This Week In Right WIng CrazyLand

 

By Jeff Simpson

*  We arrested an Anti-American terrorist, thus making our country much safer and IT DIDNT MAKE NEWS!  

But Robert James Talbot, Jr. gets arrested for terrorism and I don’t see a thing about it until days later, until this weekend when I happened upon this article from the Southern Poverty Law Center. So weird! In fact, most of the other articles I’ve been able to find are from local Texas news sources. Very few national outlets have even bothered with the story.
Talbot is a white, radical right-wing conservative who was arrested by the FBI on charges of “attempted interference with commerce by robbery, solicitation to commit a crime of violence and possession of an explosive material.”
He set up a Facebook page, “American Insurgent Movement” in order to recruit five or six like-minded folks for what he called a “a Pre-Constitutionalist Community that offers those who seek True patriotism and are looking for absolute Freedom by doing the Will of God. Who want to restore America Pre- Constitutionally and look forward to stopping the Regime with action by bloodshed.” People, whom he said, must be willing to walk away from their lives to “stop the regime.” His plan was to rob banks to fund his revolution, and then also blow up mosques. He claimed to have already cased several Bank of Americas.

 

A right wing terrorist is arrested and the people who whined when the Southern Poverty Law Ceneter pointed out that these people are terrorists, have remained incredibly quiet! 

*   National republicans still holding firm against actually helping Americans by refusing to extend unemployment benefits!

Cantor was asked directly on the House floor by Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) whether Senate action on its bill next week might prompt the House to act. Cantor did not explicitly say yes or no, but strongly indicated Republicans would not consider it. .

"It doesn't create any jobs, and right now we are in the business of trying to see how we can get people back to work, for an America that works for more people," he said.

 Apparently the law of Supply and Demand does not exist in right wing world.  Besides the 2.2 million Americans who are hurting and desperate because of this should just be more like Robert Marcus!  

Robert D. Marcus, the chief executive of Time Warner Cable, is set to receive an $80 million payout if the company goes through with its planned acquisition by Comcast, the company said in a regulatory filing Thursday.

Comcast announced the deal six weeks after Marcus took over as CEO, meaning he will receive more than $2 million per day for his time as CEO prior to the deal. That is the equivalent of receiving $1,300 per minute during that period.
 
Other Time Warner executives are on track to receive large payouts if the merger goes through. Time Warner Cable's chief financial officer will receive $27 million, Michael L. LaJoie, the company's Chief Technology Officer, will get $16.3 million, and Philip G. Meeks, the company's COO, will receive $11.7 million.

The record for a “golden parachute” payout is currently held by former General Electric CEO John Welch, who got $417 million when he left the company. Other executives who received notable “golden parachute” payouts include former Exxon Mobil head Lee R. Raymond, who got $321 million when he left the company in 2005, and William McGuire, who got $286 million when he left UnitedHealth Group eight years ago.

*  If people in Wisconsin are not making money, how will we keep paying Leah Vukmir's legal bills?

  Taxpayers are paying $15,000 in attorneys fees and damages and state Sen. Leah Vukmir is turning over documents to a liberal group as part of a settlement over a lawsuit under the state's open records law.
The case deals in part with official records on Vukmir's personal email account. The settlement avoids a showdown over when legislators are immune from open records lawsuits.
The documents stem from Vukmir's involvement with the American Legislative Exchange Council, which works with corporations and conservatives to write model legislation that can be introduced in state legislatures throughout the country. Vukmir serves as ALEC's second vice chairwoman, the third-highest position on the board.

*  Maybe, just maybe, right wing philosophy and politics- doesn't work!

 For the sixth consecutive year, Mississippians were the most likely in the U.S. to report struggling to afford food. In 2013, 25.1% report there was at least one time in the last 12 months when they did not have enough money to buy the food they or their families needed. Residents in West Virginia, Louisiana, and Alabama were also among the most likely to struggle to afford food. Residents of Alaska, New Hampshire, and Minnesota were among the least likely to have this problem.

 

Sideshow Clarke

By Jeff Simpson

After watching the clownish antics of Sheriff David Clarke in Milwaukee, I am very glad to be in Dane County where we have a Sheriff who cares about the rule of law and actually doing his job! 

Sheriff Clarke in Milwaukee is at it again. 

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. recently announced that he had been named the "sheriff of the year" for 2013 by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.

Clarke put out a press release saying he was "both honored and humbled" by the award, which will be given out at a convention later this month.

What the sheriff doesn't disclose, however, is anything about the little-known group behind the award.
Perhaps with good reason.

Founded in 2011, the sheriffs association is the brainchild of Richard Mack, a former Arizona lawman who says he wants to organize sheriffs who understand their primary duty is to protect local citizens from the tyranny of the federal government.

His association, he says, will be "the army to set our nation free" -- albeit a non-violent army, he adds.
"The greatest threat we face today is not terrorists; it is our own federal government," Mack says on his personal website. "If America is conquered or ruined it will be from within, not a foreign enemy."
In a 15-minute chat this week, Mack -- or "Sheriff Mack," as he prefers to be called -- reaffirmed these sentiments and went even further. He voiced his support for states to nullify federal laws they deem unconstitutional. He also called the U.S. government "universally corrupt."
In other words, Mack's group is not your typical trade association.

The Southern Poverty Law Center-- an Alabama-based nonprofit that tracks hate groups -- has accused Mack of espousing "radical-right" views and trying to create a "nation of county sheriffs who believe the government is the enemy." Mack's group got some media attention when it compiled a list for more than 400 sheriffs who vowed not to enforce President Barack Obama's gun control measures.

 How cute, a sheriff happily accepting an award from a hate group.  Sheriff Clarke must be so proud.  That would look  very well next to a John Birch "Man of the Year" award and the Joseph McCarthy Advancing Democracy Award!

Milwaukee, it is time to end the circus and elect someone who actually wants to be the Sheriff of Milwaukee!  

Chris Moews - Show up here to support Mr. Moews!  

"Anti-Government" Movement!

By Jeff Simpson

We reported recently about the Southern Poverty Law Center's report About the massive influx of hate groups that have sprung up in America since President Obama was elected(hint: one way to identify them - they have "Patriot" in their title). 

As we see in Florida, things are really starting to get out of hand.

Authorities in Florida believe two missing boys are being held on a sailboat by their “anti-government” father and mother.
WTVJ-TV reported on Friday that 4-year-old Cole Hakken and his 2-year-old brother Chase are believed to have been taken from their maternal grandmother’s home on April 3 by their father, 35-year-old Joshua Hakken. Hakken allegedly broke into the home and tied her down with zip-ties.
Police said Joshua Hakken subsequently sailed out of the area on a 25-foot, 1972 Morgan sailboat with the two children and his wife, 34-year-old Sharyn Hakken. They are thought to be headed toward the Gulf of Mexico.
According to NBC News, The boys’ grandmother was awarded custody over them following Joshua Hakken’s arrest in June 2012 for drug possession and allegedly selling narcotics in front of them at an “anti-government rally.”

I guess the "anti-government" rally means anything goes.   Why is it always the biggest loons of all are the "anti-government" crazies?  


Looks like taking your kids to an "anti-government" rally, is not a recommended activity!  

O look there just so happens to be an "anti-government" rally coming up in Madison!  
 

Breeding Hate

By Jeff Simpson

The Southern Poverty Law Center is out with another report on hate and extremism, the results are not pretty(emphasis mine)!   

there were 1,360 radical, anti-government “Patriot” groups (including 321 militias) in 2012. Such groups numbered only 149 in 2008. This represents an 813 percent rise since President Obama took office—and not coincidentally, the fourth straight year the numbers have increased.

“These numbers far exceed the movement’s peak in the 1990s, when militias were inflamed by the 1993 Brady Bill and the 1994 assault rifle ban,” says the report.

At the same time, active “hate groups – neo-Nazis, white nationalists, racist skinheads, and others” continue to proliferate at near-record highs. The SPLC counted 1,007 such groups in 2012. Organizations considered hate groups by the Center “have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics,” and their activities can include “criminal acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing.”

 Let see growth in right wing hate groups is 813% since 2008, what event in 2008 could have helped that number grow? 

All of the right wing fear mongering is really paying off, at least until one of these loons snaps!  

By the way what was one of the defining factors in way to tell if a group was a hate group or not?  the word "Patriot" was(very much mislabled) in their title!

Now, it seems likely that the radical right’s growth will continue. In 2012, before Obama’s re-election and the Newtown, Conn., massacre, the rate of Patriot growth had slackened somewhat, although it remained significant. Anger over the idea of four more years under a black, Democratic president — and, even more explosively, the same kinds of gun control efforts that fueled the militia movement of the 1990s — seems already to be fomenting another Patriot spurt.

Hmmmmm, Wisconsin has their share!

 WISCONSIN (26)
Alarm & Muster: The Modern Day Alarm Riders Statewide
America First Party of Wisconsin Muscoda
American Opinion Foundation, Inc. Appleton
American Opinion Publishing Appleton
Badger State Volunteers* Statewide
Campus Liberty Alliance Appleton
Central Wisconsin Militia* Statewide
Constitution Party Milwaukee
David-Wynn: Miller Milwaukee
John Birch Society Appleton
Milwaukee
John Birch Society — Liberty News Network Appleton
John Birch Society Shop Appleton
Native American Militia* Statewide
Northeast Wisconsin Militia* Statewide
Northwoods Patriots Eagle River
Oath Keepers Statewide
Oneida Grape Vine Group* Statewide
People’s Awareness Coalition Kieler
The Republic for the united States of America Statewide
The Republic for the united States of America — Republic Congress Statewide
Southeast Wisconsin Volunteers* Southeast
Tenth Amendment Center Statewide
We Are Change Madison
Wausau
We the People Statewide

JINKIES Ann, Follow the Clues.....

Jeepers Ann, Velma Dinkley you are not!

Ann Althouse came out in defense of Wisconsin Mass Murderer Wade Michael Page(WMP), and disgusted with Southern Poverty Law Center's rush to judgement!

In 2009, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security came out with a report that says that White Supremacists and Right Wing militia groups, extremists, anti-abortionists and some veterans, were the greatest threats to U.S. Domestic Terror!  

This well done report(started by the Bush administration Dept. of Homeland Security) greatly upset the republican party and right wing hate sqwaukers.

Despite the fact this was a nonpartisan report, and it was correct, Secretary Napolitano, was forced by the right wing echo chamber to withdraw it and apologize.   Kudo's to the republican party on that one, what could possibly go wrong??  

In the meantime, Southern Poverty Law Center, continued to track the right wing extremists and hate groups even having WMP in their sites for the last decade! 

To some who track the movements of white supremacist groups, the violence was not a total surprise. Mr. Page, 40, had long been among the hundreds of names on the radar of organizations monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of his ties to the white supremacist movement and his role as the leader of a white-power band called End Apathy. The authorities have said they are treating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism.

 This is where Ann Althouse steps in(it).

 The Southern Poverty Law Center put out the early characterization of End Apathy as a "racist white power" band, but I'm not sure how they know that:

Ann is not sure how the SPLC would know that WMP and his band is a "racist white power" band....

Lets see if we can find any clues....

 

 mmm nothing to see here.

Let's take a look and see where Prof. Ann gets her info from...

 IN THE COMMENTS: Sorun said:

By the way, what happened to all of the dangerous white militia groups in the 90s? They were everywhere! Did they all just decide to go bowling instead?

How much money did the SPLC raise from that great crisis?

CommonHandle said:

I find it a bit creepy that SPLC defines its "intelligence project" as following around anyone who has an association with people or groups that espouse racist beliefs, even if nothing that individual has done or said themselves comes across as overtly racist. Creepiness aside, aren't there plenty of real racists out there? people who regularly and unambiguously engage in racist speech? That the have a "profile" of this man isn't only kind of disturbing, but it seems pretty frivolous.

BarryD said:

Sometimes I think the SPLC figures that every time there are two or more white people standing on the street together, it's a white-power group.

That said, this guy was, indeed, not apathetic, in the end.

Too bad, really.

There's a lot to be said for apathy, especially among those who are fucked in the head. I think that apathy saves our society from many ills, actually.

Wait......WHAT?????  Ann Althouse uses as her argument anonymous comments on the internet?????  If Barry D  thinks that apathy saves, then I guess apathy saves and the SPLC can pack up their toys and go home!  I guess is Soron thinks right wing militia groups are not a problem, then they are not a problem.  heck we even have "Chip" (and Ann for sharing) to thank for showing us that the problem is NOT that WMP killed 6 innocent people, but that the real problem is that SPLC invaded Mr. page's privacy.   This is America, you should be able to purchase neo-Nazi goods without having to worry about some silly hate tracking group! 
 

Chip said:

From the article:

"According to Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center 's intelligence project, the group has been tracking Page since 2000, when he allegedly attempted to purchase goods from the neo-Nazi National Alliance."

How does the SPLC have access to to information about a private - and perfectly legal - commercial transaction?

No wonder I do not read Althouse's posts very often, I can go on www.jsonline.com and read ridiculous racist comments anytime I want.  The only thing missing from this powerful prose is commentary from Mr. Ann Althouse(I forget his name).  Everyone usually hangs on his every word!   

Are there any voices in the republican party that are NOT insane, and hateful????