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West Point has a fine and storied tradition: President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation establishing the military academy in 1802. 

The same Thomas Jefferson who often repeated the John Bradshaw quote:

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

And the same Thomas Jefferson who wrote:

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

West Point created the Combating Terrorism Center after the events of 9/11, in an effort to prepare cadets for the new and dangerous environment of suicidal enemies and thwart future attacks. Sounds good and noble, and in the context of West Point should be well-founded.

However, Dr. Arie Perliger, one of the Center’s experts, published a study in November titled Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right. There is something tremendously unsettling about seeing the words “America’s Violent Far-Right” in the title.

In Challengers, Perliger attempts to sideline West Point’s time-honored motto: Duty, Honor, Country.

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Dr. Perliger’s bio boasts, “…In the past decade Dr. Perliger has studied extensively issues related to Terrorism and Political Violence, Politics of Security, Politics of the Far Right in Israel, Europe”, and yet he seems afflicted with terrorist event amnesia.

Was it not fundamental Islamists who flew planes into the Twin Towers? Was it not Islamist Jihadis who bombed the USS Cole? Was not the number 1 terrorist in the world Usama bin Laden, the hero of Al Qaeda…one of the most evil, Islamist terror organizations in the world?

Why then would Dr. Perliger, a Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem publish a study inferring a threat of violence from the right in America?

Millions of Constitution-loving Americans identify themselves as part of the “Right”. And what was once merely a Conservative in the lexicon of political discourse, is now labeled “Far-Right”. However, the Left is almost never caricatured as the “Far-Left” in media, in spite of their adherence to Socialist (and worse) tenets!

On page 4 of his study Dr. Perliger writes concerning those he labels “far right”:

They also 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.

He continues his assertions:

…the fundamentalist stream, which includes mainly Christian Identity groups
such as the Aryan Nations...

Excuse me? With all we know of terrorism in the world–with the dramatic rise of antisemitism and radical Islamo-fascism, and the proliferation of hate-infused madrassas–Dr. Perliger’s thesis misdirects blame to “far-right” Christians and Jews? Additionally, he mis-appropriates the term “Christian Identity Group” to the heinous Aryan Nations.

Farther in the study, on page 17, he posits:

The far right represents a more extreme version of conservatism, as its political vision is usually justified by the aspiration to restore or preserve values and practices that are part of the idealized historical heritage of the nation or ethnic community.

Dr. Perliger paints those who wish to “restore or preserve values and practices” of our national heritage (could he possibly mean The Constitution?) as extreme and violent. But it gets better. Next the good doctor gets into the real red meat–those “pro-life extremists”!

During 1979, for example, two well known speakers of the evangelical movement at that time, Dr. C. Everett Koop and Francis Schaeffer, consistently claimed during a speaking tour that Roe v. Wade“symbolize[d] the triumph of evil over good.”

Can he seriously be judging Dr. C. Everett Koop and Dr. Francis Schaeffer to be “far-right” extremists? Dr. Koop was one of our nation’s most highly regarded pro-life and pioneering surgeons, who accrued medical fame performing successful separation of conjoined twins on several occasions. Dr. Francis Schaeffer was one of America’s most highly esteemed Christian thinkers whose teaching of Apologetics will long endure. Both men were gracious and intelligent; both wholeheartedly pro-life.

Contrast Dr. Koop’s and Dr. Schaeffer’s legacies with that of the many Islamist terrorist groups which celebrate death! Consider that the motto of Hamas is “We love death as much as the Jews love life.”

Dr. Perliger’s study is 147 hard-to-fathom pages, chock-full of socialist and subversive analysis: read it and be horrified that such a work can be attributed to an “expert” embedded in West Point’s Counter Terrorism Center.

Bill Wilson of the Daily Caller said it well:

Individuals enlisting in the U.S. Armed Forces must swear an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” But what happens when the only crime perpetrated by the “enemy” is supporting and defending the Constitution?

Thomas Jefferson would be appalled and infuriated that the very institution he signed into being houses a so-called expert touting anti-liberty, anti-Christian, anti-founding document rubbish. Jefferson would agree with Bill Wilson: Dr. Perliger should be immediately fired and his study should be deleted from digital memory and placed in the dung-heap of erased cyber directories.

Rather than Perliger’s abominable, anti-American study, let the cadets memorize these fine words of Thomas Jefferson:

 When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

 

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  • Carlos Ramos

    Sorry West Point and to think our future officers will graduate out of West Point.
    Your focus is not on the enemy – the enemy is already occupied the white house and is masquerading as Idi Amin Jr — The Right — we are spot on as usual which is why when projecting and strategizing for the Navy or Air Force game, Army usually gets it all wrong!

  • wildeagleone

    It sounds to me that West Point may be Obama’s Brown Army and if that is so, we will finally see why the Marine Corps is, and always has been superior to the Army!!

    SEMPER FI

    • RAPTOR555

      Not true. The Army and Marines get exactly the same training for their job descriptions. You shouldn’t make up things; it shows ignorance.

      • wildeagleone

        Raptor 555. and what computor game is this that you play army on? It is quite apparent you don’t have service time.

        • RAPTOR555

          Click on my picture and tell me that again, idiot! It was taken in 1959 in Germany.

          • wildeagleone

            I am truly sorry as that appeared to be a Boy Scout picture it is so small

          • RAPTOR555

            Thank you! I appreciate that very much but I’m curious about what I said that led to your remark.

          • wildeagleone

            A difference of opinion between the two of us and your snide (first) remark.

          • RAPTOR555

            There has always been healthy competition between the services but it seems that you took it to a new level when you downed the Army over an assumption that the Army would become Obama’s brown shirts. I personally believe that no service would betray the US citizens no matter what orders they are given to do so. That would include the majority of law enforcement which I was a part of for over 50 years. What we all, past and present service members, need to do is work together to get rid of the commie POTUS and forget about service rivalries until then. I am assuming that you were a Marine and I thank you for your service, my friend. HOO-RAH

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1315515107 Alan Smith

        Yes they do to A point. Army basic is 7 or8 weeks. Marines basic is 13 weeks. And when listing this kind of suverses BS in MCRD it is listed more as A joke than achual information. I got all the islamic training I needed on 10/23/1983 at A hotel in Beirut. Semper Fi

        • RAPTOR555

          In addition to Army basic training, AIT, Advanced Individual Training, of six to eight weeks is required of all enlisted Army personnel depending on their MOS. At least that was the rule in 1959.

        • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

          Alan…you will be interested in the fim I am working on1 I am the New Media and Marketing person for the Ride the Thunder film!! Based on this wonderful book!! http://www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck/bookreview/ride-thunder-vietnam-war-story-honor-and-triumph

      • ongelofelijk

        Again Raptor555, it never ends with geniuses like btgould inventing if not rewrite history and he should join the media and pursue a career in journalism.

    • gemstone

      Don’t kid yourself. If the army is being taught this stuff so are all branches of the armed services. With that said I doubt Oba
      ma or anyone else could get any red bloodied American soldier, Marine, Sailor, or Airman to fire on our citizens who were just supporting the constitution. As I proud retired army veteran who fought in two wars for this country I think I can not only speak for myself but for all the military folks I know and met through the years who would never raise arms against the citizens of this great nation. I understand you are proud of your affiliation with the Marine Corp as you should be and as I am of my Army service but never forget we are all members or veterans of the greatest military ever in the history of the world who will ‘support the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic’.

      • btgould

        Have you heard of the pension riots in D.C. when A gentleman named Mac Arthur machine gunned his fellow citizens He was rewarded for his dastardly deed and became a general.

      • http://www.facebook.com/carline.long Carline D. Long Jr.

        Agree with you gemstone. I have deployed three times and am almost retired. I agree as a Soldier I would not fire on my fellow citizens, Ever for upholding our constitution. God Bless the USA and her citizens and constitution.

        • ongelofelijk

          My gratitude also goes out to you like I thanked Gemstone.

          • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

            Amen! God Bless America and our troops!

      • ongelofelijk

        Gemstone, thanks for this piece of mind statement, A large share of the citizenry sympathetic to the fabian society cause need to hear this! >> and also thank your service my friend, if it were not for people like yourself, we would not be around or live in a different world and this is what these libtards need to be reminded of.

      • http://www.facebook.com/jackie.grissom Jackie Grissom

        have u seen the new targets? pregnant women and children…our elderly? and the motto is do not hesitate to shoot…

        • http://www.facebook.com/karen.marlatt Karen Marlatt

          not new … people train NOT to shoot until they ID the target

          • http://www.facebook.com/michael.shreve.94 Michael Shreve

            Au Contrair, they are being taught to shoot pregnant women, children the elderly WITHOUT hesitation.

      • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

        I agree! I love our troops and this guy does not represent them! I just hate to think these wonderful cadets are subjected to this anti-American rubbish!

      • http://www.facebook.com/laney.snyder Elaine Snyder

        they want a paycheck and will follow orders even if it is against every fiber of their moral being. they will be indoctrined into believing we are the enemy.

        • http://www.facebook.com/michael.shreve.94 Michael Shreve

          It happened in Germany.

      • http://www.facebook.com/curriewo Wendy Orr Currie

        There are essentially two militaries: true boots on the ground military and the ivory tower think tanks at the pentagon and universities. The former is steeped in the common sense of real world activity and doesn’t normally buy into the politics of the latter.

      • http://www.facebook.com/michael.shreve.94 Michael Shreve

        CAN, AND WILL!

    • http://www.facebook.com/roger.balcer.7 Roger Balcer

      Oh bullshit, put a bayonet lug on your jar head and charge into battle you brain washed egomaniac. Army Rangers…Lead The Way ! Hooah!

      • wildeagleone

        Within both services there are specialists and I was referring to the masses that come out of boot camp without going into any specialized training Re: Betets Recon, Seals, etc. thanks for you service and HooRah

        Semper Fi

      • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

        LOL! I love all of our troops and SpecOps!!!

    • Wayne

      What a pile of slop. Marines are no better than any other branch of our Military. As an Airman, I will attest to the fact that plenty of Airmen have fought well and many have died for America. Their blood runs just as red/white/blue as anyone else.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Johnson/100000824645514 Stephen Johnson

    Base on the ignorant statement made by Dr. Arie Perliger, General Patton would have been considered a right-wing terrorist. They better go and remove his statue because it may now become offensive to some left-wing wacko who is the real terrorist in America.

    • http://www.facebook.com/douglas.fertig Douglas Fertig

      We could use Old blood and Guts right about now, to lead 3rd Army downtown and set things right again.

    • ongelofelijk

      Wish we could revive General Patton.

    • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

      So true!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000050737164 Randy C. Lindsey

    I have confidence in the young men attending West Point that they will not be duped by liberal ideology. If I am wrong, then the West Point grads only make up a fairly small percentage of the officers in the U.S. Army. Many of them also come from ROTC programs in places such as Texas A&M, where, I am reasonably certain, such ideology is not being taught.

    • MomsKnowBest

      I wish I could find the survey the marines took that showed, when asked if they would open fire on American citizens, 25% chose “no opinion” and 11% chose “yes”.

      • http://www.facebook.com/jeremy.hiltz.1 Јеремија Хилтз
        • BillG4

          Thanks for posting this link. I’ve not seen this before, and it increases my concern. I suspect things have gotten worse since ’95.

          • http://www.facebook.com/greg.woodard.77 Greg Woodard

            I have a friend who just left the marines after his 20 was up and he told me about this last fall and he felt any who answered no we not going to be much favored if they were career

  • http://www.facebook.com/nick.walker.14661261 Nick Walker

    Yeah, Booth called Lincoln a tyrant too. Turns out those with anti-progressive views CAN be dangerous.

    BTW, facts (EEEE! I know, calm down, they’re not that bad): militias across the South (an area known to be friendly to Obama) have increased from less than a hundred in 2007 to over 1200 in 2011. What could have changed there, do you think?

    One more thing: would a tyrant really let you organize and keep a website like this? Wouldn’t he just find you and kill you to quell dissent? Because that’s how dictators work, if you’ve ever actually studied them. Oh well, enjoy it in the bubble.

    • http://www.facebook.com/doug.earnest Doug Earnest

      “One more thing: would a tyrant really let you organize and keep a website like this? Wouldn’t he just find you and kill you to quell dissent? Because that’s how dictators work, if you’ve ever actually studied them.”

      I can’t say I’ve made a lifelong “study” of dictators, but I seem to recall that some of them act more incrimentally than others, depending on the political climate at the time. Seriously, if you wanted to round up all the guns, you’d just issue an Executive Order on Day One of your administration? I doubt it. And you can’t see the necessity of a well-organized propaganda campaign before you start rounding up the Jews and sending them to concentration camps?

      So, you’ve studied dictators and know how they work, huh? Feel free to dazzle me with more facts — I’m a big boy, I can take it.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Potts/100001214441713 John Potts

        90% of the North’s income came from the South in the form of tarriffs. That was the reason the North invaded the South. The South had already agreed to end slavery in five years. It was an invasion to secure money for the Federal Government. Nothing more, nothing less.

  • http://profiles.google.com/theswabbie The Swabbie

    This is one West Point graduate that seems to have lost his way.. that or he wasn’t paying attention during his “Constitution” classes.. Moron. So far MOST of the domestic terrorist doing mass shootings are LEFTIST. However, I WILL cede that Timothy McVeigh was a registered Republican.. but VOTED “Libertarian”… he was also an avowed atheist.. So we cannot really even lump him into mainstream “Right”.. but Mainstream “Crazy Independent”.

    • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

      Exactly…he can only cite McVeigh! The rest of us are pro-Constitution and pro-life! Only violent when threatened and the need arises to protect ourselves and our loved ones!

  • http://www.facebook.com/nick.walker.14661261 Nick Walker

    No, swabbie, Libertarian is farther-right than conservative. Farther right still is anarchy. But how exactly was the Sandy Hook shooter a leftist, now? That Dorner guy makes it a point to say that he supports Democrats but IS NOT one himself. Go look it up. He says he admires them but never voted for them. How was the Batman guy (don’t really care to say their names) leftist? Because he was in med school and had a mental breakdown? Yeah. Seems legit.

    • MoPaul

      didn’t the batman guy work on Obama’s campaign?

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonylonon James Lonon

    You mean it took a study by an “expert” to figure out we are going to have a revolution when the government finally takes it too far? Of course we will, we are not so far removed from our past so as to crawl on our knees before “Authority” We are well armed and most of us have at some point have served in our military and know anything and everything that any present day soldier knows. I have some news for you who think of yourselves as “officers” or “military elite” or ” leaders”, We ALLOW the you the ILLUSION or leadership only so long as it serves our purpose and is at any point subject to revocation if you displease us! Remember this also, if you were to be so foolish as to order us to arrest ,detain,,punish, mistreat or disrespect our citizens, who by the way are our family and friends, you will find yourself at the end of a rope very quickly.

    • MomsKnowBest

      Think again my fellow American. Our “government” has and currently is, doing everything, including ignoring our Constitutional rights to make sure we are NOT well armed. Oh, let us not forget NDAA which has now imposed the acceptability of martial law in the U.S.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GD6WGI5UGQYOUQRGSAK42NCIFI JustLurkin

        MomsKnowBest, you think again. We all know what our government is currently doing. Do you think that we will allow it to continue or increase? You may be missing the point James Lonon is making.

    • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

      I can only say “MolonLabe”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kirk-Fraser/100000875649097 Kirk Fraser

    In my opinion a gaffe as big as calling something wrong “far right” should result in recall of a doctorate by the university. Based on American History, the absolute right is Jesus Christ. The KKK often called “far right” by liberals is actually a far left group invented by democrats to murder republicans, both black and white, according to David Barton.

    • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

      David Barton is awesome!! Love his work at Wallbuilders!

  • http://www.facebook.com/nick.walker.14661261 Nick Walker

    James, you must be reallllllly mad about the situation with black people in our country then, right? The drug war that disproportionately affects them? That 1 in 3 black men will go to prison in their lifetime, right now? That there are more black men in prison now than were enslaved total? That, to me, seems like a war on the people. Yet I haven’t heard it discussed by the Right at all (partly why the Cop-Killer was having such a hard time continuing to support them – yeah, I read the manifesto). So what are you waiting for? We went to Civil War over slavery before. Just because it’s modern-day slavery doesn’t mean it should be treated any differently. If you feel the government is mistreating your fellow citizens, stand up behind your strong Internet words! Quit complaining and DO SOMETHING to help black men!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kirk-Fraser/100000875649097 Kirk Fraser

      Want to help the Incarcerated Innocents? Read and share http://www.freetom.info

    • http://www.facebook.com/steve.merrette Steve Merrette

      Black men need to help them selves. There is a culture that somehow thinks that if you talk like an idiot, wear your pants below your ass, do drugs and father a bunch of kids and then dump them you are cool. It is not the whites who are acting like animals and all the money that has been poured into helping has completely gone to waste. if you would quit feeling sorry for yourselves get up off your asses and do something positive then maybe you would succeed. The problem is that any black man that does succeed is demonized by other blacks as an “Uncle Tom”. Until you get over that kind of thinking you will continue to live like animals and get the respect that animals deserve. Why not have someone like Dr. Carson or Condaleeza Rice as your role models instead of snoop dog and nick minaj.

  • http://americantruthdetector.org/ Doug Hamilton

    How come he never studied the political violence/terrorist of the far-left. Apparently he only see’s what he wants to see.

    • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

      Exactly!

  • http://www.facebook.com/RONTRAVIS60 Ron Travis

    why do they keep Idiots like this in our schools

    • Neal Gaylor

      Because the current government wants to brainwash our young people!!!!!!!!!!!

      • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

        Obama wants to fundamentally change America–and loons like this are helping him!

  • goodwordtoday

    Wow, this is disturbing that one of our most treasured national assets where future leaders of the country’s defense are being trained, is becoming anti-American. This is the first step in the use of the military against their fellow countrymen. They are being taught that some citizens are not worth defending and are, in fact, the enemy. And do they not take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States? Why would any officer of the Army take exception to citizens who want to do the same?

  • coacht11

    Well,,,, Goodwordtoday,,, This happens ALL the time in OUR SCHOOLS and Colleges. The TYPE of teachers that are in THE AMERICAN Schools have been sooo brain washed into what they NEED TO SAY instead of teaching the Truth. They could care Less,, Give me that Paycheck. Now ,, Please understand I’m not sayiing “”ALL”" Teachers so don’t go there.

  • blakeNaustin

    Interesting perspective. The far left is consistently far more militant than conservatives. But that could change if the U.S. continues down its current dangerous path with would-be tyrants like Obama at the helm.

    • ongelofelijk

      Somebody, some group or affiliation will draw a line in the sand, and this could or should happen sooner than later.

  • Billy Joe Perkins

    It sounds like to me this man of Jewish decent , is predisposed to prejudice against Christians, and conservatives . It is a paranoia that a lot of Jewish people and people of color have against White conservatives that almost always leads them to conclusions like this and charges of racism. I suppose it comes from the actions of Hitler during the second world war, and the institution of slavery practiced before the civil war that makes them feel this way. Also I think they are envious of our traditional culture,and want to “fundamentally change” it, or dismantle it altogether. It is wrong for these people to promote policies that hold one race up simply because of color, the same as it is wrong to hold one down, and take from them because of color. Racism will not disappear until they stop these unfair practices and prejudices against White conservative Christians. None of who , by the way ever owned a slave, or participated in the Jewish persecutions during the second world war. It is obvious if you look at the recent presidential election , by the evidence of the voting along racial lines that they feel this way. If progress is to be made these things must change.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dale-Brown/100002023689572 Dale Brown

      DANGER OF COLLAPSED SOCIAL STANDERS FUELED BY HATE AND ENVY . THIS AND DRUGS SET CHINA BACK 300 YRS. THEY ARE MORE TEMPERED LEADERS ON COME BACK SEARCHING THE WEAK GOVERNMENTS . WAKE UP

  • Mark K

    Dr. Arie Perliger is an idiot.

    • ongelofelijk

      Not only an idiot but also a dangerous one!

      • http://twitter.com/tamij Tamara Jackson

        Indeed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/BassFlunkie Brian Roach

    Aside from believing airplanes brought down the twin towers, this is spot on. This is just another shot across the bow from the career idiots that think Government is unstoppable, and think they’ll be on the winning side. More fodder for the cannons.

  • http://americantruthdetector.org/ Doug Hamilton

    And yet Dr. Perliger does not include the far-left equation in the occupiers that were raping women. They claimed to be the far-left liberal and included crimes against the cities they occupied.

    Why is it that Dr. Perliger does not include all the other fatal shootings of innocent lives? Or is he just the type that likes to point his finger in a direction that is against his philosophical ideology.

    To place blame (like he does) only shows how much of a real coward he truly is. Not all from the left or the right think the same way. Whether extreme left or extreme right. Dr. Perliger is just trying to place blame on the far right to satisfy his ineptness in deducing the real problem, which is not in a certain party of government.

    No, Dr. Perliger, just because a person who commits a crime and is in a political party does not make everyone in that party the same. You are the a one typical white guy who tries to stereotype people into submission because you want fame and fortune at the tune of someones expense.

    Just think Dr. Perliger has a doctorate and is teaching our kids this stuff. As Charlie Brown would say “Good Grief”.

  • Ron B

    If you think the far right is violent, tehn what do you think of the far left ??? Just about every protest by the left ends in cars getting burned, bottles being thrown and numerous other atrocities to people…. Not many right wing conservative’s protests end in violence…. SO who is violent ??????

  • disqus_yq9xequyt3

    These views are common of many Officers of our Military. Not just this fool. Higher the rank the further left.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Long/1450125296 Roger Long

    Obviously not a veteran, probably some idiot with a Ph.D that don’t know $hit. A “90 day wonder” would know more than this clown. I believe in “God, country & honor” but I consider myself middle of the road leaning to the right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/DvlDawg Glen Saunders

    You’re seeing the results of an educated moron with all G2 and no G whiz…..He talks like a man with a paper a**hole and certainly has never talked with one of us “Far right” types……Probably afraid we’ll hurt him….

  • http://www.facebook.com/dentmanray W Ray Horner

    I totally agree. Dr Perliger has slipped a cranial gear into demented if he thinks conservative thinkers are terrorists. Wow. Are we suddenly living in the Twilight Zone? Perhaps West Point has somehow slid of the map into bizarro land.

  • http://www.facebook.com/hausding Sid Hausding

    That nut case (calls himself an expert) has been reading too many ‘photoshopped’ rally posters………

  • RAPTOR555

    Don’t listen to this idiot. The cadets don’t!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack-Vier/1532882262 Jack Vier

    Another left wing educated fool who thinks anyone who does not like the direction this country is being taken is a radical. Well count me in as one of them. I believe in God country and freedom. I have my Bilbe, Guns and ammo.

  • http://twitter.com/ImSharp222 Sharp Mom

    I know of no “far-right” political violence…However, far-left violence knows no end of examples…Wall Street protestors, G8 protestors, etc…How does some idiot like this get a job at such an esteemed institution???

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Potts/100001214441713 John Potts

    I wonder if West Point officers have been posted to DHS? If so, I think they will be executed on the spot if captured during the attempt to confiscate our weapons. No mercy to West Pointers found in the service of DHS. They will condemn themselves. No need for a trial.

  • http://www.facebook.com/david.b.cordick David B Cordick

    clearly this guy is a enemy of the american people trying to brainwash young men. but is i think that the people should know the truth. officers are figure heads, it is the enlisted men that run ther services. in the morning you meet the officer in charge and he deicides what he wants done. when dismissed the enlisted in charge sends a couple of men to start to work on the officers project. meanwhile he uses the rest of the men to do what should be done. most of the time the officer has no idea about the other work being done. when it comes time to use or implement the other things done, the officer is completely ignorant how it got done or who did it. meanwhile the project the officer designated is not complete, so the next day he just says continue on with yesterdays work, and the enlisted repeat the cycle from the day before, and thats how it works. twenty year verteran i am,

  • Johnny Morris

    Someone once used the word…..”Bring it on”…………I think we the people will take care of our nation and our Constitution. Whatever it takes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rich.algeni Rich Algeni

    Look at this guy’s bio, is he not the prototypical liberal? Done nothing, knows everything! Who hires someone like this for our Armed Forces? Liberalism is insidious!

  • truth_seeker_3

    Combating Terrorism Center was founded on a false premise. 911 was an inside job. The enemy is within us. How many cadets are allowed to explore that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/kevin.brown.549436 Kevin Brown

    2 words= Remember WACO…

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Rho/100002799182852 Willy Rho

      Remember Ruby Ridge

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Rho/100002799182852 Willy Rho

      Remember Murray Bldg in OKC. FBI was compicit in that bombing. They supplied the Critical Chemicals, detonators and technology. Gubbermint Moles do stuff like that. Google Trentadue…. http://www.coachisright.com/why-eric-holder-covered-up-the-1995-trentadue-murder/

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=598149295 Joanne Long

    All I get out of this baloney is another division.

  • wfwilson6

    I wonder if there is a new “litmus test” to get into West Point. One where potential applicants have to answer questions like “are you willing to fire on those American citizens who oppose the Obama government, or oppose DHS??”

  • James Middleton

    The bottom line is the study is basically correct. When the Left undermines enough of the Constitutional rights in an effort to inflict their version of a socialist welfare state the “far right” will say enough is enough. When the government is afraid of the people….

    US Navy Retired.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Willy-Rho/100002799182852 Willy Rho

    Watch out for the Chicago Mob. Their latest conquest is the White House and the Mayor of Chicago and all Governors of Illinois are in PRISON. what the F?

  • http://twitter.com/AmericanHawkTPJ Patriotic Resistance

    “Violent far right”? Do you know what other group of people were smeared as the violent fringe? None other than those individuals that fought tyranny from 1775 until the king’s men and traitors evacuated American shores. Our fellow Americans have nothing to fear from us “violent right wing nut jobs”. Tyrants, and those who support and collude with them, on the other hand…. Sic Semper Tyrannis.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dale.netherton Dale Netherton

    A dictator is a dictator and is an advocate of collectivism. That puts them all in the left camp. Freedom and Capitalism is the far right and is no danger to anyone.

  • Elegy56

    We need to quit playing with our puds and sitting on the internet complaining. We can no longer count on having representation in Congress, we need to handle this ourselves. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the federal gov’t is preparing for war on the citizenry. Everything from the brainwashing like this to the DHS purchasing billions of hollow point rds, MRAPS and drones.

    We only have a few peaceful options left that will make an impact. One of them is for about 5 million armed Americans to march to the WH and Capitol Bldg steps. The other is the majority quitting to fund this gov’t that is enslaving us by the day; we need to quit paying taxes. These traitors understand fear and they understand money, that’s it. They need to fear the citizenry again. They’ve seen us do nothing over the past decade other than accept what they dish out. We better do something en mass quick, they are preparing for violence.

  • grannylake

    I would rather face the honesty of the “violent far right” and have the freedom to speak out if I disagree with their methods than to deal the dishonest “socialist far left” that wants to take my freedoms.

  • http://www.facebook.com/greg.woodard.77 Greg Woodard

    I have a friend who just got out after his 20 and he told me this really was asked of them would you fire on american’s who refused to turn in their banned weapons and he had the feeling any who answered no weren’t going to last very long if they were career

  • Public_Citizen

    Those who consider themselves as being in the center would have been viewed as so far left in the 1950s as to be under investigation by the House Unamerican Activites Committee. [Observation: Leftists often think of themselves as being in the center]
    A comprehensive survey of organized politically violence in the United States since WWII will demonstrate that the vast majority of the acts have been perpetrated by those with affiliation to individuals and organizations that describe themselves as being on the left. If one goes back to the late 19th century the survey will skew far to to the left due to the activities of anarchists and “the Progressive Movement”

  • bull57

    Please give me an example of “far right conservatives” burning and looting our own neighborhoods. Show me how we move into to parks and illegally camp. Show me how we rape our women that protest with us in these camps. Now I will show you where you can find us right wing nuts, Europe, Vietnam, Korea, Germany and the list goes on! Where ever our country needs defending is where you will find us….

  • Neal Gaylor

    This guy is a liberal idiot without a brain in his head! He’s one of those liberals who wants to see America destroyed. He’s a Jew who equates the far right as “those who cling to their guns and Bibles”. Of course a Jew would be against Christians and those who don’t support the government who pays him his salary!!! He’s obviously an obozo supporter as most of what he states is almost word for word out of The Department of Homeland Security’s Assessment – Rightwing Extremism: Current and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. This document essentually states that anyone who doesn’t agree with the government or has certain (Christian) ideals could be possible domestic terrorist. This is exactly what this guy is saying, almost word for word. Those people: the current administration and the guy who wrote this ARE the REAL domestic terrorists. They want to do away with The Constitution and make America a communist country!

  • soldtonorm

    This “expert” no more speaks for West Point than Obama speaks for America.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rumsower Montie Rumsower

    The vast majority of these so called experts couldn’t figure out how to get the warm liquid out of their own shoes with directions.

    • liliq

      But the unswerving devotion they demand with the very life blood of their students, assures successful adoption and implementation of their doctrines. Those are the next leaders of this nation’s military, those are the principles the next leaders of this nation’s military will take into battle.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kristy.littlefield.1 Kristy Littlefield

    OMG, where do these idiots come from…..Does anyone really believe his nonsense? You want to talk violence? How about the Ku Klux Klan, the terrorist wing of the Democratic party. They are still alive and well, just not as visible as they were back in the day. That was violence, and how about Obama and his killing drones. Isn’t that violence? Give me a break.

    • liliq

      They will. They are our next military leaders. That is their profession.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1523329979 Judy Deaton Simmons

      and he gets paid to write this tripe

  • http://www.facebook.com/leprecaun14456 Robert Myles

    Alinsky/marxist thinking and teaching, take over the educational institutions and you can train the minds of the young to the socialist marxist way. Not surprising to find it also has reached West point as i am sure it is also in the naval academy and the air force academy. Most public schools and college/universities that are ‘public’ have the brainwashers working overtime to turn our young into good little sheeple. I swore my oath in 1970 went into army and then was sent to viet nam for my final education. have watched this country sadly turn more and more left to where Mitt had it right we are near the tipping point of takers surpassing the makers

  • liliq

    Didn’t AG Holder begin his career by demanding that America’s youth be suitably “brain washed” to believe that guns are evil, because independent thought was too vague and impractical to develop true believers who would promote the will of the re-gressives at any cost?
    Identifying the enemy of America as all those who oppose the true will of the Obama is just a page out of their role models’ doctrines and an ‘evolutionary’ trend to polarize and isolate all thought, words and deed that might oppose it.
    “The future must not belong to those who defame the prophet of Islam.” (President Obama address to the UN General Assembly on 9/25/12 full text available at Whitehouse.gov)

  • Byron Mullet

    Dr Perlinger, probably most of America’s founding fathers and patriots would qualify as far right Christian, by your prejudicial definition. Israel has no greater friend than evangelical Christians in the present era, who would if called upon and will if called upon, defend it. You are correct, we do in general resent overreaching and meddling by our own government in our lives, but this is just the yearning of civilized free people wanting to continue to breathe free. Please do not be threatened by it, these feelings are patriot dreams and are probably why many of our own children grow up wanting as my youngest, to serve their country as a Marine, presently in Afghanistan, defending the noble as well as the weak, from those who would injure or destroy or undermine the rule of law and the protections of the peace, we call the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. So, in other words, find another group to harass and castigate if you that’s what makes you tick, but your barking up the wrong tree here…to put it plainly.

  • Byron Mullet

    Dr Perlinger, probably most of America’s founding fathers and patriots would qualify as far right Christian, by your prejudicial definition. Israel has no greater friend than evangelical Christians in the present era, who would if called upon and will if called upon, defend it. You are correct, we do in general resent overreaching and meddling by our own government in our lives, but this is just the yearning of civilized free people wanting to continue to breathe free. Please do not be threatened by it, these feelings are patriot dreams and are probably why many of our own children grow up wanting as my youngest, to serve their country as a Marine, presently in Afghanistan, defending the noble as well as the weak, from those who would injure or destroy or undermine the rule of law and the protections of the peace, we call the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

  • deesposito1

    Some ‘experts’ spend far too much time in their ivory towers. They are completely out of touch with that thing called ‘reality’! They become the danger they warn about.

  • ellis_alan69

    The U.S. gives money and weapons away to other countries to help radicals fight against their government, but when we fight against our own government, per our rights in the constitution, we are labeled terrorist? Interesting.

  • daves

    I think Thomas Jefferson would agree that the federal government deciding whether or not a woman can get an abortion is tyrannical.

  • Wayne

    If Arie Perliger did even the slightest amount of honest research, he would have found that the “Far Left” of America is replete with acts of terrorism from the early 1960′s to present. In the beginning, Obammy’s friends and mentors were part of that terrorism, and they have spread it far and wide to the present political ilk we see in the W.H.

  • http://www.facebook.com/keith.campbell.92167 Keith Campbell

    The military leans heavily towards conservatism. Though there are a few
    liberal minded individuals, and despite far left infiltration in military
    academia, the military, especially the
    Army and Marine Corps remains primarily conservative. Especially in combat arms
    fields. (I.E. Infantry, Combat Engineers, Cavalry, Armor, Artillary, Special
    Operations, etc.) One of the most conservative, patriotic communities in
    all of the U.S. Eighty five to ninety six percent, on average, vote republican.
    I would like to say; make no mistake about it, there is a sizable, patriotic
    resistance inside the U.S. Military that is silently growing, but hoping their
    services are not needed. But none the less, they are watching.

  • far2right

    More settled science that liberalism is truly a mental disorder.

    Even PhD’s can be afflicted with stupid of the kind that cannot be fixed.

    Here we have leftists and liberals going on shooting sprees and, best of all, the American feminist terrorist group, Gal Qaeda, which has murdered, butchered and terrorized over 56 million babies.

    There is no sub-culture of the human race since the dawn of man that has been more violent than the American far left liberal.

  • http://twitter.com/rlrork55 Rick Rork

    Yea fucktard, and we outnumber you and can shoot better than you and can out last you.

  • http://twitter.com/rlrork55 Rick Rork

    This genius hasn’t figured out yet that this administration is not the country. And the extreme right is over half the country. You bastards better be afraid because when you bring it to our homes and families, we’re taking the fight to yours. You will learn you reap what you sow.

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.shreve.94 Michael Shreve

    Dr. Arie Perliger’s thinking is no more than we should EXPECT from anyone indoctrinated in our liberal, progressive communist halls of learning. The military, however, one accepted its’ oath to “support and defend” the U.S. Constitution as a sacred honor. One wonders how many U.S. military ” leaders today BELIEVE that those who ACTUALLY support the U.S. Constitution ARE the enemy.

  • Idaho Bob

    This is in keeping with the DHS who put out a report in 2009 that labeled the following individuals as right wing white supremacists:
    if you are against abortion
    if you are against illegal immigration
    if you reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority
    if you reject government authority entirely
    if you are a Returning veteran
    if you don’t’ support governmental policy changes
    if you are focused on the economy
    if you perceive the loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors
    if you are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration
    if you are against illegal immigration and citizenship
    if you are concerned about the expansion of social programs
    if you are against the restrictions on firearms
    if you see the purchase of legitimate firearms as a wise move
    if you are concerned about an impending economic collapse
    if you are concerned about declarations of martial law
    if you are concerned about impending civil strife or racial conflict
    if you are concerned about the suspension of the U.S. Constitution
    if you are concerned about citizen detention camps
    if you believe in end times prophecies
    if you bemoan the decline of U.S. stature
    if it bothers you that China is investing in U.S. real estate and corporations
    and
    If you don’t like the first African American president

    Then, you are right wing white supremacist according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

    By this test I fail since I fit the profile of all put three or four of their bullet points. I can guarantee that I’m not a white supremacists, but that doesn’t seem to matter today. All that maters is if you do not go along with the left’s policies and ideology you are a threat. They are doing all that they can, legally or not, to marginalize the opposition. They seemingly have infiltrated every level of our society from the schools to the court system to politics and to the church.

    You can search and download the document in pdf format by looking up, Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment