Posted on 03/08/2010 3:30:26 AM PST by NoExpectations
Protecting the US president has presented the secret service with the greatest challenge in its history. But who wants to kill him? And how likely are they to succeed?The Southern Poverty Law Center began life in 1971 as a tiny law firm specialising in civil rights cases. It took on the might of the Ku Klux Klan, and was duly rewarded by having its offices razed and its senior lawyers targeted for assassination. But it kept on going and grew to be one of the most respected monitoring groups of rightwing extremism in America today.
Recently it brought out a report called Terror From the Right, which identifies, in chronological order, the serious home-grown plots, conspiracies and racist rampages that have been cooked up in America since the Oklahoma City bomb in 1995. The list runs to 10 pages of closely printed type and itemises 75 domestic terrorism events, from plans to bomb government buildings to attempts to kill judges and politicians.
Each of the incidents aimed to change the political face of America through violence, courtesy of groups with such titles as Aryan People's Republic, The New Order and The Hated. But in the summer of 2008 the chronology takes on a sharp change of tack. Entries, which had been running at one or two per year, start coming faster. And instead of a variety of different targets, one name crops up time and time again: Barack Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Does this group do anything but put out reports on right wing boogeymen?
Did they not pay attention to the Alabama university shooter, guy that flew his plane into the IRS building and Pentagon shooter? Did they fail to notice all the left wing hate and terrorism?
Bush`s fault
There is something wrong in the media when a ultra uber liberal leftist hate group can get this much mileage out of a report. I saw this guy making the rounds on all the news shows two weeks ago,and all this SPLC group does is point fingers at “hate” filled right wingers. But as I listened to the words roll out of his mouth, I realized this guy needs to find a mirror to locate a real HATER!
The SPLC started out to do good and they've done very well indeed. Sure wish they'd issue an IPO and go public. :(
"Morris and I...shared the overriding purpose of making a pile of money," recalls Dees's business partner, a lawyer named Millard Fuller (not to be confused with Millard Farmer). "We were not particular about how we did it; we just wanted to be independently rich."
In the past the SPLC has targeted hate groups or groups deemed racist and potentially violent, such as the KKK and Neo Nazi groups, the SPLC now uses their reputation for righting these groups to go after moderate and mainstream Americans, journalists, and show hosts and anchors in an attempt to suppress free speech.
The most recent attack from the SPLC on American freedoms has come in the public call for the firing of Lou Dobbs by SPLC President Richard Cohen.
Cohen asserts that Mr. Lou Dobbs is fueling hatred and inciting people to violence because he discusses issues such as illegal immigration and open borders on his show.
The most recent call for Lou Dobbs to be fired was in response to Dobbs making the following statement on his radio show regarding the birth certificate and Constitutional eligibility of President Barrack Obama.
The SPLC and groups like Moveon(dot)org are scrambling to defend Barrack Obama when his approval numbers are diving with Rasmussen Reports showing Obamas core ratings falling to negative 17.
Lou Dobbs did not take a position on President Obamas Constitutional eligibility to serve as President as a natural born citizens. Lou Dobbs simply said President Obama needs to produce a birth certificate. He did not incite violence.
Their anti-right wing “reports” get more and more loony and gets them more George Soros fat cat type donations. I would love to see their donors list. It should be publicly available
No.
It is an idee fixe of Leftists, that the Enemy is always to the right.
There are no bad Leftists, not even the Weather Underground.
Everyone should go read the entire article. About 3/4 of the way down it gets an entire deck of race cards tossed into the air.
Setting up the plotline.
“The right leaning students at UC smashed windows and burned cars over education cuts........”
We have experienced yet another ...
Close Encounter with the Loony Left [link-list]
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Surprised they left out Joseph Stack. He happened to be an angry white guy who killed a black federal worker.
Weather Underground was short lived and 40 years ago. All those pukes figured out it was better and easier (and you got a decent paycheck) to infiltrate the university .edu schools and the legal establishment
The SPLC is a joke.
If anyone is going to knock off the usurper, it will be the people that control his puppet strings after they no longer need him, or if they feel their plans are not going well to disrupt the U.S. and figure by offing him, they can get the desired results.
RAAcists are against poor Zero!
Typical Leftard propaganda.
Actually we detest Zero because he’s a COMMUNIST.
Get it, Leftards?..which is the reason we FReepers have nothing but contempt for your side of the aisle.
Also...the article is produced by the UK Guardian, which was founded by the British Communist Party and received “The Order of Lenin” from Stalin in 1939.
Actually in SOCIALIST terms, Obama is the greatest success of all times - He is doing more daily damage to the USA than Tojo and Hitler ever did in their careers.
I’ve said the same thing ever since Zero was elected PUSA. The Right wants to see Zero Impeached and tried for treason by over 75%.
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See: http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com
Therefore, the danger that Zero faces in regards to assassination is on the Left, because a martyr to Communism is worth more than a living failure.
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