Just a personal note before I begin this post.  As the wife of a Vietnam-era veteran, I remember how the veterans were treated after that war.  A friend of my husband and me who was a personnel manager for a company told us that his company would not hire veterans from that era because they ‘just assumed that they were all screwed up’.  Needless to say, that made it very difficult to find a job if you had served your country (remember that the majority of people who served during that time were drafted–they did not volunteer).  I see the seeds of that happening again in the new Homeland Security Report, and I am concerned and disappointed by it.

The American Thinker and Hot Air both have articles discussing the report the Homeland Security Department issued in January regarding left-wing terror threats and how that compares with the recent report on right-wing terror threats.  The contrast is interesting.  Up front, I would like to say that there are stange people on both sides (and edges) of the political spectrum.  My experience has been, however, that generally conservatives tend to talk issues, liberals attack people and are not particularly open to debate.  Anyway, this is what the two reports on extremism said.  According to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

“While the DHS report focusing on the Right expansively and generally indicted groups opposing abortion, illegal immigration, and federalism, this report (the report focusing on the Left)instead focuses on actual and specific extremist groups – groups who have a long history of domestic terrorism and violence (page  9).”

The irony of the report of the left is that after looking at the history of violence (car dealerships burned up in California, home construction sites burned, research labs burned), they warn against cyber attacks by left wing terrorists.  Meanwhile, there are terrorists somewhere between Afghanistan and Pakistan who are splitting their sides laughing at this.  I just hope all they do is laugh..