I was going to continue the Twilight of the Republic, but with the recent release of the DHS', Rightwing Extremist, profiling report I was just so angry, I decided to put that series on the back burner. Instead I am posting an open letter to Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Secretary Janet Napolitano
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528
Madame Secretary:
I find your department’s recently released assessment on Rightwing Extremism personally highly insulting. I am amazed that that a government agency can waste money, my taxes, on a report not founded in evidence, but in conjecture. Is this just part of a political agenda, because people, particularly returning veterans may be dissatisfied with the current administration’s policies? I need not defend any veteran, they have proven their loyalty, they are sworn to defend the Constitution, and this oath is carried with them the rest of their lives.
This report is very much like the propaganda that was spread by newspapers and Hollyweird in the late 1960’s and 1970’s about veterans returning from Viet Nam. We also were “profiled” as drug crazed baby killers. We were dissatisfied with not being able to find jobs. We were “bitter” because of the treatment we received when we returned. Yes, there were isolated cases of anti social behavior, but the majority became productive American citizens, it fact I think some are serving in the government.
To profile an entire group of brave young men and women as possible recruits for rightwing extremists group is as like profiling the entire current administration and congress as tax cheats and lawbreakers, who could be recruited for organized crime. If we profile persons of Middle Eastern decent, African Americans and people of Hispanic decent (legal and illegal), it ends up as a cause for a civil suit, and I believe it is also illegal.
To save time and money, I’ll present these facts to make it simpler for your department to profile me.
- I am a 14 year Marine veteran, although I returned from war roughly forty years ago, I have kept up with current military information.
- I believe strongly in the Constitution, particularly that pesky Second Amendment, you know that little pesky statement, “….the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
- I do not want a bigger federal government; I do prefer more state and local authority.
- I strongly oppose abortion.
- I oppose illegal immigration and strongly believe that illegal immigrants should be arrested and returned to their home country.
- I oppose the massive expansion of social programs to minorities, particularly since it is my tax money that is being used to pay for it.
Yours truly,
Old Marine