New Intelligence Report Released Today
The Southern Poverty Law Center today released the on the radical right, Intelligence Report. Overall, the issue covers the extreme right鈥檚 increasingly heated rhetoric, laced with talk of war and weaponry, as it faces the possibility of four more years under a black president.
The issue鈥檚 focuses on Montana, where white supremacists and antigovernment 鈥淧atriots鈥� are gathering for a last stand against the greater society that one leader likens to the Battle of the Alamo. Another , also focusing on increasingly belligerent rhetoric and actions, examines the continuing radicalization of the neo-secessionist League of the South. A examines the unbelievable vicious rhetoric and background of Bryan Fischer, who has become the main spokesman for the gay-bashing American Family Association. My own discusses all three stories as part of a trend toward radicalization.
Other stories in the new Intelligence Report include:
- A on the response of authorities to the burgeoning movement of 鈥渟overeign citizens,鈥� people who believe that they do not have to pay taxes and are immune to most criminal laws.
- A about a pugnacious Alabama ministry that is being compared to Kansas鈥� Westboro Baptist Church, which has a reputation as the most viciously anti-gay organization in America.
- An with a Miami attorney who has defended several alleged homegrown Muslim terrorists about ways to combat jihadism.
- An with Bryon and Julie Widner, two former racist activists who met, fell in love, and changed course.
- A look at the racial divisions once again splitting Jasper, Texas, where a black man was dragged to death in an infamous 1998 slaying.
- An of the Patriot organization Oath Keepers鈥� attempts to exploit a local dispute in Quartzsite, Ariz.
