Conservative Group Still Promoting Proud-To-Be-A-Right-Wing Extremist Cards

The murder of abortion provider George Tiller and the killing of a security guard at the Washington D.C. Holocaust museum by a white supremacist on Wednesday has forced early critics of a Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism to revisit their critiques.

But not everyone has been so affected by the rise in violent, ideologically motivated killings.

The religious conservative, non-profit organization Liberty Counsel is still promoting on its website right-wing extremist ID cards as a way of protesting that very same DHS report.

"I'm Proud to be a Right-Wing Extremist," reads the card, "as described in the DHS Intelligence Assessment of April 7, 2009."

The cards, which were initially designed to ding DHS for raising concerns about anti-abortion activists, gun enthusiasts, returning veterans and the like, are described on Liberty Counsel's website as "humorous." But in the wake of Wednesday's shooting and Tiller's murder, their continued promotion is far more politically divisive. Indeed, some of the concerns laid out in the DHS report seem entirely pertinent to the recent incidents of extremist activity. The agency warned both about anti-Semitic behavior and pro-life zealotry resulting in actual violence.

A call to Liberty Counsel was not immediate returned.

"The Department of Homeland Security recently issued a report warning law enforcement officials nationwide about the dangers of ''right-wing extremism,'' reads an accompanying post from Anita Staver, President of Liberty Counsel. "The most jaw-dropping aspect of this report is that its definition of 'right-wing extremist' applies to any conservative or value-centered person!"

(h/t: RightWingWatch)

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Comments

[onepotatotwopotato]

10:48 AM on 06/12/2009

I thought that $20 was a little bit steep for one card so I passed. They don't say whether it is plastic or paper even. $5 would seem fair to me though.

[Shavano]

12:18 AM on 06/12/2009

We have a serious problem in this country. We can't seem to call these extreme right-wing people what they really are. They are Fascists they exhibit a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. Those that seek this dictatorial control can't come out and say it, instead they wrap themselves in the flag and claim that anyone who disagrees is a communist or socialist. In short, no tolerance for the individual. Whatever they claim is the correct choice, whether anti-abortion, pro death penalty or adherence to Christian fundamentalism they are willing to gain by whatever means, including terrorism. They exalt over the deaths of individuals they disagree with, while claiming that they didn't cause it. These people will resort to anything even if it means murder, mass or otherwise. These are dangerous people with a very dangerous agenda.

[onepotatotwopotato]

12:06 AM on 06/14/2009

The ideas of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the founder of Fascism, are remarkably similar to the ideas of modern-day Western Leftists. If Mussolini was not the direct teacher of modern-day Leftists, he was certainly a major predecessor. What Leftists advocate today is not, of course, totally identical with what Mussolini was advocating and doing 60 to 80 years ago in Italy but there are nonetheless extensive and surprising parallels. Early in the 20th century, he prophesied that the 20th century would be the century of Fascism and he got that right in that most of his ideas are still preached by the modern-day Left.

[DaveyDavey]

10:54 PM on 06/11/2009

The Liberty Council is to liberty as the Patriot Act is to patriotism: anything but.

[armadillious2002]

09:47 PM on 06/11/2009

Basically conservatives - the report states that right wing wackos are mentally ill and a danger to democracy - so what's your point?

[MajorKong]

08:40 PM on 06/11/2009

I guess it's only terrorism if a brown person does it.

[4 Real]

08:28 PM on 06/11/2009

Proud to be stoopid, no wonder they love Palin. A low intellect combined with a narrow view of the world equals a dippshite.

[Ramirez]

10:02 PM on 06/11/2009

All HuffPost threads are eventually about Sarah Palin.

[chriss0114]

01:16 AM on 06/12/2009

she did her part by her statements and she did attract hordes of haters from around the country--they squirmed out from under every nook, cranny and rock around

[marijam]

07:00 PM on 06/11/2009

Anita is being stupid, or intellectually dishonest. She knows good and well who we mean when we talk about the "right-wing, conservative, extremists". However, I don't think of them as conservative, because I consider myself to be a conservation, you know, conserve the land, air, sea, water, animals, etc. I think of them as neo-confederates. I think neo-confederates fits them perfectly. I wish it would catch on, as a catch-all name for them.

[texasdetainee]

06:15 PM on 06/11/2009

Can someone explain to me why we, in America, perform extraordinary renditions worldwide, conform our entire air-travel system and commit substantial human and financial resources (among countless other efforts) as a response to one terrorist attack while we, in effect, ignore white supremacy groups? Most African Americans, informed and otherwise, will tell you that they have been terrorized on every imaginable front from the day their slave ships landed in America through today. The American government supported this system of terror for hundreds of years (from slaver to Jim Crow and beyond). Though it has slowly changed course over time, that change has not come without opposition from within our country. Those who have opposed have always had representation at the highest levels of government, and today that representation is provided via the Republican party...primarily. I must hasten to say that not all Republicans (or whites obviously) subscribe to the historically oppressive, terrorist culture of America toward all non-whites, but those who do have been such a prevailing voice of the Party that they appear to be the majority; and it seems their agenda has formed the Party's primary message. Back to my point, when Bush declared war on terror, it became clear to me that acts against Americans don't fit the "prevailing American-culture's" definition of "terrorism" unless white America is included in the target group. This is because white America has historically been the terrorist against non-white Americans.

[BBinMT]

08:48 PM on 06/11/2009

Those that you describe (domestic terrorists, white supremecists, etc.) are morons that , in my estimation, cannot be changed or are unwilling to change themselves. They have a narrow, miopic worldview on everything including those that they see as different from them. Oddly, they seem to be protected until they act. With the advent of Cable TV "opinion" channels, their diatribes have only gotten louder and reach a wider audience of fellow morons. I don't know when we will begin to look within concerning human rights. The right wing talkers use the first amendment as toilet paper until they are called out with their hate vocabulary.

[iswideopen]

06:13 PM on 06/11/2009

The American "axis of evil" is what they are.

[medici]

06:01 PM on 06/11/2009

Apparently all people (all people who have exited the womb, that is) are targets to the right wing.
You can't fix stupid.

[silverball]

05:43 PM on 06/11/2009

on the back they read " STOOPID and proud of it!!!"

[protagonia]

05:56 PM on 06/11/2009

LOL! True. They are all under the IQ of a dog.

[tailgateshirts]

05:25 PM on 06/11/2009

so all center-right people are anti-semitic according to that site.... slick

[Telemachus]

05:21 PM on 06/11/2009

Liberty "Counsel"? Not "Council"?

They may need legal "counsel" soon, for impersonating an attorney ... if not for felony stupidity.

[Solja]

09:41 PM on 06/11/2009

They claim to be a "public internet law firm".

[Tuckerndfw]

05:18 PM on 06/11/2009

ID cards? Why not issue brown shirts for them to wear while advocating their right to murder people with whom they disagree?



NOTE to the uninformed: Hitler's early supporters wore brown shirts and were referred to as "Brown Shirts." Many of them went on to become the Nazi SS - ran the concentration camps).

[josephRoehl]

11:27 PM on 06/16/2009

Tuckerndfw has been using this site to spread hate speech about gays and gay families. He calls all gays 'sodomites'. So he's pretty well versed on brown shirts and nazism.

[billthinx]

05:16 PM on 06/11/2009

Obviously, to be a conservative is to stand in favor of all bad things. And to be an idiot.

OK to murder a doctor? Gun down people at a museum? Deny the holocaust? Like to stir up emotions among the naive and uneducated? Hate all taxes? Think government is the work of the devil? Hate the poor? Like to look down on other people? Think the military should be used against Hispanics? Think it's fine to discriminate at work? Did you think slavery should be left alone because it was already there? Think kindergarteners should carry guns to school to protect themselves? Wouldn't you like to kick out of America everyone you don't like? You're a conservative and just getting started on all the things you hate!

(Sign up for ann coulter's latest class in doofish bigotry.)

[BBinMT]

08:51 PM on 06/11/2009

Not signing up for a class from a woman that looks like Tom Petty...

[Solja]

09:42 PM on 06/11/2009

Everything you said is true, sadly.