Michigan (anti-abortion) group loses appeal against Obama administration

[Bozita]

Source: Michigan Messenger

Michigan group loses appeal against Obama administration
By Ed Brayton
08.08.11 | 7:39 am


A Michigan-based anti-abortion group, represented by the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, lost an appeal before the 6th Circuit in a case filed against Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano over a report on dangerous right wing extremist groups.

In April, 2009 the Department of Homeland Security released a report entitled Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. The report was one of many threat assessment reports shared between DHS and state and local law enforcement agencies to keep them apprised of potential dangers to be aware of.

Conservative groups were enraged over the report, claiming that DHS was calling all conservatives potential terrorists and tarring mainstream anti-abortion and anti-immigrant groups as dangerous extremists. But the plaintiffs in this case, the Center for Bioethical Reform, went even further, claiming that this was all part of a conspiracy between the Obama administration and liberal groups to violate their constitutional rights.

According to the Amended Complaint, this is an action “challenging the policy, practice, procedure, and/or custom of Defendants that targets for disfavored treatment those individuals and groups that Defendants deem to be ‘rightwing extremists’ (hereinafter RWE Policy).” Plaintiffs characterize this “policy, practice, procedure, and/or custom” as constituting a “Rightwing Extremist Policy” or “RWE Policy.” Plaintiffs do not define the RWE Policy with any precision or specificity, but allege that the “RWE Policy was created, adopted, implemented, and enforced through a partnership with private organizations that are political adversaries of Plaintiffs,” including the Anti-Defamation League, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the National Abortion Federation.


Read more: http://michiganmessenger.com/51452/michigan-group-loses-appeal-against-obama-administration

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The Thomas More Law Center is a creation of Tom Monaghan, the Domino's guy.

[Drale]

1. AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Take that assholes, I hope this is the start of more and more right wing groups being branded extremists and watched very very closely.

[AlbertCat]

2. a creation of Tom Monaghan, the Domino's guy.

The Tom More Law center doesn't seem to any better than Domino's pizza....

IOW...crap.

[saras]

3. The truth hurts, doesn't it?

"Conservative groups were enraged over the report, claiming that DHS was calling all conservatives potential terrorists and tarring mainstream anti-abortion and anti-immigrant groups as dangerous extremists. "

Our national security laws state that EVERYONE is a potential terrorist - there aren't exemptions.

The anti-abortion groups operating in America these days ARE dangerous extremists - they murder people and bomb buildings.

Likewise anti-immigration - I don't know of any anti-immigration group that does not support using extra-legal procedures on legal immingrants who happen to have skin of an undesirable color. Are there any anti-immigration groups that support strict constitutional protections for defendants in immigration cases, and support legal immigrants undergoing no hardship, unfair treatment, or unjustified-by-warrant examining of their "papers"?

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup:

[hootinholler]

5. If you can't show damages...

Your suit will be tossed out, and the appeal will be upheld.

-Hoot