guns and throw citizens in internment camps.

The DHS report warns about extremist beliefs that promote violence. Something Robertson should be familiar with considering he called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez back in 2005.

There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he's going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.

You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war.

That, Mr. Robinson, is the kind of rhetoric the DHS report warned about. Not anti-abortion beliefs.

Many who attended the various teabagging parties espoused the kind of rhetoric who should be wary of.





Why is Obama a fascist? "Because he is!".

George Caylor: The next American revolution begins here and begins tonight. […] Yesterday a friend of mine gave me a report from Homeland Security telling the FBI that people who are unhappy with government spending, the tax code, the general dismantling of our country, with supporting illegal immigrants with tens of millions of tax dollars, that you may be dangerous people.

Random Audience Member: We might be!

George Caylor: I pray to God you are.

George Caylor literally calls for another American revolution and prays to God that his listeners are "dangerous people". That is exactly the kind of anti-government behavior the DHS report was warning about.

The report was warning about people like Jim Adkisson. Adkisson opened fire at a Unitarian church.

He wrote a four page letter explaining his reasons.

The Democrats! The Democrats have done everything they can do to tie out hands in this War on Terror. They’re all a bunch of traitors. They want America to loose this war for reasons I can not understand. It makes me soooo mad!

n a parallel train of thought, it saddens me to think back on all the bad things that Liberalism has done to this country. The worst problem America faces today is Liberalism. They have dumbed down education, they have defined deviancy down. Liberals have attacked every major institution that made America great. From the Boy Scouts to the military, from education to Religion, the major news outlets have become the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. Liberals are evil, they embrace the tenets of Karl Marx, they’re Marxist, socialist, communists.

...I hate the damn left-wing Liberals. There is a vast left-wing conspiracy in this country & these liberals are working together to attack every decent & honorable institution in the Nation, trying to turn the country into a communist state. Shame on them.

...Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg’s book. I’d like to kill everyone in the Mainstream Media. But I know these people were inaccessible to me. I couldn’t get to the generals & high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chicken shit liberals that vote in these traitorous people. Someone had to get the ball rolling. I volunteered. I hope others do the same, it’s the only way we can rid America of this cancer this pestilence.

When police searched his house, they found some indications of where his mindset was formulated.

Inside the house, officers found "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity, and "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly.

As I have noted before, right-wing hate rhetoric has consequences.

This is the kind of hate and violence the DHS report warned about. Not anti-abortion beliefs. Not voting Republican. Not being a Conservative Christian. Actual hate and violence.

I think Pat Robertson knows that. Ironically, fomenting anger and hostility by lying about the report only risks causing the kind of behavior the report was actually warning about.