Dept of Homeland Security most worried about... U.S. Veterans

[Don Corleone]

So I'm sort of surprised nobody brought this issue up in the past couple of weeks. If you have and I missed it, I apologize.

Homeland Security has FBI initiate surveilance on returning veterans to combat 'rising right-wing extremism".

John McCain demands apology by Homeland Security for implication that veterans to be suspected of joining right-wing paramilitary groups.

Janet Napolitano: Look, I'm sorry if you're thin-skinned and took offense, but I don't trust our veterans and I want them surveiled. They're a threat.

Okay, I'm all about not extrapolating minority or singular representatives into a disparagement of a group as a whole. I do not condemn all muslims as hate-fueled extremists. I do not believe all Mexicans are either 1) soldiers for drug-cartel armies or 2) violent nationalists intent on creating the state of Azatlan. I do not even believe Chinese nationals of a highly technical background here on H1B visas are all spies for the PRC. I reject these common generalizations, despite repeated anecodatal evidence of isolated or minority incidences of such.

So why is the Obama administration ready to put the spotlight on veterans because of the lone actions of Timothy McVeigh? While truly horrific, there has never been any evidence that the man acted in concert with anyone other than Terry Nichols. Yet they're all now under the watchful eye of Janet "Big Mama" Napolitano. What is it with Democratic administrations and their need for invasive cabinet members with no respect for the rights of their citizens and a need to humiliate and disparage members of the opposition party? For that matter, why does their lady with the big stick, the electric cattle prod and the scrying eyes into the lives of law abiding citizens always have to be named "Janet"? First Reno, now Napolitano.

What's more, why isn't Obama getting out in front of this one and distancing himself from her approach? Is he willing to write off veterans as "hopelessly unrepentant Republicans"? How long before Janet declares being a Republican enough to make you suspicious of engagement in domestic terrorism and involvement in right-wing extremist groups? Oh that's right, the Republican party IS a right-wing extremist group, given to acts of domestic terrorism. Right, I forgot that...