Thursday, March 26, 2009

SPLC's Missouri Moles Get Their Private Parts Caught in Factual Wringer: MIAC Report Withdrawn.

How "Cold Fusion" Takes Place: SPLC Stooges Write a "Militia Intelligence Report." (Sorry, we couldn't show private parts, this is a family-friendly blog.)

As Right Side News reported, the MIAC report is the latest example of the radical polarization of law enforcement through the open sewer of lies and half-truths flowing from the Southern Preposterous Lie Center and the ADL's fact-challenged balloon man, Mark Pitcavage. Only this time they got caught. One wonders just what the Missouri "fusion center" is fusing.

Here's the story.

Highway Patrol chief retracts militia report; will change review process for MIAC reports

JEFFERSON CITY | The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Wednesday retracted a controversial report on militia activity and will change how such reports are reviewed before being distributed to law enforcement agencies.

The announcement followed a press conference in which Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder suggested putting the director of public safety on administrative leave and investigating how the report was produced.

The controversy revolves around a report prepared last month by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, a so-called “fusion center” for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to collaborate on domestic security issues.

The report concerns militia movements in Missouri and across the United States and describes how they have evolved over the last several years.

It suggests that domestic militias often subscribe to radical ideologies rooted in Christian views and opposition to immigration, abortion or federal taxes. The report also says it is “not uncommon” for militia members to support third-party political candidates and names former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin specifically.

The eight-page report is labeled “unclassified” but “law enforcement sensitive” and includes numerous editing and design errors, including a misspelling of President Barack Obama’s name.

On Wednesday afternoon, Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. James F. Keathley released a memo saying the report did not meet the patrol’s standard for quality and would not have been released if it had been seen by top officials.

“For that reason,” Keathley wrote, “I have ordered the MIAC to permanently cease distribution of the militia report.”

The memo says the report was compiled by an employee of the information analysis center and reviewed only by the center director before being sent to law-enforcement agencies across the state.

In the future, Keathley wrote, reports from the center will be reviewed by leaders of the Highway Patrol and the Department of Public Safety. The patrol will also open an investigation into the origin of the militia report.

Conservatives in Missouri and nationally have criticized the report for lumping people with conservative political persuasions in with domestic terrorists and potentially opening them to harassment from law enforcement.

The controversy has been aired on blogs, cable news programs and conservative radio.
In an earlier response, the center had released a statement reaffirming its “regard for the Constitutions of the United States and Missouri” and expressing regret that “any citizens or groups were unintentionally offended by the content of the document.”

And earlier this week, Department of Public Safety Director John M. Britt retracted the portions of the report that noted third party and Republican presidential candidates by name. Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat elected last year, has publicly defended the report as well.

Republicans said the earlier statements did not go far enough, and on Wednesday morning Kinder criticized the report for suggesting that only issues championed by conservatives motivate domestic terrorists.

The report “slanders” opponents of abortion and critics of illegal immigration, he said.

“Under the guidance of the present director, who apparently must think it is Nixon’s secret service, the Department of Public Safety has taken on the new and sinister role of political profiling,” Kinder said.

Also troubling Kinder said, the report makes no mention of Islamic terrorists or those who might subscribe to ideologies associated with liberals, such as environmental radicals.

“Let’s be very clear: There are extremists and ultra extremists in every group mentioned above,” Kinder said, referring to anti-abortion and border security activists. “But not just in these groups.”

Kinder said Britt should be suspended and that the state legislature should investigate how the report was prepared.

To reach Jason Noble, call 573-634-3565 or send e-mail to jnoble@kcstar.com.


To recap, these are Missouri mules:



These are Missouri Moles:

Colonel James F. Keathley, Superintendent, Missouri Department of Public Safety

Democrat Governor Jay Nixon

(Subordinate SPLC moles could not be shown because they are publicity shy.)

8 comments:

Tom Austin said...

On Wednesday afternoon, Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. James F. Keathley released a memo saying the report did not meet the patrol’s standard for quality and would not have been released if it had been seen by top officials.

“For that reason,” Keathley wrote, “I have ordered the MIAC to permanently cease distribution of the militia report.”

The memo says the report was compiled by an employee of the information analysis center and reviewed only by the center director before being sent to law-enforcement agencies across the state


A report written by an analyst and chopped by the center's director is the very definition of an approved product that meets standards. This flimsy justification for retraction is purely due to the public outcry. If they can re-publish this without it getting leaked again, they will.

Anonymous said...

"If they can re-publish this without it getting leaked again, they will."

Don't look now, but I say that that cat is out of the bag. This thing is in de facto distribution all over the web. Street cops already have it in hand, and many of them will carry it in their hearts, too.

Keathley & Co. are masterful cynics.

Sean said...

The serving gov. of Mo. was killed in a plane crash, three weeks before the election. The dumbasses of Mo. elected him, dead still, to the US Senate. The Lt.Gov. then appointed his idiot wife to the Senate post, not the guy (living) who had the most votes, John Ashcroft. Mo. is a state with a lot of moronic,lefty,assholes in it, like Dick Gebhardt, and Claire McCaskill, and the Highway Patrol is full of like-minded fellow travelers. The Kansas City Mo. judge said that the KC school district was underfunded because of "racism", so he ordered 1 billion $ stolen, from the other school districts in Mo. to fund it, and turn it into a socialist utopia, only to find out, ten years down the road that they couldn't fill the buildings, and no one wanted to go there. One of the biggest power grabs ever, and nobody stopped a judge from running every school district in Mo. Damn Missouri to hell.

pdxr13 said...

When I first saw the MIAC report, It struck me as too similar to reports that I've seem from SPLC and other parts of the "hate-America" crowd. There may be repeated phrases that can confirm this. In addition to poor research, the MIAC may have "borrowed" quite a few phrases and paragraphs from Global Statist pro-immigration/anti-patriotic groups in order to save time and reduce thought-input to their document.

drjim said...

Col Keathley looks like a character from "Fernwood 2-Night"!

Anonymous said...

"Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. James F. Keathley released a memo saying the report did not meet the patrol's standard for quality ..."

"'For that reason,' Keathley wrote, 'I have ordered the MIAC to permanently cease distribution of the militia report.'"


So they didn't "retract" (recant or disavow) the report, they pulled it because of the shoddy editing.

In other words, they don't disagree with the contents!

Anonymous said...

Re: Sean

Damn, that makes the Chen Shui-Bian AKA "Ah-Bian" fiasco in Taiwan look like schoolyard petty pickpocketing. The voters must be all asleep or something. How the hell do these asshats get into power, when they should really be sitting on their couches munching on Cheetos, watching Jerry Springer, and paying no attention to anything else.

QUOTE "If they can re-publish this without it getting leaked again, they will." QUOTE

This really proves the whole "Us vs. Them" attitude that the "Only Ones", to quote Mr. David Codrea, have picked up during their indocrination to become wolves. It is a sad fact, but if the shit really hits the fan, I can bet a lot of these LEOs will be serving their "masters", instead of the US Constitution. Indoctrination is a very frightening thing.

W W Woodward said...

I sent MIAC an e-mail with a request, to save time and effort, to just go ahead and place my name on their terrorist list and be damned.

My action might be akin to a piss-ant out in the Arizona desert daring the Santa Fe railroad to send a train to squash him. But, if it's that all-fired important to the MO idiots. I welcome them to come see me.