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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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To: Lorianne
The anger seething across the American political landscape — over racial changes in the population,

Really? Almost every conservative I talk with is indifferent to race, to racial changes in the population, and even to Obama's race. We despise Obama because he's red, not because he's black. We want illegals arrested and deported because they are here illegally, not because they come from a different country.

... soaring public debt and the terrible economy, the bailouts of bankers and other elites,

He got that one right. Real Americans are disgusted with Obama and Pelosi because they have gone beyond giving our tax dollars to their corrupt supporters and are now giving trillions of our children's tax dollars to their corrupt supporters. Is objecting to that level of fraud and theft a bad thing?

... and an array of initiatives by the relatively liberal Obama Administration that are seen as "socialist" or even "fascist"

Of course socialized medicine is seen as "socialist", and the government takeover of banks and manufacturing is seen as "fascist". Does this writer know the meaning of those two words, and if so can he explain what part of those actions is not socialist or fascist?

21 posted on 03/03/2010 12:09:27 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Lorianne
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.

He was a barking mad psycho with a swastika carved into his forehead. A real looney. A pig-eyed scowling fat man. Exactly the type who this writer, who described the piece of excrement in the White House as "Moderately Liberal" would choose as a demonization of Right Wingers.

22 posted on 03/03/2010 12:09:44 PM PST by Gorzaloon (GET him AWAY from the CAMERA!! They are all figuring it out!!!)
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To: Lorianne

SPLC: When my fellow Jews go bad...


23 posted on 03/03/2010 12:10:07 PM PST by pabianice
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To: Lorianne

24 posted on 03/03/2010 12:10:26 PM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: loveliberty2
I refuse to let any "right of center" political rally get portrayed as "angry" or "hate filled" or "racist".

Not when the media sat SILENT over the violent antisemitism, antiamerican, pro-Marxist, pro-insurgent, pro-Palestinian war rhetoric at their "peace marches" against Boosh.

25 posted on 03/03/2010 12:11:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: Lorianne

No mention of Obama supporter and “community organizer” Lovelle Mixon who single-handedly murdered 4 cops in Oakland, CA?


26 posted on 03/03/2010 12:11:16 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Oldpuppymax

They’re confiscating our money, at gunpoint,
to destroy American society, perpetuate their power,
reward their cronies, steal our freedom,
and indoctrinate our children into godlessness.

And we’re not supposed to be angry.


27 posted on 03/03/2010 12:11:32 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: pabianice
Did the SPLC issue a statement when the jihadist rampaged on the Jewish Community Center in Seattle?
28 posted on 03/03/2010 12:12:18 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: Pollster1

Did the SPLC ever dispute claims that the Bush administration was “fascist” or “imperialist”?


29 posted on 03/03/2010 12:13:25 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: Lorianne

There is no lie the Left won’t tell and no depth that is too low for them to sink. Linking friggin Skinheads to Tea Partiers really reveals the dark souls of these scum.


30 posted on 03/03/2010 12:13:30 PM PST by jiminycricket000
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To: Lorianne

31 posted on 03/03/2010 12:13:54 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Lorianne

The race wh@res are making a pre-emptive strike. They know a huge backlash that is coming after zer0 crams health care down our throats. I expect to see many articles expressing “concern” over “radicals on the right” over the next few days. The comrades are circling the bowl, er, I mean circling the wagons for their fearless leader.


32 posted on 03/03/2010 12:16:04 PM PST by jim35 (Tea Party former Republican)
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To: Lorianne

To bad we couldn’t be seen as those so calm protestors that throw chairs through the windows of the banks.....

This article is complete and utter BS.


33 posted on 03/03/2010 12:16:17 PM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: jiminycricket000

Yet when you point out the Marxist literature and banners and sponsorship of antiwar groups, it is wrong to call them “Communists” just because we “disagree”.


34 posted on 03/03/2010 12:16:31 PM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: Lorianne

These are from that Dung Heap that got propriety stripped from Americans and given to legals a while back these people need to go!


35 posted on 03/03/2010 12:19:13 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Lorianne

Strange ... not of the signs I’ve seen held up in any of the Tea Part pictures have said a single word about the issue of race(?)


36 posted on 03/03/2010 12:19:14 PM PST by The Duke
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To: Lorianne
the relatively liberal Obama Administration

You have got to be kidding me!!!
37 posted on 03/03/2010 12:34:28 PM PST by Know et al (Everything I know I read in the newspaper and that's the reason for my ignorance: Will Rogers)
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To: Lorianne
There was the murders of 3 officers in Pittsburgh last year by an idiot White punk living in his mother's basement. The newspapers quoted friends as saying he was worried that "commander zero" would take our guns and didn't like police. That's all potok would need to pin it on the Patriot movement even if the nut was a nazi, emphasis on the SOCIALIST in national socialist.

932 Patriot/Rightwing groups? There's at least that many black/hispanic gangs in LA that commit more racial violence against Whites in a week than anything attributed to Patriot/Constitutional/US Sovereignty groups in their history.

And let's not forget the muslim jihadi groups that are busted about every week, not to mention the Sudden Jihad Syndrome practitioners of TROP like maj. hassan.

The splc is a shakedown group not unlike the black girl in San Diego that hung a noose in the library and cried racism. "People of color" marched, the administration ponied up, even after the perp was identified.

38 posted on 03/03/2010 12:36:02 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: The Duke
Yeah, how about that. Neither does my Fourth of July 2009 Tea Party Speech, but I've had a twit or two denounce it as 'racist'. Says more about them than it does about me.
39 posted on 03/03/2010 12:36:21 PM PST by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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“Hate groups stayed at record levels”

Depends on what you call a “hate group” now don’t it ya little pu$$y.


40 posted on 03/03/2010 12:38:37 PM PST by Grunthor (Does The Name "Obama" Appear In any Hawaii Birth Database?)
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