Anti-Government Groups Show Surge, Watchdog Warns

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: AOL news

The number of American anti-government militia and "patriot" groups, largely dormant since their heyday in the mid-1990s, mushroomed at an "astonishing" rate last year, raising "grave concern" about the potential for future domestic terrorism, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The nonprofit civil rights organization, which tracks the hate movement and anti-government groups, counted 512 militias and related groups in 2009, up from 149 groups the year before. And, it said, the movement has added a layer of racism largely absent a decade ago.

At the same time, the organization has observed a spike in what it calls "nativist extremist groups," defined as those that "confront or harass suspected immigrants," to 309 groups last year, up from 173 the year before.

Hate groups also grew slightly, from 926 to 932, continuing what the SPLC said was a trend that began around 2000, and rising 54 percent in the decade. The growth was "driven largely by an angry backlash against nonwhite immigration and, starting in the last year of that period, the economic meltdown and the climb to power of an African-American president."


Read more: http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/anti-government-groups-show-astonishing-rise-watchdog-warns/19379350

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[PSPS]

1. Not surprising with the 24-hour RW Wurlitzer of hate radio & TV

[denverbill]

2. Thanks Rush! Thanks Hannity! Thanks Beck! n/t

[cliffordu]

3. If killing by these idiots hits the streets en masse, those three need to go first.

[Arkana]

5. If they ever took to the streets and actually tried to kill liberals

they'd find out pretty quick that we're not that stereotype portrayed daily by Rush et al.

There are very few things that would make me want to pick up a gun and fight, but if those mental midgets decide that they want war, I would do it in a heartbeat.

[and-justice-for-all]

4. Since they hate government so much...

then they can all hop on a boat and head to Somalia.

[AlphaCentauri]

6. or to the Falklands n/t

[wordpix]

7. another reason for a jobs bill---get these effing scary bigots off the shooting range

give em jobs, please!

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[kpete]

9. New SPLC Report: “Patriot” Groups, Militias Surge in Number in Past Year

Source: Southern Poverty Law Center

03/02/2010
New SPLC Report: “Patriot” Groups, Militias Surge in Number in Past Year


MONTGOMERY, Ala. - 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 "Patriot" groups - 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.

The SPLC documented a 244 percent increase in the number of active Patriot groups in 2009. 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.

The report, "Rage on the Right," is the cover story in the Spring 2010 issue of the SPLC's quarterly investigative journal Intelligence Report.

Read more: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-number-of-patriot-groups-militias-surges-by-244-in-past-year

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http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/rage-on-the-right

[FSogol]

10. These "groups" always surge when the Democrats are in power.

For the most part, they are cowardly clowns making themselves feel big. Every once in a while the group spawns a McVeigh who is dangerous. They should be ridiculed and shamed.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

11. You are so right.

With a black man in te WH, it freaks them out even more -- I think that explains the incredible spike in just one year.

[Solly Mack]

12. K&R

[Dogtown]

13. K&R n/t

[Turbineguy]

14. Patriot groups

people who advocate killing other Americans.

[pampango]

15. Good news: "The American National Socialist Workers Party imploded in 2008..."

"The number of hate groups in America has been going up for years, rising 54% between 2000 and 2008 and driven largely by an angry backlash against non-white immigration and, starting in the last year of that period, the economic meltdown and the climb to power of an African American president. According to the latest annual count by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), these groups rose again slightly in 2009 — from 926 in 2008 to 932 last year — despite the demise of a key neo-Nazi group. The American National Socialist Workers Party, which had 35 chapters in 28 states, imploded shortly after the October 2008 arrest of founder Bill White for making threats against his enemies.

At the same time, the number of what the SPLC designates as "nativist extremist" groups — organizations that go beyond mere advocacy of restrictive immigration policy to actually confront or harass suspected immigrants — jumped from 173 groups in 2008 to 309 last year. Virtually all of these vigilante groups have appeared since the spring of 2005."

[Soylent Brice]

16. more domestic terrorists.

K&R

[SlingBlade]

17. Another organization that we ALL should support.

Fuck the gun, I'll take the SPLC any day of the weak.

[Hardrada]

19. What if the Martians invade us? Can we sue them?

[SlingBlade]

20. They already have, We call them Re-Pukes, And yea

We can sue the piss out of 'em and their little fifth columnist TeaBag'in Militia's.

[greiner3]

18. What ever happened to that guy?

The 'Frontman' for that fake militia that posted a number of YouTube videos. That bit about him being afraid of, what was it? some sort of animal, got me laughing quite a few times. Oh wait, maybe I should not have said anything just in case some trolls believed what he was saying, just like Colbert and all.

On a somber note, I just heard about the thousand pussies march to Washington. This actually scares me. Row after row of billie bobs come marching (stumbling) across the Patomac. The SS gets all hot and bothered and hustle Obama down into his bunker. I can see Obama riding that elevator back up and confronting these yee-haws. They'd just shoot him. There would be no hesitation, no wise individual in the crowd (remember who these idiots are) who would tell the crowd to calm down and go home because Obama is the man and he has their backs. One good thing would be that there would be so many nra members dead and injured. The front ones would yell, 'Here he is' and the idiots up to 500 deep would aim and fire, usually hitting tommy sue or bobby mary in the back with their shotgun blast.