Reuters via Yahoo NEWS
Right-wing extremists in the United States are gaining new recruits by exploiting fears about the economy and the election of the first black U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a report to law enforcement officials.
The April 7 report, which Reuters and other news media obtained on Tuesday, said such fears were driving a resurgence in "recruitment and radicalization activity" by white supremacist groups, antigovernment extremists and militia movements. It did not identify any by name.
DHS had no specific information about pending violence and said threats had so far been "largely rhetorical."
But it warned that home foreclosures, unemployment and other consequences of the economic recession "could create a fertile recruiting environment for right-wing extremists."
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My comment: So ... let me see if I get this right. Right wing ideology that engineered the almost total deregulation of our financial sector, a deregulation that lead directly to the housing crisis, the banking crisis, the credit crisis and the impending recession has also bred a bunch of right wingnuts who feel the answer is to collect guns and ammunition so they can stage a "revolution" against an administration that is working overtime to stabilize a situation that their approach to government created. The right wing sense of logic and reality leaves something to be desired.
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