from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 06:58 PM PDT

Who are they? They're all around you. They might be eating dinner in the

same restaurant as you, buying the same brand of ketchup and even
watching the same TV shows you do. But there's a terrible difference. They

are that hideous brand of Enemy of the State known as "The Extremist".

After 8 years of wailing and doomsaying, of dragging out the corpse of

Orwell and parading him around to claim that the Bush Administration's

War on Terror was nothing short of a brutal tyranny that violated the

law and the Constitution-- the Obama Administration is rolling back

the clock eight years and tossing out any pesky civil rights issues in order

to fight the real enemy, "extremists".

Naturally "former veterans" top the list as potential extremists, probably

because like most "extremists" they're highly likely to vote for Republicans.

And by now anyone who lived through 8 years of the Clinton Administration

knows that when the left talks about "extremists", they mean people who

would never vote for them or support their agenda.

The fundamental difference between the Bush Administration and Republicans

in general is that when they talk about "dangerous extremists", they mean
foreign terrorists. When the Obama Administration and left wing Democrats

talk about "dangerous extremists", they usually mean people who think taxes

are too high. If there's a better bellwether of the difference between

national defense and national tyranny.

The Bush Administration viewed people who wanted to massacre Americans

as the major extremist threat. The Obama Administration views people who
question their tax and spend policies as the major extremist threat.

That made the noxious hypocrisy in which Democrats, the press and assorted
liberals spent the last 8 years screaming that we're living in a tyrannical state

with no civil liberties-- all the more foul.

Under the Clinton Administration, we saw the military used against American

citizens in violation of the Posse Comitatus act. We saw talk show hosts in
the political opposition accused of responsibility for terrorist attacks. We

saw a man dragged through the mud and tried in the press for a bombing

he was never responsible for, while the foreign terrorists responsible for

the original bombing of the World Trade Center got a virtual free pass...

leading in to 9/11.

We saw border police armed with machine guns storming the home
of an immigrant's private residence, kidnapping a young boy at gunpoint

and deporting to a brutal totalitarian regime.

We also saw the use of roving wiretaps, secret evidence and a wide variety of

tools given to the Federal government, that Janet Reno and Eric Holder

repeatedly abused. And now those same folks are back in the driver's

seat and working hard on their enemies lists.