Keith Olbermann & Mark Potok Discuss The Hutaree Arrests And The Huge Rise In Right Wing Extremism

[Turborama]

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Check here for transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/03/29/stone.pdf">Read The Full Indictment (PDF)

Mark Potok: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/rage-on-the-right">Rage on the Right - The Year in Hate and Extremism

Listen to SPLC’s Mark Potok Discuss Rise in Extremism on NPR’s Fresh Air

Mark Potok discusses the recent explosion of right-wing extremism in an interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air this week. The interview came amid a wave of vandalism and threats of violence aimed at members of Congress who voted for health care reform legislation.

The SPLC recently released “Rage on the Right,” its annual count of active hate and extremist groups in the U.S. The report documented a surge in extremism as militias and other groups steeped in wild, antigovernment conspiracy theories exploited populist anger across the country and infiltrated the mainstream.

The report found a 244 percent increase in the number of antigovernment “Patriot” groups, which include armed militias. Potok told Fresh Air listeners that the ideas of these groups and others on the radical right are being spread and validated by mainstream media figures and politicians. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124906766">Listen to the full interview or http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=124906766">read the transcript.

From: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/listen-to-splc-s-mark-potok-discuss-rise-in-extremism-on-npr-s-fresh-air

[EFerrari]

1. How screwed up is this country when the right wing media forces DHS

to repudiate an understated security estimate of domestic right wing terrorists?

That should give all of us pause.

[Shining Jack]

2. Scary bunch of nuts. n/t

[Stevepol]

3. K&R. Very informative.