http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/08/obama-secret-service-bodyguards
The Southern Poverty Law Center ... grew to be one of the most respected monitoring groups of rightwing extremism in America today.
“But in the summer of 2008 ...” [0 is the target ... starting with six people in a militia group: June 8, 2008]
” ... recently the adoration has been drowned out by a cacophony of criticism from tea party activists, birthers, global-warming deniers and viewers of Fox News. At the same time, largely hidden from view, there has been a layer of antagonism towards Obama that lies well beyond the boundaries of reasonable political debate. ...”
[Yeah, smear the entire nation and cobble us with racists. Gee, thanks.]
Southern Poverty Law Center survey [Mark Potok]: “Virtually every domestic terrorist event we have identified since June 2008 – when it became obvious that Obama was going to win – has been directly related to him.”
[Missed quite a few, I would say. Stack, for one.]
“The centre’s latest report, released last week, records an astonishing mushrooming in extremist anti-government Patriot groups who see the Obama administration as a plot to impose “one-world government” on liberty-loving Americans. The numbers leapt from 149 groups in 2008 to 512 groups in 2009, of which 127 were classed as paramilitary groups.”
“We know there has been a spike in activity across a broad range of things, particularly with regard to the notion that this government is illegitimate,” says Brian Levin, a criminologist who heads the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University. Levin says the phenomenon is evident in rural areas around the Appalachian mountains and Great Lakes and into the west and Pacific north-west, where new armed militia groups are spontaneously emerging; and he has no doubt about why this is happening right now: “We’ve always had people who hate the president, we’ve always had conspiracies, but the fact that we have a black president at a time of economic tumult makes these conspiracies much more volatile among a far wider group of people.”
[Show the freaking birth certificate then! Come on, I challenge Obama to make fools of us who’ve been calling for it.]
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Summary of how this barfer gets even more rabid: more cobbling of conservatives with racists and Stack-like leftist / paranoid-of-the-military kooks.
A lot about McVeigh at the end. I had heard that McVeigh was largely leftist.
The ping was here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2466288/posts?page=21#21
I promise to add you more smoothly to the list after today, FRiend. FRegards ....
I’m convinced the Left doesn’t believe in freedom of speech. They want to turn everything into a plot against Obama.