Posted on 08/12/2009 7:36:24 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
WASHINGTON – Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organization that tracks such trends.
The stress of a poor economy and a liberal administration led by a black president are among the causes for the recent rise, the report from the Southern Poverty Law Center says. Conspiracy theories about a secret Mexican plan to reclaim the Southwest are also growing amid the public debate about illegal immigration.
Bart McEntire, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told SPLC researchers that this is the most growth he's seen in more than a decade.
"All it's lacking is a spark," McEntire said in the report.
It's reminiscent of what was seen in the 1990s — right-wing militias, people ideologically against paying taxes and so-called "sovereign citizens" are popping up in large numbers, according to the report to be released Wednesday. The SPLC is a nonprofit civil rights group that, among other activities, investigates hate groups.
Last October, someone from the Ohio Militia posted a recruiting video on YouTube, billed as a "wake-up call" for America. It's been viewed more than 60,000 times.
"Things are bad, things are real bad, and it's going to be a lot worse," said the man on the video, who did not give his name. "Our country is in peril."
The man is holding an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, and he encourages viewers to buy one.
While anti-government sentiment has been on the rise over the last two years, there aren't as many threats and violent acts at this point as there were in the 1990s, according to the report. That movement bore the likes of Timothy McVeigh, who in 1995 blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City and killed...
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mention of the “black” president
is an obvious attempt to paint
all those who oppose fascism
as “racist”.
"Poetic justice" hasn't been served yet.
If there are "hate groups" in America, Dee is head of one of the larger ones.
Those militia groups are all infiltrated by the FBI and the ATF. Many times as leadership doubling as 'agent provoceteur'. Otherwise, just taking notes and taking names.
Keep that in mind.
With history as my witness,
the left fully intends to use the power of the state
to punish, incarcerate, and/or kill all those that oppose it.
here we go....setting the stage to blame talk radio and all the Bitter Clingers out there when all hell breaks loose after they cram thru Obamacare. Still blaming those guys who disappeared from the shortwave band around 1997.
This article is complete BS. Smear tactics and propaganda campaign. At best trying to scare the people who are still on the fence that we’re nuts and they should stay far away from our opinions; at worst setting up the people who disagree with current push and policy, and laying further groundwork for the need for marshall law and rounding up the dissenters.
How long has it been evident that pushing us to our limit and declaring marshall law has been the goal? Since at least November 4, right?
God help us.
Start here;
http://www.thedustininmansociety.org/articles/art2004feb09b.html
http://www.slrc-csa.org/site/dees.php
although I must say, whenever my wife meets new people and the subject comes up that she is a Michigan native, more often than not the other person will respond by asking “can you hook me up with the Militia?” I’m just sayin’...
History repeats. Amazing how the left, following almost exactly in Hitlers (who was a socialist) footsteps, tries to paint the right as "Nazis".
If the general public can't see Obama and the rest of those rats for what they are by now, we're doomed.
(I sure am getting a lot of "service temporarily unavailable" screens today) Traffic that high here?
They have to play the race card. That is all they know. They can’t debate the real issues. How sickening.
They have to play the race card. That is all they know. They can’t debate the real issues. How sickening.
The Southern Poverty Law Center. What an erroneous name. It has nothing to do with Southern poverty or Law. Just another extremist Leftist organization. Why don’t they just call themselves the Red Brigades or The USA Bolshevik Society? Ya know..something more appropriate?
Probably still under denial of service attack.
It isn’t enough to shut it down, just enough to be annoying.
Is it starting? dunno.
It makes no difference what race he is, but for clarification he is 1/2 white trash and 1/2 arab trash.
Race has nothing to do with his ideas which are really not his ideas. The policies he is pushing came from white barney frank (fannie/freddie), white hillary (deathcare, it is her plan after all, that’s how she got the sec of state gig), white emmanual brothers, white nazi pelosi, white harry reed. Hell if I was a black pol in dc, I’d be pretty pissed that a guy who looks like me is surrounding himself with all those white devils. Just sayin.
New York Jews. And where was the SPLC when the Black Panthers barred white folks from voting?
>>>> If there are “hate groups” in America, Dee is head of one of the larger ones. <<<<<
Read up on Dees at one of the links I posted above.
Dees is a disreputable money grubber with little concern for anything or anyone other than himself.
And he’s a demonstrable liar, i.e., a perfect leftist.
IT’S OZERO’s fault!!!
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