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Opponents of Obama fanning rightwing extremism
The rhetoric against US President Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms could be the spark that inflames conspiracy nuts into violence
Obama has been labeled as a threat to democracy and an anti-white racist by senior presenters on the TV channel Fox News. Republicans, seizing on the fierce debate over Obama’s plans to reform healthcare, have called him a socialist who plans “death panels” for the elderly. Rumors have circulated that Obama was not born in the US and that he plans to ban firearms.
Despite having no basis in fact, they have become widely believed. A recent poll in Virginia showed only 53 percent of voters believed Obama was born in the US. In neighboring North Carolina, 54 percent of voters shared that opinion.
Such extremism is becoming a major security issue, prompting fears of an attack on Obama’s life or some other incident of domestic terrorism.
“This is a very dangerous situation that can spin off ‘lone wolf’ individuals who decide now is the time to act against people they see as an enemy,” said Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates and author of a book on rightwing extremists.
Federal authorities have launched a program to try to detect any individuals who might be planning rightwing attacks similar to those that in recent months have killed a Kansas abortion doctor and a black security guard at Washington’s Holocaust Museum.
At the same time, the watchdog group the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has issued a report that warns of rising numbers of potentially violent rightwing militia groups. The number of hate groups has grown from 602 in 2000 to 926, the organization found. Its report quoted one senior federal law enforcement official, Bart McEntire, as saying: “This is the most significant growth we’ve seen in 10 to 12 years. All it’s lacking is a spark.”
Many experts believe that spark is no longer missing.
Originally posted by xmotex
You're assuming that 300 million people are all interested in joining a rightwing revolution..
Originally posted by Southern Guardian
Originally posted by xmotex
You're assuming that 300 million people are all interested in joining a rightwing revolution..
Well thats the point of them gatecrashing these town halls, to make as if they speak for all, but they dont. They talk of revolution when theirs is only limited to their personal beliefs, to their small towns, and yet everybody else you shut up and join in. Yes this sure is the voice of the "american people"