Now They Know How Islamic Groups Feel

TW: I tend to get very libertarian quickly when it comes to law enforcement and civil liberties. I feel many of the "anti-terrorist" measures taken since 9/11 are overly intrusive, paranoid and sacrificial of too much liberty in the name of security. Conservatives (the non-libertarian slanted ones at least) typically have been highly supportive though of the intrusive measures as they tend toward the security end of the "liberty/security" scale.

For this reason, the irony is considerable as conservatives get uptight about domestic security agencies probing "right-wing" groups of various ilks here in the U.S. It is uncomfortable when your "own" (understanding the vast majority of conservatives are not "extremists") are the targets. Perhaps now they will have some empathy for Islamic types of whom the vast majority of members are not extremists either.

From Washington Monthly:
"WHEN IDEOLOGY TRUMPS LAW ENFORCEMENT.... Newsweek had an item the other day...

'In February, the Missouri Information Analysis Center, one of several "fusion" centers created after 9/11 to share intelligence among local, state and federal agencies, issued a "strategic report" warning about a resurgence of the "modern militia movement." Last week, on the same day that white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly killed a guard at Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum, Missouri's police chief informed legislators that the fusion center had suspended production of such reports. Why? Outcry from conservative activists, who felt they were being tarred too. [...]

They may talk about it less in public now, but law-enforcement and intel officials tell NEWSWEEK they're quietly scrutinizing threats from the far right just as carefully as those from Islamic extremists.'

So...Law enforcement officials decided, on purpose, to stop preparing reports on potentially dangerous radicals, because conservative activists said scrutiny of extremists made them feel put upon? Conservative activists whine about all kinds of things; shouldn't law enforcement officials ignore them and focus on real threats?"