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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight-wing crackpot alert: Peter King says Iran-backed Hezbollah operatives ready to blow up America
Fear Mongerer in Chief: Rep. Peter King Hypes Alleged Hezbollah Presence in US
Representative Peter King (R-NY) knows of a new threat to US homeland security: the presence of hundreds of Iranian-backed Hezbollah operatives inside the US who could be used to commit terrorism.
King held a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing yesterday on Iran, Hezbollah, and the Threat to the Homeland.
As Iran moves closer to nuclear weapons, and there is increasing concern over war between Iran and Israel, we must also focus on Irans secret operatives, and their number one terrorist proxy force, Hezbollah, which we know is in America, said King.
It sounds alarming, but Kings hearing was more about stoking fear than about an actual threat. King has become the nations leading fear mongerer, holding hearings that solely focus on the threat of Islamist terrorism while ignoring the threat from, say, right-wing extremists. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/866051/fear_mongerer_in_chief%3A_rep._peter_king_hypes_alleged_hezbollah_presence_in_us/
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Right-wing crackpot alert: Peter King says Iran-backed Hezbollah operatives ready to blow up America (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2012
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Drale
(7,932 posts)1. You know what I have to say to these fear mongerers?
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)3. LOL.. When all else fails....
Send in the Wookie.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)2. That man is an idiot, a menace, and a hypocrite.
Surely, Staten Island can do better.
Who's running against him?
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)4. Just part of the plan.........
to keep a bloated military and beat the drums for yet another disastrous war in the Middle East. When will these monkeys learn?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)5. Today's crackpot becomes tomorrow's conventional wisdom
King's just ahead of the curve, but pulling public perception toward another war, which is so disastrous for most of the country, but wickedly profitable for the people that matter.