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03.25.2009 10:43 am

Peter Kinder attacks MIAC report, calls for Britt to be placed on administrative leave

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Peter Kinder

Peter Kinder

JEFFERSON CITY — News of a report from the Missouri Information Analysis Center has caused a stir among conservatives nationwide.

The report, which was released by the Missouri Department of Public Safety, has come under fire for identifying conservative ideologists, including abortion rights opponents and supporters of third parties, including Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, as possible militia members.

In a press conference today, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder blasted the report and the apology from DPS Director John Britt.

He said all groups have extremists, and pointed to eco-terrorists as examples of liberal militia groups that weren’t metioned in the report.

“Apparently it was more important to focus on pro-lifers,” he said.

Kinder said he thinks Britt should be placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.

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It is only ever ‘okay’ to profile old white men that you don’t agree with.

If this type of government attack had taken place against any other group… Blacks, Hispanics, gays, women, Britt would have been fired by now… and the Post would have led the charge.

— tsquare
10:48 am March 25th, 2009

When the intellectual and spiritual leader of the Republican party speaks before the largest conservative group in America and refers to women as Femi-Nazis……Well, you get what you deserve.

— Garrison
11:41 am March 25th, 2009

Garrison,

Please do not confuse Rush Limbaugh with conservatives! He may be the leader of the Republican Party, but the party left conservativism in the middle of Reagan’s first term. This is precisely why I and many others are working against the MIAC document, it misuses and generalizes labels and marginalizes a group of people who are truly conservative. So, we are working against both parties - or more correctly two branches of “The Party”. Profiling and labeling are synonymous, and the MIAC Report profiles me as being extremist and violent when I am nonviolent, noninterventionist, and believe the Constitution should be followed. How would you like it?

— KC Kent
1:08 pm March 25th, 2009

What logic can politicans offer that could justify 60 million aborted babies and the distruction of US famalies and citizens who believe that live is precious and not to be destroyed. Or that a child must die to that abortionist and those whom support abortion might live as they wish.
Mr.Britt should be dismissed for serving only the Party of Death, and ignoring those of us whom are for Life.

— Jim Vondras
1:28 pm March 25th, 2009

The original apology from Britt was completely unacceptable in that he only apologized to Barr, Paul, and Baldwin, and vehemently left out their SUPPORTERS…

So, he tried to absolve the State of Missouri from any reprecussions from lawsuits from the politicians, yet left the “common folk” very much as targets.

Disgusting.

— Zack
2:21 pm March 25th, 2009

— Jim Vondras
” the Party of Death, ‘
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Hyped rubbish

— STL
2:46 pm March 25th, 2009

So far, it’s been a matter of “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.”

The Libertarian and Constitution Parties and the Campaign For Liberty stood up and pointed out the egregious errors in MIAC’s “strategic report,” so we’re the ones who got a tentative, partial apology.

Now Lieutenant Governor Kinder is pointing out that other groups are also unjustifiably profiled (and that the profiling has a clear bias toward the preferred bogeymen of the new state and national party of power). Kudos to him for doing so. All the profiled groups should have their voices heard.

Eventually, maybe we’ll get to some of the even bigger issues, like why taxpayer money is being wasted on MIAC in the first place. Its third-rate, elementary-school-quality “intelligence” work (which is pretty much just credulous “cut and paste” stuff from the Internet) indicates that it’s really nothing more or less than a make-work bureaucratic money sink … a place to blow some of that “homeland security” loot Republicans and Democrats alike have packed into federal budgets for the last six years.

Guess they had some left over after they spent a few billion here and a few billion there on telling us to buy duct tape and coming up with color codes to let us know how frightened they want us be at any given moment.

Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Chair
St. Louis County Libertarian Central Committee

— thomaslknapp
3:14 pm March 25th, 2009

This was a story last week, and now only gains credence because Kinder said so? Paul Mckee’s Kinder?
…..2002…37.5 billion dollars, big money at the time, by the way, spent to build the Department of Homeland Security, because the 9/11 Commission deemed the existent intelligence agencies too “proprietary” with their information. The fusion centers, in theory, condense, filter and assemble all available intel, and generate a “federal narrative of truth”.
…..The M.I.A.C. report, “leaked” at the same time that same agency was having a conference in K.C., and the head of D.H.S. was visiting, does not conform to a resource that will stand the test of time. Instead, it represents a molding of the clay of law enforcement. It tightens the screws in the political climate of the time. All future ‘left’ ‘right’ choices will bounce off of this enforced opinion of correct.
References of terrorists…to third party is just a daisy chain that silently implies the next association, the whole right side of political thought.
This document is going to become a memory stone, you mark my words. This is a New Normal Rockwell image of modern politics. And the parody by ronpaulky is definitely worth reading. It makes a rhetoric form letter out of the report, and also paints a very believable argument that
“You are the enemy to them” every last one of you…

What bedroom are all the other reports being stored in?

— CHUCKtheFED
8:02 pm March 25th, 2009

I didn’t see Dr. Ron Paul’s name or Chuck Baldwin’s name either. What about the people? We were the one’s that this report was going after. Someone needs to be fired.

I heard about this first on Alex Jones’ radio station and I called and voiced my displeasure. We need to realize that these criminals are just getting started.

We all need to be concerned about what is going on, That is why I love referring people to the number one video on the INTERNET now and that is the Obama deception that can we watched on You tube or you can go to goggle video and type in the name, The Obama deception, and see for yourself why millions are opening their eyes on what is going on in America.

— Joe Somebody
2:38 pm March 26th, 2009

I read the report. It didn’t say anything about “conservatives.” Whatever that means today. It was targeting people against government, in favor of gun ownership, identifying yourself with libertarians or constitutionalist. Or anyone that believes that the government is heading in the wrong direction. That’s not “conservatives.” Conservatives are those people who have stood by as Government grew to new levels under GW.

— michael
3:17 pm March 26th, 2009

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