Jonathan Falwell and Other Right Wingers Put the 'Reaction' in 'Reactionary' Via Response to DHS

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Report on Extremists

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/720

Submitted by meg on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 12:28pm. Analysis

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White

In another edition of the Falwell Confidential, an e-mail newsletter from the late Rev. Jerry Falwell's son Jonathan, the Baptist pastor drew a straight line connecting pro-lifers such as himself to violent extremists.

Hey, man: You said it, not me.

Falwell was reacting to the publication of an intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security warning about the possibility of a homegrown terrorist attack due to violent radicalization of disgruntled individuals on the right. Here's an excerpt from his letter to his "fellow 'extremists'" (emphasis mine):