The biggest threat to America is not radical Islamists or a foreign
power, but homegrown extremists intent on creating an Aryan nation
founded on biblical principles.
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Fear is an emotion induced by a perceived threat or
risk to health or life, status and power, security, or in the case of
human beings, anything held valuable.
The repugicans have made political
careers out of inducing fear in the population that became a valuable
tool in their crusade against Islam they couched as a war on terror.
Although the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were becoming extremely
unpopular at the end of the shrub’s reign of terror in 2008, repugicans duly
picked up the “
muslim threat” mantle with the election of
Barack Obama as President by claiming that the President is a muslim
sympathizer at least, and a likely “jihadist” according to many wingnuts in the teabagger movement.
It is no secret repugicans love sending Americans
to war, particularly after 2001 when they lumped all muslims together as
an existential threat to this country and embarked on a fear-mongering
crusade that America’s greatest enemy was islam. However, Americans will
never hear a repugican, or teabagger, issue even a tepid warning about
a very real threat to America; heavily-armed and disgruntled wingnuts and white supremacists who harbor as intense a hatred
for people of color as they do being part of the United States of
America. Coupled with a growing religious extremist and anti-government
militia movement, the biggest threat to America is not radical islamists
or a foreign power, but homegrown extremists intent on creating an
Aryan nation founded on biblical principles.
Last week the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) revealed that a white supremacist wingnut group, the
League of the South (LOS),
is in the process of training a uniformed, paramilitary unit tasked
with advancing a second southern secession by any means necessary after
years of “
only threatening violence against the United States of America.”
According to leaked internal documents and anonymous sources within the
LOS, as well as leaked internal communications, the LOS secret
paramilitary unit has been dubbed “The Indomitables” replete with white
supremacists, Ku Klux Klan members, and neo-Nazis.
The SPLC
reports that “
the Indomitables” were “
conceptualized”
at a LOS national meeting earlier in the year and apparently is growing
quickly with a U.S. Army and Navy veteran in charge of training for the
coming race war to create an Aryan nation. The ‘veteran’ often boasts
about “
earning his red bootlaces; an award in skinhead culture for “drawing blood for the movement.” He also dreams of the coming day he can throw “
boot parties for enemies”
(African Americans) of the LOS. The white supremacist’s signature photo
is an image of himself holding an assault rifle.
The League of the South advocates for a new secession and an Aryan society dominated by “European Americans” with a stated goal of creating a “godly” nation ruled by “Anglo-Celtic”
(white) elites who establish a christian theocratic state and dominate
African Americans and other minorities. The group’s leader, Michael
Hill, believes that “Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery,” and that returning to a “political
and social system based on kith and kin rather than the idea of the
universal rights of man. At its core is a European population.” According to Hill, “If
the scenario of America being overrun by hordes of non-whites does not
appeal to you, then how is this disaster to be averted? By the people
who oppose it rising up against their traitorous elite masters and their
misanthropic rule. This is both healthy and biblical.”
Hill claimed last month that the Second Amendment extends to weapons systems, guerrilla warfare applications, and listed the “primary targets” in the fight for an Aryan nation. Hill wrote in an essay that “The
primary targets will be political leaders, members of the hostile
media, cultural icons, bureaucrats, and other of the managerial elite
without whom the engines of tyranny don’t run.” He ended his white supremacist screed by citing the christian bible; “blessed be the lord my strength who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight.”
Now, every time there is even a mention of the
growing threat of white supremacists pushing a race war, which is what
the LOS is proposing in creating an Aryan nation, there is a tendency to
minimize the threat as a small group of isolated extremists; nothing
could be farther from the truth. If Americans have been paying attention
to events across the nation, they know there is a simmering hatred for
people of color among a larger segment of the population than they want
to admit. The events in Ferguson Missouri where a white police officer
brutally murdered an unarmed African American teenager, and the
subsequent military response to equally unarmed African American
protestors should give Americans a clue there is a deep-seated hatred of
people of color in America. Don’t believe it?
In New York police are given free rein to stop and
frisk African Americans for no other reason than they are not white. In
Arizona, repugicans passed a law giving law enforcement the right to
demand brown-skinned people prove they are American, and police across
the nation are regularly gunning down unarmed African Americans with
impunity. The repugicans are crusading to disenfranchise
African Americans by restricting their right to vote, including
recently in Georgia where a repugican state senator is livid that
voting rights advocates made it easier for African Americans to cast
ballots and wants to
shut down
the Black vote. Throughout the 2012 general election campaign and
ongoing, repugicans demonized African Americans as takers stealing real
American’s (read white people) assets. It was no coincidence that
Cliven Bundy is a racist that attracted equally racist militias to wage
war against the federal government with an African American man as
President.
Many Americans errantly assume that the white
supremacists threatening a race war, or advocating for an Aryan nation,
are restricted to the former Confederacy and that is a gross error.
Every state in the Union has neo-Nazi white supremacist sympathizers who
cannot accept, and are furious, that America is a diverse and
all-inclusive nation. Subsequently, they are more than willing to engage
in a race war to create what the League of the South refers to as “a godly nation ruled by Anglo-Celtic elites to dominate African Americans and people of color.” This is what teabaggers, repugicans, and their ilk refer to when they scream they want to “take America back;” back to a time before the civil rights movement when people of color “knew their place,” were restricted from voting, and were legally forced into subjection to the will of the white christian elite.
The greatest threat to the security of this country
is not from outside its borders, it is from within. There is a good
reason repugicans and their wingnut cohorts never warn Americans
of the threat from white supremacists and it is because they would
expose their base as the greatest threat to America. Remember, it was repugican Lindsey Graham who said “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term,”
but it is not for lack of trying. Obviously, his words were a rallying
cry for white supremacists to stop dreaming of a race war and begin
paramilitary training to wage a race war and create a nation ruled by “angry white guys.”
Many Americans think there are pockets of racists in
different parts of the country and although that may be true, it is a
safe bet that every person in America knows at least one angry white
person. They are the people who hate immigrants, support law enforcement
targeting and killing African Americans, refer to every young Black
male as a “
thug,” or decry people of color “
taking their stuff.”
They are predominately wingnuts, teabaggers, and more than likely
any repugican yearning to take America back to the era when
Anglo-Celtic elites dominated African Americans, and since they can
hardly accomplish their mission legislatively, they are in training to
accomplish it militarily. Tragically, few Americans are paying attention
or fear the real threat to national security; angry white guys posing
as “
real wingnuts” whether they are teabaggers, repugicans, or members of the League of the South.
