Remember the Christian militia folks from here in Michigan that were locked up not too long ago for allegedly plotting to kill state and local law enforcement officers? Well, it looks as though something similar is unfolding right now in Georgia, where four right-wing militia members have been arrested for planning attacks on IRS and […]
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Alleged domestic terrorists thwarted near historic Monkey Power Trio recording site
Posted in Monkey Power Trio, Observations, Politics Also tagged Absolved, angry old white men, angry white men, ATF, Christian soldiers, Civil War, gay marriage, gun control, Hutaree, IRS, kraken, Mike Vanderboegh, self-publishing 6 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, Mark Potok, Martin Feldman, 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
“See, the Democrats are violent too!”
With the news that a mentally ill man in Pennsylvania had threatened the life of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor, conservatives everywhere have begun jumping up and down, waiving their hands around wildly (imagine Arnold Horshack trying to get Mr. Kotter’s attention), and claiming that this definitively proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Democrats […]
Posted in History, Other, Politics, Religious Extremism Also tagged anti-globalization, anti-government, Arnold Horshack reference, Bill Ayers, Christian soldiers, constitutionalists, death threats, domestic terrorism, Eric Cantor, Eugene Robinson, Hutaree, Norman Leboon, Oklahoma City, Patricia Hearst, political violence, potential for violence, rhetoric of violent revolution, Symbionese Liberation Army, tea party, teabaggers, teabaggery, the nonexistent leftist threat, Timothy McVeigh, violence, violence on the extreme right, white supremacist 40 Comments