[lbo-talk] Rise of Nasty Right

[Sheldon]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:22 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
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> oh and before I forget, I saw reference to this buzz yesterday, while
> glancing at the computer screen of the guy at the cewb across the
> aisle. Article about DHS's fear of the scary rightwing fringe. I
> thought at the time that, wow, just some more DHS propaganda intended
> to stir up phear! Why the hell are we taking this shit seriously at
> all? it's not like these wankers haven't been around for awhile:
> rightwing militia, etc. etc.
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> shag
???
Lets try free association:
90s Democratic president, conspriracy theories, militias, Timothy
McVeigh gulf war veteran blows up Federal building, "they're coming to
take our guns away",
Now, lots of conspiracy theories, Black "socialist" president,
"they're coming to take our guns away" rhetoric is rampant etc.

Even the mainstream conservative movement is becoming unhinged.
Perhaps DHS has been collecting alot of data on extreme right chatter?

 Sure they have been around for awhile, but they seem to percieve a
massive shift to the left and have rather extreme reactions when
politics shifts slightly to the center.  I would not be surprised at
all if we see some major incident of home grown right-wing terrorism
happening in the next couple years.  We'll see.