Glenn Greenwald often writes about the hypocrisy of right wing polemicists but his latest effort is an absolute tour de force. Basically, the Department of Homeland Security have warned that there are potentially dangerous right-wing groups, and many right-wing commentators have responded as if Obama’s secret police are knocking on their door (as they had been expecting all along). The core of  Greenwald’s response is here

It’s certainly true that federal police efforts directed at domestic political movements — even ones with a history of inspiring violence in both the distant and recent past — require real vigilance and oversight, and it’s also true that the DHS description of these groups seems excessively broad with the potential for mischief.  But the political faction screeching about the dangers of the DHS is the same one that spent the last eight years vastly expanding the domestic Surveillance State and federal police powers in every area.  DHS — and the still-creepy phrase “homeland security” — became George Bush’s calling card.  The Republicans won the 2002 election by demonizing those who opposed its creation.  All of the enabling legislation underlying this Surveillance State — from the Patriot Act to the Military Commissions Act, from the various FISA “reforms” to massive increases in domestic “counter-Terrorism” programs — are the spawns of the very right-wing movement that today is petrified that this is all being directed at them.

Please read the whole post right down to the latest update which is rather hilarious as he catches Jonah Goldberg (author of Liberal Fascism) claiming that this is different because they’d never target “left-wing” groups in the same way, despite the fact that the original article says

In January, the same DHS office released a report titled “Leftwing extremists likely to increase use of cyber attacks over the coming decade.”

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