John R. Houk
© February 8, 2017
Americans that have not been brainwashed by eight years of
the Obama Administration in collusion with the Leftist MSM, should not be
surprised at the Dems and media excoriating President Trump’s protection of
American from Islamic terrorism.
Obama and the Southern Poverty Law Center
(More specifics on the SPLC from the Social Contract Press) were
fairly successful in purging Law Enforcement of knowledgeable Counter Terrorism
experts. Then proceeded to label Conservative organizations, Traditional Values
Christian organizations and Counterjihad organizations as bigoted, hate-inspiring,
and Islamophobic American right wing terrorists.
Check this out:
Unreal… Obama’s DHS Continues to Target
Conservatives & Liberty Lovers As Terrorists (Video)
It’s an Obama bizarro world…
The Obama administration holds peace talks with Taliban killers but treats patriotic Americans as terrorists.
Go figure.
The Department of Homeland Security
is continuing to target patriotic Americans
and conservatives who “believe that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of
life’ is under attack” as terrorists. They even have this listed in
their latest report.
This is unbelievable.
[Not part of Gateway Pundit
article but important] Posted by usACTIONnews
Published
on Jul 9, 2012
"Groups
that believe that one's personal and/or national 'way of life' is under attack
and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent." describes
potential terrorists? WTH? DHS is using left wing hate groups and even Islamic
groups with ties to terrorism as consultants to determine who are threats.
From a Jan, 2011 article "How Dept. of Homeland Security identifies 'right wing extremists':
The radical leftist group Southern Poverty Law Center has partnered with the Department of Homeland Security in a 'Working Group' called Countering violent Extremism to paint conservatives as hate groups and extremists.
...
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese says it is "despicable" for the Southern Poverty Law Center to classify the Family Research Council and a dozen other top conservative organizations as "hate groups" similar to the Ku Klux Klan.
The SPLC has a history of targeting conservatives and conservative groups as racist, homophobic, or extremist if they disagree with the radical left positions of the SPLC on any number of issues. An article at Discover the Networks.org says "What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this "the broad-brush smear.""
.....
The SPLC has joined the Department of Homeland Security in a 'Working Group' called Countering violent Extremism. John Cohen, President and CEO of SPLC is listed as a member and Laurie Wood, Analyst, Southern Poverty Law Center/Instructor, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is listed as an 'expert in subject matter'. The members of the group also include three from Muslim organizations but we don't see any conservatives. (see the list at the end of the report)
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which has been determined by the courts to be a terrorist support group proudly points out on their Facebook page that its Michigan members 'participated a Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Working Group meeting with law enforcement officials and community advocates in Dearborn, Mich.'[ibid].
So we have the Southern Poverty Law Center, also known as The Church of Morris Dees, which calls groups and individuals like the Family Research Council, Eagle Forum, the Heritage Foundation, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Steve King (R-IA), and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) 'right wing extremists' and the Council on American-Islamic Relations which the FBI has proven to be linked to a terrorist organization teaming up with the US Department of Homeland Security to determine what groups in America should be categorized as 'extremist' and potentially violent.
Now you can see why the DHS came out with its Rightwing Extremism report in April of 2009 that warned of potential violence by people against illegal immigration and gun control, and returning military veterans. Now that's change.
From a Jan, 2011 article "How Dept. of Homeland Security identifies 'right wing extremists':
The radical leftist group Southern Poverty Law Center has partnered with the Department of Homeland Security in a 'Working Group' called Countering violent Extremism to paint conservatives as hate groups and extremists.
...
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese says it is "despicable" for the Southern Poverty Law Center to classify the Family Research Council and a dozen other top conservative organizations as "hate groups" similar to the Ku Klux Klan.
The SPLC has a history of targeting conservatives and conservative groups as racist, homophobic, or extremist if they disagree with the radical left positions of the SPLC on any number of issues. An article at Discover the Networks.org says "What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this "the broad-brush smear.""
.....
The SPLC has joined the Department of Homeland Security in a 'Working Group' called Countering violent Extremism. John Cohen, President and CEO of SPLC is listed as a member and Laurie Wood, Analyst, Southern Poverty Law Center/Instructor, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is listed as an 'expert in subject matter'. The members of the group also include three from Muslim organizations but we don't see any conservatives. (see the list at the end of the report)
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which has been determined by the courts to be a terrorist support group proudly points out on their Facebook page that its Michigan members 'participated a Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Working Group meeting with law enforcement officials and community advocates in Dearborn, Mich.'[ibid].
So we have the Southern Poverty Law Center, also known as The Church of Morris Dees, which calls groups and individuals like the Family Research Council, Eagle Forum, the Heritage Foundation, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Steve King (R-IA), and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) 'right wing extremists' and the Council on American-Islamic Relations which the FBI has proven to be linked to a terrorist organization teaming up with the US Department of Homeland Security to determine what groups in America should be categorized as 'extremist' and potentially violent.
Now you can see why the DHS came out with its Rightwing Extremism report in April of 2009 that warned of potential violence by people against illegal immigration and gun control, and returning military veterans. Now that's change.
[The rest of the Gateway Pundit article is an excerpt of above info] (Unreal… Obama’s DHS Continues to Target Conservatives & Liberty Lovers As Terrorists (Video); By Jim Hoft; Gateway Pundit; 7/11/12 4:45 am)
If you want to see the idiotic SPLC list of legitimate Counterjihadists labelled as dangerous right wing hatemongers, you can go to this one of many titles (this one 10/25/16): “A Journalist’s Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists”.
Here is an excerpt pointing
to the Obama purge of anything Islamic from training manuals and official
reports:
…
In
another example of the administration's ability to make key words
disappear, a 2013 Judicial Watch report revealed that the FBI scrubbed its law enforcement
training material of any language that might be deemed "offensive" to
Muslims. Per those guidelines, hundreds of references to "Muslim,"
"Islam" or "jihad" were removed from the 2004 9/11
commission report.
The
witnesses provided more evidence to corroborate these findings. Mr. Philip Haney,
a retired Customs and Border Protection Officer for the Department of Homeland
Security, revealed that the CIA has scrubbed more than 800 law enforcement
records that were almost all connected to the Muslim brotherhood.
The
first “great purge,” he said, was in 2009. Yet, in 2012 they didn’t just modify
the records, they eliminated them out of the system, which, he noted, bypasses
security protocol in Homeland Security. …
READ ENTIRETY (Cruz
Hearing Exposes the Obama Admin’s History of Purging References to Islamic Terror;
By Cortney O'Brien; Townhall; 6/29/16 9:15 AM)
More details on the Obama
purge by Patrick Poole 3/26/14: “A detailed look at ‘the purge’ of U.S.
counter-terrorism training by the Obama administration”.
So, why the heck am I
rehashing Obama’s treacherous history after a majority of States elected Trump
over Crooked Hillary? BECAUSE America’s Left is doing everything from lying,
Fake News, civil disturbances, and questionable legal procedures to prevent
President Trump from following through on his campaign promises.
I was alerted by email via
Counterjihadist writer Paul Sutliff, that the Donald is going undo Obama’s Countering
Violent Extremism (CVE) agenda which focused on White Supremacists. Please
recall from above, that the Obama Administration lumped Conservatives,
Christian Values and Counterjihadists with right wing extremists.
The new agenda focus will be
Islamic terrorism. Paul Sutliff’s email alerts the reader he has been writing
about the CVE agenda for some time:
Last night I was about to go to sleep and a friend called full of excitement saying did you see what Trump just did? He ended CVE! CVE is Countering Violent Extremism. I have written a few articles exposing their friendliness with the Muslim Brotherhood and the granting of special privileges for members of the Muslim Brotherhood. I wrote Why is Heritage Foundation Promoting Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)? (Part 1 of 3) on May 13, 2016, I wrote My What Strange Bedfellows the Heritage Foundation Has! on May 26, 2016 which further exposed the CVE and on July 5, 2016 I wrote Countering Violent Extremism: A Ghost Buster Solution to a Real World Problem. These articles earned me an interview with Vlad Tepes of TheRebel.media. Maybe Trump is reading my stuff, but I think it is more likely that he has hired good people!
SO imagine my excitement with that news! All I can say now is thank you Mr. President. You have earned my prayers and respect.
Get informed on Obama’s CVE in
Paul’s articles linked above. For your convenience, I am cross posting the
Tepes-Sutliff interview from The Rebel linked above.
JRH 2/8/17
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Paul Sutliff interview
(Part II): “Countering Violent Extremism” strategy is anything but
Posted by VICTOR LASZLO
REBEL COMMENTATOR
July 16, 2016
This is the second part of
the interview with Paul Sutliff. Paul explains the US Government's use of the
office of Countering Violent Extremism to assist the Muslim Brotherhood, and of
all things, fund mosques.
Posted
by Vlad Tepes
Published
on Jul 16, 2016
The first part of the
interview can be seen here at The
Rebel.
His books can be purchased at
Amazon.com
At the end of the interview,
Paul mentions Stephen Coughlin, the retired Maj. who was in
Army intelligence. His website is here, and an interview
he did for the Rebel can be seen here.
+++
Blog Editor: Here is a
cross post from PJ Media by Patrick Poole CVE:
******
Trump Seeks to End Obama's
'Countering Violent Extremism' Scam
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
Among the litany of Obama
administration disasters, the rapid collapse of his "Countering Violent
Extremism" (CVE) agenda is among the most consequential.
But groups in line to receive federal CVE grants announced just days before the end of the Obama era are now whining as the Trump administration seeks to put an end to the CVE scam.
Driven directly from the White House, the Obama administration’s CVE agenda was a replacement following a purge of counter-terrorism training across the federal government during 2011-2012 in response to a targeted series of reports by far-Left bloggers and reporters claiming widespread bias and “Islamophobia.”
Many of those claims were
later debunked, but with the damage done the administration's purge pressed
ahead as it implemented CVE at the demand of Islamic groups, some of whom were
directly involved in the formation of the administration's CVE policies.
But as it became apparent
that terror recruitment was escalating rapidly at nearly the same time that CVE
was being imposed on agencies and departments across the board, the
inability of CVE to actually countering any "extremists" was exposed.
The same Islamic groups that urged the imposition of CVE then turned against
the efforts when they realized that CVE was still primarily directed at the
growing threat of Islamic recruitment, and not towards stigmatizing the
administration's perceived domestic political enemies.
By January 2015, Politico was
already declaring that CVE was a complete flop:
No
answer for homegrown terrorism? Obama’s plan to combat radicalization is a
flop, critics say.
No
answer for homegrown terrorism?
Obama’s plan to combat radicalism is a flop
critics say.
politico.com
The
CVE pilot programs in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Boston were already so
unsuccessful that the media had to announce they were off to a "slow
start" a year ago:
The
failures of the program were so pronounced that NPR conceded the point,
claiming that even if the CVE programs were not effective they still somehow
helped the communities.
Whether It Works Or Not, U.S.
Anti-Radicalization Plan Can Benefit Communities https://t.co/Xn34FdLc4N
As I noted in an assessment of Obama’s CVE policies here at PJ Media last year, and in a separate monograph, measuring Obama’s policies by his own stated White House goals, the CVE program was proven to be a complete failure in the very three areas it was intended to support: community engagement, training, and counter-propaganda.
It's
no surprise then that one of the first moves by the Trump
administration will be to shut down the failed CVE program, as reported by
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program
solely on Islam - sources https://t.co/9wHw9pKAn6
7:11 PM - 1 Feb 2017
That
decision in turn set off a wave of complaints by groups that were hoping to
receive federal CVE grants that were rushed out by the Obama
administration in its last few days in office:
Statement by @DHSgov's
Jeh Johnson Announcing 1st Round of Countering Violent Extremism Grants
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/01/13/statement-secretary-jeh-johnson-announcing-first-round-dhss-countering-violent …#CVE #PVE
Those
would-be federal grant recipients are now turning to the media to air their
complaints:
Pointing to Trump, Groups Reject U.S. Aid to Fight
Extremism w/@mattapuzzo https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/trump-muslim-groups-aid-extremism.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share …
One of the first groups that
took to the media was the Twin Cities-based Ka Joog (which in
Somali means "stay away"). Ka Joog had already been one of the groups
to receive $300,000 in federal money and another $250,000
appropriated by the state of Minnesota, and was in line to
receive another $500,000 federal grant from Homeland Security.
Citing "unofficial war on Muslim-Americans"
launched by Trump, Minneapolis nonprofit rejects $500,000 federal grant https://t.co/lIlfSIw5j5
Somali nonprofits get federal grants to counter
extremism, Minneapolis #CVE https://t.co/obtvf32BuV
Ka Joog has been one of the
premier programs that CVE defenders have pointed to in calling for additional
funding for the CVE program.
And yet in one of the group's
most visible failures, the
nephew of the organization's executive director was recruited by the Islamic
State and eventually tried and convicted in federal court.
Another Twin Cities groups,
Heartland Democracy, was scheduled to receive $165,000.
That group had been among the
first to participate in a pet "deradicalization" project by the chief
federal judge in Minnesota who tried many of the Islamic State recruiting
cases.
But court documents exposed
that Heartland Democracy had no experience in "jihadi rehab,"
and its curriculum was described as "more high school civics course than
religious deprogramming."
Group With No Jihadi Experience Rehabs ISIS
Recruit: http://t.co/8jWwAioziU
The Daily Beast reported on
the regimen established for their first "deradicalization" client:
He
and a Somali-American mentor began to work through an extensive reading
list, which included Richard Wright’s Native Son, a novel about
growing up poor and black in the 1930s, and an article by Native American
author Sherman Alexie about how poetry freed him from the “reservation” of his
mind.
McKinley
would not say how often Yusuf met his mentor.
“We
met with him regularly, I don’t know the number of times a week,” she said.
When pressed on whether they met weekly, biweekly, or at a different pace,
McKinley would not clarify. “We met with him regularly.”
Court
documents also reference Yusuf meeting with religious leaders, but McKinley
wasn't sure about that.
“I
don’t know if he’s met with any religious leaders,” she said in response to a
question about meeting with imams. “I mean, he’s an adult, he can get any
visitor he wants.”
That first client was
sent back to jail after a search of his room at a halfway house found
a box cutter.
The Obama administration's
CVE programs have a lengthy history of failure:
·
As
I reported here at PJ Media just
a few days ago, an Associated Press investigation into
the Pentagon's $500 million WebOps program to counter Islamic
State propaganda found widespread incompetence and corruption.
According to whistleblowers, civilian Arabic specialists with no
understanding of Islam tried to defeat complex religious
justifications for terrorism, resulting in the program becoming a
laughingstock in jihadist circles.
·
In
December 2014, the New York Times reported that
the then-head of Special Operations Command, Major Gen. Michael Nagata,
convened a series of conference calls with outside experts attempting to
understand why the message of the Islamic State had grown so dangerous. But
after the Obama administration's counter-terror training purge, Gen. Nagata was
forced to admit that “we do not understand the movement, and until we
do, we are not going to defeat it....We have not defeated the idea. We
do not even understand the idea.”
·
In
September 2011, Obama signed an executive order creating the State
Department's Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC). One
of their early failures was a graphic video produced called "Welcome
to ISIS Land," targeting would-be Islamic State recruits. The
center's director was quickly replaced. Then a Twitter campaign, "Think
Again Turn Away," was largely panned by terror experts who
claimed the effort was largely ineffective and was actually
legitimizing the terrorist narrative. A panel of outside experts convened
by the State Department agreed, finding that the CSCC was so
counterproductive to its mission that they questioned whether the U.S.
government should be involved in counter-propaganda at all. The center
was promptly closed.
·
One
of the first CVE guidelines produced by the Department of Homeland Security in
2011 was to instruct federal
agencies to avoid using "trainers who are
self-professed 'Muslim Reformers,'" and yet documents uncovered
regarding meetings with DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano show the agency
soliciting advice from known extremist groups
and controversial Islamic leaders. Some of these extremist leaders
even held official positions advising
DHS. Last June, when the DHS Countering Violent Extremism Subcommittee released
its recommendations urging $100 million in new CVE funding, it urged
banning the use of "jihad" or "sharia" in training --
two very common terms used by terrorist recruiters. One of the subcommittee
members, a Syrian immigrant, had previously said that
the 9/11 terror attacks had "changed the world for good." And in December, DHS
teamed up with the State Department to bring in the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR), an organization that the Justice Department had argued in
federal court had supported terrorism, to teach a CVE course for French
officials. Even though the State Department programs have been
universally panned, it was reported last August that they had tripled the budget.
·
In
implementing the Obama administration's CVE agenda, the FBI had conducted
a wide-scale purge of
its terrorism training curriculum at the request of Islamic groups claiming it
was biased. In a move questioned by members of
Congress, the FBI classified the identities of the outside
experts brought in to censor the material. A subsequent review of
the censored terror-training material discovered suspect and
inconsistent standards in purging the curriculum. More recently, a FBI
website and video game ("Don't Be a Puppet") intended
to target youth vulnerable to terrorist recruitment was launched, and
then suspended after just a day in response to complaints of Islamic
groups, terror experts, and even teachers unions that the effort was biased,
ineffective, and encouraged students to inform on each other. Some of the
criticism came from the FBI's own Muslim outreach partners that were brought in
to advise the bureau on its CVE policies.
So it's no great mystery why
the incoming Trump administration began discussions about scaling back and
ending Obama's CVE program.
Others contend that the CVE
grants were political payoffs to groups to enlist their aid in
scuttling counter-terror programs and to silence any possible criticism of the
Obama national security and foreign policy agenda.
The chairman of one group
that was scheduled to receive a $400,000
CVE grant, Life After Hate, has publicly launched attacks on the
incoming Trump administration and even called for the violent removal of
President Trump one day after his inauguration.
Meanwhile in Minneapolis, as
Ka Joog declines the $500,000 in announced DHS CVE grants the group has
quickly transitioned from attempting to deradicalizing area Somali youth to publicly
declaring that President Trump is engaged in "an official war against
Islam" -- parroting a standard terrorist narrative.
But as mentioned previously,
the nephew of the executive director who had participated in Ka Joog programs
was still recruited to join the Islamic State.
In another instance, an
Islamic State recruit from Alexandria, Virginia, later captured by Kurdish
troops and currently facing federal charges, lived less than 50 yards from one
of the Obama administration's top go-to CVE experts.
If these so-called CVE
"experts" can't prevent their closest relatives or neighbors from
joining terrorist groups, why should the Trump administration continue to
entrust them with our national security?
Despite all the media
hand-wringing, it seems that questioning the effectiveness of Obama's CVE
program is entirely in order given its constant track record of failure.
Yet in light of the current
media climate, the new administration should expect that it will come under
fire for whatever they eventually replace the failed CVE agenda with. And the
Islamic State and other terrorist groups continue to recruit and encourage
supporters to conduct attacks inside the homeland.
Ending the CVE scam would be
a good first step in reversing the corrosive policies established by the Obama
administration that have hampered and sometimes punished our law enforcement
and national security professionals for doing their job.
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Obama’s Insidious CVE
John R. Houk
© February 8, 2017
_________________
Paul Sutliff interview
(Part II): “Countering Violent Extremism” strategy is anything but
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Trump Seeks to End Obama's
'Countering Violent Extremism' Scam
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