Just as Kentucky clerk Kim Davis played the victim after she defied court orders and continued to discriminate against same-sex couples, so too have her lawyers at Liberty Counsel been readily playing the victim after they came under fire for, among other things, repeatedly telling falsehoods during Davis’ unsuccessful legal battle.

In an email to members yesterday, Liberty Counsel head Mathew Staver found another opportunity to embrace the victim narrative, this time highlighting a new Justice Department effort to combat homegrown extremism.

Unsurprisingly, conservative activists have reacted to the DOJ program by predicting that the government will begin to go after Republicans, veterans and gun owners, the exact same claim they made after the Department of Homeland Security issued a report on far-right domestic terrorism in 2009.

Back when the DHS report was released, Liberty Counsel offered its members cards declaring “I’m Proud To Be A Right-Wing Extremist,” which included the group’s phone number just in case cardholders were “confronted by an agent of the Department of Homeland Security.” While it seemed odd for groups like Liberty Counsel to deliberately equate themselves with violent organizations, it presented a new way to raise money and raise the alarm about coming governmental persecution.

In its latest email about the supposedly looming government attack on conservatives, Liberty Counsel compares itself with Christians who are actually facing persecution in the Middle East and insists that the U.S. government considers conservative Christians “more dangerous than radical jihadists and ISIS.”

“Mentored by radicals, including Bill Ayers, President Obama embraces ideologies that conflict with Christian values and the very principles upon which our nation was founded. That’s why we are now in the Obama administration’s crosshairs,” the email says. “Help us continue to stand against the radical onslaught being waged against Christians right here in America.”