It’s being reported that Jerad and Amanda Miller, the couple who murdered two Las Vegas police officers as they ate lunch on Sunday, and then moved on to a nearby Wal-Mart to continue their killing spree, may have been involved in the mid-April anti-government standoff between federal authorities and armed militia members supporting racist Nevada […]
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“This is a revolution.” …The recent domestic terrorism attack in Las Vegas and its roots in the Cliven Bundy standoff
Posted in Church and State, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Amanda Miller, anti-government, Batman, Benghazi, Bunkerville, Bureau of Land Management, cattle, Cliven Bundy, Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, domestic terrorism, don't tread on me, Gadsden flag, Jerad Miller, Joker, Las Vegas, militia, Nevada, patriot groups, patriot movement, Richard Mack, right-wing extremism, Southern Poverty Law Center, tea party, USATruePatriot, white supremacist 16 Comments
Double standards
Courtland Milloy posed an interesting question in today’s Washington Post… What would the response of government and citizenry have been if the armed militia movement we’re seeing spread across America had been almost exclusively black, instead of white? Here’s a clip: Imagine that the inauguration of President George W. Bush had sparked an explosive rise […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Environment, Other, Politics Also tagged 1984, Bhopal, Courtland Milloy, Deepwater Horizon, double standard, Dow Chemical, Glenn Beck, guns, Halliburton, Intelligence Project, Martin Feldman, militias, Obaba's private black army, off-shore drilling, people who claim that it's not about race when we know that it is, race, racism, Southern Poverty Law Center, Transocean, Union Carbide 19 Comments
More anti-government violence
A week or so ago, in the wake of the one-man attack on the IRS in Austin, we had a discussion here about the whether or not the increased anti-government rhetoric on the right might be encouraging such behavior. Several people indicated, if I remember correctly, that, given the current political climate, they wouldn’t be […]
Posted in Observations, Other, Politics, Predictions Also tagged anti-government, extremist groups, Glenn Beck, John Patrick Bedell, Michele Bauchmann, militias, Oath Keepers, patriot groups, populist anger, Rage on the Right, Southern Poverty Law Center, tea party, Tea Partyfication, teabaggery, violence, violence on the extreme right 86 Comments