Meet the 'Patriots'

[proud2BlibKansan]

In the last year and a half, militias and the larger antigovernment "Patriot" movement have exploded, accompanied by the rapid expansion of other sectors of the radical right. This spectacular growth (see Timeline) is the result of several factors, including anger over major political, demographic and economic changes in America, along with the popularization of radical ideas and conspiracy theories by ostensibly mainstream politicians and media commentators.

Although the resurgence of the so-called Patriots — people who generally believe that the federal government is an evil entity that is engaged in a secret conspiracy to impose martial law, herd those who resist into concentration camps, and force the United States into a socialistic "New World Order" — also has been propelled by people who were key players in the first wave of the Patriot movement in the mid–1990s, there are also a large number of new players. What follows are profiles of 35 individuals at the heart of the resurgent movement:

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/meet-the-patriots&ondntsrc=MBQ100670NWS&newsletter=newsgen-20100615

A Christian


An Anti-Taxer


An Anti-Semite


Misguided Youth


A Gun Lover


A Birther


29 more: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/meet-the-patriots&ondntsrc=MBQ100670NWS&newsletter=newsgen-20100615

[Solly Mack]

1. Reading that will make your skin crawl.

It did mine anyway.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I know one of them

Yes, it makes my skin crawl.

[WCGreen]

3. where is the racism...

These people were all quite when Bush was eroding every right that stood in his way but as soon as a blackman takes control, the government is suddenly evil...

Fuck these people. They are just racists and don't have the balls to say it...

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Well this one doesn't like Mexicans

[mitchum]

5. Thanks for the Rightwing Nutjobs of the 90s:Where are They Now?

I wondered what ever happened to "Mark from Michigan"
and I think I still have a copy of Jack McLamb's hilarious "Operation Vampire"

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Looks like most of them have moved on from hating Clinton to hating Obama

They are too predictable.

[The Wizard]

7. They were only following orders

because they're Republican sympathizers.