Friday, March 30, 2012

Re: Hate Group Count Tops 1,000 as Radical Right Expansion Continues

It's not really the Jews here,  it is a far left extremist faction,  which is still in the minority in this Nation,  that espouses this nonsense.  In thruth and fact, the SPLC is one of the leading hate groups in the Nation. 

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:42 AM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:
Hate Group Count Tops 1,000
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say the jews ... and only the jews

most Americans consider the SPLC a hate group

On Mar 29, 10:36 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> SPLC Hate Group Count Tops 1,000 as Radical Right Expansion Continues
> Posted in 'Patriot' Groups, Editor's Pick, Hate Groups, Nativist
> Extremist by Mark Potok on February 23, 2011
>
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> Editor's Note: The Southern Poverty Law Center is today releasing its
> annual count of groups on the American radical right and analysis.
> What follows is the main essay from the new issue of the Intelligence
> Report, the SPLC's investigative magazine. In the story, you'll find
> links to our new hate group map and additional lists of antigovernment
> "Patriot" groups and nativist vigilante organizations. The issue also
> contains my editorial and stories on Cliff Kincaid, a homophobic
> propagandist at the far-right Accuracy in Media group; the adoption of
> an Oklahoma law forbidding the use of Shariah law; a racist group's
> funding of two Mississippi private academies; a white supremacist's
> new novel targeting the SPLC; the National Center for Constitutional
> Studies and its extremist version of American history; candidates with
> extreme-right ideas who ran in last year's elections; an interview
> with a former "esoteric Nazi," and more. The new issue's table of
> contents is here.
>
> For the second year in a row, the radical right in America expanded
> explosively in 2010, driven by resentment over the changing racial
> demographics of the country, frustration over the government's
> handling of the economy, and the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories
> and other demonizing propaganda aimed at various minorities. For many
> on the radical right, anger is focusing on President Obama, who is
> seen as embodying everything that's wrong with the country.
>
> Hate groups topped 1,000 for the first time since the Southern Poverty
> Law Center began counting such groups in the 1980s. Anti-immigrant
> vigilante groups, despite having some of the political wind taken out
> of their sails by the adoption of hard-line anti-immigration laws
> around the country, continued to rise slowly. But by far the most
> dramatic growth came in the antigovernment "Patriot" movement ­—
> conspiracy-minded organizations that see the federal government as
> their primary enemy — which gained more than 300 new groups, a jump of
> over 60%.
>
> Taken together, these three strands of the radical right — the
> hatemongers, the nativists and the antigovernment zealots — increased
> from 1,753 groups in 2009 to 2,145 in 2010, a 22% rise. That followed
> a 2008-2009 increase of 40%.
>
> What may be most remarkable is that this growth of right-wing
> extremism came even as politicians around the country, blown by gusts
> from the Tea Parties and other conservative formations, tacked hard to
> the right, co-opting many of the issues important to extremists. Last
> April, for instance, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed S.B. 1070, the
> harshest anti-immigrant law in memory, setting off a tsunami of
> proposals for similar laws across the country. Continuing growth of
> the radical right could be curtailed as a result of this shift,
> especially since Republicans, many of them highly conservative,
> recaptured the U.S. House last fall.
>
> But despite those historic Republican gains, the early signs suggest
> that even as the more mainstream political right strengthens, the
> radical right has remained highly energized. In an 11-day period this
> January, a neo-Nazi was arrested headed for the Arizona border with a
> dozen homemade grenades; a terrorist bomb attack on a Martin Luther
> King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., was averted after police
> dismantled a sophisticated anti-personnel weapon; and a man who
> officials said had a long history of antigovernment activities was
> arrested outside a packed mosque in Dearborn, Mich., and charged with
> possessing explosives with unlawful intent. That's in addition, the
> same month, to the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in
> Arizona, an attack that left six dead and may have had a political
> dimension.
>
> It's also clear that other kinds of radical activity are on the rise.
> Since the murder last May 20 of two West Memphis, Ark., police
> officers by two members of the so-called "sovereign citizens"
> movement, police from around the country have contacted the Southern
> Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to report what one detective in Kentucky
> described as a "dramatic increase" in sovereign activity. Sovereign
> citizens, who, like militias, are part of the larger Patriot movement,
> believe that the federal government has no right to tax or regulate
> them and, as a result, often come into conflict with police and tax
> authorities. Another sign of their increased activity came early this
> year, when the Treasury Department, in a report assessing what the IRS
> faces in 2011, said its biggest challenge will be the "attacks and
> threats against IRS employees and facilities [that] have risen
> steadily in recent years."
>
> Extremist ideas have not been limited to the radical right; already
> this year, state legislators have offered up a raft of proposals
> influenced by such ideas. In Arizona, the author of the S.B. 1070 law
> — a man who just became Senate president on the basis of his harshly
> nativist rhetoric — proposed a law this January that would allow his
> state to refuse to obey any federal law or regulation it cared to. In
> Virginia, a state legislator wants to pass a law aimed at creating an
> alternative currency "in the event of the destruction of the Federal
> Reserve System's currency" — a longstanding fear of right-wing
> extremists. And in Montana, a state senator is working to pass a
> statute called the "Sheriffs First Act" that would require federal law
> enforcement to ask local sheriffs' permission to act in their counties
> or face jail. All three laws are almost certainly unconstitutional,
> legal experts say, and they all originate in ideas that first came
> from ideologues of the radical right.
>
> There also are new attempts by nativist forces to roll back birthright
> citizenship, which makes all children born in the U.S. citizens. Such
> laws have been introduced this year in Congress, and a coalition of
> state legislators is promising to do the same in their states. And
> then there's Oklahoma, where 70% of voters last November approved a
> measure to forbid judges to consider Islamic law in the state's
> courtrooms (see related story) — a completely groundless fear, but one
> pushed nonetheless by Islamophobes. Since then, lawmakers have
> promised to pass similar laws in Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, South
> Carolina, Tennessee and Utah.
>
> After the Giffords assassination attempt, a kind of national dialogue
> began about the political vitriol that increasingly passes for
> "mainstream" political debate. But it didn't seem to get very far.
> Four days after the shooting, a campaign called the Civility Project —
> a two-year effort led by an evangelical conservative tied to top
> Republicans — said it was shutting down because of a lack of interest
> and furious opposition. "The worst E-mails I received about the
> Civility Project were from conservatives with just unbelievable
> language about communists and some words I wouldn't use in this phone
> call," director Mark DeMoss told The New York Times. "This political
> divide has become so sharp that everything is black and white, and too
> many conservatives can see no redeeming value in any" opponent.
>
> A Washington Post/ABC News poll this January captured the atmosphere
> well. It found that 82% of Americans saw their country's political
> discourse as "negative." Even more remarkably, the poll determined
> that 49% thought that negative tone could or already had encouraged
> political violence.
>
> Last year's rise in hate groups (see map) was the latest in a trend
> stretching all the way back to the year 2000, when the SPLC counted
> 602 such groups. Since then, they have risen steadily, mainly on the
> basis of exploiting the issue of undocumented immigration from Mexico
> and Central America. Last year, the number of hate groups rose to
> 1,002 from 932, a 7.5% increase over the previous year and a 66% rise
> since 2000.
>
> At the same time, what the SPLC defines as "nativist extremist" groups
> — organizations that go beyond mere advocacy of restrictive
> immigration policy to actually confront or harass suspected immigrants
> or their employers — rose slightly, despite the fact that most of
> their key issues had been taken up by mainstream politicians (see
> story and list). There were 319 such groups in 2010, up 3% from 309 in
> 2009.
>
> But like the year before, it was the antigovernment Patriot groups
> that grew most dramatically (see list), at least partly on the basis
> of furious rhetoric from the right aimed at the nation's first black
> president — a man who has come to represent to at least some Americans
> ongoing changes in the racial makeup of the country. The Patriot
> groups, which had risen and fallen once before during the militia
> movement of the 1990s, first came roaring back in 2009, when they rose
> 244% to 512 from 149 a year earlier. In 2010, they rose again sharply,
> adding 312 new groups to reach 824, a 61% increase. The highest prior
> count of Patriot groups came in 1996, when the SPLC found 858.
>
> It's hard to predict where this volatile situation will lead.
> Conservatives last November made great gains and some of them are
> championing a surprising number of the issues pushed by the radical
> right — a fact that could help deflate some of the even more extreme
> political forces. But those GOP electoral advances also left the
> Congress divided and increasingly lined up against the Democratic
> president, which is likely to paralyze the country on such key issues
> as immigration reform.
>
> What seems certain is that President Obama will continue to serve as a
> lightning rod for many on the political right, a man who represents
> both the federal government and the fact that the racial make-up of
> the United States is changing, something that upsets a significant
> number of white Americans. And that suggests that the polarized
> politics of this country could get worse before they get better.
>
> More:http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/23/new-report-splc-hate-group-c...
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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