Posted on 03/03/2010 3:34:36 PM PST by STARWISE
Southern Poverty Law Center Cites Violent Incidents; Lou Dobbs Calls SPLC Director 'Paranoid'
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Anti-government sentiments in the U.S. have reached levels so high they could result in another attack like the Oklahoma City bombing, according to a report released Tuesday by an organization that tracks right-wing extremists – and the authors of the report place part of the blame on Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin.
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A host of recent attacks on law enforcement, plots against President Obama, and a shooting at Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust museum are "signs of the times," said Mark Potok, ...
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Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate center of agitators.
It’s cites the shooting at the Holocaust Museum, as though it were a certified example of right-wing extremism, and not the act of one old man long noted for his crazy acts.
This outfit is one of the creepiest sources for fomenting a continuance of racial animosities. They smear with the widest brush possible, and every newspaper vets them as a credible source to their readers.
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APRIL 19 FOREVER DANGEROUS AFTER WACO, BOMB
Stuart News, The (FL) - Sunday, April 19, 1998
Author: Michael Hedges Scripps Howard News Service
“Possibly the danger on April 19 has abated because we know there will be heightened security at federal buildings. But April 19 remains the most important day of the year to the radical right.” - Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center
April 19 used to be marked as Patriot’s Day, when America began to set itself free with the first shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
But the day’s meaning has been forever warped by the fire and blood linking Waco, Texas, and Oklahoma City. It is now the day America holds its breath.
Federal law enforcement officials are reluctant to talk about an increased level of threat to government buildings today, the anniversary of both the fiery end to the Branch Davidian siege in 1993 and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building two years later.
“We treat every day like April 19,’’ said B.J. Zapor, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. “There have been changes throughout the system for the safety of employees.’’
One federal law enforcement official said every year since Waco there have been increased threats, some clearly bogus, others that have to be taken seriously, on that day.
“It is obviously something we don’t want to publicize to give any more nuts any ideas,’’ he said. “There are specific places around the country that will be in a raised state of alert that day based on threats.’’
The FBI is working on nearly a thousand domestic terrorism cases, a tenfold increase since the Murrah building blast, law enforcement officials said.
Some anti-terrorism groups warn that April 19 is still a key date for hate groups. “As we approach the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, we need to remember not just the lives that have been lost, but that extremist and race-based terrorism is on the rise,’’ said Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Only luck and hard work by the authorities have prevented another Oklahoma City-type incident.’’
According to a study by the Southern Poverty Law Center, dozens of conspiracies have been broken up by federal authorities since Oklahoma City.
“Conspiracies hatched since the Oklahoma City attack have included plans to bomb buildings and bridges, assassinate public officials and civil-rights figures, invade Army bases, rob banks and armored cars, derail passenger trains, amass illegal weapons and explosives,’’ said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Possibly the danger on April 19 has abated because we know there will be heightened security at federal buildings,’’ Potok said. “But April 19 remains the most important day of the year to the radical right.’’
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RUDOLPH ‘RELIGIOUSLY DRIVEN’
State, The (Columbia, SC) - Sunday, June 15, 2003
Author: KEN GARFIELD Knight Ridder Newspapers
CHARLOTTE - The arrest of Eric Rudolph has evoked a frightening phrase: Christian terrorist.
The man accused of bombing two abortion clinics, a gay nightclub and an Olympic celebration in Atlanta wasn’t just a madman allegedly acting out of rage.
Police and experts on religious hate crime in America believe he was moved to act by his long embrace of a radical Christian movement that holds Jews, blacks and gays as less than human.
Rudolph reads the same Bible as the average worshipper in the pew on Sunday morning.
Only he was a member of a loosely knit congregation whose creed leads to violence - whose interpretation of God’s word allegedly drove him to set off bombs, then flee into the N.C. mountains.
“Eric Rudolph was quite clearly driven by wildly extreme readings of theology,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. “He was essentially religiously driven.”
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The IRS plane bomber: A left-wing nut
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA) - Sunday, February 21, 2010
The Left appears to be having great difficulty telling its Left from the Right .
It didn’t take long after Joseph A. Stack intentionally crashed his single-engine plane into an Austin, Texas, office building for the usual blather to begin that the actions of this disaffected software engineer were the work of yet another “ right -wing extremist.”
A lot of Mr. Stack’s rhetoric, left behind in a manifesto, could be taken directly from a tea party rally placard, went one line. Stack’s extremism represented the same kind of alienation exhibited by the tea party movement, went another.
And then there’s Mark Potok , director of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center. Without challenge, fellow lefty and MSNBC host Chris Matthews allowed him to say Stack’s “ideas seem connected to at least some of the core ideas of the radical right .”
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Now there's an unbiased, trustworthy source. NOT!
You got it!
remember how there used to be folks here like stinkie, dane and prnd321 that used to defend Dees and his race pimps?
The Southern Poverty Law Center is nothing more than the Ku Klux Klan against Americans who love and support their country.
The SPLC supports, and gets support, from racist groups like La Raza (The Race), MECHA, and other anti-American racist groups.
IOW, anyone who disagrees with them is a troglodyte.
Piffle.
Dissent is Patriotic!
Hillary agrees.
They have no idea what is coming.
If anything, there is an enormous rise in violence from the Left and Islam.
We are all Jim Thompson.
Hmmm, why aren’t we on the “bad guys” list. I resent that. LOL.
No. I’m Spartacus. Says so on my undies...
I wonder if they were concerned about “anti-government” sentiment when a hundred thousand people were in the streets protesting Bush.
They’re laying the groundwork .. and
frighteningly, they have willing
and powerful accomplices.
It's still Ptriot's Day. And we we WILL set ourselves free of our erstwhile Marxist masters. One way or the other.
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