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In reply to the discussion: If you are not Terrified yet, You should Be...This is out of Control! [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)59. Pacific northwest states have some of the vicious ones. It's national.
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If you are not Terrified yet, You should Be...This is out of Control! [View all]
sheshe2
Jan 2013
OP
I meant 'paranoid extremists', but yeah they're out there too, celebrating ignorance & hate.
JaneyVee
Jan 2013
#5
paranoid, regressive extremists; exactly what I've seen in these not southern places.
Lionessa
Jan 2013
#16
You're missing the point, region was NOT the keyword, "far-right paranoid extremists" was.
JaneyVee
Jan 2013
#26
Uhm lived there twenty years and you're wrong. Very few were ever southerners.
Lionessa
Jan 2013
#18
If these "paranoid extremists" do start violence it will ruin things for everybody.
xtraxritical
Feb 2013
#60
Have you met the Georgia's Congressmen? Like Rep. Phil Gingrey? Paul Broun?
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2013
#96
Guys, it had nothing to do with region, I was referring to 'far-right, white' & 'paranoid extremists
JaneyVee
Jan 2013
#23
Actually it does have a lot to with region, check out the Southern Poverty Centers hate map
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#30
Shooter Dick Cheney is from Wyoming, I think. Lots of militia weirdos live outside of the south.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#11
I agree completely. I would never region bash, I was being humorous at the redundant statement.
JaneyVee
Feb 2013
#62
I've lived up here a while, and encountered great people, and some who just scared me half to death.
freshwest
Feb 2013
#66
Yeah, there is a serious disconnect going on with some of our fellow Americans.
JaneyVee
Feb 2013
#75
The Bush years started to really wake me up. Somehow, I had naively assumed most Americans in the
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#79
Terrified? Pulleeezzee, don't be the same hypsters and fearmongers the other side is being.
Lionessa
Jan 2013
#2
You can't possibly be waiting for the blood before you are concerned...hype? No. Fact!
sheshe2
Feb 2013
#80
Most of them are meth head losers. If something was going to happen, it would have
Dash87
Feb 2013
#110
Hate groups (or "boogie men"...) aren't exclusive to the South, just more common. Here's a map.
Electric Monk
Jan 2013
#15
You understand what "more common" means? Michigan is the exception that proves the rule.
Electric Monk
Jan 2013
#24
Yes, we've had our governor, senators and representatives issued death threats.
freshwest
Feb 2013
#87
Not everyone who lives in the south think like these extremist. Heck I don't even own a gun.
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#14
The invasion & occupation of an INNOCENT nation, Iraq, that cost about 4K American lives, SHOWS that
patrice
Jan 2013
#29
I feel it, it's in the air. It's not always visible, but it's there. I was telling someone
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#52
Can you see how it is just as legitimate for others to feel exactly the same thing about "2nd Amendm
patrice
Jan 2013
#39
Anything that is wrong is made worse by alienation & ir-responsibility & yet we are supposed to
patrice
Feb 2013
#82
Please tell me why my concerns for our SOLDIERS being drawn into wars abroad BECAUSE of NRA's
patrice
Jan 2013
#45
So many Americans are having their rights f***ed with that your argument does not hold.
Stonepounder
Feb 2013
#71
Thank you! It's guns for guns' sake ALONE. If any of that other stuff actually mattered to these
patrice
Feb 2013
#83
Yeah, "vague goals" like health care for everyone & publicly gauranteed Social Security.
patrice
Feb 2013
#84
Don't Vote Suppression & Gerrymandering pretty much prove that the ONLY motive of gun-lovers is
patrice
Jan 2013
#35
Yes, the silence is deafening on what makes a democratic government work. Good point.
freshwest
Feb 2013
#103
Good. Let them revolt. It will get rid of them and wake people up to the threat the RW represent.
Katashi_itto
Jan 2013
#56
Since one of their enemies is the AMA, the next time one of the fools shoot themselves
Thinkingabout
Feb 2013
#76
I'm frightened of the DHS, TSA, iWatch program, NDAA's indefinite detention without trial or
Fire Walk With Me
Feb 2013
#88
its too bad you feel that way. you seem worried about these 'patriots'. maybe alert the feds?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#107