Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremism, said there were about 150 such groups in 2008 and about 1,000 now. Potok and other analysts, including law enforcement officials who track the groups, said their supporters number in the hundreds of thousands, counting people who signal their support in more passive ways, such as following the groups on social media. The Facebook page of the Oath Keepers, a group of former members of police forces and the military, for example, has more than 525,000 “likes.”
Also, how many beheadings were these groups responsible for? How many Marathons did these groups attack? How many airports? Give me a break you, Southern Poverty Bull Shitters.
If the Splc knew how many guns were in a fifty mile radius of them their heads would explode.