The recent Napolitano/Homeland Security Report identifies conservatives as right-wing extremists and potential threats to the peace and security of the United States.
    Spare me the shock, outrage or anger. (The anguish may come later anyway.) The proper response is to take a deep breath, step back, clean your glasses (if you have them) and take a second look at the things that drive and impel the Other Side. The Enemy has just come into greater focus.
     We have been writing about this for a long time. There is a logic to what the Left wants to achieve, and have wanted to achieve since the beginning of their movement...and that logic has become more and more clear as the fog from the dimensions and intentions of this Administration are beginning to lift.
     To them this has always been a fight to the death.
     Yes, I said death. True, in their own minds, this "death" I speak of represents the death of our will, our resistance, not actual human lives, but if push comes to shove, that too, for they are of the mind that we would shoot first anyway, so can easily justify preemption. That's how those minds work.
     And the target is what the Left considers to be the real enemy, Conservatives and Conservatism. Ever wonder why Al Qaeda and Islamo-fascism by-passed Europe to America, calling us the Great Satan, even as we, not Europe, are the last God-fearing state in the West, and while pretty bawdy by some standards, still, mere naifs compared to the sex and filth industry in Europe? For one, Al Qaeda believes Europe already to be moribund, having rolled over years ago. All that is left is for them and Russia to divide the spoils. (We're not convinced it will work out that way, but the signs are all there.) But most of all, they see America, specifically American freedom, as the greatest threat to their view of the world and ambitions.
      It is no different with the Left's view of Conservatism. They must break our will. They all see us as evil personified, even as we seem them pretty much the same. Only, and here's the rub, they seem more willing to press their point. There can be no live-and-let-live as long as one conservative openly resists. And by resist, I mean yearn for freedom...you know, out loud. They really don't care what you yearn for silently, but will probably set up the re-education camps just to be safe.
   
      This new Homeland report (there will be others, in all likelihood, with an increasing sense of urgency) is not just a promotional nip at the heels of the Tea Party movement, but designed more to suppress what they know will happen if the Tea Parties prove successful...you know, more and more websites, bumper stickers, t-shirts, caps, and 527 ads...and more adherants. A rally song could be just around the corner. Just like the Missouri State Police report, they want to stop the snowball before it's rolled to the top of the hill, and the way they do that is scare the hell out of the hands that might be pushing it up.
      "If you do this, we will paint a bulls-eye on your back." Forget a simple violation of the 1st Amendment, this is pure Nazi thuggery...but also a thuggery that has a proven track record. They know it works because they believe that we are less committed than they are. They believe, with intimidation, they can simple peel us off, a few here, a few there, who are not willing to have our names held up to public ridicule, our jobs put at risk (easier than you might think) or to be associated with those real snot-eyed inbreds who lurk in the fringes of all political movements.
       Now, this is not an Ooops!, as the Missouri report purported to be, but neither is it Napolitano's handiwork. Nothing in her past (that we've found so far) shows any inclination toward this sort of gutter profiling and targeting. Like so many before her, Janet Reno comes to mind, and so many in this Administration, men and women with titles in empty offices; this is an administration of sinecures.
       So we now know something else. Add that your information bank. No one is in charge who appears to be in charge.
       All the more reason to stiffen the spine.

       Oh, so where's the GOP? Can't say. We're working hard to find a few who might be inclined to turn things around inside their party, but most are still in seclusion. Cowardice? Or stupidity? They are supposed to be smart, but in an office cubicle sort of way, so they may not actually be able to connect the dots and draw out the logic of the equation they see before them. But, then again, maybe they do, and like true betas, seeing the "committedness" of the Other Side, have simply decided they just don't want any bulls eyes painted on their new suits. Maybe discretion, and accepting a permanent Bob Michel sinecure in Congress, is the better part of valor.
       We just wrote about the sadness of so many businessmen who find themselves having to go the way of the new masters. They may have to only to survive, and we are sure many will "wreck". But men and women who purport to be protectorss and defenders of the Constitution?

       It is indeed a fight to the death...either our will or their will succumbs. We already knows who wins if we stand firm.
       Never forget Steve McQueen's words: "You have never played the game until you have played for more than you can afford to lose."
VB