Help me compile a recent list of right-wing terrorists.

[ThatPoetGuy]

Several men (and one woman) were arrested in Denver, with sniper rifles. They had a crude plan to assassinate Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention. Their plan was unlikely to succeed, but it points to an alarming trend.

If I remember correctly, two other individuals have been arrested recently after telling others about their plans to assassinate Barack Obama.

A man walked into a liberal-leaning church and opened fire. His reading matter was comprised of right-wing ideologues.

A man lost his job at Target, walked into the state Democratic headquarters, asked to see the chairman of the state Democratic party, and killed him.

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Have I missed any of the latest wave of right-wing terrorism? I think it's important to let people know what FOX News and right-wing radio are doing to America.

Also, I can hunt down links to each of these cases, but if anyone has them ready to hand, I'd appreciate it.

[StClone]

1. Ah, Oklahoma City Bombers

[guitar man]

2. yep

Right wing religious nuts. Christofascist terrorism.

[FLAprogressive]

3. George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney

[gatorboy]

4. Eric Rudolph

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Robert_Rudolph

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. Never doubt...

That this may well be a root cause in all this:

http://www.rickross.com/reference/hate_groups/hategroups45.html

And this(click on the many imbedded links for more): http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/21/171257/854/651/519046

[billyoc]

6. List? Hell, we've got whole MAPS!

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp">Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Group Map

[Dukkha]

7. Chad Castagana the freeper fake anthrax mailer

[EFerrari]

8. Wouldn't it be easier to look for left wing terrorists?

Terror itself seems to be a rightwing control thingy. :)

[ThatPoetGuy]

10. Nice one.

Conservatives have spent years talking about "eco-terrorists," trying to make the American people associate environmental concerns with terrorists. I think it would help this country, a lot, if people started to realize how hate radio and talking-point "journalism" are driving Americans to violent acts of terror.

[LeftishBrit]

9. If UK examples count, David Copeland the London nail-bomber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copeland

[Fumesucker]

11. Here's a case of a literal WMD built by a terrorist cell in the USA

And it never even made the national news.

Try searching for this on CNN, MSNBC or CBS, you won't find it.

Just imagine if Earth First had been found with a sodium cyanide bomb?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1229/p02s01-usju.html

from the December 29, 2003 edition

The terror threat at home, often overlooked

As the media focus on international terror, a Texan pleads guilty to possessing a weapon of mass destruction.

By Kris Axtman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

HOUSTON – It began as a misdelivered envelope and developed into the most extensive domestic terrorism investigation since the Oklahoma City bombing.

Last month, an east Texas man pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Inside the home and storage facilities of William Krar, investigators found a sodium-cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands, more than a hundred explosives, half a million rounds of ammunition, dozens of illegal weapons, and a mound of white-supremacist and antigovernment literature.

"Without question, it ranks at the very top of all domestic terrorist arrests in the past 20 years in terms of the lethality of the arsenal," says Daniel Levitas, author of "The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right."

More at the link..

[Blue_Tires]

12. if you want to go back to the 90s

there is a garden variety of anti-government and militia types allied with the neo-nazi movement... and also in the early 90s there was a LONG string of shootings/bombings at abortion clinics...

[derby378]

13. The Order, aka the Silent Brotherhood

Founded by Robert Jay Mathews, it was a collection of white supremacists who wanted to fund the white power movement through counterfeiting and armored car robbery. They also assassinated Denver talk-radio personality Alan Berg. They've been shut down by the FBI a long time ago.

[VOX]

14. The Posse Comitatus...

Per Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_(organization)

"Many Posse members embrace the anti-semitic and white supremacist beliefs of Christian Identity. Some believe that the U.S. Federal government is illegitimate and in the hands of "ZOG," an alleged Jewish conspiracy...In 1983, Posse member (and accused parole violator) Gordon Kahl killed two Federal marshals (who had come to arrest him) in North Dakota and became a fugitive. Another shootout ensued on June 3, 1983, in which Kahl and Lawrence County, Arkansas Sheriff Gene Matthews were killed. Other members of the group have also been convicted of crimes ranging from tax evasion and counterfeiting to threatening the lives of IRS agents and judges."
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"The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing was committed by individuals adhering to Posse ideology..."