On Nov 25, 9:09 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/24/10, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Militias, Racists and Anti-Semites Found a Home in the Tea Party
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> >> "We Are at War": How Militias, Racists and Anti-Semites Found a Home
> >> in the Tea Party
> >> In places like rural Montana, the Tea Party is working hand-in-glove
> >> with Patriot movement radicals -- many of whom have close ties to
> >> anti-government armed militias.
> >> November 21, 2010 |
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> >> Maybe it's the gun-making kits that are being raffled off as door
> >> prizes. Or maybe it's the fact that nearly everyone inside this hall
> >> at the Ravalli County Fairground is packing heat. But most of all,
> >> it's the copy of Mein Kampf sitting there on the book table, with its
> >> black-and-white swastika, sandwiched between a survivalist how-to book
> >> on food storage and a copy of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.
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> >> It is obvious: This is not your ordinary Tea Party gathering.
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> >> Mind you, they don't explicitly call themselves Tea Partiers. Their
> >> official name is Celebrating Conservatism. But their mission statement
> >> is classic Tea Party -- "to restore our country, counties, and cities
> >> back to the Republic and the Constitution of the United States" -- and
> >> Celebrating Conservatism is listed as a member of the national Tea
> >> Party Patriots organization. Everyone in Hamilton, Montana -- the
> >> whole of Montana's Bitterroot Valley, for that matter -- knows them as
> >> the Tea Party's main presence in town. Once a month or so, the group
> >> holds a potluck dinner at the county fairgrounds that typically
> >> attracts a couple hundred people, which in a place like the Bitterroot
> >> is a sizeable presence.
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> >> This night -- a September 14, 2010, potluck in the oversized metal
> >> shed that is the fairground's main hall -- is special because there is
> >> a high-profile guest: Larry Pratt, leader of Gun Owners of America.
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> >> Pratt, like a lot of Celebrating Conservatism's speakers, has a long
> >> history with the far right. He is considered a godfather of the
> >> militia movement, a network of conspiracy-minded, armed paramilitary
> >> groups that exploded in the 1990s. Pratt addressed a pivotal three-day
> >> meeting of neo-Nazis and Christian Identity adherents in Estes Park,
> >> Colorado, in October 1992, convened in the wake of a shoot-out by
> >> federal agents in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, that had sent shock waves through
> >> the extreme right. That gathering is widely credited with birthing the
> >> movement's strategy of organizing citizen militias as a form of
> >> "leaderless resistance" to a looming "New World Order." Joining Pratt
> >> on the stage at Estes Park were Aryan Nations leaders Richard Butler
> >> and Louis Beam. (A few years later, Pratt became co-chair of Patrick
> >> Buchanan's 1996 GOP presidential campaign, but was dismissed once
> >> these Neo-Nazi ties surfaced in the national press.)
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> >> Pratt is hardly the only controversial figure to address the group. In
> >> May 2010, at its convention on the University of Montana's Missoula
> >> campus, Celebrating Conservatism hosted tax protester Red Beckman,
> >> notorious for his open anti-Semitism and the author of a 1984 book
> >> that argues the Holocaust was a judgment upon Jews for worshiping
> >> Satan. At a Hamilton gathering in July 2009, a onetime Arizona sheriff
> >> named Richard Mack addressed the crowd; he'd made a career in the
> >> 1990s out of organizing militias and speaking on the national circuit
> >> of the anti-government Patriot movement. Mack's longtime Patriot
> >> movement confederate, Jack McLamb, spoke at the group's Hamilton
> >> gathering the following month. McLamb, a former police officer,
> >> recruits "soldier and lawmen" to the Patriot cause through a group
> >> called Police & Military Against a New World Order.
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> >> Those events served notice that Celebrating Conservatism had embraced
> >> the Patriot movement cause.
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> >> Celebrating Conservatism formed in December 2008 in reaction to the
> >> presidential election and slowly gained members that spring by
> >> associating itself with a variety of Tea Party events in Bitterroot.
> >> But locals only took real notice in September 2009, when the group
> >> held a gun rights rally in downtown Hamilton at which participants
> >> brandished firearms. Organizers followed up with a Celebration of
> >> Right to Bear Arms in March 2010, which featured a march of several
> >> hundred people along Hamilton's main drag. Anyone driving through town
> >> that day was greeted by a gauntlet of people packing weapons ranging
> >> from muzzle-loading muskets to a high-powered sniper-style .308
> >> caliber rifle.
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> >> Continued here:
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> >>http://www.alternet.org/story/148946/%22we_are_at_war%22%3A_how_milit...
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> >> Have a great day,
> >> Tommy
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