Last week the New York Timespublished an article detailing the Pentagon’s plan to shift focus away from international terrorism, known under the previous administration as the Global War on Terror, towards larger strategic threats to the United States such as destabilized governments and mass refugee crises provoked by climate change. Most in the defense establishment welcome this shift in strategy, but the threat from terrorism still remains.
This time, however, there is a difference. The terror threat comes largely not from foreign nationals but from Americans.
In 2009 almost 70 Americans, including police officers and medical personnel, have been killed by domestic terror attacks. This is a breathtakingly sharp rise from 2008, when only two people lost their lives, both of whom died at the hands of anti-Liberal terrorist Jim D. Adkisson in Tennessee. The first attack in 2009 was in Samson, Alabama, when Michael McLendon went on a cross-county shooting rampage that killed 11 people including himself. The most recent was on June 10, when James von Brunn opened fire inside the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, killing one guard and wounding several others.
While each of these attacks is unique, they can be roughly broken down into a handful of categories. In this piece, we will explore these terrorist archetypes, the ecosystem that produced them, as well as common tactics, both harmful and helpful, used to counter them. The intention is to provide students, analysts and researchers, with a sound and coherent image of the domestic terror threat facing the United States.
President Obama held a 70-minute Town Hall Meeting in St. Louis this morning. The transcript is from the White House. The video, from KSDK Television (forgive the automatic upload of the advertisement), is in two parts, the first is Obama’s speech and the second is the question-and-answer session:
A couple of weeks ago, British newspapers engaged in some silliness over Obama’s America. The Daily Telegraph declared, “America’s religious Right has conceded that the election of US President Barack Obama has sealed its defeat in the cultural war with permissiveness and secularism.” The Observer announced two days later, “Barack Obama brings truce in culture war”.
This false truce was exposed last week during the Tea Parties which, beneath their surface complaints over taxes and Government spending, were founded upon social, cultural, and even racial positions. The coding of “American values” signalled the confrontation of decadent “liberal” enemies.
Yet, even as the demonstrations were taking place, a significant episode was being played out on the Internet. In that battle lay not consensus but a victory for the dangerous “liberals”, one that would have been hard to conceive even 20 years ago.
Well, it’s been a lot of fun with the Tea Parties this week. The too-blatant manipulation, by certain political groups and media outlets, of a “revolution” was well-suited to parody, even beyond the unfortunate double entendre of the protest’s chosen beverage.
Enduring America, your #5 site for Republican Teabagging Parties, thinks it can now be proclaimed loud and proud:
Teabagging is here to stay.
Even a few weeks ago, this might have been surprising. For most people, Teabagging is a new and dramatic pastime. Yesterday it might have been far easier to take the safe road, like watching TV — especially if The Price is Right is on — or knitting.
LIBERAL TEABAGGING SABOTAGE UPDATE (10 p.m. British Teabag Time): Enduring America regrets to confirm that liberal saboteurs have out-Teabagged our Republican friends, forcing the end of the Washington DC protest:
Secret Service officers were scurrying to close the North Lawn of the White House Wednesday afternoon because of a suspicious package and it appeared that trouble was brewing.
But it turned out that nothing more was brewing than an innocent little box of, yes, tea bags.
Journalists were quickly banned from moving outside of the press briefing room, and hundreds of protesters gathered for a “Tax Day Tea Party” were quickly shooed out of Lafayette Park as a security robot inspected the package closely.
After about a half hour of high alert, a Secret Service official told CNN the “suspicious package” was merely some tea bags. So the threat was over, and so was the anti-Obama protest.
We fear that we may have may have misunderestimated our liberal/radical/taxifying opponents’ expertise and experience with Teabagging. Next time we must ensure that we, and not they, are the ones who “Teabag Obama”. Read the rest of this entry »
As the #2 site (soon to be #1) for the Republican Teabagging Parties taking place today, Enduring America is concerned that some of our readers — either from naiveté or deviancy — are claiming that “Teabagging” is a bedtime activity, sometimes undertaken by those who are unmarried or even of the same sex, that is not part of our missionary tradition. These readers are using left-wing disinformation sites Wikipedia and UrbanDictionary.com (at Enduring America, we only use Webster’s Dictionary and Conservapedia).
This video shows that, with our Teabagging, we are sending a rocket to blow up the Democratic/liberal/radical/taxifying elite, especially Nancy Pelosi. We will set our Teabags upon them until we have a massive explosion — just like Richard Nixon teabagged the Moon in 1969 — until they acknowledge our supremacy.
Enduring American hopes this clarifies matters once and for all. Happy Teabagging!
This week activists in the Republican Party and Fox News, bouncing back from months of defeat, will unleash a potent weapon against the economic liberalism of President Obama.
“Teabagging.”
Preparing for Tea Parties on 15 April, the deadline for filing US tax returns, the new revolutionaries have sent hundreds, maybe thousands, of teabags to members of Congress. They are promising to “Teabag Obama” and “Teabag Liberal Democrats”. Even John McCain, whose views are considered suspect by many activists, may be teabagged.
Well, it’s been a lot of fun with the Tea Parties this week. The too-blatant manipulation, by certain political groups and media outlets, of a “revolution” was well-suited to parody, even beyond the unfortunate double entendre of the protest’s chosen beverage.
LIBERAL TEABAGGING SABOTAGE UPDATE (10 p.m. British Teabag Time): Enduring America regrets to confirm that liberal saboteurs have out-Teabagged our Republican friends, forcing the end of the Washington DC protest:
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