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Rage on the Right
Southern Poverty Law Center ^ | Spring 2010, Issue Number: 137 | Mark Potok

Posted on 03/03/2010 11:54:53 AM PST by Lorianne

The anger seething across the American political landscape — over racial changes in the population, soaring public debt and the terrible economy, the bailouts of bankers and other elites, and an array of initiatives by the relatively liberal Obama Administration that are seen as "socialist" or even "fascist" — goes beyond the radical right. The "tea parties" and similar groups that have sprung up in recent months cannot fairly be considered extremist groups, but they are shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism.

Already there are signs of similar violence emanating from the radical right. Since the installation of Barack Obama, right-wing extremists have murdered six law enforcement officers. Racist skinheads and others have been arrested in alleged plots to assassinate the nation’s first black president. One man from Brockton, Mass. — who told police he had learned on white supremacist websites that a genocide was under way against whites — is charged with murdering two black people and planning to kill as many Jews as possible on the day after Obama’s inauguration. Most recently, a rash of individuals with antigovernment, survivalist or racist views have been arrested in a series of bomb cases.

(Excerpt) Read more at splcenter.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alinsky; backontheplantation; democrats; leftwingextremism; liberalfascism; liberalprogressivism; markpotok; obamunism; playtheracecard; potok; progressives; progressivism; proterrorist; revisionisthistory; saulalinsky; smearcampaign; southernpoverty; stalinisttactics; starkravingsocialism
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Heads up. Anyone know what they are talking about with the police officers?
1 posted on 03/03/2010 11:54:53 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

“over racial changes in the population”

That’s a new one!


2 posted on 03/03/2010 11:57:01 AM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Lorianne

This is a BullS#it article.. How dare these Mother#%%$ers call us F&^%$ing angry.. I have No F%&%$ING IDEA WHAT THESE F%$&^%ING A$$&OLES ARE TALKING THE F%$K ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 03/03/2010 11:58:20 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: Lorianne

Rage? No so much. More like alert, focused, energized and ready to take positive action.

Leftists live in a bubble.


4 posted on 03/03/2010 11:58:50 AM PST by lurk
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To: mikelets456

Ref: Above

SARCASM... btw....


5 posted on 03/03/2010 11:59:10 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: Lorianne

Yeah, the Tea Partiers are “radicals” and even dangerous.

We need more level headed thinkers like The Kenyan’s buddies — people like Reverend Wright, Ayers, Holder and Michelle.


6 posted on 03/03/2010 11:59:46 AM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: DonaldC

Only the SPLC could come up with such a broad application of the race card.


7 posted on 03/03/2010 12:00:45 PM PST by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: Lorianne

There after militia’s again. This one is made up of police officers. I can’t remember all the in’s and out’s. Any time these left groups are after someone I figure they have to be the good guys.


8 posted on 03/03/2010 12:01:20 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Lorianne
Such garbage from Far Left groups is a primary reason why Tea Partiers and legitimate constitutional advocacy groups must not allow themselves to be defined by the Left as simply "angry" people.

That is how the President tried to define Scott Brown's election, attempting to give moral equivalency between the Left's "anger" at the Bush Administration with current citizen insistence on a return to constitutional principles regarding limited government, taxation and spending.

9 posted on 03/03/2010 12:01:36 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Lorianne

I guess they haven’t heard about beatings by unio thugs and other leftwingers of constituents at rallies. Apparntly some cannibalism too.

SPLC has no credibility whatsoever. Pure fiction.


10 posted on 03/03/2010 12:01:44 PM PST by texmexis best
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To: Lorianne
I hope Mark feels nice and safe behind his keyboard....
11 posted on 03/03/2010 12:02:00 PM PST by Niteranger68 ("Obama voters will pay dearly!")
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To: Lorianne

Potok is a specialist at seeing radical right terrorists under every rock, but, when I asked him about terrorism on the left, he lamely could cite the possibility of animal rights groups being violent.

Like all on the left, Potok views everything through the radical left extremist’s filter of “right is evil,” and there’s no such thing as “right” without the qualifying “radical” or “extremist” modifying it.

He was silent when Craig Kilbourne called for candidate Bush to be assassinated by a sniper, when a crackpot filmmaker wished on film for Bush’s assassination, when another liberal lamented “where is Lee Harvey Oswald when we need him (to assassinate President Bush), when his fellow lunatics asked Tom Delay to commit suicide, and on and on,

No credibility is due Potok, or any other extremist right-hating creep from the SPLC.


12 posted on 03/03/2010 12:03:35 PM PST by DPMD (~)
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To: lurk

We’re patiently sitting, fashioning our whip of cords...

John 2:15


13 posted on 03/03/2010 12:03:39 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Charles Martel

Of course. Have they ever called the Black Panthers or Code Pink or ANSWER or the SDS to task for their radical beliefs? Nah, the real danger to America is a soccer mom in capri pants with a sign begging the government to stop taxing her into the poor house.

SPLC needs money. Unfortunately, their target market is too busy grabbing government handouts to give them any.


14 posted on 03/03/2010 12:04:34 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Ronald Reagan: "our liberal friends....know so much that isn't so...")
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To: Lorianne

I’m waiting to hear from the Northern Poverty Law Center.


15 posted on 03/03/2010 12:06:13 PM PST by windsorknot (o o)
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To: Lorianne
Southern Poverty Center is a libtard progressive outfit whose primary goal is to spotlight....you guessed it....right wing activism and then place it in the same light as...you guessed it, right wing extremism....all the while, ignoring blatant left wing-oriented extremism. Astonishing, huh? Not, especially from this libtard and progressive dominated organization flying under the flag of 'Southern Poverty Center.'
16 posted on 03/03/2010 12:06:37 PM PST by cranked
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To: Lorianne

There should have been a barf alert for this one, just in case someone missed that the article was from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

There isn’t rage about the racial demographic changes. If you’re here legally, want to be American, don’t want to do us harm or upset the neighborhood, then come on down.


17 posted on 03/03/2010 12:06:42 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: Lorianne

For future reference, just about ANYTHING released by the SPLC should be accompanied by a “MAJOR Barf Alert!”

Thank you.

;-)


18 posted on 03/03/2010 12:07:51 PM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Lorianne
"Since the installation of Barack Obama, right-wing extremists have murdered six law enforcement officers."

Islamic supremacists have killed more than that on American soil. There was the recruiting center shooting and the Ft. Hood massacre.

Pick and choose your selective outrage, you bigots.

19 posted on 03/03/2010 12:08:24 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: Lorianne

Why IMAGINE being angry about an America hating thug occupying the White House and doing everything in his power to destroy your nation and trample your liberty into the dust. Who could POSSIBLY get upset over THAT??!!


20 posted on 03/03/2010 12:09:07 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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