SPLC report: The "Second Wave" of militia activity is now upon us
We've been reporting steadily on the return of the militia movement in post-Bush America, and now that reportage has been confirmed by a disturbing report from the Southern Poverty Law Center describing a "Second Wave" of militiamen organizing across the countryside.
Bart McEntire, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told SPLC researchers that this is the most growth he's seen in more than a decade.
"All it's lacking is a spark," McEntire said in the report.
It's reminiscent of what was seen in the 1990s — right-wing militias, people ideologically against paying taxes and so-called "sovereign citizens" are popping up in large numbers, according to the report to be released Wednesday.
You can read the report here [PDF file]:
They’re back. Almost a decade after largely disappearing from public view, right-wing militias, ideologically driven tax defiers and sovereign citizens are appearing in large numbers around the country. “Paper terrorism” — the use of property liens and citizens’ “courts” to harass enemies — is on the rise. And once-popular militia conspiracy theories are making the rounds again, this time accompanied by nativist theories about secret Mexican plans to “reconquer” the American Southwest. One law enforcement agency has found 50 new militia training groups — one of them made up of present and former police officers and soldiers. Authorities around the country are reporting a worrying uptick in Patriot activities and propaganda. “This is the most significant growth we’ve seen in 10 to 12 years,” says one. “All it’s lacking is a spark. I think it’s only a matter of time before you see threats and violence.”
A key difference this time is that the federal government — the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy — is headed by a black man. That, coupled with high levels of non-white immigration and a decline in the percentage of whites overall in America, has helped to racialize the Patriot movement, which in the past was not primarily motivated by race hate. One result has been a remarkable rash of domestic terror incidents since the presidential campaign, most of them related to anger over the election of Barack Obama. At the same time, ostensibly mainstream politicians and media
pundits have helped to spread Patriot and related propaganda, from conspiracy theories about a secret network of U.S. concentration camps to wholly unsubstantiated claims about the president’s country of birth.
As you can see, the report also details how nativist, anti-immigrant sentiment has been an important undertow in the reborn "Patriot" movement and the associated militia-organizing activity. Some of this is built on the bones of the now-moribund Minuteman movement:
Such exhortations have little to do with border security or undocumented immigration, the issues that launched the original Minuteman Project in 2005 and inspired its many spin-offs, imitators and splinter factions. Instead, the antigovernment screed ringing through Camp V represents a significant, ongoing shift in the nativist vigilante subculture, as major elements of various Minuteman organizations appear to be morphing into a new paramilitary wing of the resurgent antigovernment “Patriot” movement.
Increasingly, Minutemen are giving credence to the sort of fringe conspiracy theories that have long typified militia and other so-called Patriot groups. Although the Minuteman movement from its inception has been permeated with the Aztlan or “reconquista” conspiracy theory — which holds that the Mexican government is driving illegal immigration into the U.S. as part of a covert effort to “reconquer” the American Southwest — the conspiracy theories that are now taking root in the movement have little or nothing to do with border security or immigration. They include the belief that a massive cover-up has been conducted regarding Barack Obama’s birth certificate, which supposedly shows that he was born in Africa and is therefore ineligible to serve as president of the United States. At several eastern San Diego County vigilante camps in mid-May, there were serious discussions about the global banking system being controlled by an ancient secret society called the Illuminati. Another theory floated involved a cult devoted to the Egyptian god of the afterlife, Osiris, operating within the NASA space agency and perhaps arranging with extraterrestrials for a hostile takeover of Earth.
Further indicating the nativist-to-Patriot drift of the Minutemen is the fact that in recent months a number of Minuteman factions have begun promoting the ideology of so-called “sovereign citizens,” a bizarre pseudo-legal philosophy whose adherents claim they’re not U.S. citizens and are not subject to federal or state laws, only to “common law courts” — a sort of people’s tribunal with no judges or lawyers. The most notorious advocates of sovereign citizens ideology include Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and members of the now defunct Montana Freemen, a violent militia outfit. The larger Patriot movement is made up of tax protesters, militia members and sovereign citizens.
We've been reporting on the sudden spike in militia organizing for awhile now. We've also explored a disturbing trend discussed in this report: the rise of Patriot-oriented veterans groups that have been spreading some of the most bizarre conspiracy theories out there -- and doing it as featured speakers at Tea Parties. More to the point, perhaps, they're fearfully fingering their guns because of the nature of these conspiracy theories.
The only thing missing, perhaps, from this report is the role of the mainstream media in helping to spread this fearmongering and paranoia, essentially validating these extremists in their beliefs on national television -- something that has a powerful permission-giving effect for the most unstable and extreme of this particular lot.
Glenn Beck -- who has promoted not just FEMA concentration camp theories, but also far-right "constitutionalist" theories on states rights and secessionist movements, just to name a few -- is easily the worst of the lot in this regard.
But he's hardly alone. Other right-wing talkers -- including Sean Hannity and especially CNN's Lou Dobbs.
Hopefully, this report will get everyone to take a long hard look at the rest of the story here.
Images of fat, stupid racists running around playing soldier! Perfect!
If they get out of hand the cops will stomp on them, hard. It's a win/win, unless you are trying to enter this country illegally. And although I want people treated right, illegal is illegal.
Oh, thank the Clintons and the Gores and the Bushs and BIPARTISANSHIP for NAFTA which has made farming in Mexico a bust. That's why they are heading up here.
than the lack of farming jobs.
There's an article in Mother Jones from a few months ago, about a reporter fleeing for his life from the Mexican military. The entire country is run by corrupt assholes who would just as soon chop you up with a machete as look at ya. And if they can't get to you, they go after your family, friends, hell even your damn dog...
This reporter and his son asked for political asylum, and they were immediately separated, and put in prison for seven months until their case was sorted out...
I don't like illegal immigration either...but these people are caught between a rock and a hard place.
Some of them face a grisly death in their own country, and when they try to come through legally, they are jailed 99 times out of 100...what would you do?
And now they have these Minutemen retards wanting to shoot them...
Is a good source for where and who are the extreme haters.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Then the rest better start standing up and differentiating themselves pretty quick !!
History has shown many times what happens when the masses put up with to it a point, and then find they are past the point of quelling it.
And their third wave when their prostates go kablooie.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The last time the cops stomped on them, it created martyrs and a cause celebre for their movement. Remember Waco and Ruby Ridge?
Both of those incidents involved the law enforcement way overstepping their boundaries.
Imagine if they raided everyone like that who was trying to pull back from government and society, live off the grid.
I hate when people act like those incidents were just. Koresh went jogging almost every morning with one or two other guys. He was at the gun shows every few weeks. Why couldn't the ATF bust him then? He wasn't exactly holed up in a compound as they liked to say after the screw up. They had surveillance on his home for two months before the raid. They knew this but wanted a big show. A little "shock & awe" as it was called in the Bush years. And 80+ innocent people died because of a botched arrest of one man who'd not been proven to have ever broken the law.
A few months ago I was chatting with one of the survivors and when I asked him about how his experience has been embraced by the militia movement he rolled his eyes and said something along the lines of, "Yeah, we've had some crazies come by here." The Branch Davidians were fanatical Christians but not bad people. ANd in all honesty, after studying a bit of their teachings, they're no more extreme then most mega-churches now days.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Too true. The good books says we should do all kinds of violent acts to our families and neighbors. I would hazard a guess that Koresh's teachings were a little more tame than the bible's words.
And the vatican has it in their laws that it is perfectly OK to have sex with a twelve year old in Vatican City.
Where's the ATF? Where is the proportional outrage?
Age of consent with parental permission in Texas: 13 for girls.
The youngest girl Koresh had relations with was 13 and her parents approved. Yes, they were brainwashed religious fanatics who thought Koresh was a prophet and their daughter would be giving birth to a divine child. But, it still wasn't illegal.
http://family-law.freeadvice.com/family-law/t...
That's why I defend the Davidians. They may have been delusional fanatics, but they did not break the law.
I may detest their way of life but I'm willing to bet there are millions of Americans who detest mine. As a radically liberal atheist who engages in loads of pre-marital sex, I'd hate to live in a nation where what's "morally wrong" is more important than what's "legally wrong."
Also, the claim of child protection rings a little false when it was the ATF that conducted the raid. I don't know how a bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms could have jurisdiction over child services.
Religion of all kids claims crazy crap. Scientology, Christianity, Islam, Mormons... They're all fruitcakes in my mind, but they have the right to their myths. I just wish they'd stop trying to stop others from having their own rights too.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Woa. I didn't know that about Texas.
Saudi Arabia is next behind them with 9.
Something in the oil we don't know about?
I'd love to see them secede from the USA. Then they'd be just another failed state with lots of oil we get to bomb into the stone age every time they try to assert themselves.
Religion and sex with children really seem to have a long history together. In afghanistan where homosexuality is illegal they still have what are called "dancing boys" - young boys that serve as entertainment for rich and/or powerful men. It's totally accepted in the more fundamentalist circles there.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
I think the info at your link is incorrect. The Texas penal code plainly says that the age of consent is 17 and there is nothing about parental consent.
Another web site dealing with this says that no one can give permission to break the law, parent or not. The only affirmative defense is if both people are less than three years apart in age, or if the child is the spouse. That's the only thing that Koresh may have been able to claim.
Thanks. For they ask, so shall they receive. I believe the reason for such strife stems from whom they think makes our laws.
A few have made note of it here; that this ideology is quite reasonably comparable to why America was formed. Though it's the fundies that seem to have a problem with our secularist decree.
One just needs to evaluate the targets... to see where the dissension arises. There can be many associated factors related, though there is primarily just two. The vision of the liberty minded folks with their theoretical view on life and the secularist minded and their theoretical view on life. Some folks seem extremely troubled with reality for whatever reason and then we have those whom choose to capitalize on such wayward thoughts. :-/
Though we face the potential of future foreign and domestic terrorism as in the past... some laws have changed albeit fanning the flames even more to some extent, though the fundies brought it on themselves... like they say actions have consequences.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Just what Amurka needs, another injection of Hillbilly heaven.
- I want my country back..
Charlie Daniels' "A Few More Rednecks"
What this world needs is a few more rednecks
Some people ain’t afraid to take a stand
What this world needs is a little more respect
For the Lord and the law and the workin’ man
We could use a little peace and satisfaction
Some good people up front to take the lead
A little less talk and a little more action
And a few more rednecks is what we need
I was raised on beans and cornbread
And I like my chicken fried
Yes, I drive a pickup truck
And I’m full of American pride
I keep a Bible on my table
I got a flag out on my lawn
And I don’t believe in mindin’
No one’s business but my own
And I love them Rambo movies
I think they make a lot of sense
And it’s a shame ole John Wayne
Didn’t live to run for president...
These guys have been here for a while:
From 2005:
National Security Watch: 60 right-wing terror plots foiled
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/05...
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
these jerkoffs want a fight. Fine. These drugstore cowboys will fold up like a cheap suit the first time they fall down and scrape their knee.
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Actually that's like a Chinese Laundry
Or more PC
Superman on speed.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Beck is rubbing his legs or other lower male parts together as fast as he can trying to get that "spark".
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
OYE! There's an image.
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It took nearly a half gallon for me.
That song is better than ipecac at inducing vomiting. I'm serial.
An aural assault.
... it's whoever wrote that friggin song,... ugh! They massacred music!
...lost my dog, lost my girl, lost my job....blah, blah, blah.
I hate country music with such a passion. I can handle all types of music...but country is such cheap trash. Once in awhile something comes out with a "good beat" that you can dance to, but otherwise...it's all cheap, worthless trash...in mho.
As for these "militia clowns", let them have their fun. As long as they don't shoot up innocents in the process. What a bunch of morons. Should they ever try to take on the police or military, I'd buy a video of them getting their asses handed to them in about 15 minutes time.
Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams Sr., Loretta Lynn, Jimmie Rodgers?
I think country music is just is the same boat as modern hip-hop. It's directed to the ignorant lowest common-denominator in the consumer market. The classics are great, the new stuff is xenophobic, sexist, bigoted trash that does nothing but glamorize ignorance, ideology and boastfulness.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
His music totally sucks...except that ONE song about smokin weed with Willy Nelson...pretty funny actually.
Toby Keith is to country music what 50 Cent is to rap.
The only difference is 50 Cent actually lived the life he raps about. Keith is a pussy who parades around as a tough guy.
Both perpetuate a horrible culture of ignorance, violence, sexism, greed and gluttony. Both are corporate whores.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Did you ever see the trailer for Toby Keith's movie where he saved some woman from drug-cartel Mexicans? It had Ted Nugent in it too! It looked amazingly bad.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1178640/
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
You are of course, entitled to your opinion, but geez, it's not ALL trash... though, I agree the new stuff is pretty much garbage, but some of the old school stuff is great, Johnny Cash, Hank Sr., Willie Nelson, etc etc.
And Hank III has some great punk rawk AND country music too.
You can't go wrong with some of the old-school stuff even Garth Brooks' first album is decent.
However, after that point, country music became way too commercialized crap that caters to the radio industry and not to the songwriters and the musicians themselves.
Nowadays to cut a country album all you need to do is be cute, have blond hair and an above average voice.
OMG... Country music today is ... FOX News.
Holy shit. That explains so much.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
It's all posturing. Macho bravado.
Not to mention the Secret Service and the FBI have already infiltrated their ranks. Their to stupid to realize that they've already been had.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Intelligence was never a strong point of the wingnut demographic.
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I think the FBI and the Secret Service have already infiltrated a good number of the larger militias. And some of the radical Muslim factions too. The ones that haven't been infiltrated, I'm sure that they're working on it as we speak.
With the Prez getting so many death threats(I can't swear by it, but I heard it's 30 a week?)... The SS is all over these bozo's.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
The secret service and the FBI are that good at what they do? They've infiltrated every militia?
Why couldn't we infiltrate more Muslim radical groups? Is it a language thing?
more then language I would say.
screwed up priorities? whose the bigger threat? The US has a huge Muslim population to give us insight to their culture, yet we have very few people on the ground in Muslim countries behind the scenes.
how would I know something like that? Because it was identified as an endemic problem with our intelligence in the run up and aftermath of 911.
are much more of a threat than Islamic extremists.
I was only pointing out that the FBI, etc can't fit in to a Muslim setting as easily as a winger setting. But infiltrating the wingers IS the correct priority I would say. They only happen in to it by default though.
I would say that these are just weekend warriors, a bunch of dudes playing solider... however, given Timothy McVeigh we need to take these people seriously as potential domestic terrorists....
It appears that the Homeland Security report was correct about it warnings of domestic terrorism and threats...
These people have a very distorted view of America. Just listen to that interview by Chris Mathews yesterday with the guy who brought a gun to the presidential townhall yesterday... See:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_...
very disturbing.. these people basically hate everything America stands for...
What a **** pinhead.
A poster boy for the right.
Sometimes I think I could like Matthews...sometimes...
That moron is probably goin to be paid a few more visits by the Secret Service.
And he's not gonna like it, lol!
Would a Violent Outbreak Satisfy You?
Apparently having dignified dialogue wasn’t good enough for the Morning Joe Starbuck Crew who seemed to be quite disappointed that a riot didn’t breakout at President Obama’s Town Hall Meeting yesterday in New Hampshire; were they disappointed that the gun totting man standing across the street from this scheduled event didn’t try to shot his way into the Town Hall Meeting or that the man the Secret Service found hiding in the school auditorium who brought with him a knife and a unregistered gun wasn’t able to use it, or where they disappointed that the Secret Service did their job by not only their surveillance of the premise but actually arresting this guy
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/12/76320...
They can't actually believe the cops and military would be on their side do they? I've never seen such stupidity in my life. Bring it on little boys.
..when we were attacked on 9/11, I believed it was the right move to declare war on al-Qaeda and when the Taliban refused to turn over the leaders of al-Qaeda, ousting them was a good move. While I'll be criticized over that, it was the way the war was prosecuted by the DOD that I disagreed with because it was a formula for, well, exactly what we have now. It became apparent that we weren't in it to win it as harsh as that sounds. Why else would we have ordered assets away from an area that we had 70% accuracy on intelligence of the presence of bin Laden? But that's not my point..
My point is: Where were all of these people when W was in office and screwing up so badly? Why weren't they in the streets then but are now? The answer is simple - there's a man of color in the White House and their feeble little minds can't seem to grasp or accept that.
"We has met the enemy and he is US!" Pogo
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
They were loving the hell out of a president who said things like we'll get him dead or alive. They were loving the hell out of little American flags flying from everyone's cars. They were loving the hell out of hating the Dixie Chicks. They were loving that, we'll kick some ass, attitude that was all over the place after 9-11. At that time they felt that everyone was as patriotic as they were. They were "in".
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Say what???? Got a link to back that up? I'm pretty sure if you look into it the Taliban were more then willing to assist the US in capturing bin Ladin. All they asked for first was evidence of his crimes as any government would.
Jon Stewart had a guy from the Obama administration on his show last night and asked him if our approval ratings were going down in the president's eyes and was he thinking about impeaching us. At this point I wouldn't blame him if he was thinking about telling us all to wise up and grow up.
These militia types scare the hell out of me because we already know they are stupid and now we know they are pissy and heavily armed.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
..that may be but they have guns and they have issues and that is a recipe for a catastrophe.
They want their 2nd Amendment rights protected then they should start acting as if they are part of America not reviled by it. Considering how many people McVeigh killed, how many people the DC snipers killed, how many people the Virginia Tech assassin killed, how many people a lone gunman can kill before he turns the gun on himself, the government is failing in its responsibility to protect the citizenry by NOT taking guns away. They don't understand that as long as they have their assault weapons (good for nothing other than killing humans) and if they develp issues, look out, here comes more death.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
They would like nothing more than to start the "race war"
The sheer abject hatred for the president exposes these slugs as the un-American, anti-democratic jerks who hate people based on nothing more than what ever dog whislte is being blown.
UGH!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
They would like nothing more than to start the "race war"
The laughable part is...these asshats would give their right arm to eat Terrell Owen's table scraps.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
When I see video like this, it makes me think we should round up all these guys and put them in a large concentration camp, maybe run by FEMA. Or maybe we should resettle them into Arizona & New Mexico, then make them into one giant concentration camp and give it back to Mexico!
Glenn Beck an orgasm!
Glenn Beck an orgasm!
And then he started crying.
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The fu*ker cries for anything. I totally understand when a man feels the need to cry but Jesus christ, this guy is a drama crier.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Tears of joy at knowing that the bigger a douchebag he looks...the more money he makes.
Right now FOX is likely talking to the FCC about letting Beck shit himself on camera.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
I'm in NM and we do not need any of these nuts and we are not going to be given back to Mexico.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
and the red color on the map is slowly turning light blue.
Please keep and deal with your own kooks! Thanks!
in a sea of red, am I mistaken?
Study the symptoms not the virus...
How nice to see the ignorant, misinformed, stupid hate-filled imbecile part of our population playing with their guns.
Maybe we can have them get in a circle and show us how good their weapons are?
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
That emotion!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tAUDiS4rak
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This is what happens when you hollow out your economy by transferring employment overseas.
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And the solution is...
No limit on the 2nd Amendment. Let them have all the guns they want to buy legally.
But put a 900% tax on ammunition.
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I couldn't make it all the way through that video and song, just couldn't stomach it. What is the origin of the video, who put it together and for what?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
It's brought to you by the same director that did the Al Quada training films.
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Really! All that was missing was the monkey bar exercise segment.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
These militias don't do exercise.
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Does walking out to the out house several times a day count? How about carrying a case of beer from the truck to the house? Chasing the women must count for something.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
No wonder they can't get laid!
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who still want to play army
sign em up....ship em out
"Wha wha whaaaaa?!?! Go to real war? Bu..bu...bu...but...we might get shot at!!" - Minute men...pronounced...my newt men.
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Who are they going to fight?.
So if the big bad government comes in to take, I'm not sure what?, they are going to hold off the Marines?.
Do you all remember the scene in Bowling for Columbine where Michael Moore interviews those bumbling "Militia" yahoo's?.
They always look so absurd…..
Who are they planning on fighting? The police? Our military (good luck with that)? The general population?
This just doesn't seem to be very well thought out to me. But then again so was Iraq and they love that war.
I guess all they need is a war with no clear enemy, objective, execution plan or possibility of achieving "victory" and they're on board.
Are you recruiting for them?
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
I generally find these militias amusing. I'm from Montana, so I've run into a few. It's not been my experience that their members are particularly deep thinkers.
The real threat, and I think (hope) that law enforcement has figured out, are the few true believers. The Timothy McVeigh types.
Of course if you increase the number and size of militias you greater change of terrorism from more individuals.
teh boosh administration!
When they start their war, who is going to give their injured medical care? Who is going to provide food for them? What are they going to do with their dead? Have they worked that out yet?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
No worries. They stocked up on band aids and morphine...and lots of moonshine.
Besides, they can simply go to any hospital and get it taken care of...that's how healthcare in America works...dontcha know.
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Wouldn't that be aiding and abetting the enemy?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Think about it POP...c'mon...you're disappointing me here.
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I'm sorry! What did I do? I'm just trying to be all red white and blue-ish.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
How much more of a spark do you need than a revered talk radio host, with an listening audience of millions, referring to the President of the United States as "Hitler" and Democrats as "Nazis"?
The *only* purpose of those analogies is to incite violence.
How many undercover agents are in these vids with da boyz?
LOL
They would be the ones without self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
Also the ones who are not out of breath, or taking pressure pills after marching up a hill with a .001 slope.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
The nurses and doctors better bone up on removing gun shot from asses because they'll probably being doing a lot of that.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The nurses and doctors better bone up on removing gun shot from asses
Now THERE'S a good reason to desert!!
Oh...and never use the term "boning up" in the same sentence as asses...you'll get deleted by the site monitor. ; o )
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Maybe the site monitor doesn't have such a dirty mind as you. Anyway, let's hope not. Yikes, I don't wanna get deleted just for suggesting the docs and nurses get their practice on.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
don't you want OBGYN' to be able to "practice their love" with women?
Oh yeah.
Sounds like something Biden would say.
maybe...but it was bush who actually said that.
which amendment gives them that right? ;)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Yikes, I don't wanna get deleted just for suggesting the docs and nurses get their practice on.
which amendment gives them that right? ;)
Sure...there she is...Ms. Innocent. ;)
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appendage...not amendment...appendage...
HA!
2 dozen men dressed in military fatigues in a convoy of 6 Dodge Rams invaded Seattle Saturday . . .
LOL . .
The sad part is...they were looking for the Washington Monument.
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the midget militia broke into the Seattle Zoo in the dead of nite and freed the ostriches.
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…but were rendered immobile on the outskirts of the city since they had neglected to bring jumper cables.
we now have the technology to document the stupidity of our citizens.
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This would be funny if it weren't so pathetic and downright stupid.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
and you are listening
to Los Angeles.
You are listening.
You are listening.
You are listening.
You are listening.
on my way to Reseda.
We use to love playing "army" in the neighborhood when I was about 8 years old. Where were these guys back then?
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Where were these guys back then?
Tearing the wings off flies, burning ants with magnifying glasses and setting neighborhood cats on fire.
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the wings off of butterflies.
so men built Paramount
studios
and men built Columbia
studios
and men built
Half of these loons look like prototypical meth-heads, and the other are morbidly obese. Yeah, quaking in my boots over here... these idiots are going to be either too strung out or completely out of breath on the way to hunt them some liberals. LOL
If they had any sense of team work the meth half would give the obese half some of their crank and they would all be one lean mean fightin machine.
that's Socialism, get out of my militia you liberal pinko!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXnUZBD_qV4&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
These coocks scare the sh!t out of me. They are beyond logic...just like the Taliban
Which is a bigger threat? Whose ooga booga is worse?
His?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw0aoVpFCDw
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
... retarded or what?
No...I think it's more like two out of every three.
And the proper term is intellectually challenged.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
is intellectually defeated.
Of course not. Only about half.
I just watched Glen Beck and.............,
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
I just watched Glen Beck and.............,
lived to tell about it? saw your sofa turn into a two headed poodle? chewed your foot off?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
and.......it reminded me how happy I am about happy hour.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
left out of "Team America?"
Fascist America: Are We There Yet?
Fascist America II: The Last Turnoff
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
"All it's lacking is a spark," McEntire said in the report."
What,you mean an Islamofascist Grandmother killing Commie Negro isn't enough?
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Could that song be any cheezier. LOL
Could one of them please explain to me how the government can run, even at a minimum, if nobody pays taxes? These are nothing but spoiled rotten, overindulged baby boomers whose parents should be ashamed.
This is interesting.
Why is the National Guard hiring for INTERNMENT/RESETTLEMENT SPECIALISTS?
http://www.nationalguard.com/careers/mos/desc...
Not some wacko link. This is the National Guard's website and an ad for the position.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina (pun intended) there were a flood (this is almost too easy) of people from New Orleans that came to a national guard base on a temporary basis until more suitable housing could be found.
One of the problems that the guard had was the lack of personnel trained to deal with this kind of situations. Most were trained for artillery, logistics, munitions protection and a response unit for chemical warfare.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
"artillery, logistics, munitions protection and a response unit for chemical warfare"
But now those are all contracted out to private corps.
Just how much this video resembles the jihadist recruitment vids? Just one more way in which the extreme right has more in common with the Taliban al-Quada crowd than the care to admit.
Belive in my god or I kill you
Only my values are relevant
Disagree with me and I kill you
Look how tough I am with my A-K
...almost the same church, different pew!
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Put the audio from an Al-Qaeda vid over the militia video above.
Great correlation!
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Is that similar to a real American?
One with two sovereigns to rub together.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
this is the American equivalent of all those terrorist training videos you see with muslim prayer music playing over them. the difference is those guys seem to be actively engaged in warfare. these are antisocial manchildren playing soldier.
They're out there strutting their penis extensions, trying to scare the hell out of others. I am wondering just WHO are they threatening?
Me? You? Liberals? Democrats? The President? People who fight racism?
How proud they must feel to defend neanderthalism.
How small they really are, both in mind and numbers. No matter how big their penis extensions are, our national guard is now honed to splat them like bugs. Trained in real wars, they are up against a real enemy this time. No more nooses and sheets, guys, you are going to have to stop this and take your hate home with you... where it comes from.
Stupid idiots. Hate thy neighbor. The Christian Way.
These braindead, uneducated, want to be killers and hate monguering Right Wing-Nut terrorists, should all be rounded up and deported for life, since they are a grave threat to normal intelligent, caring, law abiding Americans.
I do hope that the Secret Service is on their toes at Obama's upcoming townhall here in Montana. We were already up to our eye teeth in these whackaloons before the election.
a bunch of Rambos chasin' round Yombos
What is scary about this situation is that the "mainstream" Right has decided to align itself with the unhinged fringe. There is quite a good article about this alliance to be found (amongst other sites) at Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/11. It's title is "My 1933 Nightmare".
I just finished reading the first of Richard Evans three books on the Nazi period which focuses on their rise to power. Their are too many factors which contributed to their rise to go into in a comment. But a fateful decision of the German "mainstream" Right was to ally itself with the extreme Right and the Nazis. They thought Hitler and his brownshirts could be easily controlled. Or, more plainly, they thought they could control an armed goon squad and use it to their advantage. That strategy did not work out so well obviously.
I know I've broken Godwin's Law, and I don't maintain we are at the precipice Germany was in the early 30's. However, the alliance of Big Money hiding behind various fronts, and the right-wing fringe is not something to be sneezed at either. Big thanks to David Neiwert for keeping an eye on this fringe.
The "mainstream" right has ALWAYS been the lunatic fringe. Conservative white America has always blatantly sanctioned racism, bigotry and intolerance. This latest madness is only a visible result with the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Savage, Coulter and all the other GOP faithful leading the way.
I'm glad white folks are waking up - that this town hall idiocy cannot be ignored. But please believe me when I tell you that this kind of crap is what black folks & other people of color have been talking about for some time now.
First....I do believe you. And yes, the "mainstream" Right has always been racist.
What's looks different to me is exactly what you pointed out though. The likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, have been bringing the most racist and irrational core of the Right into the cultural mainstream, making it visible, giving it encouragement and support. Putting lipstick on a pig as it were.
We've had far right fringe movements in this country for decades. The KKK, John Birch Society and the American Nazi Party come to mind. However, in the past they did not have the huge corporate megaphones given to Beck et al to peddle their ideas to the masses. Now we have a 24/7 "news" network and innumerable right-wing radio shows airing some of the most bizarre, paranoid, xenophobic, racist, intolerant bullshit, and all of it is paid for by major corporations. The mainstream corporate Right used to keep a respectable distance from the more insane and violent segment of their "base". With the advent of Fox "News" and the radio talk shows they began to embrace the rabble-rousers. Now they seem to have taken a further step. Corporate money is now being used to both misinform and mobilize the woefully ignorant rabble to further its agenda.
So, no argument from me about the longstanding racism and intolerance of the right. Just pointing out that the "respectable" Right (i.e. media personalities, Republican politicians and corporate interests) is increasingly publicly allying itself to its more extreme cousin.
And just how did you know I was a white guy :-)?
The demographics of North America has us with a huge population of young people ages 16-29.
This is not as huge as it was in the 60's put the largest since.
It is all about the control of young people .... Young people who are facing the worst employment prospects since the 1940's.
In the sixties, young people posed the largest threat ever to the Ruling Class .... and they invented the term "Druggie" and anybody with long hair was considered to be a suspect and laws were enacted to harass/arrest/question any hippie with long hair.
Today, the establishment has introduced the term "Terrorist" in the same way that "Druggie" was introduced.
It is necessary to demonize young people.
Druggies were "Dirty Radicals" and today Militias are "Racists".
We can expect to see the media brand young people as a threat to security in the same way they were branded in the 60's and 70's.
The Rich Folks are "Terrified" .... For years and years the Rich Folks (without any conscience) walked past homeless young people on the street and sneered.
We can expect the media to work 24-7 with religious stories and where they attempt to sell the Poor Folks a conscience.
The Rich Folks are terrified of being strung up on lamp posts in some sinister dark alley.
Britain and France will be the first major Western democracies to crumble .... The anti-terror legislation is Britain is draconian.
Britain has 4.2 million closed circuit TV cameras - one per every 14 people. China (a communist country) has a population of 1.3billion and there are just 2.75 million cameras or the equivalent of one for every 472,000 of its citizens.
Each person in Britain is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.
Calm
Can't wait to see the battle... rifles and handguns against F16, tanks and 1000 lbs bombs... go get 'em you militia screwballs... Texas would be a good start.
I like how you just friggin assume that the military will be on your side, and the the pilots, and guys in those tanks don't feel the same way as the teabaggers. The military is overwhelmingly made up of good ol boys. What the hell do progressives do other than write useless blogs.
Your future enemy is heavily armed,has been shooting since they can stand, have probably done some form military service, know first aid,and are quite capable. Call them competent light infantry if you will.
If the shit really hit the fan we are screwed. Our only hope would be foreign intervention. If you want to know what it will look like, check out the war in the former Yugoslavia except that they are the Serbs, and no one is gonna come and help us by bombing them when our cities are surrounded by heavily armed militias with no food .
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