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    LA Times: 'Peril' from 'patriots'

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    There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat with the U.S. government. They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.

    They're not jihadists. They are white, right-wing Americans, nearly all with an obsessive attachment to guns, who may represent a greater danger to the lives of American civilians than international terrorists.

    The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been tracking hate groups for 30 years, released its latest report on the growth of these organizations this week. Its findings were, to say the least, alarming. The center divides its subjects into militias, which are mostly groups of weekend warriors who train for combat against imaginary foes; hate groups, which target minorities; and "patriot" groups, whose beef is with the U.S. government. Patriot groups first began surfacing after the massacre of a bizarre sect by federal agents in Waco, Texas, in the early 1990s. They showed their teeth in 1995, when a patriot adherent blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City.

    Since then, the patriot movement has been growing at a blistering pace, especially following the election of President Obama in 2008, according to the report. From just 149 groups in 2008, the number jumped to 512 in 2009 and has been rising sharply since. In 2012, it hit 1,360. Now that Obama is seriously pushing for tougher gun laws, further growth is a near certainty. The result? There's no knowing, but some kind of serious attack is increasingly possible.

    Patriot groups are motivated by a host of anti-government attitudes, but their primary focus is guns. They are convinced that the government is out to seize their weapons, even though most legislation is focused on keeping guns out of the hands of criminals or restricting the types of weapons that can be sold. Many are also united by belief in an outlandish one-world government conspiracy theory positing that the United Nations is poised to strip away American property rights and impose socialism on us all.

    What can be done to reverse this tide of belligerent ignorance? Not much. The typical patriot acts within his free-speech and 2nd Amendment rights, and in fact most patriot activity consists of venting steam by meeting with like-minded Neanderthals and firing off blog posts threatening civil war. Yet such blather tends to get under the skin of the Timothy McVeighs of the world. These groups should be closely monitored, with resources adequate to the task, even if it means shifting some homeland security money from the hunt for foreign terrorists.

    Copyright © 2013, Los Angeles Times
    This is quite possibly the best piece of writing I have ever read.

    Voting people out of office that has the same mindset as the writer of this LA Times article is going to take a very long time. There is a huge mountain of stupidity of the voting public that will have to be scaled.
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    Perhaps a map of the homes of all these journalists is in order. LOL. Watch them $#@!.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kathy88 View Post
    Perhaps a map of the homes of all these journalists is in order. LOL. Watch them $#@!.
    Great idea! Just like when they released records of people who own guns publicly!

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    outlandish one-world government conspiracy theory
    LOL - This is funny.

    If people only had the slightest idea of how much "UN mandated global governance" they have to comply with each day.

    Just another one:


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    What can be done to reverse this tide of belligerent ignorance?
    obey the damn constitution! its pretty simple
    Insanity should be defined as trusting the government to solve a problem they caused in the first place. Please do not go insane!

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    LA? meh............sink or swim

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    SPLC is a hate group. The marxist groups always accuse others of what they themselves, are guilty of.

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    OH THANK GOD! I'm not white, I'm Tejano hispanic with most of the other similarities. If I was white... I'd be like "erghmehgherd... I'm a patriot". Time to collect some serious welfare checks and take some jobs from the white man.
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    I will be repeating this for the next four years, until Hillary or Michelle (or both) are in office:

    Tea Party and GOP: angry, mean, straight, white men. Divide and conquer, demonize and attack. The talking points are out, and the narrative is rolling.

    ...increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat with the U.S. government. They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.

    They're not jihadists. They are white, right-wing Americans,
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    I hope once the Kochtopus buys this rag, the first thing they do is $#@!can the entire editorial board.

    Today, William Diamond's drum again beats the long roll. We do not seek a civil war, but one is being thrust upon us. If we do not now stand, then when will we? We must defy these intolerable acts, whatever their source, and challenge the collectivist revolutionaries to come work their will upon us if they do not like it -- and they most assuredly won't. We must give a final rattle of the tail before striking. They may pass whatever "laws" they wish, then watch what happens when they try to enforce them. The next moves will be up to them. May God have mercy on their corrupt, heathen murderous souls, for they are unlikely to receive any in the ghastly civil conflict their tyrannical appetites seem to crave.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

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    "We must stamp out drapetomania!!"
    The proper concern of society is the preservation of individual freedom; the proper concern of the individual is the harmony of society.

    "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." - Byron

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    corporate-Fascist media... how adoring Goebbels would be proud of the LA Times. Let's look how the military works with media...









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