Forget the Ballot Box – Get a Gun
April 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM Leave a comment
I have been a member of the Southern Poverty Law Center for probably 20 years. They are out with their annual report, The Year in Hate. According to the report, hate groups increased by more than 4% between 2007 and 2008 and since 2000, the number is up more than 50%.
As in recent years, hate groups were animated by the national immigration debate. But two new forces also drove them in 2008: the worsening recession, and Barack Obama’s successful campaign to become the nation’s first black president. Officials reported that Obama had received more threats than any other presidential candidate in memory…
Couple this with rhetoric urging violent overthrow of the government coming from the right – as in Michele Backhmann, Glenn Beck and the Fox News’ “militia media,” and Newt Gingrich, to name but a few – and we’ve got a dangerous thing going on here.
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