SPLC: The 'Patriot' Movement Timeline ( Tea Party Cozies)

[Kurovski]

Don't ever tell me that the right and the left "both do the same thing" until you have some heavy-duty proof. List goes from Sept. 11, 1990 to April 19, 2010.

Here is a partial list of the most recent entries:


August 2008: In the same month that Barack Obama officially becomes the Democratic Party presidential nominee, the National Rifle Association, which in the 1990s publicly attacked federal law enforcement agents as "jackbooted thugs," joins forces with firearms manufacturers to promote NRA membership in a national campaign ominously dubbed "Prepare for the Storm in 2008." In the coming months, authorities will report that guns and especially ammunition are selling far more quickly than usual.

Nov. 4, 2008: Obama is elected president, the first African American to hold that office. Starting just hours after the election is called with the hate-motivated burning of a church with a black congregation in Springfield, Mass., a major spate of hate crimes and racist incidents hit the nation over the next several months in an apparent racist backlash. At one point, young children on a school bus in Idaho are reported chanting "Assassinate Obama."

April 7, 2009: The Department of Homeland Security issues a report warning of an increase in right-wing extremism, mirroring independent findings from the Southern Poverty Law Center earlier in the year. Facing a firestorm of criticism from the far right that falsely claims the report tags all conservatives as potential terrorists, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano withdraws what turns out to be a prescient report.

April 15, 2009: One of the leaders of the anti-immigrant Campo Minutemen, Britt "Kingfish" Craig, appears on a Patriot radio program along with guest Lloyd Marcus, the songwriter responsible for the "Tea Party Anthem." Adding further evidence of the ideological cross-pollination of different kinds of right-wing groups, the Campo Minutemen adopt the "Tea Party Anthem" as their fight song.

April 25, 2009: Joshua Cartwright, a Florida National Guardsman reportedly interested in joining a militia and angry over Barack Obama's election, shoots to death two Okaloosa County, Fla., sheriff's deputies at a gun range. After fleeing the scene, Cartwright is fatally shot during a gun battle.

Sept. 29, 2009: The Patriots Coalition, a new Patriot group founded by the former vice president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and whose website is loaded with "birther" conspiracy theory materials and jokes about assassinating President Obama, carries out its first border vigilante operation targeting Latino immigrants. The group's founder says they are part of the Tea Party tax protest movement.

Feb. 6, 2010: One-time GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville "America is ready for another revolution."

March 2, 2010: The Southern Poverty Law Center releases its "Rage on the Right: The Year in Hate and Extremism" report. The study reports that an astonishing 363 new Patriot groups appeared in 2009, with the totals going from 149 groups (including 42 militias) the year before to 512 (127 of them militias) — a 244% jump.

March 19, 2010: Mike Vanderboegh, a one-time 1990s Alabama militiaman and a leader of the recently formed Patriot group Three Percenters, calls on followers to protest health care reform by breaking the windows of local Democratic Party offices. In the following days, Democratic offices across the country report their windows smashed.


--Vanderboegh wasn't responsible for all those broken windows across the country either, was he? Stochastic Terrorism, it's all the rage on the right--Kurovski



http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/meet-the-patriots/the-patriot-movemen

[Richard Steele]

1. K&R

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. But, but the SPLC are just radicals! Yep I read it on DU.

Still scrubbing my eyes.

[Kurovski]

3. Oh yeah, they're just the fucking same.

I have to ask, where and when did you see that bit of trollery, nadin? Sounds like fun!

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. One of the many threads

Posted this week.

[Kurovski]

12. One of them just put in a vote as the "unrecc'ing crew". (nt)

[EFerrari]

4. Marking to read. Thank you!

:loveya:

[Kurovski]

6. That's good because...

there WILL be a quiz, Ms. Ferrari. :loveya:

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Ditto. n/t

[stevedeshazer]

8. +1. These people are NUTS.

[Kurovski]

9. Kick. (nt)

[Urban Prairie]

10. Mike Vanderboegh is living off of his monthly SSD checks

His spouse is employed (or was at the time of the window-smashing) and he would likely have applied for, and be receiving Medicare coverage, if it were not for being covered under her employer's health insurance provider.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/2010/03/26/vanderboegh

Can you say hypocrite?

These rightwing whackjobs would gladly and proudly cut their collective noses off to spite their faces, apparently.

Damn...I truly despise these fucking brain-dead idiots, they and their votes stand in the way of Congress potentially revisiting and enacting single-payer healthcare coverage reform in the future.

[Kurovski]

11. I suppose it's possible that he doesn't see it as a problem,

since a white man is getting it. You have to understand that it is all for the white race. There is absolutely no problem with welfare or Govt. programs as long as they serve lighter European-Americans.

Or maybe he doesn't understand that government is running the program.

We can not stress enough the fact that we have a president in office with African roots.

[Urban Prairie]

14. If Mikey doesn't understand that SSD is a federal government run and funded program

then he must truly be stupid, as it is unmistakable, unless his wife was the one who originally filled out his application for benefits. In addition, depending upon his type of disability, it may come under review on occasion, to determine if he is still unable to perform work that he is suited for, based on his level of skills and/or education, as well as any work that he was able to perform in the past.

"As a longtime "militia" organizer and Minuteman border patroller, he has advocated violence for many years without consequence."

Seems to me that this asshole is quite capable of performing physical work, but perhaps his physician(s) have supported his disability claim, based upon his obviously very unstable "mental/psychological" condition(s).


He needs to be locked up in an institution, and the key thrown away, IMO.

[Kurovski]

16. Remember the teabaggers who said, had signs that read

Government Hands off my Socsec? Medicare? That's what I was thinking of.

[Kurovski]

13. A clip from the linked article:

"As a longtime "militia" organizer and Minuteman border patroller, he has advocated violence for many years without consequence. In a 2005 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Vanderboegh was identified as a hard-line nativist, obsessed with the notion of instigating a civil war in the United States."

[UTUSN]

15. K&R #14 nt