Eric Holders comments and the usual no-cosponsor gun control bills (HR-45) have got gun buyers lined up out the door of gun shops. There's lots of factors at work here - the local gun shop owner told me the stimulus bill included gun confiscation and state mandated euthanasia. But people were emptying Wal-mart a couple months ago anticipating that broke state governments will be releasing prisoners and the bad economy will increase property crime.
But Holder also plays into the elaborate fantasies of white supremacists as described in the infamous racist novel The Turner Diaries. It inspired Tim McVeigh's truck bombing, and it ends with a plane being crashed into the Pentagon.
Chapter 1
Today it finally began! ..... We are at war with the System, and it is no longer a war of words..... Now that we have begun, we must continue with the plan we have been developing so carefully ever since the Gun Raids two years ago....They knocked on my door at five in the morning. I was completely unsuspecting as I got up to see who it was.....I opened the door, and four Negroes came pushing into the apartment....
If you read the Turner Diaries on-line, you'll see many familiar themes that are part of the GOP mainstream. "White guilt" explains pretty much everything that does not suit white supremacists. Immigrants are to blame for pretty much everything.
And anyone that takes the Turner Diaries seriously would see the current economic crisis as very similar to the events in the book that let the white supremacists take over. They are out there cheering on Rush Limbaugh when he says "I want Obama to fail!" Like the Nazis, they see economic collapse as the key to taking over. Il The Turner Diaries, they wage a national campaign of terrorism and sabotage that paralyzes the population and civil authorities while they infiltrate the armed forces. They blow up roads, power plants, ports, bridges, and isolate areas where they can take over.
Make no mistake, the Bush administration has been coddling these people and their affiliates for the last 8 years. And relaxed recruiting standards have allowed many of them to join the armed forces despite criminal records so they can get weapons training. And many of them are coming back from Iraq as hardened experts in domestic terrorism, because they were there to learn from the insurgents. And when you hear people like Michael Steele demanding that Obama must be stopped, he is trying to conjure up the next Oswald or McVeigh.