New report finds that right-wing extremist groups have grown 244 percent in the past year.
A new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center has unearthed shocking data about the rise of militias, antigovernment groups, and other right-wing extremist groups. The number of extremist groups in the United States exploded in 2009 as militias and other groups steeped in wild, antigovernment conspiracy theories exploited populist anger across the country and infiltrated the mainstream, according to a report issued today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).”
Antigovernment militias and other extremist organizations that see the federal government as their enemy – came roaring back to life over the past year after more than a decade out of the limelight.
Their numbers grew from 149 groups in 2008 to 512 groups in 2009, an astonishing addition of 363 new groups in a single year. Militias – the paramilitary arm of the Patriot movement – were a major part of the increase, growing from 42 militias in 2008 to 127 in 2009.
These groups are calling themselves PATRIOT GROUPS. They are violent, they are murders,these groups are springing up all over the country with the largest numbers in Texas, surprised? Rightwingnutfuckrednecks!
Do you remember when the Department of Homeland Security warned us about theses extremist groups and how their numbers will grow after Obamas swearing in? Yea, the right cried paranoia from the left, but the proof is in and it ain't pretty. These militiamen are racists, they HATE government, but more so Obamas government. How else do you explain the rise in group numbers?
The anger seething across the American political landscape — over racial changes in the population, soaring public debt and the terrible economy, the bailouts of bankers and other elites, and an array of initiatives by the relatively liberal Obama Administration that are seen as "socialist" or even "fascist" — goes beyond the radical right. The "tea parties" and similar groups that have sprung up in recent months cannot fairly be considered extremist groups, but they are shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism.
“We are in the midst of one of the most significant right-wing populist rebellions in United States history,” Chip Berlet, a veteran analyst of the American radical right, wrote earlier this year. "We see around us a series of overlapping social and political movements populated by people [who are] angry, resentful, and full of anxiety. They are raging against the machinery of the federal bureaucracy and liberal government programs and policies including health care, reform of immigration and labor laws, abortion, and gay marriage."
Oath Keepers, a Patriot outfit formed last year, suggests, in thinly veiled language, that the government has secret plans to declare martial law and intern patriotic Americans in concentration camps.
A popular Patriot conspiracy theory is the concentration camps, thanks to Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann for bringing it to the forefront once again.
Timothy McVeigh, Patriot and murderer of 168 men, women and children in the Oklahoma City bombing........ I've had rightwing visitors here say the teabaggers are not racist, the rightwingers are not racist, but these radicals are adopting the ideas of the Patriots. You can see it at the tea party rallies. The racist rants against President Obama, the conspiracy theories involving the government, it's all there at the rallies and other right wing venues.
The upcoming Second Amendment March in Washington is being promoted by rightwing websites with a picture of colonial militiamen. Now, that is not being patriotic like the right likes to explain it away. The date for this march is April 19, that is the date of the first shots fired at Lexington in the Revolutionary War, and it's also the anniversary of the end of the government siege in Waco and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Coincidence???
