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GLENN GREENWALD looks at the DHS?s lame report on right-wing ?extremism? and argues that people on t?

By Glenn Reynolds

GLENN GREENWALD looks at the DHS’s lame report on right-wing “extremism” and argues that people on the right are reaping what they sowed over the past years.

This would be more persuasive if it weren’t the case that — as Dave Kopel and Paul Blackman exhaustively documented — this was all going on before Bush, too, with massive law-enforcement overreaching (aimed mostly at the right) during the Clinton years. Greenwald writes: “When you cheer on a Surveillance State, you have no grounds to complain when it turns its eyes on you. If you create a massive and wildly empowered domestic surveillance apparatus, it’s going to monitor and investigate domestic political activity.” But some of us were pointing that out to Dems who complained back in 2002.

And, really — are these tongue-in-cheek comments by Mark Steyn an “elaborate, detailed martyr fantasy”? I think, rather, they’re a mockery of same. But Greenwald’s always been deaf to irony.

UPDATE: Questioning the Timing: Limbaugh says the DHS report release was an attempt to distract from the Tea Party message.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).