Right Wing Terrorists and the Talking Heads Who Egg Them On

(If you don't want to plow through this whole post, just read this from the U.K. paper The Guardian. It's a great analysis of these developments.)

Funny how "law and order" right wingers abandon regard for the law or even the U.S.A itself when they lose an election.

Let's review:
There's James G. Cummings

BELFAST, Maine — James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building a “dirty bomb.”

Dirty Bomb? That's huge news! A terrorist in our midst! Do you remember when this was all over the news? No? That's because it wasn't.

Wonder what James' problem was...

The FBI report also stated there was evidence linking James Cummings to white supremacist groups. This would seem to confirm observations by local tradesmen who worked at the Cummings home that he was an ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler and had a collection of Nazi memora...She also said that Cummings was “very upset” when Barack Obama was elected president.

Then there's Richard Andrew Poplawski:

No longer obscure, the 22-year-old is charged in the worst police shooting in the modern history of Pittsburgh. No one is calling his actions anything but pointless.

"He was really into politics and really into the First and Second amendment. One thing he feared was he feared the gun ban because he thought that was going to take away peoples' right to defend themselves. He never spoke of going out to murder or to kill," said Edward Perkovic, who described himself as Mr. Poplawski's lifelong best friend.

Mr. Poplawski's view of guns and personal freedom took a turn toward the fringes of American politics. With Mr. Perkovic, he appeared to share a belief that the government was controlled from unseen forces, that troops were being shipped home from the Mideast to police the citizenry here, and that Jews secretly ran the country.

"We recently discovered that 30 states had declared sovereignty," said Mr. Perkovic, who lives in Lawrenceville. "One of his concerns was why were these major events in America not being reported to the public."

Believing most media were covering up important events, Mr. Poplawski turned to a far-right conspiracy Web site run by Alex Jones, a self-described documentarian with roots going back to the extremist militia movement of the early 1990s.

Yeah? What else?

With Obama's election, Poplawski became convinced that there would be "federal gun bans on the way" and that the people would be rendered defenseless in the face of a police state in which the military would be used against American citizens....Once more, wild speculations about SHTF ("s--t hits the fan") and TEOTWAKI ("the end of the world as we know it") scenarios became rampant.

Poplawski bought into the SHTF/TEOTWAKI conspiracy theories hook, line and sinker, even posting a link to Stormfront of a YouTube video featuring talk show host Glenn Beck talking about FEMA camps with Congressman Ron Paul. When the city of Pittsburgh got a Homeland Security grant to add surveillance cameras to protect downtown bridges, Poplawski told Stormfronters that it was "ramping up the police state." He said, too, that he gave warnings to grocery store customers he encountered (but only if they were white) to stock up on canned goods and other long-lasting foods.

Then there's Scott Roeder - a man who killed a doctor in his church on a Sunday.

The man charged with murdering a high-profile abortion doctor claimed from his jail cell Sunday that similar violence was planned around the nation for as long as the procedure remained legal, a threat that comes days after a federal investigation launched into his possible accomplices.

Possible accomplices?

Now the news is coming out: murder suspect Scott Roeder’s contacts with Operation Rescue adviser Cheryl Sullenger (convicted of conspiracy to bomb an abortion clinic in 1988) were much more frequent than she first acknowledged. Apparently, Roeder was in touch with her as recently as the beginning of this year, when Sullenger was helping him to track Dr. Tiller’s court appearances.

Most recently, the Holocaust Museum killer:

Giving some insight into what might have driven Von Brunn to allegedly take action at the museum, acquaintance and white supremacist John de Nugent cited, as one factor, the election of President Barack Obama as a "tremendous signal of alarm" for Von Brunn. Rage among white supremacists has escalated considerably, as they view the election of a black man as a sign that white people are losing power.

So, we have a bunch of violent people who believe that Obama will take away their property and power. They also appear to think that the political or legal actions will not solve their urgent need to "stop" those with whom they disagree. And for every one who acts, how many are plotting to act?

Cowart told the FBI that Schlesselman had also talked about targeting a predominantly black school and killing "as many as he could". But it was what Cowart said next that made the feds sit up. The two men planned to culminate the killing spree with a last dramatic act: they would dress up in white tuxedos and top hats, then drive at high speed, with guns blazing, towards an individual then very much in the news. "The final thing we had discussed," he said, "was trying to assassinate Obama. We did not plan on living past that day."

Threatening to act?

Federal prosecutors have charged a man with making threats against President Barack Obama after he allegedly told a bank employee in Utah he was on a mission to kill the president.

You have all these weak minded individuals who believe that Obama is going to take their guns, their money and their power. Who could be (profiting from) giving them that idea?



Hell, the results are even scaring an anchor at Fox...

Meanwhile, you can get the image at the top of this post on a t-shirt at Cafe Press.

Unbelievable.