Why is the media is ignorning militia groups?

[Luddly Neddite]

Right-Wing Militias Are Thriving ? and the Media Won?t Talk About It | Alternet

July 22, 2014 |



Three months after the standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch, the Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a report—” War in the West: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right“—stating what should have been obvious at the time, but which most media coverage utterly obscured: The standoff was not some quirky, standalone event that spontaneously just happened out of the blue. Rather, it was a highly coordinated event reflecting the threat of a larger militia movement, which in turn has drawn together multiple threads of far-right ideology over the course of the last 40 years.

On the purely tactical level, the report notes that Bundy’s armed supporters had “overwhelming tactical superiority” due to their pre-positioning on the high ground above the confrontation—under the direction of a Montana militia member and Iraq War veteran—which is a primary reason why the Bureau of Land Management wisely withdrew. On a somewhat broader level, the report warns of the events’ ripple effect. “Just in the months since the Bundy ‘victory,’ tense standoffs between the BLM and antigovernment activists have taken place across the West — in Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.”

That’s in addition to the violent Las Vegas rampage of Bundy supporters Jerad and Amanda Miller, which left three innocents dead along with the two shooters. And it places these events in a larger context. First in the Obama era—“Since 2009, there have been 17 shooting incidents between antigovernment extremists and law enforcement”—but also beyond. It stretches as far back as the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s, but gaining much more organizational coherence with the confluence of the racist, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus, starting in the 1970s, and two more mainstream movements, “the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s and the Wise Use movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.”

“The Bundy ranch standoff wasn’t a spontaneous response to Cliven Bundy’s predicament but rather a well-organized, military-type action that reflects the potential for violence from a much larger and more dangerous movement,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow in the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, and lead author of the report, in a statement accompanying the report. “This incident may have faded from public view, but if our government doesn’t pay attention, we will be caught off guard as much as the Bureau of Land Management was that day.”

More at the link.

 

[Howey]

Right-Wing Militias Are Thriving ? and the Media Won?t Talk About It | Alternet

July 22, 2014 |



Three months after the standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch, the Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a report—” War in the West: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right“—stating what should have been obvious at the time, but which most media coverage utterly obscured: The standoff was not some quirky, standalone event that spontaneously just happened out of the blue. Rather, it was a highly coordinated event reflecting the threat of a larger militia movement, which in turn has drawn together multiple threads of far-right ideology over the course of the last 40 years.

On the purely tactical level, the report notes that Bundy’s armed supporters had “overwhelming tactical superiority” due to their pre-positioning on the high ground above the confrontation—under the direction of a Montana militia member and Iraq War veteran—which is a primary reason why the Bureau of Land Management wisely withdrew. On a somewhat broader level, the report warns of the events’ ripple effect. “Just in the months since the Bundy ‘victory,’ tense standoffs between the BLM and antigovernment activists have taken place across the West — in Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.”

That’s in addition to the violent Las Vegas rampage of Bundy supporters Jerad and Amanda Miller, which left three innocents dead along with the two shooters. And it places these events in a larger context. First in the Obama era—“Since 2009, there have been 17 shooting incidents between antigovernment extremists and law enforcement”—but also beyond. It stretches as far back as the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s, but gaining much more organizational coherence with the confluence of the racist, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus, starting in the 1970s, and two more mainstream movements, “the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s and the Wise Use movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.”

“The Bundy ranch standoff wasn’t a spontaneous response to Cliven Bundy’s predicament but rather a well-organized, military-type action that reflects the potential for violence from a much larger and more dangerous movement,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow in the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, and lead author of the report, in a statement accompanying the report. “This incident may have faded from public view, but if our government doesn’t pay attention, we will be caught off guard as much as the Bureau of Land Management was that day.”

More at the link.

They're inconsequential. The number less than 50 thousand nationwide, are mostly fat middle aged losers or disgruntled former military suffering with PTSD with no life and dreams of carrying a musket and killing dark skin people.

 

[Stephanie]

maybe because they aren't as relative as you all wail about

naaaa, can't be that...they need get onto stirring up the people...danger danger, we don't HAVE enough to worry over.... what the hell is wrong them

 

[Anathema]

Very simple..... Most media members ARE Liberal but AREN'T bulletproof.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Right-Wing Militias Are Thriving ? and the Media Won?t Talk About It | Alternet

July 22, 2014 |



Three months after the standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch, the Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a report—” War in the West: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right“—stating what should have been obvious at the time, but which most media coverage utterly obscured: The standoff was not some quirky, standalone event that spontaneously just happened out of the blue. Rather, it was a highly coordinated event reflecting the threat of a larger militia movement, which in turn has drawn together multiple threads of far-right ideology over the course of the last 40 years.

On the purely tactical level, the report notes that Bundy’s armed supporters had “overwhelming tactical superiority” due to their pre-positioning on the high ground above the confrontation—under the direction of a Montana militia member and Iraq War veteran—which is a primary reason why the Bureau of Land Management wisely withdrew. On a somewhat broader level, the report warns of the events’ ripple effect. “Just in the months since the Bundy ‘victory,’ tense standoffs between the BLM and antigovernment activists have taken place across the West — in Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.”

That’s in addition to the violent Las Vegas rampage of Bundy supporters Jerad and Amanda Miller, which left three innocents dead along with the two shooters. And it places these events in a larger context. First in the Obama era—“Since 2009, there have been 17 shooting incidents between antigovernment extremists and law enforcement”—but also beyond. It stretches as far back as the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s, but gaining much more organizational coherence with the confluence of the racist, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus, starting in the 1970s, and two more mainstream movements, “the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s and the Wise Use movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.”

“The Bundy ranch standoff wasn’t a spontaneous response to Cliven Bundy’s predicament but rather a well-organized, military-type action that reflects the potential for violence from a much larger and more dangerous movement,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow in the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, and lead author of the report, in a statement accompanying the report. “This incident may have faded from public view, but if our government doesn’t pay attention, we will be caught off guard as much as the Bureau of Land Management was that day.”

More at the link.

They're inconsequential. The number less than 50 thousand nationwide, are mostly fat middle aged losers or disgruntled former military suffering with PTSD with no life and dreams of carrying a musket and killing dark skin people.

That has been my opinion as well - a very small minority of malcontents who don't want to abide by the laws the rest of us do.

 

[shart_attack]

Right-Wing Militias Are Thriving ? and the Media Won?t Talk About It | Alternet

July 22, 2014 |

Three months after the standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch, the Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a report—” War in the West: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right“—stating what should have been obvious at the time, but which most media coverage utterly obscured: The standoff was not some quirky, standalone event that spontaneously just happened out of the blue. Rather, it was a highly coordinated event reflecting the threat of a larger militia movement, which in turn has drawn together multiple threads of far-right ideology over the course of the last 40 years.

On the purely tactical level, the report notes that Bundy’s armed supporters had “overwhelming tactical superiority” due to their pre-positioning on the high ground above the confrontation—under the direction of a Montana militia member and Iraq War veteran—which is a primary reason why the Bureau of Land Management wisely withdrew. On a somewhat broader level, the report warns of the events’ ripple effect. “Just in the months since the Bundy ‘victory,’ tense standoffs between the BLM and antigovernment activists have taken place across the West — in Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.”

That’s in addition to the violent Las Vegas rampage of Bundy supporters Jerad and Amanda Miller, which left three innocents dead along with the two shooters. And it places these events in a larger context. First in the Obama era—“Since 2009, there have been 17 shooting incidents between antigovernment extremists and law enforcement”—but also beyond. It stretches as far back as the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s, but gaining much more organizational coherence with the confluence of the racist, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus, starting in the 1970s, and two more mainstream movements, “the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s and the Wise Use movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.”

“The Bundy ranch standoff wasn’t a spontaneous response to Cliven Bundy’s predicament but rather a well-organized, military-type action that reflects the potential for violence from a much larger and more dangerous movement,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow in the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, and lead author of the report, in a statement accompanying the report. “This incident may have faded from public view, but if our government doesn’t pay attention, we will be caught off guard as much as the Bureau of Land Management was that day.”

More at the link.

Because the media, your boy Obama and garrulous social agitators like yourself are the primary reason militia groups are making a fierce comeback, dumbass.

You want them to go away?

Stop exacerbating social cleavages with your virulently acerbic tongue and shut the fuck up, bitch.

 

[WheelieAddict]

I guarantee you the NSA isn't.

 

[Asclepias]

Because most of them are relegated to posting on message boards. I have been threatened with several predictions of the coming race war. The latest one was supposed to be last month but was stopped by logistics. They ran out of heart.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Ah, is we all skeered of Militia groups now? Someone needs a nap.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Right-Wing Militias Are Thriving ? and the Media Won?t Talk About It | Alternet

July 22, 2014 |



Three months after the standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch, the Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a report—” War in the West: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right“—stating what should have been obvious at the time, but which most media coverage utterly obscured: The standoff was not some quirky, standalone event that spontaneously just happened out of the blue. Rather, it was a highly coordinated event reflecting the threat of a larger militia movement, which in turn has drawn together multiple threads of far-right ideology over the course of the last 40 years.

On the purely tactical level, the report notes that Bundy’s armed supporters had “overwhelming tactical superiority” due to their pre-positioning on the high ground above the confrontation—under the direction of a Montana militia member and Iraq War veteran—which is a primary reason why the Bureau of Land Management wisely withdrew. On a somewhat broader level, the report warns of the events’ ripple effect. “Just in the months since the Bundy ‘victory,’ tense standoffs between the BLM and antigovernment activists have taken place across the West — in Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.”

That’s in addition to the violent Las Vegas rampage of Bundy supporters Jerad and Amanda Miller, which left three innocents dead along with the two shooters. And it places these events in a larger context. First in the Obama era—“Since 2009, there have been 17 shooting incidents between antigovernment extremists and law enforcement”—but also beyond. It stretches as far back as the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s, but gaining much more organizational coherence with the confluence of the racist, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus, starting in the 1970s, and two more mainstream movements, “the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s and the Wise Use movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.”

“The Bundy ranch standoff wasn’t a spontaneous response to Cliven Bundy’s predicament but rather a well-organized, military-type action that reflects the potential for violence from a much larger and more dangerous movement,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow in the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, and lead author of the report, in a statement accompanying the report. “This incident may have faded from public view, but if our government doesn’t pay attention, we will be caught off guard as much as the Bureau of Land Management was that day.”

More at the link.

They're inconsequential. The number less than 50 thousand nationwide, are mostly fat middle aged losers or disgruntled former military suffering with PTSD with no life and dreams of carrying a musket and killing dark skin people.

Ah yes, the fag pulls out the race card.

If you haven't noticed, dark skinned people are the only people that your government murders but I don't see you complaining about that. As a matter of fact, the militarized police force in this country is far more worrisome for brown people than a militia you driveling retard.

 

[JFK_USA]

Because most of them are relegated to posting on message boards. I have been threatened with several predictions of the coming race war. The latest one was supposed to be last month but was stopped by logistics. They ran out of heart.

Hahaha

My biggest concern with these militia groups is if they get organize and take over a sizable town (the one in North Dakota doesn't count), what will the US military response be?

 

[R.C. Christian]

There is no reason for them to take over a town. That's complete fantasy.

 

[guno]

Right-Wing Militias Are Thriving ? and the Media Won?t Talk About It | Alternet

July 22, 2014 |



Three months after the standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch, the Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a report—” War in the West: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right“—stating what should have been obvious at the time, but which most media coverage utterly obscured: The standoff was not some quirky, standalone event that spontaneously just happened out of the blue. Rather, it was a highly coordinated event reflecting the threat of a larger militia movement, which in turn has drawn together multiple threads of far-right ideology over the course of the last 40 years.

On the purely tactical level, the report notes that Bundy’s armed supporters had “overwhelming tactical superiority” due to their pre-positioning on the high ground above the confrontation—under the direction of a Montana militia member and Iraq War veteran—which is a primary reason why the Bureau of Land Management wisely withdrew. On a somewhat broader level, the report warns of the events’ ripple effect. “Just in the months since the Bundy ‘victory,’ tense standoffs between the BLM and antigovernment activists have taken place across the West — in Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.”

That’s in addition to the violent Las Vegas rampage of Bundy supporters Jerad and Amanda Miller, which left three innocents dead along with the two shooters. And it places these events in a larger context. First in the Obama era—“Since 2009, there have been 17 shooting incidents between antigovernment extremists and law enforcement”—but also beyond. It stretches as far back as the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s, but gaining much more organizational coherence with the confluence of the racist, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus, starting in the 1970s, and two more mainstream movements, “the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s and the Wise Use movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.”

“The Bundy ranch standoff wasn’t a spontaneous response to Cliven Bundy’s predicament but rather a well-organized, military-type action that reflects the potential for violence from a much larger and more dangerous movement,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow in the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, and lead author of the report, in a statement accompanying the report. “This incident may have faded from public view, but if our government doesn’t pay attention, we will be caught off guard as much as the Bureau of Land Management was that day.”

More at the link.

During the 90's when Clinton was in office these rightwing bible/gun clutching doinks came out of the woodwork then when bush the lesser was but into office these knuckle dragging white trash doinks disappeared , Then a Black man was elected twice and the subhumanoids came out of the wood work in massive force. Couple that where these vermin KNOW they are being marginalized with the steam engine of the demographic shift. The media is corporate controlled and have NO interest in showing the world and nation what these cretins are doing as they use them as willing dupetards

 

[Asclepias]

Because most of them are relegated to posting on message boards. I have been threatened with several predictions of the coming race war. The latest one was supposed to be last month but was stopped by logistics. They ran out of heart.

Hahaha

My biggest concern with these militia groups is if they get organize and take over a sizable town (the one in North Dakota doesn't count), what will the US military response be?

You cant use the military on domestic soil except the national guard. It would be the FBI. Not much they can do unless they break some laws. Playing grab ass with each other is still legal.

 

[guno]

Because most of them are relegated to posting on message boards. I have been threatened with several predictions of the coming race war. The latest one was supposed to be last month but was stopped by logistics. They ran out of heart.

Didn't these mouth breathers try it last spring

http://www.usmessageboard.com/current-events/334688-operation-american-spring.html

 

[WinterBorn]

Because most of them are relegated to posting on message boards. I have been threatened with several predictions of the coming race war. The latest one was supposed to be last month but was stopped by logistics. They ran out of heart.

Didn't these mouth breathers try it last spring

http://www.usmessageboard.com/current-events/334688-operation-american-spring.html

LMAO!!! The build up and hype was wonderful. The actual event was even funnier.

 

[Peach]

Because most of them are relegated to posting on message boards. I have been threatened with several predictions of the coming race war. The latest one was supposed to be last month but was stopped by logistics. They ran out of heart.

Didn't these mouth breathers try it last spring

http://www.usmessageboard.com/current-events/334688-operation-american-spring.html

LMAO!!! The build up and hype was wonderful. The actual event was even funnier.

The revolution was not televised.

 

[DriftingSand]

Right-Wing Militias Are Thriving ? and the Media Won?t Talk About It | Alternet

July 22, 2014 |



Three months after the standoff at the Cliven Bundy ranch, the Southern Poverty Law Center has issued a report—” War in the West: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right“—stating what should have been obvious at the time, but which most media coverage utterly obscured: The standoff was not some quirky, standalone event that spontaneously just happened out of the blue. Rather, it was a highly coordinated event reflecting the threat of a larger militia movement, which in turn has drawn together multiple threads of far-right ideology over the course of the last 40 years.

On the purely tactical level, the report notes that Bundy’s armed supporters had “overwhelming tactical superiority” due to their pre-positioning on the high ground above the confrontation—under the direction of a Montana militia member and Iraq War veteran—which is a primary reason why the Bureau of Land Management wisely withdrew. On a somewhat broader level, the report warns of the events’ ripple effect. “Just in the months since the Bundy ‘victory,’ tense standoffs between the BLM and antigovernment activists have taken place across the West — in Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.”

That’s in addition to the violent Las Vegas rampage of Bundy supporters Jerad and Amanda Miller, which left three innocents dead along with the two shooters. And it places these events in a larger context. First in the Obama era—“Since 2009, there have been 17 shooting incidents between antigovernment extremists and law enforcement”—but also beyond. It stretches as far back as the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s, but gaining much more organizational coherence with the confluence of the racist, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus, starting in the 1970s, and two more mainstream movements, “the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s and the Wise Use movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.”

“The Bundy ranch standoff wasn’t a spontaneous response to Cliven Bundy’s predicament but rather a well-organized, military-type action that reflects the potential for violence from a much larger and more dangerous movement,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow in the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, and lead author of the report, in a statement accompanying the report. “This incident may have faded from public view, but if our government doesn’t pay attention, we will be caught off guard as much as the Bureau of Land Management was that day.”

More at the link.

They're inconsequential. The number less than 50 thousand nationwide, are mostly fat middle aged losers or disgruntled former military suffering with PTSD with no life and dreams of carrying a musket and killing dark skin people.

Gideon only needed 300 to annihilate the entire Midianite army (with God's help):

Judges 6-7:25

Also, there were enough American militiamen during WWII to deter the Japanese from invading mainland America.

By the way ... the militiamen I know range from their 20s to their 50s and are in good, physical condition. Better yet, their aim is true.

 

[Missourian]

I suspect the media ignores them because they fear the publicity would spur an increase in membership.

The last thing anyone wants is another Oklahoma City.

 

[9thIDdoc]

Some folks need a reality break. Militias and rebellion (actual or potential) are as much an American tradition as apple pie. Where else did America and American liberties come from? How about Texas? The Battle of New Orleans? The CSA?

Americans love freedom and hate tyranny. If you don't consider that a good thing maybe you're part of the problem.