LA Times editorial nails it on right wing extremism
Found this on the LA Times Facebook page, and this editorial "Peril from 'patriots'" (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-patriot-groups-splc-report-20130308,0,2444361.story) already is generating angry responses. Excerpt:
They're not jihadists. They are white, right-wing Americans, nearly all with an obsessive attachment to guns, who may represent a greater danger to the lives of American civilians than international terrorists.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been tracking hate groups for 30 years, released its latest report on the growth of these organizations this week. Its findings were, to say the least, alarming. The center divides its subjects into militias, which are mostly groups of weekend warriors who train for combat against imaginary foes; hate groups, which target minorities; and "patriot" groups, whose beef is with the U.S. government. Patriot groups first began surfacing after the massacre of a bizarre sect by federal agents in Waco, Texas, in the early 1990s. They showed their teeth in 1995, when a patriot adherent blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City.
Since then, the patriot movement has been growing at a blistering pace, especially following the election of President Obama in 2008, according to the report. From just 149 groups in 2008, the number jumped to 512 in 2009 and has been rising sharply since. In 2012, it hit 1,360. Now that Obama is seriously pushing for tougher gun laws, further growth is a near certainty. The result? There's no knowing, but some kind of serious attack is increasingly possible.
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I'm white, blonde and blue-eyed and I was in my 20's when I knew Reagan's penchant for making greed and stupidity fashionable would really fuck America. And I have never been racist, homophobic, etc......I've always known the real boogie man wears a suit. 
They love their guns so much, they'd marry 'em if they could! 
presidency, but the domestic right-wing extremist group in Congress squealed like stuck pigs over DHS calling this to the public's attention. But that domestic right-wing extremist group in Congress had no problem with big brother quashing, harassing, assaulting, pepper spraying, and arresting members of a domestic left-wing group who peacefully protested massive Wall Street fraud and abuse whose perpetrators remain un-indicted. That the controlling influence domestic right-wing groups/individuals have on public policy is rapidly bringing ruin to our society should be clear to all considering domestic right-wing extremists are largely free to brandish their assault weapons and spew their hatred and anti-government sedition, all the while their stochastic terrorists egg the deranged to act out their hatred. 
Or, Vampats? any others? Viloa(tion)Pats? 
Because they suck out of society what they believe is theirs and they leave corpses behind. They also suck in general.
on edit: smoked to much weed, left out the word LEAVE in a snetnce. (haha)
on edit again: now moved the word LEAVE into the right place. fuck, am I stoned>
I really do need to set one thing straight:
Here's the problem with the climate doomers.....As Alex Jones sometimes does with whatever good information(reports, whistleblowing, etc.) might actually swing his way once in a while, the climate doomers are definitely pretty bad(probably worse. I'm being nice here, though)about twisting and misinterpreting whatever actual science they do cite to suit their own agendas(maybe it's better than always making stuff up outta thin air but not by much in this case, IMHO).
Spitfire, regardless of what you may have heard from whomever(Hansen? Lovelock?), rendering the planet uninhabitable through any known climate change scenario, is really nothing but totally impossible(not that it brings me much comfort), if not a product of fear-mongering; climate change is bad, yes, but it's not even capable of destroying humanity, let alone rendering this whole planet uninhabitable; even thermonuclear war or a Yellowstone eruption couldn't manage that.....(as hard as it is to believe for some, what I have just said is 100% true.)
Anyhow, at least you were certainly very right about the other folks: I myself have long suspected that the radical racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic, etc. fringe right, is all but totally in control of most of these "Patriot" organizations. And their ranks are growing, too: you think the Teabaggers were nasty? That's just the tip of the iceberg!
has been a worthless tool of the corporate right for about five years now, since they purged the staff of about 90% of their actual journalists. It's a pitiful shell of a once fine paper. Boy, the nutters are just making that Bubble bigger and thicker....
for a Red Dawn-style shootout with the rest of the world and spend no little time in the Gungeon publicly fantasizing about it.
The problem with the dangerous right-wing rhetoric of such outfits as the NRA, the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, etc., is that there are any number of frustrated fanatics who simply cannot distinguish between what they hear or see on the radio or on FOX News, and the real world. And these same fanatics are daily strutting about the country, a pistol perched in their pants and an military assault rifle tossed over their shoulders, ranting and raving about their "enumerated rights." 
It is scary stuff, and why sensible gun legislation needs to be passed nationwide.
