{"id":679870,"date":"2010-03-02T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78029"},"modified":"2010-03-02T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:00:27","slug":"the-big-militia-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/679870","title":{"rendered":"The Big Militia Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors right-wing extremist activity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/intelligence-report\/browse-all-issues\/2010\/spring\/rage-on-the-right\">finds<\/a> &#8220;that an astonishing 363 new Patriot groups appeared in 2009, with the totals going from 149 groups (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) &#8212; a 244% jump&#8221; from 2008.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of commentary about how conservatives are hamstrung when talking about race, or issues that touch on race at all &#8212; immediately, they&#8217;re accused of racism. But I think that militia\/right-wing extremism presents a comparable rhetorical problem for the left. Pointing out that militia activity or conspiracy-mongering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/04\/16\/napolitano-apologizes-offending-veterans-dhs-eyes-rightwing-extremism\/\">is on the rise is<\/a>, as we saw last year, seen a slander on Americans who criticize the government, an attempt by liberals to rule all of that out of bounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors right-wing extremist activity, finds &#8220;that an astonishing 363 new Patriot groups appeared in 2009, with the totals going from 149 groups (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) &#8212; a 244% jump&#8221; from 2008. There&#8217;s a lot of commentary about how conservatives are hamstrung when talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QRE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}