Friday, August 05, 2011

The Right Wing is apoplectic at being accused of inspiring terrorism. I guess all of these people came up with the idea on their own.

Photo courtesy of the Red Phoenix
All of these incidents were compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

January 21, 2009
On the day after Barack Obama is inaugurated as the nation’s first black president, Keith Luke of Brockton, Mass., is arrested after allegedly shooting three black immigrants from Cape Verde, killing two of them, as part of a racially motivated killing spree. The two murders are apparently only part of Luke’s plan to kill black, Latino and Jewish people. After being captured by police, he reportedly says he planned to go to an Orthodox synagogue near his home that night and “kill as many Jews as possible.” Police say Luke, a white man who apparently had no contact with white supremacists but spent the previous six months reading racist websites, told them he was “fighting for a dying race.” Luke also says he formed his racist views in large part after watching videos on Podblanc, a racist video-sharing website run by longtime white supremacist Craig Cobb. When he later appears in court for a hearing, Luke, charged with murder, kidnapping and aggravated rape, has etched a swastika into his own forehead, apparently using a jail razor.

May 31, 2009
Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion extremist who was involved with the antigovernment “freemen” movement in the 1990s, allegedly shoots to death Kansas late-term abortion provider George Tiller as the doctor is serving as an usher in his Wichita church. Adherents of “freemen” ideology claim they are “sovereign citizens” not subject to federal and other laws, and often form their own “common law” courts and issue their own license plates. It was one of those homemade plates that led Topeka police to stop Roeder in April 1996, when a search of his trunk revealed a pound of gunpowder, a 9-volt battery wired to a switch, blasting caps and ammunition. A prosecutor in that case called Roeder a “substantial threat to public safety,” citing Roeder’s refusal to acknowledge the court’s authority. But his conviction in the 1996 case is ultimately overturned. In the more recent case, Roeder is charged with murder and faces life in prison.

Feb. 18, 2010
Joseph Andrew Stack, who had earlier attended meetings of radical anti-tax groups in California, sets fire to his own house and then flies his single-engine plane into an Austin, Texas, building housing IRS offices. Stack and an IRS manager are killed, and 13 others are injured. Stack leaves a long online rant about the IRS and the tax code, politicians and corporations.

March 27-28, 2010
Nine members of the Hutaree Militia are arrested in raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana and charged with seditious conspiracy and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction. The group, whose website said it was preparing for the imminent arrival of the anti-Christ, allegedly planned to murder a Michigan police officer, then use bombs and homemade missiles to kill other officers attending the funeral, all in a bid to set off a war with the government.

April 30, 2010
Darren Huff, an Oath Keeper from Georgia, is arrested and charged with planning the armed takeover of a Madisonville, Tenn., courthouse and “arrest” of 24 local, state and federal officials. Authorities say Duff was angry about the April 1 arrest there of Walter Francis Fitzpatrick III, a leader of the far-right American Grand Jury movement that seeks to have grand juries indict President Obama for treason. Several others in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement accuse Duff of white supremacist and anti-Semitic attitudes in Internet postings.

May 10, 2010
Sandlin Matthew Smith detonates a pipe bomb at a rear entrance to a mosque in Jacksonville, Fla., while worshippers are inside. Armed only with a fuzzy videotape, authorities only identify Smith, based on talking to witnesses to whom he admits the attack, a year later. They track Smith, a bus driver from Julington Creek, Fla., to a campsite near Fairview, Okla., where he resists arrest with a gun and is killed. A search of Smith’s two homes turns up explosive materials.

June 8, 2010
A bomb packed into a soda can is planted outside Osage Baptist Church in Carroll City, Ark., where a polling station for a Democratic Senate primary runoff between Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter is located. The device does not explode, although authorities say it was capable of causing death or serious bodily injury. Officials later receive a tip from contractors who hired to clean out the foreclosed home of self-described “Patriot” Mark Krause, where they find bomb-making materials, manuals, and materials related to antigovernment militias. Krause, who earlier posted antigovernment messages to MySpace, eventually is arrested in Seattle.

July 18, 2010
An unemployed parolee with two bank robbery convictions, apparently enraged at liberals and what he sees as the “left-wing agenda” of Congress, allegedly opens fire on California Highway Patrol troopers who pull him over in Oakland. No one is killed, but two troopers are slightly injured and Byron Williams is shot in the arms and legs. Williams allegedly later tells authorities that he was on his way to attack offices of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Tides Foundation, a liberal organization that, although little known to most Americans, has been repeatedly pilloried on air by Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Sept. 2, 2010
A pipe bomb is thrown through the window of a closed Planned Parenthood clinic in Madera, Calif., along with a note that reads, “Murder our children? We have a ‘choice’ too.” The note is signed ANB, apparently short for the American Nationalist Brotherhood. Six months later, law enforcement officials arrest school bus driver Donny Eugene Mower, who allegedly also threatened a local Islamic Center and has the word “Peckerwood,” a reference to a white supremacist gang, tattooed on his chest. Mower reportedly confesses to the attack.

Sept. 7, 2010
The FBI arrests 26-year-old Justin Carl Moose, a self-described “freedom fighter” and “Christian counterpart to Osama bin Laden,” for allegedly planning to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. After earlier receiving tips that Moose was posting threats of violence against abortion providers and information about explosives on his Facebook page, the FBI set up a sting operation to capture him. Moose later pleads guilty to distributing information on manufacturing and use of an explosive and is sentenced to 30 months in prison.

Jan. 14, 2011
Federal agents in Arizona arrest Jeffery Harbin, a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement, for allegedly building homemade grenades and pipe bombs that he apparently intended to supply to anti-immigration groups patrolling the Mexican border. A prosecutor says that Harbin constructed the devices, using model rocket engines and aluminum power, “in such a way as to maximize human carnage.” Harbin is indicted on two counts of possessing a destructive device and a third of transporting destructive devices. Jeffery Harbin is the son of Jerry Harbin, a Phoenix-area activist with past ties to the neo-Nazi National Alliance and the racist Council of Conservative Citizens.

Jan. 17, 2011
Bomb technicians defuse a sophisticated improvised explosive device (IED) found in a backpack along the Spokane, Wash., route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade with 1,500 marchers. Using forensic clues found in the dismantled bomb, officials about two months later identify and arrest Kevin William Harpham, a long-time neo-Nazi. Harpham had posted more than 1,000 messages to the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network since 2004, when he was a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Harpham also had contributed to the white supremacist Aryan Alternative newspaper. He is indicted on one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of possessing an IED. Later, federal hate crime charges are added.

We could have course quibble at a few of the incidents listed above as to whether the individuals were inspired by the "Right Wing" as most of us understand it, or more fringe elements, but we do have to admit it is a chilling list to see all put together like this.

I would also like to add our own Alaska grown terrorist Schaeffer Cox to the list as well. just to round it out.

These are just the incidents that have taken place since Barack Obama became President. You can see a much more comprehensive list over at Addicting Info.

29 comments:

  1. Sally in MI3:32 AM

    Bless you, Gryph,. I got into this on another site with a 'bot, and he accused me of being stupid. "The only incident with a gun was a black guy who was a plant from the left, remember?" he whined. I knew there were many, many times and they were no plants from the left, but I also knew he would never admit it, so I didn't follow up.

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  2. Anonymous3:34 AM

    People need to know that they are in danger of being hurt or killed by these nutcases. The media, by ignoring the plain truth of this building menace, is almost as complicit.

    By the way, the rightwing is a danger across the world. It is rightwing Islamic fanatics who murder their own people in the Middle East, and one of Qaddafi's sons just stated that he will be forging an alliance with the extreme rightwing Islamics to "kill the liberals." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/saif-gaddafi_n_918093.html

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  3. Sally in MI3:36 AM

    The 'dying race' comment is chilling...some Congressman said the same thing this week when HHS directed that contraception be free under the Health Care Act. Wonder if he keeps a gun in his desk.

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  4. Sally in MI3:37 AM

    Sure am glad that no one on the right is racist or uses guns for anything other than hunting.

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  5. Anonymous3:40 AM

    Pretty simple actually...you're Americans.

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  6. Anonymous3:51 AM

    I worry about how many more there will be with the increased number of home schoolers being drenched in artificial history, religious dogma, and emotional "patriotism."

    What will happen when we elect more women, more Hispanics, or even Asian-Americans? Is it only black people that triggers racism? I think not.

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  7. Olivia4:02 AM

    Every Republican I know, including people with views just like the ones you mention, will say that these criminals aren't Republican or aren't Christian or aren't conservative or aren't (insert whatever they think they are here).They see the evidence and completely ignore it. Taking responsibility for your words and actions isn't a conservative trait. Apparently recognizing cause and effect is also a foreign concept to them. The most ridiculous meme that they have tried to promote is that Fascism and Naziism are on the left of the political spectrum and not the right. It really shows how uneducated and gullible we have become.

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  8. angela4:12 AM

    Remember how FAUX jumped on the case when a New Black Panther Party member stood in front of a polling place? Of course everyone ignored him and voted.

    They beat that incident like a dead horse for months. As far as they were concerned this was one of the worst cases of terrorism and intimidation (of white people) they had ever run across. Even though absolutely no voters complained about it. If it hadn't been so pitiful it would have been laughable.

    The conservative assholes need to suck it up and live with it. They are the ones culling the terrorists in this country. Beck, O'Reilly and Palin are personally responsible for a lot of terroristic threats being visited upon people and death in this country—they need to live with that too.

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  9. “fighting for a dying race.” WTF? there are 308 million people here in the US and approx 39 million blacks which make up only 12% of the population. Whites make up over 67% of the US population. that's just the US alone. Why do idiots carry guns?

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  10. Anonymous5:28 AM

    We should be concerned about the "changes to History",..."re-writing of school books", etc. They easiest way to conquer a people is to "educate" their young in your chosen philosophy. The prime example are the "Indian" schools that forced many Native Americans to be "re-educated". Private/Charter schools are being touted as "the best" for a reason,....you can control the curriculum. Something it's harder to do in a "Public" School.

    This has been in the works since the GOP "went South" in the 60's. When Obama was elected President,...it really sent them over the edge. They just can't stand the fact that there is a Black Man in the White House !

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  11. Beldar AK47 Conehead5:41 AM

    Gryphen, would it be tacky for someone to point out that the gentleman on the left appears to be... arousing himself with the grip of his assault rifle?

    Here's a t-baggin' fun fact: that particular firearm, I believe, is called "The Compensator 101mm" and it's apparently marketed to men of "modest or below average dimensions". At one time, if I recall correctly, their slogan was "When you just don't measure up, strap on a Compensator!"

    I'm sure their sales firmed up significantly when sane America elected a black man as our president.

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  12. PollyinAK5:45 AM

    ugh...atrocious stuff here...i don't have much money, but chose three organizations to donate small annual donations to as my civic contribution and for my peace of mind for the future generations: National Wildlife Federation, my local library, and Southern Poverty Law Center.

    what would our country be like w/o SPLC?

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  13. Anonymous5:49 AM

    And do we see Obama palling around with any of these guys?

    Any kind of perhaps, notion, of association to be called out on our half-black Barack Hussein Obama whose father was from the country of Africa?

    No, but we see Sarah taping supportive and encouraging messages to a secessionist group as a sitting Governor, keeping John Birch Society propaganda on her desk, and supporting a paranoid militia-man wanna-be with an armed goon squad, as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Joe Miller.

    We're only holding you to your repeated call that we can't reward people for bad behavior Sarah.

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  14. Anonymous5:55 AM

    I'm sending a donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center today!

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  15. I support the splc also. They are our watchdog against so much of this and they have spent a fortune, without help from our government, protecting us in court.

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  16. Anonymous6:08 AM

    Why is it it's always MEN who are trying to bomb abortion clinics? If they don't like abortions then their wives/girlfriends don't have to have an abortion or they can keep their little peckers in their pants! That's why it's called choice, dumbasses!!
    White bus drivers(a common thread in two of these cases) are ANGRY!

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  17. Anonymous6:11 AM

    Right-wing extremists would like everyone to believe that they are only countering the unbelievably high number of "left-wing extremists".

    But I've got news for them, if they knew anything about most people on the left, then they'd know that most of us live by the mantra of "Live and let live". We are usually more patriotic (don't usually see us "palling around with terrorists" or behaving like one using "2nd amendment remedies"), and more Christian (even though most of us don't shout it from the rooftops, or even claim to be Christian, just being the way we are is behaving in a more Christ-like way than they can ever imagine), you know all those things that they claim they are, and we're not. Here's one that they can claim all on their own: HYPOCRITES! And that one suits them perfectly. And I can't remember the last time a "left-wing extremist" threatened anyone on their side.

    This is a cultural war, a war on Americans' civil liberties, and yes, they are the American equivalent of the Taliban, and they are terrorists. I love this country, and they are hell-bent on destroying it, all for their own satisfaction of saying Obama destroyed it. Fucking disgusting. Even more disgusting that Sarah Palin and the Teabots get the airtime they do to spew their vile hate-filled venom. Got to love their perversion of our democracy.

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  18. Anonymous6:16 AM

    Glen Beck says violence will be coming from the left.I guess this post proves the asshole wrong yet again.How does it feel to constantly be on the wrong side of history Becky boy?

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  19. Anonymous6:27 AM

    You left out the only one that really matters: Bill Ayers.

    /snark

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  20. Anonymous6:32 AM

    Remember, Sarah Palin's choice for Alaska's senator was a goon who had a journalist handcuffed and detained, who showed up in parades in a militant looking black Humvee, and whose armed supporters followed close behind. And Palin herself subjects people to metal detector and body searches before they can hear her speak.

    Anyone remember the first thing Napoleon the pig did in the book Animal Farm when he seized power? Armed himself with menacing security dogs.

    Take the hint.

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  21. Anonymous6:36 AM

    These bunch of losers believe if it weren't for all the African-Americans, Jews, Hispanics, Muslims, etc. they would be rich, intelligent, successful men. Rrrright.

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  22. Anonymous6:40 AM

    Oh come on Gryph, you know these are just many, many, many completely unrelated lone wackos with no political or religious affiliations.

    Can we please get back to talking about REAL issues like the insidious Muslin terror invasion and how Sharia law is infiltrating the Constitution?

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  23. Anonymous8:33 AM

    The GOP Has Become A Front Group For Tea Party Economic Terrorism

    Americans are in a war for survival and the enemy is within the federal government and several Republican controlled states. If any American wants to see what this country will look like if Republicans get their way, they only need to look at what the GOP are doing in Florida, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio where public entities are being destroyed to take taxpayer dollars and hand them to corporations and the wealthy. If that appeals to any American, then they are conservatives and are an enemy of the state and that includes the media for subsidizing the conservatives’ plans by failing to report the GOP’s malfeasance. If this is frightening, it should be because America will not withstand another assault from the terrorist teabaggers, Republicans, and every conservative think tank that are culpable as enemies of America...

    http://www.politicususa.com/
    en/gop-economic-terrorism

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  24. Another recent example is that a republican congressman just apologized for a racial slur toward the President.

    http://www.wxii12.com/r/28739845/detail.html

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  25. JayKen Bake1:22 PM

    Hi Sarah!

    Quick Question.

    What ever happened to Ruffles?

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  26. Anonymous1:37 PM

    FYI Addicting Info is a content stealer and aggregator. You shouldn't link to them!

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  27. Punkinbugg1:42 PM

    Notice that the only domestic terrorist ever mentioned by the Right is the Ft. Hood shooter.

    Oh and that Muslim serviceman who went AWOL and was found near Ft. Hood w/bomb making materials.

    Because you know - those guys are obeying their religious beliefs.

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  28. Anonymous3:44 PM

    If it quacks like a duck...

    M from MD

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  29. Anonymous8:29 PM

    The Right Wing doth project too much.
    The SPLC and ACLU are two of my favorite organizations. I'll never forget the chilling documentary narrated by Rachel Maddow on the Tiller killing.

    What disgusts me most is how cowardly all these hate filled people are. Seeing this list makes my skin crawl. What gives me hope is as much as it seems there's no end to the bad in people, the good in people has no end and rarely gets air time. I know it's a warped way of sootheing my mind, but I have to believe that all people are intrisically good, until the radical right wing infects their cerebral cortexes and wipes all traces of consience with their volatile world view mixed with religion and hate speech.
    Rick Perry, for example, is taking the same fasting used by Ghandi and peace protesters, adding it to a 72 hour christian only prayer fest in the hopes that God will show people the way and convince Perry that running is the best thing to do.

    Twisted crew of fools!

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