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If you Google the phrase 鈥�,鈥� the first several links that come up will be websites like far-right conspiracist Alex Jones鈥� InfoWars (鈥淏ecause there is a war on for your mind鈥�) and the United American Freedom Foundation (鈥淧roviding International News From An Extreme Right Viewpoint鈥�). Click around a bit and you鈥檒l find a bevy of far-right outfits fretting that, any day now, federal agents will start hauling off law-abiding, God-fearing Americans to secret 鈥渃oncentration camps鈥� run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

But if you search long enough, you may notice something strange: The theory 鈥� which began almost three decades ago with a warning from the extreme-right, anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus that 鈥渉ardcore Patriots鈥� would be imprisoned in FEMA detention camps 鈥� is no longer solely the province of the radical right.

On Dec. 14, Camille Marino, who runs the hard-left animal liberation website (NIO), posted on her website an 鈥淎lert鈥� titled 鈥淢ilitary Now Recruiting Guards for FEMA Domestic Detainment/Internment Camps.鈥� The article, which first appeared on a conspiracist website called 鈥淓nd the Lie,鈥� features the usual warnings about the end of civil liberties along with the announcement that the U.S. Army (supposedly) is looking for a Few Good Totalitarians to herd dissenters into camps.

End the Lie is a clearinghouse for conspiracy theories of the antigovernment 鈥淧atriot鈥� movement, whose adherents want to end the Federal Reserve, drastically shrink the government, and put most power in the hands of county-level officials, and who believe that civilian militias will be essential for keeping order after society collapses. End the Lie posts numerous articles citing Alex Jones, the chief propagandist of the FEMA camp meme. Among the 鈥淎lternative News Sources鈥� it suggests are American Free Press, an anti-Semitic weekly founded by Holocaust denier ; Oath Keepers, a Patriot group consisting of conspiracy-minded former law enforcement officials and military veterans who profess to be 鈥済uardians of freedom鈥�; and blogger Wayne Madsen, who is a principal source for adherents to the obscure . End the Lie also suggests that readers check out the progressive blog (whose managing editor David Niewert has contributed to Hatewatch) 鈥� though it warns the site has a 鈥渉eavy liberal bias.鈥�

Oddly, no 鈥渉eavy Nazi bias鈥� accompanies the American Free Press link.

With the exception perhaps of Crooks and Liars, this is not the sort of material you would expect someone like Marino to associate herself with voluntarily.

According its website, NIO 鈥渟trives to be an instrument of defiance, disruption, disobedience, subversion, creative & aggressive grassroots action, and a catalyst for revolutionary change. Total liberation 鈥� human animals, nonhuman animals, and the earth 鈥� will not happen by politely asking abusers to be decent. Emotion and passion drive action 鈥� not sterile debate.鈥� Marino describes violence against animal researchers as 鈥渆xtensional self-defense鈥� 鈥� a term coined by University of Texas (El Paso) Philosophy Professor Steve Best that rationalizes violence against 鈥渁nimal oppressors鈥� by saying that 鈥渟ince [animals] cannot defend themselves 鈥� humans must act on their behalf鈥� 鈥� using violence, if necessary.

Interestingly, Best has also drunk the FEMA camp Kool-Aid. Since at least November, the leftist professor, who portrays himself as a courageous truth-teller at the vanguard of liberation ideology and recently released a YouTube video titled 鈥淔--- the Law 鈥� Riot Now,鈥� has been linking on his own website to articles about FEMA鈥檚 supposedly nefarious plans 鈥� including the End the Lie piece Marino posted. Responding to a commenter on his site who asked which groups he expected the government to target, Best wrote, 鈥淸I]f your [sic] protest you are a terrorist, if you are a vegetarian you are a terrorist!! They have exceeded anything Orwell could have imagined on a bad trip.鈥�

Speaking of which, Best鈥檚 comment about vegetarians exceeds anything that the highly imaginative Alex Jones (who in August that the government was rebranding veterans, gun owners, farmers, and whites as 鈥渢errorists鈥�) could have imagined on a bad trip of his own.

Which brings us full circle.

Sometime in the last month, Marino added to her website a direct link to Jones鈥� vastly popular Infowars, the website on which he spins his paranoid tales.

Moreover, FEMA camps aren鈥檛 the only rightwing theme Marino has picked up of late. An entire section of her website is now devoted to the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交), which publishes Hatewatch. Her list of grievances is drawn from a grab bag of disparate sources, including one describing the 人兽性交 as 鈥淐ultural Marxist poison.鈥� , of course, is a term beloved on the right. It began as a conspiracy theory with an anti-Semitic twist, based on the idea that a group of (mostly Jewish) thinkers had developed a perverted form of Marxism intended to undermine traditional Western values.

Given Marino鈥檚 aggressive demand that humans renounce their 鈥渟peciesist鈥� ways and embrace animals as their equals, one would imagine she would either shy away from this term or self-apply it proudly. Best, in fact, is an of the school of thought whose ideas underpin so-called Cultural Marxism and its offspring, the twin bogeymen of 鈥渕ulticulturalism鈥� and 鈥減olitical correctness.鈥�

In an E-mail to Hatewatch following her October interview (whose transcript she reviewed and approved), Marino said she did not wish to be written about in the same blog that covered 鈥渢he most contemptible groups of racists, bigots, madmen, and hatemongers.鈥� Now, in adopting their language and conspiracy theories, she has voluntarily associated themselves with the very people she claims to despise.