Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) tells us that in their annual count of militias, released yesterday, they have identified “276 militia groups – up from 202 in 2014, a 37 percent increase.” It has been argued that just ignoring these guys will lead them to go away and conveniently be forgotten.
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“We believe these armed extremists have been emboldened by what they saw as a clear victory at the Cliven Bundy ranch and the fact that no one was held accountable for taking up arms against agents of the federal government,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.
Back in 2011 I posted: Wackjob Nation: Anti-Government Extremist Population Exploding
35+ years of constant talk-radio harping, reflected in the rest of the conservative-controlled mainstream media and by Republican Senators and Representatives up and down the political foodchain has resulted in this:Anti-government extremist groups on rise in US: study Surprise.
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Hate groups up 7.5 %: there are apparently more than a thousand of these socially-responsible racists, and nativist extremists - also racists - are up 22%.
Of course, most of this is Obama's fault - being successful and black and winning the presidency has clearly set the wackjobs streaming from the woodwork, out into the bright, Republican, light of day.
Then came the siege at Cliven Bundy’s Moocher Ranch where a bunch of the same wackos now squatting in a federal gift shop and bird refuge (something snarkily appropriate about that) confronted Bureau of Land Management agents with high-power rifles over Bundy’s refusal to pay for grazing.
Now these assholes — they are assholes, so shut up — are again taking their high-power rifles and operating out of the 100% delusional bullshit that rattles around in their head. They are trying to provoke a ‘revolution’ among the larger numbers os gun-toting delusional assholes which gather together in “militia” groups. “Militia”. in quotes.
And these groups are exploding, in part because:
“When the federal government was stopped from enforcing the law at gunpoint, it energized the entire movement,” Beirich said. “The fact is, Bundy is still a free man and has not paid the money he owes to the federal government – and the militiamen who aimed rifles at federal agents have gotten away with it.”
Now these turds feel they can get away with it and they have gotten further than any other “protest group” (not otherwise specified) has gotten.
Because. They. Are. White. What good are all those giant MRAP military vehicles law enforcement has? What are they for? Other than arresting people for weed?
So Lw Enforcement has energized these turds by letting them get away with shit nobody else could
Occupy Wall Street never would have been allowed to be armed. Never.
#BlackLivesMatter can’t possibly go armed. Anywhere. Law enforcement kills black people right and left yet Bozo Haram get s a totally free pass. Law enforcement has done jack shit to deal with them.
THIS is why these groups will just get worse and more numerous.
The double-standard is MASSIVE.
Do something, goddammit.
One of the militants’ supporters, Joe Oshaugnessy, said in a Facebook post that the government would be to blame if that shutoff caused any harm to the women and children staying on the grounds.
“Just a quick reminder if they do shut down the electricity to the facility they will be shutting off the heat to woman and children who are also at the refuge,” Oshaugnessy said. “With temperatures of -16 in the area let’s pray they don’t.”
Terrorists.