"But by conjuring up the specter of revolutionor counterrevolutionis Rhodes adding to the threat of real violence? Oath Keepers are "a particularly worrisome example of the 'patriot' revival," according to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate speech and extremist organizations. "Patriot" groupsdescribed by the SPLC as outfits "that see the federal government as part of a plot to impose 'one-world government' on liberty-loving Americans"are "roaring back" after years out of the limelight, according to Potok. Notorious in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the patriot groups seemed to fade away under the shadow of 9/11, but hard times and the nation's first African-American president seem to have brought about a revivalfrom 149 groups in 2008 to 512 (127 of them militias) in 2009, according to the SPLC."
To: sheikdetailfeather
2 posted on
04/10/2010 2:23:04 PM PDT by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
To: sheikdetailfeather
Sounds like the party line of all Fascist. If you don’t support EVERY Government edit, YOU are the problem.
I’ve got news for Thomas. The United States Government gets it’s power from the PEOPLE.
3 posted on
04/10/2010 2:24:03 PM PDT by
Marty62
(marty60)
To: sheikdetailfeather
4 posted on
04/10/2010 2:27:03 PM PDT by
GeronL
(Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
To: sheikdetailfeather
Hey Newsweek most of us who actually think for themselves are very concerned about a facist socialist takeover of our country!
5 posted on
04/10/2010 2:28:02 PM PDT by
doc
To: sheikdetailfeather
The SPLC itself is an extremist organization and
perhaps the largest domestic intelligence gathering group
in the country.
6 posted on
04/10/2010 2:30:27 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: sheikdetailfeather
Evan Thomas, author of the article and an editor at Newsweek, is the grandson of Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Prez in the ‘40s and a founder of the ACLU.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree...
8 posted on
04/10/2010 2:32:22 PM PDT by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
To: sheikdetailfeather
Leftists fear the overthrow of their fledgling socialist utopia. To think that this free nation has ventured so far from what the Founding Fathers risked all for. Now, talk of a "revolution" by freedom loving citizens to bring the country back to its founding principles of liberty is considered to be violent, hate-filled extremists that must be monitored and quelled.
Tea Party, Oath Keepers, etc., are not fringe element wing-nuts. They are literally millions of concerned American citizens speaking out and making a stand.
10 posted on
04/10/2010 2:34:41 PM PDT by
Jagdgewehr
(Gun, Bible, Gadsden Flag...the definition of a hater and far right-wing extremist)
To: sheikdetailfeather
Oathkeeper and damn proud of it. You want some, Potok?
11 posted on
04/10/2010 2:39:47 PM PDT by
clintonh8r
(I always look for the union label. So I know what NOT to buy.)
To: sheikdetailfeather
Today's extremists are yesterdays debaters - people who readily understood there are usually two sides to an issue, even three or four or five. Today's extremist is anyone who disagrees with Obama: his Unions, and his radical shadow government and those closest to him, and the MSM will immediately slam the person/organization who dares to dissent.
Sarah Palin would have been the poster gal for WWII or the early feminist...however, showing her mettle today lets loose foul invectives of the worse kind regardless of gender.
I think Sarah shows a grand femininity - so unlike the infamous NOW gang and other empty feminist organizations. She has succeeded in uniting conservatives across the country...not members of parties, just plain old Americans who feel and are oppressed by the un-American Progressives...the enemy within we have been so warned about.
13 posted on
04/10/2010 2:42:47 PM PDT by
yoe
To: sheikdetailfeather
Newsweak, Marxist strong.
16 posted on
04/10/2010 3:00:00 PM PDT by
Navy Patriot
(Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
To: sheikdetailfeather
All the statists are afraid now - they’ve gone beyond what the overwhelming majority is willing to take in the behind. If they figure out how to steal the election in November this time, we’re in for a lot of Waco’s and Ruby Ridge’s in the twenty-teens.
To: sheikdetailfeather
Screw Newsweek. What they mean by ‘anti-government’ is really ‘pro-liberty.’ Evan Thomas is a piece of human garbage just like his grandfather.
19 posted on
04/10/2010 3:12:03 PM PDT by
VR-21
(Up the leviathan state!)
To: sheikdetailfeather
REPEAT after ME....Newsweek is an ally of the OPPRESSORS!
20 posted on
04/10/2010 3:24:05 PM PDT by
goodnesswins
(The PLANTATION Party is at it again (the DEMS) ....trying to make slaves of everyone)
To: sheikdetailfeather
“Anitgovernment”: a word that couldn’t be found in the MSM’s lexicon from 2000 - 2008.
21 posted on
04/10/2010 3:26:09 PM PDT by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/1980)
To: sheikdetailfeather
“Rhodes says he has 6,000 dues-paying members, active and retired police and military, who promise never to take orders to disarm U.S. citizens or herd them into concentration camps...”
Yeah. That’s real hateful, isn’t it? Hateful to tyrants. It’s a good thing the turds at Newsweek weren’t around in 1776...no telling how they would classify the founding fathers for daring freedom.
To: sheikdetailfeather
Anti-Constitution pols and bureaucrats are on the rise - and on the run.
25 posted on
04/10/2010 4:32:21 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
To: sheikdetailfeather
So Newspeak, which is only slightly less left-wing than Pravda, discovers "hate" which seemed strangely missing during the Bush admin despite weekly anti-Bush protests and countless lefties urging the death of Bush and Cheney. Now the lefties are trying to make Americans believe old, church-going Mrs. Smith down the street is a home-grown terrorist because she went to a Tea Party to protest high taxes. Hypocrisy is a title leftists wear proudly.
Incidentally, a few days ago Cincy talk-show host Mike McConnell got Mark Potok so incensed by McConnell's critical questioning about hate groups, (Potok wrote a book where all the haters are right-wing and claimed on the show that the Black Panthers were a right-wing org.) that he hung up on him. Potok couldn't take a questioner who wasn't groveling before him.
26 posted on
04/10/2010 4:36:45 PM PDT by
driftless2
(for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
To: sheikdetailfeather
“the nation’s first African-American president seem to have brought about a revival”
The leftist scum just can’t seem to let go of this red herring. The right doesn’t give a hoot about the color of the great zero’s skin. It’s the color of his philosophy(RED) we are pissed about.
32 posted on
04/10/2010 5:34:13 PM PDT by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: sheikdetailfeather
The barking poodles at Newsweak are terrified of citizens with guns. The image of Mussolini hanging in the Piazzale Loreto makes them wake up nights in a cold sweat. Traitors and dictators are always one step away from earning their just rewards.
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