Imigration on Site Map subfolders
They're
back. Almost a decade after largely disappearing from public
view, right-wing militias, ideologically driven tax defiers and
sovereign citizens are appearing in large numbers around the
country. … "All it's lacking is a spark. I think it's only a
matter of time before you see threats and violence."
A key
difference this time is that the federal government — the
entity that almost the entire radical right views as its
primary enemy — is headed by a black man. That, coupled with
high levels of non-white immigration and a decline in the
percentage of whites overall in. America, has helped to
racialize the Patriot movement, which in the past was not
primarily motivated by race hate. One result has been a
remarkable rash of domestic terror incidents since the
presidential campaign, most of them related to anger over the
election of Barack Obama. At the same time,
ostensibly mainstream politicians and media pundits
have helped to spread Patriot and related propaganda, from
conspiracy theories about a secret network of U.S.
concentration camps to wholly unsubstantiated claims about the
president's country of
birth.
Fifteen years ago, the Southern
Poverty Law Center wrote then-Attorney General Janet Reno
to warn about extremists in the militia movement, saying that
the "mixture of armed groups and those who hate" was "a recipe
for disaster." Just six months later, Oklahoma City's federal
building was bombed.
Imigration, South Carolina Joe Wilson Apology
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