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The Hutaree militia and the rising risk of far-right violence
Washington Post ^ | March 30, 2010 | Eugene Robinson

Posted on 03/30/2010 4:28:14 AM PDT by ejdrapes

The Hutaree militia and the rising risk of far-right violence

By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

....By contrast, there has been explosive growth among far-right, militia-type groups that identify themselves as white supremacists, "constitutionalists," tax protesters and religious soldiers determined to kill people to uphold "Christian" values. Most of the groups that posed a real danger, as the Hutaree allegedly did, have been infiltrated and dismantled by authorities before they could do any damage. But we should never forget that the worst act of domestic terrorism ever committed in this country was authored by a member of the government-hating right wing: Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

It is dishonest for right-wing commentators to insist on an equivalence that does not exist. The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from one direction -- the right, not the left. The vitriolic, anti-government hate speech that is spewed on talk radio every day -- and, quite regularly, at Tea Party rallies -- is calibrated not to inform but to incite....

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To: ejdrapes

Note the difference he himself puts out between left-wing violence and right-wing violence:

He cites a few instances where left-wingers actually committed acts of violence and did so in groups, whereas he can only name one instance of actual violence committed by one person in regards to right-wing violence, the rest of the “evidence” being essentially tough talk.


101 posted on 03/30/2010 12:25:20 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("Need has never produced anything. It has only been an excuse to steal from those with ablity.")
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To: ejdrapes

The dream of having a socialist “anglosphere”(nothing ever really English about that sphere)guarded/protected by American hegemony is dead.

India turns to Russia,the UK increasingly looks to France and perhaps Europe.

A country that treats its soldiers as criminals,hires so many foreigners into its army(degrading the idea of a citizen soldier)is not capable of maintaining any form of power outside its borders.

So it turns to enforcing laws within and it will fail there as well.How many live within its borders anyway?


102 posted on 03/30/2010 12:45:46 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: ejdrapes

Wow - if only libs talked like this about Islamic extremists....


103 posted on 03/30/2010 1:04:17 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: browardchad
Thank you browardchad.


Detroit.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release: "NINE MEMBERS OF A MILITIA GROUP CHARGED WITH SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY AND RELATED OFFENSES" (March 29, 2010)

Indictment - Link (pdf)

Link

104 posted on 03/30/2010 2:36:29 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: ejdrapes
IF they were plotting to kill cops that's NOT ok.

I agree. So why is Bobby Rush in Congress, and why are Dorhn and Ayers free?

There is an old double standard at work, here, for one. Second, they don't pose a national threat if they were going after local police. That sounds like a strictly local beef to me, and not the type of thing that has any direct impact on the highest levels of government, nor something that could credibly be translated to a national threat by vast unrelated portions of the population in the mind of any critical thinker.

Once again, the MSM is taking the rare exception and trying to stretch it into the rule.

105 posted on 03/30/2010 4:04:44 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: ejdrapes

MSNBC’s token Negro speaks.


106 posted on 03/30/2010 4:09:52 PM PDT by montag813
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To: ejdrapes

McVeigh was the fall guy.


107 posted on 03/30/2010 4:20:21 PM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: Mr. Wright
"The arrests dealt “a severe blow to a dangerous organization that today stands accused of conspiring to levy war against the United States,” Attorney General Eric Holder said. "

Is Eric here talking about the group he pardoned when Slick wily left office?

108 posted on 03/30/2010 4:46:29 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
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To: oneolcop
Thanks for that insight. Remember that to divide and isolate is part of the Leftist paradigm. Most folks concerned about the unconstitutional activities of the Feds don't have a problem with the police, just the rules the police sometimes have to enforce. That does not translate to 'cop-killer' any more than disagreeing with Congress has had them all tarred and feathered on Capitol Hill.

I figured part of the whole "domestic terrorist" meme was to try to get people to envision OK CIty or something like it, with the result being that the Right Wing would go home and sut up like it did then (for the most part).

It won't happen this time, and it is my sincere hope that the Federal and MSM rhetoric does not end up creating enemies where none previoulsy existed.

109 posted on 03/30/2010 5:13:21 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: silverleaf

Ok... You’re a Constitutionalist. Happy now? Of course the author of this screed wouldn’t at all like what I’d call HIM...

(BTW, did your silver leaf come after a gold one?)


110 posted on 03/30/2010 9:56:28 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub. III OK)
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To: ejdrapes

angry black man syndrome


111 posted on 03/30/2010 10:00:32 PM PDT by wardaddy (Greetings Comrade!)
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To: ejdrapes

All day I have been hearing these nutjobs described as a “Christian militia” on every news broadcast. If you look at their own postings, they are neither Christian in any mainstream way, nor a militia. They seem to be a cult based on one disturbed dude, his family and a few friends, fewer than a dozen in all. Since when does that constitute a “militia”?


112 posted on 03/30/2010 10:20:12 PM PDT by Hugin (Remember the first rule of gunfighting...have a gun..-- Col. Jeff Cooper)
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To: TXDuke

Hallelujah and amen, brother. Excellent points.


113 posted on 03/30/2010 10:31:09 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub. III OK)
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To: Cindy

You are so amazing.


114 posted on 03/30/2010 11:27:42 PM PDT by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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To: ejdrapes

His column is designed to incite, not inform.


115 posted on 03/30/2010 11:32:53 PM PDT by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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To: MarMema
Thank you MarMema.

I'm just an average type person with some good research skills and bull dog perseverance.

116 posted on 03/30/2010 11:45:49 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: ejdrapes
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117 posted on 03/30/2010 11:47:08 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: ejdrapes

Be afraid. Be very afraid. This is all part of the plan to demonize those opposed to the national socialists. Next will be their version of the Reichstag Fire Decree.


118 posted on 03/31/2010 1:23:44 AM PDT by SUSSA
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