DOD Training Materials Call Conservatives ‘Extremists’

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
August 23, 2013 2:00 pm

Judicial Watch obtained Defense Department training materials on Friday that described conservative and civil liberties organizations as “hate groups.”

The training materials used by the Air Force were created to help students “recognize extremists ideologies.” The materials identified conservative values, such as individual liberties and states’ rights, as recruiting rhetoric used by “extremists.”

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Under a section labeled “Extremist Ideologies” the document states, “In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.”

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The documents were published by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute in January 2013. They cited the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center repeatedly as a source to use when identifying hate groups.
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http://freebeacon.com/dod-training-mater...ves-extremists/

Link to training manual:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/162321199/2161-docs#page=32

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They cited the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center repeatedly as a source to use when identifying hate groups.

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It takes one to know one.

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They cited the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center repeatedly as a source to use when identifying hate groups.

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It takes one to know one.

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One of the ironies I noticed as I skimmed the pdf is that the traits and behaviors used to to identify an extremist could easily be ascribed to the source of the information.

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They cited the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center repeatedly as a source to use when identifying hate groups.

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It takes one to know one.

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One of the ironies I noticed as I skimmed the pdf is that the traits and behaviors used to to identify an extremist could easily be ascribed to the source of the information.

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Exactly.

@nicmarlo

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I'm not an 'extremist'! I Stand Squarely on the Constitution, right where the Founding Fathers left us!

How does that make any of us the enemy; they are!!

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One of the more insidious tactics of the statists is the sly way they slowly change the meaning of language and plant ideas in your head.

In the training manual the KKK, the 9-11 terrorists, and the Founding Fathers are all given the same label ! Just think of how that subtly brain washes one to accept denigration of our traditional culture and ethics.

@nicmarlo

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When will the people wake up??!!

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Change is hard and painful. Most people won't change/wake up until circumstances force them to.

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@Sanguine

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And, of course, True Believers also helps explain this all too common phenomenon.

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How true !

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I'm not familiar with that site, Algernon. I'll have to do some reading.

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