Harry's Blog

It seems that now the folks who brought you the Patriot Act are no longer in power, they are getting rather whiney about its use. Glenn Greenwald has written a very interesting article about the US right wing reaping what it had sown.

Right-wing polemicists today are shrieking in self-pitying protest over a new report from the Department of Homeland Security sent to local police forces which warns of growing "right-wing extremist activity." The report identifies attributes of these right-wing extremists, warning that a growing domestic threat of violence and terrorism "may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration" and "groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority."