Report: Number of U.S. anti-government groups rises for third year.

cnn ^ | Mar 08 2012 | By the CNN Wire Staff

[forbushalltheway]

Growth fueled by rising tide against Obama, economy, immigration issues.

CNN) - The number of anti-government groups in the United States grew dramatically in 2011 for a third year, fueled by a rising tide against President Barack Obama, the struggling economy and illegal immigration, a report released Thursday finds.

The three-year trend amounts to an "astounding" 755 percent growth since 2008, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center report "The Year in Hate & Extremism: The Patriot Movement Explodes."

The report attributes the growth to "superheated fears generated by economic dislocation, the changing racial makeup of America, and the prospect of four more years under a black president who many on the far right view as an enemy to their country."

Since its start in 1994, the so-called Patriot Movement has fluctuated in size based on political events -- peaking in 1996 after the Oklahoma City bombing before fading to relative obscurity in 2000, according to the report. Its most recent rise can be traced to late 2008 -- the start of the economy's collapse and the election of Obama as president.

"Even as most of the nation cheered the election of the first black president that November, an angry backlash developed that included several plots to murder Obama," the report says. "Many Americans, infused with populist fury over bank and auto bailouts and a feeling that they had lost their country, joined Patriot groups."

[forbushalltheway]

Didn't know whether to post something from this liberal info, but it was on a tv station webpage. If you don't want to post it, that is fine.

[tomkat]

Southern Poverty Law Center

Wholly Øwned subsidiary of Pravda-DC

[Redleg Duke]

No bias in the title of that report.

Nope, not a bit.

[x1stcav]

Southern Poverty Law Center

I knew they were involved even before reading the thread.

[OldArmy52]

So says the SPLC, a racist hate group itself.
Why bring this up?
Well, as Hitler had his SS brownshirts.
Obaba will have his TSA.
And use bogus SPLC and other far Left groups to justify accelerating the oncoming Police State.
Like the ignored elephant in the living room, the One Party Press suppresses any observation of how Obaba is creating a Fascist Socialist tyranny one step at a time.

[muir_redwoods]

Isn’t it time we included the federal government among the so-called “Hate Groups”? The Feds caused Ruby Ridge, Waco and was complicit in the racial threats by the Black Panthers in Philadelphia in 2008. I think, by any definition, the Feds constitute a racist hate group.

[WellyP]

Only 755%? I think they under counted!

[moovova]

I’m pretty sure Obama, Holder and Napolitano should be on the list.

[Don Corleone]

The seeds of CWII are being sown.

[Zeppo]

Foolish CNN reports this as if it were “news” instead of a carefully-crafted piece of, well, Obama re-election campaign propaganda.

[Boonie]

It seems to me that most of these “groups” they say are springing up are, in fact, groups wanting to bring BACK our government, not anti-government.....

[jespasinthru]

Aw, man! Now they’ve done it. This is just going to make more paranoid people go out and buy some heat & ammo. But then again, even paranoid people have enemies.

[DH]

Number of U.S. anti-government groups rises for third year.

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The title should have correctly been written to show:

Number of U.S. Constitutional Protection groups rises for third year.

There............fixed it.

[radioone]

If these paranoid people believed their propaganda, they would barricade their homes and never leave.

[nhwingut]

So “Patriot” is now associated with racists and radicals.

I love how the libtard media works.

[forbushalltheway]

I agree, I didn’t really want to post something from that liberal site, but i thought everyone should know what was being said to counteract it.

[Malone LaVeigh]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Considering the growing number of Americans who now view this government as illegitimate in one way or another, I'm surprised that the "official" number is that low.

[nhwingut]

I just left a comment on this bogus study.

[FourPeas]

Of course SPLC would consider anyone who considers themselves a ‘patriot’ a hate-filled extremist.

[marstegreg]

I believe the number has grown simply because our taxpay dollars are being funnelled to them. They all have either government of union support and (of course) tax free status. Once the funding stops, so do the protests.