The nation struggles to balance civil liberties

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Conflict in Klamath: The SPLC believes that, “The short-lived battle of Klamath Falls was the latest flashpoint in a continuing low-intensity war between 'Patriot' activists and the federal government.”

We were there (The Idaho Observer, Sept., 2001). On April 6, 2001, The feds told Klamath Basin farmers who had just planted their fields and had prepared for a gorwing season, that irrigation job function email list water that was contractually available to them would not flow that year to protect two species of suckerfish that might be endangered. SPLC intelligence is not accurate. This is not a low-intensity war. The feds were in breach of contract and an entire region of this nation was turned into a dustbowl for non-scientific reasons. The water will flow next year. This is not right-wing extremism -- this is survival.

Freedom and Dissent: “As and police power following the September horror, it is well to remember our history of throttling dissent,” comments the SPLC invitation to get you to read the story. The SPLC then uses the Alien and Sedition Acts to justify the unconstitutional use of military force to silence those who opposed the Jay Treaty-era policies of President John Adams in 1798. The article uses examples from several tumultuous chapters of American history to justify “throttling dissent” even though historical revisionists have since proven that dissidents were justified in their opposition to the actions of the federal government -- in all cases.