fringe, neo-cons, neo-Nazis, gun nuts, and Tea Partiers.
On Mar 29, 10:16 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <plainolameri...@gmail.com
>
>
>
> > wrote:
> > Hate Group Count Tops 1,000
> > ---
> > 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
>
> > > Print This Post
> > > 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
>
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