{"id":34445,"date":"2013-03-06T17:26:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34445"},"modified":"2013-03-06T17:26:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:26:47","slug":"splc-sees-a-plot-afoot-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34445","title":{"rendered":"SPLC sees a plot afoot…again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess that money is drying up among the Southern Poverty Law Center’s contributors, because they see an opportunity to incite fear among their adherents. Old Trooper sends us a link to CNN<\/a> while I was reading one from USAToday<\/a> in regards to SPLC’s fundraising in the media.<\/p>\n

Of course, their whole point is that “hate groups” are on the rise. But the only thing that’s really “on the rise” is SPLC’s lowering of the criteria for including groups as Hate groups. Remember that a gunman tried to force his way into the innocuous Family Research Council in downtown DC last year because the SPLC had included them on the “Hate Map<\/a>“. But of course, the reason “hate groups” are on the rise is because folks are racists (from their report<\/a>);<\/p>\n

The resurgence of the Patriot movement, as well as the broader radical right, has been fueled by the election of America\u2019s first black president, the troubled economy and non-white immigration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s the easy answer. Or it could be because a number of people in this country are ideologically opposed to this president irrespective of the melanin levels in his skin.<\/p>\n

The SPLC found there were 1,360 Patriot groups in 2012 \u2013 an 813 percent rise since 2008, the year before Obama took office. The groups include 321 militias. These numbers far exceed the movement\u2019s peak in the 1990s, when militias were inflamed by the 1993 Brady Bill and the 1994 assault rifle ban.<\/p>\n

The SPLC also found that hate groups remained at a near-record level of 1,007 groups in 2012, a slight drop from the 1,018 groups documented in 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, wait, the number of hate groups, as the SPLC defines them has dropped? Then what the hell are we talking about? Actually, the two hate groups that SPLC had on their map last year near my house are gone now. So why isn’t the story about how there are fewer hate groups now than there were a year ago? Some of the groups they list in DC on the “Hate Map” are Masjid Al-Islam – Islamist separatists – and the Nation of Islam – black separatists.<\/p>\n

Of course, because they correctly predicted the Oklahoma bombing (using the blind squirrel and stopped clock method), they’re still clinging to that as their raison d’etre<\/em>. Remember their scare mongering over the Hutarees<\/a>? They were supposed strike fear in us – they could barely strike a pose. The Hutarees were bunch of gapped-tooth, mouth breathing retards. And, oh, none of the serious charges stuck to any of them. Mark Potok probably could have rounded them up all by himself.<\/p>\n

From the CNN link;<\/p>\n

“We are seeing a huge reaction to the potential for gun control, and that reaction is so angry that it’s hard not to be afraid of what’s coming down the road,” said Mark Potok of the SPLC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, being a gun owner doesn’t make us racist or a hate group. I think it’s pretty comical that the SPLC sees right-wing violence everywhere, but they turned away at the Occupy violence last year. The CNN article mentions a couple of incidences of “anti-government” plots, but one day at an Occupy rally one could see more broken laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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