In late 1999, the FBI released a report called "Project Meggido", detailing the possibility of widespread panic and chaos caused by computer failures during what was coined, "Y2K". The report was complete, concise, and precise to the FBI's best understanding. There was more than just wide-spread concern over the pending change of the century.
Ten years later, the first African American black man takes seat as the President of the United States of America. Since the post-9/11 creation of the new ultimate government organization known as the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI has taken the back seat in the production of such reports. On February 7, 2009, DHS released "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" that made former FBI Director Louis Freeh look like a Rhodes Scholar. The report is short, shoddy, and out-right reckless. In fact, the report issued by DHS was very vague and broad. It pretty much accused anybody who doesn't fall in line with the views of the left wing as being a radical right-wing extremist. Enter the NEW "McCarthyism".
The scare tactics used by DHS are not new. In the late '40s and early '50s, Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) exploited the public fear of communism by publicly (and most of the time, falsely) accusing specific individuals as members of the Communist Party. So DHS is simply exploiting the GOVERNMENT'S fear of the red-blooded U.S. Citizen who may oppose SOME of the ideology of our new administration.
It is quite obvious the government is afraid of the people of our great nation. There's no doomsday scenario that could possibly play out, there's a new president that has promised to make quite a few waves if and when he took office. On top of that, the new president happens to be a black man. While I would assert the U.S. Government SHOULD be afraid of its people, I believe they are now TOO afraid.
The fear of our government shouldn't be aimed toward the possibility of being overthrown. The fear should be geared toward the fact that they have to answer to US -- the PEOPLE. The Meggido Project had a legitimate concern. Although the Y2K scare turned out being uneventful, the people AND the government simply didn't know what was going to happen.
There are some white supremacists in this country. They've been here for a VERY long time. The fact is, (a) there's not THAT many of them, (b) they're not very well funded, and (c) they're not smart enough to be any real threat to the U.S. Government. There are some Christian radicals... just as there are Muslim radicals and racists radicals and you-name-it radicals.
The government should be more concerned with doing right by THE PEOPLE instead of worrying about being overthrown by "right-wing extremists"... or McCarthy's "communists"...
