Obama DOD: Mainstream Conservative Views “Extremist”
Did you ever think there would come a day in this country when the federal government would compare a person speaking about “individual liberties” to a member of the Klu Klux Klan? Unfortunately, such is the state of affairs in Obama’s America.
Judicial Watch recently obtained “educational” materials from the Department of Defense (DOD) depicting conservative organizations as “hate groups” and advising students to be aware that “instead of dressing in sheets or publicly espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.”
The documents repeatedly cite the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a resource for identifying “hate groups.” (More on this contemptible group here.)
Pursuant to our original Freedom of Information (FOIA) request, filed on April 8, 2013, JW sought from DOD: “Any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force.”
And here’s what we have received so far: 133 pages of lesson plans and PowerPoint slides provided by the U.S. Air Force. Included in these documents is a January 2013 Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute “student guide” entitled “Extremism.” The document is marked “for training purposes only” with the instruction “do not use on the job.”
