Landmark Baptist

After this article I really started thinking about this question...Is the Landmark Discussion Board Considered Right Wing Extremist?

1. We all hold to a literal view of the Bible
2. Many of us are veterans of the military
3. We all are anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage
4. We speak out boldly against homosexual behavior
5. We are all white (maybe a couple with slight mixes but nothing enough to really see).
6. We probably all have guns
7. Some are Sectarian Isolationists (closely akin to a Compound Mentality) in ideology or atleast sympathetic to it.

For a large part this describes Landmarkism as a whole.

Do you all think that this Discussion Board is Considered Right -Wing Extremist by our Govt?



Right-wing extremists seen as a threat
A Homeland Security report says right-wing groups are on the rise because of fears about Obama and the recession.
By Greg Miller
April 16, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- The economic downturn and the election of the nation's first black president are contributing to a resurgence of right-wing extremist groups, which had been on the wane since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment distributed to state and local authorities last week.

The report, produced by the Department of Homeland Security, has triggered a backlash among conservatives because it also raised the specter that disgruntled veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan might "boost the capabilities of extremists . . . to carry out violence."


The assessment noted that domestic security officials had seen no evidence that such groups were planning attacks in the U.S.

But it is the first high-level U.S. intelligence report to call attention to an array of recent domestic developments as potential harbingers of terrorist violence.

Among other factors cited in the report were increased prospects for gun control and immigration legislation under President Obama, as well as resentment over the rising economic influence of countries such as China, India and Russia.


But the assessment focuses most of its attention on animosity toward Obama and anxiety over the recession.

"The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for right-wing radicalization and recruitment," the report warns in the first of a series of findings.

Overall, the document describes an economic and political climate that has "similarities to the 1990s, when right-wing extremism experienced a resurgence fueled largely by an economic recession, criticism about the outsourcing of jobs, and the perceived threat to U.S. power and sovereignty by other foreign powers."

The unclassified report was not released publicly but was distributed among law enforcement agencies across the country before it surfaced online this week.

It was produced by the intelligence and analysis branch of the Department of Homeland Security.

Though it covers an array of issues, the assessment has drawn fire from conservatives over a judgment that focuses on the potential violence of returning U.S. troops.

"The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today," the report said.

The assessment cites the case of Timothy McVeigh, who was executed in 2001 after being convicted of a bombing that killed 168 people at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City 14 years ago this month.

McVeigh was a decorated veteran of the Gulf War who was accused of plotting the bombing in retaliation for government clashes with a religious sect in Waco, Texas, and rural anti-government militias.

The Homeland Security document cites a 2008 FBI report that said some troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq had joined extremist groups.

The prospect that someone trained in military methods might carry out independent attacks or help form terrorist cells is described as "the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States."

Veterans groups have expressed dismay at the report's language, and accused the Department of Homeland Security of political bias.

"To continue to use McVeigh as an example of the stereotypical 'disgruntled military veteran' is as unfair as using Osama bin Laden as the sole example of Islam," said David K. Rehbein, the national commander of the American Legion, in a letter sent Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) also criticized the report, saying its depiction of veterans was "offensive and unacceptable."

Responding to the criticism, Napolitano said at an event in El Paso that she regretted the report had left the impression that the department was singling out former troops as a threat to the nation.

Wait a minute, -------------------- I'm white!