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The Hutaree Militia and Why Today’s Wingnuts Are Right Wing
Newsweek ^ | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 | Eve Conant

Posted on 03/31/2010 9:52:13 AM PDT by presidio9

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To: presidio9
In a Washington Post op-ed, Eugene Robinson argues that for the past few decades the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from those who draw inspiration and rhetoric from the far right.

The Weather Underground bombed the Pentagon in the 1970s. The Weather Underground robbed banks to fund their activities in the 1980s.

What decade is Eugene starting with and who's he calling "right wing"?

21 posted on 03/31/2010 10:05:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: sauropod

You do realize that for people like this facts are just irritants that get in the way of their propaganda.


22 posted on 03/31/2010 10:06:09 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: highlander_UW

There were terrorist plots (bombing, kidnapping) by leftists (tried and convicted) at the 2008 RNC convention and it got NO national media coverage (strictly treated as local stories).


23 posted on 03/31/2010 10:06:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: presidio9

Left wing crazies control the White House, Congress and U.S. mass media. What do they need militias for?


24 posted on 03/31/2010 10:09:16 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: presidio9

Do you remember when some white-bread, Republican AG let them off the hook?


25 posted on 03/31/2010 10:10:15 AM PDT by synbad600
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Left wing crazies are flying planes into buildings( Joseph Stack), murdering people on university campuses( Amy Bishop), threatening to murder congress members( Norman Leboon)

Bomb the Pentagon (Obama's buddy William Ayers).

26 posted on 03/31/2010 10:11:04 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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How are they violent? The FBI CLAIMS that they threatened to kill someone--a Muslim or a cop, they haven't quite got their story straight yet. But how can they be described as "violent"? They haven't killed anyone, or beat up anyone, or broken any windows, or burned any cars, as far as I've heard. If they had, I'm sure the FBI and the media would be telling us all about it. I looked up their website as soon as they mentioned the word "Hutaree." Personally, I'd be a bit inclined to call them kooks. But violent? Nonsense. There's been a fair amount of political violence around the world recently. All of it came from the left, or from Muslims, as far as I've heard.

The way this is going to go down is that more than a few of these nine dumbasses are going to be threatened with life sentences in the presence of their lawyers. Even without resorting to enhanced interrogation, the FBI has a 1 in 9 chance of getting someone to remember patchy details of a random plot. No doubt with coaching from the FBI. The world won't miss these retards, and that's approximately how it will go down.

27 posted on 03/31/2010 10:11:34 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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It is really simple. Any group of American citizens who wish to assemble (e.g. Tea Party) and protest autocratic acts of a once Constitutionally limited government will be branded as dangerous to the social and political order of this country. All fringe elements will be amalgamated into an assembly of these citizens thus defining them.

Truth is, freedom loving American citizens are dangerous to this current government and rightfully so. Rebellion is not far away if trends continue. The question is in what form will it take and by what means will it be quelled?

28 posted on 03/31/2010 10:12:00 AM PDT by Jagdgewehr (Gun, Bible, Gadsden Flag...the definition of a hater and far right-wing extremist)
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To: presidio9
All genocidal murder and violence comes from the left.

Chicoms: 96 million murdered

Soviet Union Commies: 66 million murdered

National Socialists: 20 million murdered

Communist Vietnam 3 million murdered

Khmer Rouge Cambodia 3 million murdered

It is a fact that all genocide and nearly all mass murder come from the left and Islam, the farther left and the more the homosexual influence, the more the murder.

29 posted on 03/31/2010 10:13:14 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: synbad600
Do you remember when some white-bread, Republican AG let them off the hook?

I could go either way on whether that specific animal belongs in a cage (for the crime in question). My point was that this sort of thing has always been in the left's playbook.

30 posted on 03/31/2010 10:14:01 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9

black panthers?


31 posted on 03/31/2010 10:15:00 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced, tattooed, pierced, harley hatin, meghan mccain luvin', smoker and pit bull owner..what?)
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To: Navy Patriot

The Armenian genocide came at the hands of the Ottoman monarchy, but I agree with your point all the same.


32 posted on 03/31/2010 10:16:32 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9
Eve Conant has drunk the Obama Gobbels Koolaid.

EVE!!!! NAME ONE RIGHT WING RIOTin the USA.....Just ONE!!!

The oeleft are agian accusinnt the right of the very things of which they are guilty.

Nice ply but no ones laughing as they usuually do. Why?

Because any mistake you make about it can get you killed. Maybe thats a good thing.

33 posted on 03/31/2010 10:18:20 AM PDT by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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“It is dishonest for right-wing commentators to insist on an equivalence that does not exist,” writes Robinson. “The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from one direction—the right, not the left. The vitriolic, antigovernment hate speech that is spewed on talk radio every day

During the Bush admin. 99% of the "vitriolic, anti-government hate speech" on talk radio was spewed by the Left, and it was quite commonplace. But did Newsweek or any other left-wing rag write articles about it? Of course not.

34 posted on 03/31/2010 10:21:05 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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It is interesting to note that the left insists on calling people like the slimeball at Ft. Hood as “alleged blah blahs”. However, no “alleged” is necessary when talking about this militia, despite the fact that they have, apparently, never done anything except run their mouths.


35 posted on 03/31/2010 10:21:18 AM PDT by stop_fascism
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To: Servant of the Cross

They’ve got the lipstick on the wrong cheek.


36 posted on 03/31/2010 10:26:47 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: presidio9
Armenian genocide came at the hands of the Ottoman monarchy

Absolutely correct, and the Islamic connection aside, I have been preparing arguments for a theory that in a Monarchy the "state" is similar in operation and theory to a communist "state". In other words, effective philosophies of a Monarchy and communist state, are very similar.

37 posted on 03/31/2010 10:31:19 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: presidio9

what makes this group rightwing?


38 posted on 03/31/2010 10:34:49 AM PDT by dalebert
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Left wing crazies are flying planes into buildings( Joseph Stack), murdering people on university campuses( Amy Bishop), threatening to murder congress members( Norman Leboon) and the list goes on.

I hadn't even thought of those in addition to all the left wing riots. The WTO comes to mind because I live in WA state and I knew people who were stranded downtown because of the riots, and I remember seeing the fires in the street and windows being smashed on the news.

No, by FAR the left wing is more dangerous and more violent...and more prevelent.

And many of the events that had been blamed on the right turned out to be the left attempting to frame the right. A brick through a Denver DNC office for example, as I recall, turned out to be a democrat. The guy who carved FED into his chest and then hung himself...the left accused the right and it turned out to be a suicide and attempt to frame the right yet again.

The SEIU thugs at town halls, the leftist biting the finger off an anti-Obamacare protester, Ried supports egging buses in NV...the list goes on and on and on and on...and to my knowledge, no confirmed instances on the right, although maybe this militia group might qualify, but I haven't seen enough to even know they are right wing types...they surely appear to be nut case types assuming the information released is accurate, but given that it's being released by Obama's people truth can't be assumed.

39 posted on 03/31/2010 10:36:35 AM PDT by highlander_UW (Happiness doesn't come from owning something; it comes from being a part of something)
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To: presidio9

Why do you even call them nutjobs? What have they done that has been proven? Have we heard ANYTHING but the govts side of the story, and very little of that. They have been intentionally vague, so as to find out what conspiracy theory, and what kind of story will sell. When you have hard facts on your side, you air them willingly and openly. When you are trying to smear reputations, you let the rumors lead the story.


40 posted on 03/31/2010 10:43:24 AM PDT by runninglips (Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)
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