{"id":92775,"date":"2009-12-11T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T11:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"119726:1070760:6040266"},"modified":"2009-12-11T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T11:38:11","slug":"50-new-right-wing-militia-groups-form-in-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92775","title":{"rendered":"50 New Right-Wing Militia Groups Form In United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ssNonEditable full-image-float-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basilandspice.com\/storage\/Mystery_man_002.JPG?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1256732726618\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"ssNonEditable full-image-float-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basilandspice.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basilandspice.com\/storage\/BasilSpiceBannerLogo.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1256036045107\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basilandspice.com\/randall-radic\/\"><em><strong>Randall Radic&#8211;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, 50 new right-wing militia groups have been formed in the U.S. in the last two years.&nbsp; More than a few of them are located in Alaskan cities.&nbsp; For example, the Second Amendment Task Force in Fairbanks boasts 7,000 members.&nbsp; All of who carry guns and rifles on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>More often than not, the words &ldquo;right-wing militia group&rdquo; is code for white supremacist fanatics.&nbsp; These groups post speeches and combat exercise videos on YouTube.&nbsp; The speeches promote fear and spread extremist propaganda, while the combat exercise videos advance violence as an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these groups claim to be Christians.&nbsp; Translation:&nbsp; they are rigid fundamentalists, who believe in separating themselves from &ldquo;the world.&rdquo;&nbsp; And many of them subscribe to the beliefs of Christian Identity, which teaches that white people are the true Israel &ndash; God&rsquo;s chosen people.&nbsp; In other words, it&rsquo;s a religion based on bigotry and fear.&nbsp; Everyone unlike them is perceived as an enemy.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security has identified these groups as &ldquo;the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat.&rdquo;&nbsp; The April murder of three police officers in Pittsburgh was perpetrated by a white supremacist.&nbsp; The cop-killer was afraid he was going to lose his right to &ldquo;keep and bear arms.&rdquo;&nbsp; And Political Research Associates &ndash; a Massachusetts think tank &ndash; states that right-wing extremists are responsible for nine murders since the election of President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is this:&nbsp; who is the real enemy here?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span class=\"ssNonEditable full-image-float-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gone-Hell-Crimes-Americas-Clergy\/dp\/1550228978\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1256225336&amp;sr=1-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basilandspice.com\/storage\/gonetohell.JPG?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1256225485086\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span>Randall Radic is a former Old Catholic priest.&nbsp;After a midlife crisis, he spent time behind bars. Today, he has emerged a changed man.&nbsp; As the author of&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gone-Hell-Crimes-Americas-Clergy\/dp\/1550228978\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1256225336&amp;sr=1-1\">Gone To Hell: True Crimes of America&rsquo;s Clergy<\/a> (ECW Press\/ Oct 2009), Radic aims to warn the public of the sins committed behind the walls of churches every day.&nbsp; Randall Radic is also author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Priest-Hell-Murderers-Snitching-California\/dp\/1550228692\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1256225555&amp;sr=1-2\">A Priest in Hell:&nbsp;Gangs, Murderers and Snitching in a California Jail.<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><strong><a style=\"font-size: 60%;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basilandspice.com\/mind-and-body\/rastafarianism-attractive-to-men-boasts-600k-to-1-million-me.html\">Rastafarianism: Attractive To Men, Boasts 600K To 1 Million&nbsp;Members<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><strong><strong><a style=\"font-size: 70%;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basilandspice.com\/journal\/crime-cost-in-catholic-church-to-reach-65-billion-by-2025.html\">Book Review: Gone To Hell&gt;&gt;Crime Cost In Catholic Church To Reach $65 Billion By&nbsp;2025<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;Copyright &copy; 2006-2010, Basil &amp; Spice. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Radic&#8211; According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, 50 new right-wing militia groups have been formed in the U.S. in the last two years.&nbsp; More than a few of them are located in Alaskan cities.&nbsp; For example, the Second Amendment Task Force in Fairbanks boasts 7,000 members.&nbsp; All of who carry guns and rifles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}