Southern Poverty Law Center Report Finds 'Patriot' Groups Surge As Anti-Obama Fervor Grows
Southern Poverty Law Center Report Finds 'Patriot' Groups Surge As Anti-Obama Fervor Grows
The number of anti-government patriot groups, including paramilitary hate organizations, reached an all-time high in 2012, fanned by President Barack Obama's reelection and talk of gun control following the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Patriot groups -- those dedicated to federal government overthrow in the belief it will confiscate weapons and impose socialism -- expanded in number and size for the fourth consecutive year, the law center said. The groups' recruiting was fueled by the sluggish economy, anxieties about the countrys shifting demographics and their ability to push their ideas and conspiracy theories into the mainstream, the report said. The growth intensified at the end of 2012 with the election and the school massacre.
As in the period before the Oklahoma City bombing, we now are seeing ominous threats from those who believe that the government is poised to take their guns, wrote Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and a member of the Department of Homeland Security working group on violent extremism.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala.-based nonprofit that monitors hate groups and crimes, said in a letter to U.S. Attorney Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that patriot groups now hold the potential for a wave of domestic terrorism. The groups overshadow the danger posed by more traditional hate groups -- neo-Nazis and others dedicated against blacks, Latinos, Catholics and Muslims, for example, the report found. The group's letter urged federal officials to create a new task force to assess federal resources devoted to the threat.
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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/southern-poverty-law-center-patriot-groups-_n_2814768.html
A Good Read.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)These thugs go insane when their side loses an election. They need someone, such as the shrub who makes them feel good about themselves(i.e white conservative male).
Cha
(297,323 posts)jocks and bullshit mountain gopropaganda pushers.
The Secret Service has their hands FULL with their Jobs of being strong enough to stand up to those factions of HATE.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)These guys have been getting coverage on CNN, MSNBC and FOX, of course. I don't watch ABC, NBC or CBS, but it's probably there as well. And I don't listen to hate and CT radio, but it's obviously there. Koch and friends are in a hurry promoting civil war. So they can start the revolution and pick up the pieces into their own pockets.
Cha
(297,323 posts)in pushing the lies and hate against Pres Obama.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)caseymoz
(5,763 posts). . . when Obama finishes out his term? They've built their careers on hyping the hysteria about the guy. When Obama leaves office in 2016 and our country hasn't converted to Islam and isn't called New Kenya, what are they gonna do with themselves?
Predictions they made are going to be on the Internet forever, and I hope their faces are wiped in it for the rest of their lives.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)caseymoz
(5,763 posts). . . would kick in by then.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)that would give fox news, and a thousand radio stations nothing to do...
caseymoz
(5,763 posts)Remember, it's not just propaganda. It's also marketing to a target audience. Audience tastes change. People get bored. They also get old and die. When Fox and the rest are regarded as "old folks entertainment," then they're terminal.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)I must admit I never really thought of fox simply drifting off, somewhat in the manner of Lawrence Welk... now there's a vision Sean Hannity drifting away to the sound of champagne music...
Politicub
(12,165 posts)Remember the Michigan militia and its ilk?
Didn't end too well for the fringe groups then. It's just a matter of time before the looniest of the lunatics try to outdo the bombing of the Murrah federal building or pull another Waco.