[Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health

[lfalen]

I hope that you had fun putting together this list, some of which it would really be a stretch to call hate speech or necessarily from the the right. It would almost seem that anything you disagree with is hate speech or right wing. I don't much care if it is exactly equal from both sides. suffice it to say that there is plenty on both. I am not going to go tit for tat with you.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Reggie Holmquist reggieholmquist at u.boisestate.edu
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:12:16 -0800
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health

> Your faulty argument is based on the false premise that there is an equal
> amount of hate speech and violence coming from both sides.  Please consider
> this short list so that you may disabuse yourself of that false equivalency
> -Reggie
> 
> *July 27, 2008*—Jim Adkisson shoots and kills two people at a progressive
> church in Knoxville, Tennessee, wounding two. Adkisson calls it “a symbolic
> killing<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/knoxville-church-shooters-manifesto>”
> because he really “wanted to kill…every Democrat in the Senate & House, the
> 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's
> book<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/knoxville-church-shooters-manifesto>,”
> but was unable to gain access to them.
> 
> *September 18, 2008*—Dick Heller, the plaintiff from the case of *District
> of Columbia v. Heller*, provides testimony to the D.C. Council regarding
> firearm-related legislation. Heller’s written, submitted testimony states,
> in part: "‘We the people,’ armed, are TRULY what the Writers of the
> Constitution intended for us to be in Art. 1, Sec. 8, para. 15, and that is
> the CITIZEN MILITIA. If suicide terrorists DO attact our city, ARMED
> CITIZENS could be the First to counter these hostilities in our individual
> neighborhoods<http://www.csgv.org/storage/documents/HELLER%20TESTIMONY%209-18-08.pdf>
> ”
> 
> *September 22, 2008*—The National Rifle Association launches its GunBanObama
> website <http://www.gunbanobama.com/>, which predicts that Democratic
> presidential candidate Barack Obama, “if elected…would be the most anti-gun
> president in American
> history<http://www.gunbanobama.com/Default.aspx?NavGuid=99ac1df3-2e0b-454c-a039-dffd66849533>.”
> The
> website is part of a $15 million NRA campaign to discredit Obama.
> 
> *December 9, 2008*—FBI teams investigating the murder of white supremacist
> James Cumming, 29, a resident of Belfast, Maine, find supplies for a crude
> radiological dispersal dervice and other explosives in his home. Cumming's
> wife, who shot him to death after being abused by him repeatedly, explains,
> "His intentions were to construct a dirty bomb and take it to Washington to
> kill President Obama. He was planning to hide it in the undercarriage of our
> moter home <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html>
> "
> *
> **February 5, 2009*—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts an hour-long special on
> Fox called “We Surround Them <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKKUfmFL3Cs>,”
> a “grassroots effort to wake up our Nation's leaders and let them know what
> many, if not most, Americans truly believe in and stand for.”
> 
> *February 20, 2009*—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts a program that games a
> 2014 civil war scenario called “The Bubba
> Effect<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8La5xLYo2-s>.” It
> involves citizen militias in the South and West taking up arms against the
> U.S. government.
> 
> *March 3, 2009*— FOX commentator Glenn Beck interviews NRA celebrity
> spokesman Chuck Norris. During the interview, Beck states that, “Somebody
> asked me this morning, they said, ‘you really believe that there's going to
> be trouble in the future?’ And I said, ‘if this country starts to spiral out
> of control and, you know, and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it really
> starts to spiral out of control, before America allows a country to become a
> totalitarian country … Americans will, they just, they won't stand for
> it. There will be parts of the country that will rise up.’ And they said,
> ‘where's that going to come from?’ And I said, ‘Texas, it's going to come
> from Texas <http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/22220/>.’”
> 
> *March 9, 2009*—NRA celebrity spokesman Chuck Norris writes in an editorial
> published at WorldNetDaily:  “How much more will Americans take? When will
> enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen
> or will history need to record a second American
> Revolution?<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91103>
> ”
> 
> *March 11, 2009*—NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the 2009 Conservative
> Political Action Conference and announces that “Our Founding Fathers
> understood that the guys with the guns make the
> rules<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAWQ-TMF3I>
> ”
> 
> *March 21-22, 2009*—Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) states that she
> wants residents of her state to be “armed and dangerous on this issue of the
> energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a
> revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people—we the
> people—are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our
> country<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/michele-bachmann-i-want-p_n_178156.html>
> ”
> 
> *April 4, 2009*—Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski shoots and kills three police
> officers responding to a 911 call to his home in Pittsburgh. His friend
> Edward Perkovic tells reporters that Poplawski feared “the Obama gun ban
> that’s on its way<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pittsburgh-shooter-poplawski-didnt-o>”
> and “didn’t like our rights being infringed
> upon<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pittsburgh-shooter-poplawski-didnt-o>.”
> Perkovic also commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because “if
> anyone tried to take his firearms, he was gonna’ stand by what his
> forefathers told him to do <http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001115/>.”
> 
> *April 7, 2009*—The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence
> and Analysis releases an assessment of right wing extremism in the United
> States. The Department notes that “the economic downturn and the election of
> the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing
> radicalization and recruitment <http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf>.”
> Recalling the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh, the Department
> speculates, “The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the
> return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into
> their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups
> or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent
> attacks<http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf>
> ”
> 
> *April 15, 2009*—Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, is arrested by FBI agents after
> he openly states on Twitter <http://twitter.com/citizenquasar> that he is
> going to turn the upcoming Oklahoma City “Tea Party” into a bloodbath. Two
> months earlier, Hayden had written online, “The only thing that is keeping
> the New World Order from destroying this nation is the presence of over
> 100,000,000 guns in civilian hands. When guns are outlawed, only criminals
> will have guns. Since we are already criminals in the eyes of the New World
> Order, and they intend to enslave us all, and to kill those of us who will
> NOT submit to their slavery, I say to IGNORE gun "laws" and keep your guns
> (AND ammo) handy<http://www.jackbloodforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=22193&p=123690#p123690>
> ”
> 
> *April 19, 2009*—The Oath Keepers <http://oathkeepers.org/>, an
> anti-government group made up of current and former law enforcement and
> military personnel, holds its first "muster" in Lexington, Massachusetts,
> the site of the opening shots of the Revolutionary War. The groups' members
> pledge to disobey ten different orders that they deem
> "unconstitutional<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>"
> and "immoral<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>,"
> the first of which reads, "We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American
> people<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>
> "
> 
> *April 25, 2009*—Joshua Cartwright, 28, a member of the Florida National
> Guard, shoots and kills two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies attempting to
> arrest him on a domestic abuse charge. Cartwright is killed in an enusing
> gun battle with police. Cartwright's wife reports that he was "severely
> disturbed<http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/cartwright-16963-elizabeth-deputies.html>"
> that Barack Obama had been elected president. Okaloosa County Sheriff Edward
> Spooner states that Cartrwight was "interested in militia groups and weapons
> training <http://cbs2.com/national/police.shooting.sheriffs.2.995014.html>."
> 
> *May 2009*—Data released by the U.S. Marshals Service indicates that threats
> to the nation's judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in the past
> six years, from 592 in 2003 to 1,278 in
> 2008<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/24/AR2009052402931.html>.
> Federal officials blame a number of parties, including the "sovereign
> citizen" movement—an unorganized grouping of tax protesters, white
> supremacists, and others who don't respect federal authority.
> 
> *May 21-22, 2009*—We The People
> <http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/>Chairman Bob Schultz hosts a
> gathering of 30 "freedom keepers" in Jekyll
> Island, Georgia. The meeting plays "a key role in launching the current
> resurgence of militias and the larger anti-government 'Patriot'
> movement<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias>."
> One of the participants, former Texas militia leader Jon Roland, claims the
> federal government has "been engaging in warlike activity against the
> American people<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias>
> "
> 
> *May 31, 2009*—Scott P. Roeder shoots and kills Dr. George Tiller, an
> abortion provider, in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita,
> Kansas. The FBI lists Roeder as a member of the Montana Freemen, a radical
> anti-government group. In April 1996, he had been pulled over in Topeka,
> Kansas, for driving with a homemade license plate.  Police found a
> military-style rifle, ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound
> can of gunpowder, and two 9-volt batteries in his car.
> 
> *June 3, 2009*—Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist
> blogger/radio host, is arrested on charges of inciting injury after calling
> for the deaths of two Connecticut state legislators on his blog because they
> sponsored a bill that would have transferred financial power in Roman
> Catholic parishes from priests and bishops to lay members.  “While filing a
> lawsuit is quaint and the 'decent' way to handle
> things<http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/northbergen/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1244183127151340.xml&coll=3>,”
> he wrote, “we at TRN (Turner Radio Network) believe that being decent to a
> group of tyrannical scumbags is the wrong approach.  It's too soft.
>  Thankfully, the Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to resolve
> tyranny: The Second Amendment.  TRN advocates Catholics in Connecticut take
> up arms and put down this tyranny by force ... If any state attorney, police
> department or court thinks they're going to get uppity with us about this, I
> suspect we have enough bullets to put them down,
> too<http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/northbergen/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1244183127151340.xml&coll=3>
> ”
> 
> *June 10, 2009*—James W. von Brunn, a convicted felon and a “hardcore
> Neo-Nazi <http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/10/dc.museum.shooting.suspect/>,”
> walks into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and shoots
> and kills a security guard. Von Brunn believed that Western civilization was
> going to be replaced with a “ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI
> GOVERNMENT<http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html>”
> that would “confiscate private
> weapons<http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html>”
> in order to accomplish its goals.*
> *
> *June 24, 2009*—Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist
> blogger/radio host, is arrested again after calling for the murder of three
> Republican-appointed jurists on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals who had
> issued a June 2 decision upholding handgun restrictions in Chicago. Writing
> on his blog, Turner says, “Let me be the first to say this plainly: these
> judges deserve to be
> killed<http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2009/06/hate_blogger_hal_turner_arrest.html>,”
> and includes photographs, phone numbers, work addresses, and room numbers of
> the judges, as well as a map of Chicago’s federal courthouse which points
> out its “anti-truck bomb” pylons.
> 
> *July 13, 2009*—Gilbert Ortez, Jr. kills a police deputy in Chambers County,
> Texas, with an assault rifle
> <http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7db_1247676436>. Police
> were responding to reports that Ortez or his wife had fired shots at utility
> workers in the area. Police searching Ortez’s mobile home after a 10-hour
> standoff find more than 100 explosive devices; Nazi drawings and extremist
> literature; and several additional firearms.*
> 
> July 15, 2009*—Katherine Crabill, a Republican candidate for the Virginia
> House of Delegates in the state’s 99th District makes headlines by calling
> on Americans to resist the course President Obama has set for the country.
>  Appearing at a “Tea Party” rally, Crabill quotes a 1775 speech by Patrick
> Henry and then states, “We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot
> box before we have to resort to the bullet box. But that's the beauty of our
> Second Amendment right.  I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of
> firearms for hunting.  But make no mistake.  That was not the intent of the
> Founding Fathers.  Our Second Amendment right was to guard against
> tyranny<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604070.html>.”
>  This thought is reinforced on Crabill’s campaign website, where she states
> the Second Amendment “was clearly intended for self defense as well as, and
> more specifically, to keep the government on notice of an armed
> citizenry<http://www.catherinecrabill.com/catherine_crabill_for_del/issues/>
> ”*
> 
> July 31, 2009*—On WWJB-AM in Hernando County, Florida, talk radio host Bob
> Haa takes a call from a listener who mentions ammunition, target practice,
> and Barack Obama<http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1026150.ece>.
> Haa
> tells him not to waste his ammunition on targets, to save it for the
> administration. Haa is later visited by an agent for the Secret Service.***
> 
> August 11, 2009*—William Kostric is filmed openly carrying a handgun outside
> of President Obama's health care reform town hall meeting in New
> Hampshire. Kostric holds a sign that reads, "IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF
> LIBERTY!" a reference to the following Thomas Jefferson quote: "The tree of
> liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and
> tyrants<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/thomas-jefferson-and-the_b_273800.html>
> "*
> 
> August 17, 2009*—Chris Broughton openly carries a handgun and AR-15
> semiautomatic assault rifle to a health care rally in Phoenix,
> Arizona. Simultaneously, President Obama addresses a VFW Convention across
> the street. In a video recorded that day, Broughton states, “What do you
> think we did in the revolution, in the American Revolution? The British
> weren't stealing money from us for health care. They weren't taxing us the
> way they are now back then. And what did we do? We forcefully kicked them
> out of our country, and *we will forcefully resist people imposing their
> will on us through the strength of the majority with a
> vote*<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63GiXzpfGhA>
> ”
> 
> *
> **August 25, 2009*—During a GOP barbecue in Twin Falls, Idaho, an audience
> member asks Rex Rammell, a candidate in the 2010 Idaho Republican Primary, a
> question about "Obama tags" during a discussion about state-issued tags for
> wolf hunting. Rammell responds, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of
> those<http://www.idahostatesman.com/2009/08/28/880461/idaho-gop-leaders-condemn-rammell.html>."
> In a subsequent press release, he adds, "Anyone who understands the law
> knows I was just joking, because Idaho has no jurisdiction to issue hunting
> tags in Washington,
> D.C.<http://www.idahostatesman.com/2009/08/28/880461/idaho-gop-leaders-condemn-rammell.html>
> "
> 
> *August 26, 2009*—At a secessionist rally on the state capitol steps in
> Austin, Texas, gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina states that, "We are
> aware that stepping off into secession may in fact be a bloody war. We are
> aware. We understand that the tree of freedom is occasionally watered with
> the blood of tyrants and
> patriots<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#32635648>
> ”
> *
> September 9, 2009*—With President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol to
> address a joint session of Congress on the subject of health care reform,
> Joshua Bowman, 28, of Falls Church, Virginia, attempts to drive his Honda
> Civic into a secure area near the building. U.S. Capitol Police stop him
> and, searching his vehicle, find a rifle, a shotgun, and 500 rounds of
> ammunition<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/10/josh-bowman-man-with-gun-_n_282397.html>.
> He
> is arrested on weapons charges.
> 
> *September 25-26, 2009*—Kitty Werthmann, a speaker at the “How to Take Back
> America” Conference in St. Louis, tells her audience, “If we had our guns
> [during the time of the Nazis’ reign in Germany], we would have fought a
> bloody battle. So, keep your guns, and buy more guns, and buy
> ammunition. Take back America. Don’t let them take the country into
> Socialism. And I refer again, Hitler’s party was National Socialism. And
> that’s what we are having here right now, which is bordering on
> Marxism<http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/28/werthmann-nazism-socialism/>
> ”*
> 
> September 28, 2009*—Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), the Chairman of the Second
> Amendment Task Force in the U.S. House of Representatives, calls House
> Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “domestic enemy of the
> Constitution<http://blogs.onlineathens.com/node/1425>”
> at a health care reform town hall meeting.
> 
> *September 29, 2009*—An
> editorial<http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/pdf/newsmax-20090929-perry_coup.pdf>at
> the Newsmax website calls for a military coup to oust President Obama.
> 
> *September 30, 2009*—The Michelangelo Signorile Show, a talk radio program
> on Sirus, takes a call from “Jim” from Oklahoma, who claims that he and 200
> others are meeting weekly to stage a coup against President Obama. Jim says
> they want to restore their "a right to bear arms" and bring the country back
> to where it was 400 years ago, before slavery was abolished.
> 
> *October 18-19, 2009*—Reports emerge that the Secret Service has received an
> unprecedented number of death threats against President
> Obama<http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/new-report-find-secret-service-overwhelmed-by-increased-threats.php>.
> Ronald
> Kessler's account of presidential security, *In the President's Secret
> Service<http://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Secret-Service-Behind-Protect/dp/0307461351>
> *, states that there has been a 400% increase in such threats in comparison
> with Obama’s predecessor. Another source of these reports is an August 5,
> 2009 study by the Congressional Research Service which finds:  “The [Secret]
> Service’s protection mission has increased and become more ‘urgent’ due to
> the increase in terrorist threats and the expanded arsenal of weapons that
> terrorists could use in an assassination attempt or attacks on facilities.”
> 
> *October 21, 2009*—John Brek, a 55 year-old Newark Airport security guard,
> is arrested for making terroristic threats against President
> Obama<http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/nation/newark-security-guard-john-brek-arraigned-on-3-charges-for-threats-against-president-obama>.
> Authorities
> find 43 firearms while searching his home, including a stolen rifle. Brek, a
> National Rifle Association member, is also found to be in possession of
> illegal hollow point bullets.
> 
> *November 2009—*Billboard is erected on I-70 in Lafayette County, Missouri,
> that promotes "a citizens guide to REVOLUTION." It urges Missourians to
> "LIVE FREE OR DIE" and  "PREPARE FOR WAR" with a corrupt government. The
> billboard is highlighted at the Lafayette County Republicans
> website<http://lafayettecountyrepublicans.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-i-70-billboard-replaces-famed.html>
> 
> *November 11-22, 2009—*More than 100 delegates from across the country
> attend a "Continental Congress" hosted by We The
> People<http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/>.
> Attendees include Neo-Confederate secessionists, "Common Law Court"
> enthusiasts, adherents of the "Sovereign Citizens" movement, militia
> backers, and other radicals. Planned at an earlier May meeting in Jekyll
> Island, the Congress issues a document entitled the "Articles of
> Freedom<http://www.alamogordo2atf.com/AOF_20100128.pdf>"
> which declares that the federal government "now threatens our Life, Liberty
> and Property through usurpations of the
> Constitution<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias>
> "*
> 
> **November 29, 2009—*Conservative web publisher Andrew Breitbart
> tweets, "Capital
> punishment for Dr James Hansen. Climategate is high
> treason<http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911290004>."
> Hansen, who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is a noted
> researcher on the effect of greenhouse gas emissions and an activist who has
> called for public policies to mitigate the effects of global warming.
> *
> December 23, 2009**—*Warren "Gator" Taylor takes three people hostage at a
> federal post office in Wytheville, Virginia. He is armed with four guns,
> including a .40-caliber Glock pistol, despite a criminal record that
> includes convictions for lewd and lascivious beheavior with a 13 year-old
> and attempted second-degree murder (Taylor shot his ex-wife three times in a
> parking lot in 1993). Taylor fires at least three rounds before the
> stand-off ends, including one at the station's fleeing postmaster. One of
> Taylor's hostages reports that he was angry about taxes and "the government
> taking over the right to bear
> arms<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091225/ap_on_re_us/us_hostage_situation_post_office>
> "
> 
> *January 2010**—*A group of nearly 200 "extremely concerned citizens" in
> Ravalli County, Montana, demand that local elected officials fill out a "
> questionnaire <http://ravallirepublic.com/123/militia_petition/petition.pdf>"
> pledging to form a local militia, prohibit mandatory vaccinations, allow
> citizens to bear any type of firearms they choose (including fully automatic
> machine guns), and require federal government employees to get written
> approval before approaching "any Citizen" in the county. The questionnaire
> is organized in part by Celebrating Conservatism, a group with direct ties
> to the militia movement<http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2009/08/18/conservatismor-extremism>
> *
> January 2, 2010**—*More than 300 people attend a rally in Alamogordo, New
> Mexico, organized by the local Otero Tea Party Patriots and Second Amendment
> Task Force <http://www.alamogordo2atf.org/>. The purpose of the rally is to
> protest health care reform, and many of the rally's participants openly
> carry handguns and/or rifles. One attendee states that his handgun is a “very
> open threat <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>” to the “socialist
> communists <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>” in the Obama
> Administration. “The government fears the people, and a disarmed people are
> slaves <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>,” he says. “Political
> power comes from the barrel of a gun ... They’re pushing us to our
> limits<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>
> ”
> 
> *January 12, 2010**—*Mark Campano of Cuyhaoga Falls, Ohio, pleads not guilty
> to charges of possessing destructive devices not registered with the federal
> government. Law enforcement are called to Campano's apartment in November
> 2009 after he accidentally detonates a pipe bomb and loses parts of two
> fingers. They find 30 pipe bombs, 17 rifles and handguns, and hundreds of
> rounds of ammunition in the dwelling. Campano's next-door neighbor states, "He
> was always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen to
> anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos ... He was some kind
> of radical, and he didn't believe in the
> government<http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/law_enforcement_investigating.html>
> "
> 
> *January 12, 2010**—*Charles Allan Dyer, 29, a former Marine with ties to
> Tea Parties and far-right-wing organizations like Oath
> Keepers<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>,
> is arrested at his home on charges of raping a 7 year old-girl. Sheriff's
> deputies find several firearms inside Dyer's home and a Colt M-203 40mm
> grenade launcher, which was stolen from a military base in Fort Irwin,
> California, in 2006. Dyer had been an organizer of militia groups in
> Oklahoma and told one interviewer, "I'm going to use my training and become
> one of those domestic terrorists that you're so afraid of from the
> [Department of Homeland Security (DHS)]
> reports<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CNNiGwUDJs>."
> In another video, Dyer states, "With DHS blatantly calling patriots,
> veterans, and constitutionalists a threat, all that I have to say is you’re
> damn right we're a threat. We're a threat to anyone that endangers our
> rights and the Constitution of this
> republic<http://www.irehr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43:tea-partying-militia-leader-arrested-for-rape-possessing-a-grenade-launcher&catid=9:news&Itemid=23>
> "
> 
> *February 9, 2010**—*Gregory Girard of Manchester, Massachusetts, is
> arrested for weapons charges after police find 20 firearms, thousands of
> rounds of ammunition, and explosive devices in his home. Girard's wife says
> that her husband recently told her, "Don't talk to people, shoot them
> instead <http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_041222314.html>."
> In a January 30 post at a popular website affiliated with the Tea Party
> movement, Girard stated: "We have been in a state of war and state of
> emergency of some time for decades uninterupted ... The entire body of these
> War Powers and 'continuity of gov't' plans render our concept of a
> Constitutional Republic to be little more than thin veil of civility and
> justice layered over a monsterous, diabolic dictatorship that would break
> out of political cage but for Americans vigorously exercising their 2nd
> Amendment rights ... As it stands today at start of 2010, there is never a
> time that our gov't would find itself without some excuse, no matter how
> perverse, as the justification for unleashing their murderous 'War Powers'
> monster upon the public, in an attempt to subject us to
> tyranny<http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2734278%3ABlogPost%3A154819&commentId=2734278%3AComment%3A154896&xg_source=activity>
> "
> 
> *February 13, 2010**—*An unidentified speaker at an event organized by the
> Lewis and Clark Tea Party Patriots in Asotin County, Washington, tells the
> audience, "How many of you have watched the movie "Lonesome Dove"? What
> happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd? He got hung. And that's
> what I want to do with [Democratic U.S. Senator] Patty
> Murray<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/idaho-tea-party-speaker-h_n_466261.html?ref=fb>
> "
> 
> *February 18, 2010**—*Joseph Stack of Austin, Texas, flies a single-engine
> plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, killing
> one and wounding 13. In a suicide note, Stack lays out his grievances with
> the federal tax agency, stating, "The law 'requires' a signature on the
> bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand
> what they are signing; if that's not 'duress' than what is. If this is not
> the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is ... Violence not only is
> the answer, it is the only
> answer<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/joe-stack-statement-alleg_n_467539.html?page=1>
> "
> 
> *February 19, 2010**—*Johnny Logan, Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, is arrested
> and charged with making threats against the president after his poem titled
> "The Sniper" is found on the website NaziSpace/NewSaxon.org by the U.S.
> Secret Service. The poem reads, in part:  "As the tyrant enters his cross
> hairs the breath he takes is deep. His focus is square on the target as he
> begins to release. A patriot for his people he knows this shot will cost his
> life. But for his race and their existence it is a small sacrifice. The
> bullet that he has chambered is one of the purest pride. And the inspiration
> on the casing reads DIE negro DIE. He breathes out as he pulls the trigger
> releasing all his hate. And a smile appears upon his face as he seals that
> monkey's fate. The bullet screams toward its mark bringing with it death.
> And where there was once a face there is nothing left. Two blood covered
> agents stare in horror and dismay. Looking down toward the ground where
> their president now lay<http://www.wlky.com/download/2010/0219/22615404.pdf>
> "
> 
> *February 2010**—*Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pary, an active duty soldier at Fort
> Drum and member of Oath Keepers <http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>, tells a
> reporter that he and five fellow service members at the Army base are
> preparing to take on the U.S. government when it declares martial law, and
> will turn their guns on their fellow soldiers should it become necessary. "I
> know their tactics <http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers>,"
> says Pray. "I know how they...work their convoys—if we attack this vehicle,
> what the others will do ... If the government continues to ignore us, and
> forces us to engage, I'm willing to fight to the
> death<http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers>
> "
> 
> *March 2010**—*The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces that 2009
> saw a dramatic increase in the number of new anti-government "Patriot"
> groups in the United States. Specifically, the number of Patriot groups
> jumped from 149 (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) in
> 2009*—*a 244% jump<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/rage-on-the-right>
> 
> *March 2, 2010**—*FOX News commentator Bill O'Reilly, speaking about
> the *McDonald
> v. Chicago *case before the Supreme Court, declares that plaintiff Otis
> McDonald's inability to own a handgun in Chicago amounts to
> "tyranny<http://mediamatters.org/research/201003030001>."
> Predicting that four justices on the Court will side with the city of
> Chicago, O'Reilly states, "It's interesting that in America today the far
> Left that wants the government to call the shots, not the folks. In the
> past, Right-Wing extremists like Hitler and Mussolini were in the forefront
> of state control. But with the exception of Burma, today's totalitarians are
> primarily on the Left <http://mediamatters.org/research/201003030001>."
> 
> *March 4, 2010**—*John Patrick Bedell, a California resident, travels to
> Arlington, Virginia, and opens fire on police officers at the entrance to
> the Pentagon. Bedell is armed with two semiautomatic firearms and "many
> [ammunition] magazines." Bedell injures two officers before he is killed by
> return fire. Reports reveals Bedell to be a Truther who believed that the
> U.S. government had been taken over by a criminal organization in a 1963
> coup. In an Internet posting, he writes, "This organization, like so many
> murderous governments throughout history, would see the sacrifice of
> thousands of its citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks, as
> a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric
> control<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCKwXk17aAr3T_8Z9nN4iUwQPnngD9E8KP283>
> "
> 
> *March 19-22, 2010**—*During consideration of health care reform legislation
> by the U.S. House of Representatives, vandals attack Democratic offices in
> Pleasant Ridge, Ohio; Wichita, Kansas; Tuscon, Arizona; Niagra Falls, New
> York; and Rochester, New York. Mike Vanderboegh, the former leader of f the
> Alabama Constitutional Militia, takes credit for the violence after posting
> a blog on March 19 that states, "If we break the windows of hundreds,
> thousands, of Democratic party headquarters across this country, we might
> just make up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a
> rifle unnecessary<http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-all-modern-sons-of-liberty-this-is.html>."
> Several Democratic members receive death threats, including Rep. Louise
> Slaughter (D-NY), who is told snipers will "kill the children of the members
> who voted YES <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>"; Rep.
> Bart Stupak (D-MI), who receives a message saying, "You're dead; we know
> where you live; we'll get
> you<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>";
> and Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO), whose staffer is told by a caller, "Better
> hope I don't run into you in a dark alley with a knife, a club or a
> gun<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/markey-got-threatening-phone-calls-before-vote.php>."
> House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking about Rep. Steve Driehaus
> (D-OH), says he "may be a dead
> man<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>
> "*
> 
> March 21, 2010**—*As the U.S. House of Representatives enters a final round
> of debate over a controversial health care reform bill, Conservative blogger
> Solomon "Solly" Forrell calls for the assassination of President Barack
> Obama on his Twitter account. In two separate postings, Forrel writes,
> "ASSASSINATION!
> America, we survived the #Assassinations of #Lincoln & #Kennedy. We'll
> surely get over a bullet 2 #BarackObama's head! ... The next #American with
> a #Clear #Shot should drop #Obama like a bad
> habit<http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/the-secret-service-is-investigating-a-conservative-bloggers-oba/19408303/>
> "
> *
> March 21, 2010**—*Russell Laing, 52, is charged with aggravated assault and
> making terroristic threats after a four-hour standoff with police at his
> home in McCandless, Pennsylvania. Officers were responding to a 911 call
> after Laing called a friend and said he couldn't walk. When police responded
> to the call, Laing pointed an assault rifle at them and cocked the weapon.
> After Laing was arrested, officers recovered approximately 150 guns and
> 15,000 rounds of ammunition from Laing's one-bedroom apartment. "I can't
> explain it. In my 40 years, I've not seen that type of
> collection<http://www.wpxi.com/news/22903086/detail.html>,"
> said McCandless Police Chief Gary Anderson.
> 
> *March 23, 2010**—*After Mike Troxel of the Lynchburg Tea Party and Nigel
> Coleman of the Danville Tea Party post the home address of the brother of
> Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and urge supporters to "drop
> by<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34843.html>,"
> someone deliberately
> cuts<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35040.html>a propane
> gas line at the house. Rep. Perriello is targeted by the Tea Party
> activists because of his vote in favor of health care reform. Perriello's
> brother and his wife have four children under the age of eight.
> *
> March 24, 2010**—*After voting for health care reform legislation, Rep. Bart
> Stupak (D-MI)<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/stupak-receives-threatening-fax-with-drawing-of-noose.php>and
> Rep.
> James Clyburn (D-SC)<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/clyburn-says-photo-of-noose-faxed-to-his-office-after-hcr-vote-video.php>receive
> faxes with drawings of nooses.
> 
> *March 25, 2010**—*Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who voted for health care
> reform legislation, receives a package containing white powder and an angry
> letter telling him to "drop
> dead<http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/White-Powder-Package-Sent-to-Congressman-Weiners-Office-89136827.html>."
> 
> *March 26, 2010**—*Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR), who voted for health care reform
> legislation, receives a letter stating, "It is apparent that it will take a
> few assassinations to stop Obamacare. Militia central has selected you for
> assassination. If we cannot stalk and find you in Washington, D.C., we will
> get you in Little
> Rock<http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=121037.54928.133165>
> "
> 
> *March 26, 2010**—*NRA Board Member Ted Nugent makes the following comment
> on FOX News' "Your World" program: “I’m the expert on the health care bill
> because I kill pigs and a just shot a monster big pig here in Texas and
> seeing as how this is a pig bill created by pig bureaucrats to help out
> American pigs … We gotta’ kill the
> pig<http://video.foxnews.com/v/4125942/nugent-new-independence-day-in-november?category_id=86858>
> ”
> 
> *March 29, 2010**—*A Northeast Philadelphia man, Norman Leboon, is charged
> with threatening the life of Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA). Leboon, 38,
> is arrested by the FBI after posting a YouTube video in which he referred to
> Cantor's family and threatened,"bulllets...will be placed in your
> heads<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-the-fbi-busts-youtube-terrorists-in-under-a-day.ars>."
> Leboon made hundreds of YouTube videos with anti-government themes, and
> threatened others, including President Barack Obama, the Democratic
> Leadership in Congress, and the Pope. Leboon has a long history of mental
> illness, but was able to obtain a concealed handgun permit in
> Pennsylvania<http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100329_Phila__man_charged_with_threatening_GOP_congressman.html>,
> which alarmed his family.
> 
> *March 29, 2010**—*Nine members of the MIchigan-based "Hutaree" Christian
> militia are arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy and attempting to
> deploy weapons of mass destruction. The group had allegedly plotted to kill
> a law enforcement officer and then detonate improvised explosive devices
> (IEDs) during the officer's funeral procession. The group targeted federal
> officials, members of the law enforcement
> "brotherhood<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901541.html>"
> and other participants in the "New World
> Order<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901541.html>
> "
> 
> *March 30, 2010**—*Dozens of sitting governors receive letters from an
> extremist anti-government group called the Guardians of the Free
> Republics<http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/front-page.html>.
> The letters demand that the governors leave office within three days or "they
> will be removed<http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/2136993,extremist-group-governors-removal-040210.article>"
> from office. A page on the group's website entitled "Rationale" reads, "For
> those who are concerned about opening the door to satanic forces, permit me
> to reassure you. The Guardian Elders deliberated with great sobriety the
> wisdom of sitting on our hands while the march to World War III
> continues<http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/rationale.html>
> "
> 
> *April 1, 2010**—*CNN commentator Erick Erickson, questioning the legality
> of the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), makes the
> following comment on WMAC-AM radio: “We have become, or are becoming,
> enslaved by the government ... I dare ‘em to try to come throw me in jail I
> dare ‘em to. [I’ll] pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS
> twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my
> property<http://www.macon.com/2010/04/06/1084164/erickson-draws-fire-for-gun-comment.html>
> ”
> 
> *April 1-20, 2010**—*Walter Fitzpatrick, a member of American Grand Jury
> (AGJ) <http://americangrandjury.org/>, attempts to effect a citizen's arrest
> on grand jury foreman Gary Pettway at the Monroe County courthouse in
> Madisonville, Tennessee, and is arrested. Nineteen days later, on the day
> that Fitzpatrick is scheduled to face trial, Oath
> Keepers<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>member Darren Huff is pulled over
> by Tennessee state troopers as he attempts
> to drive to the courthouse to arrest county officials he calls "domestic
> enemies of the United States engaged in
> treason<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/right-wing_extremists_take_on_local_law_enforcemen.php?ref=mp>."
> Huff is armed with a Colt-45 handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle with 300-400
> rounds of ammunition. He is indicted on federal charges of traveling in
> interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot and transporting in
> commerce a firearm in furtherance of a civil disorder.
> 
> *April 6, 2010**—*Authorities charge Charles Alan Wilson of Selah,
> Washington, with threatening a federal official after Wilson makes several
> phone calls to the office of Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). Wilson, a concealed
> handgun permit holder in Washington, was angry about Sen. Murray's vote for
> health care reform legislation and told her she had "a target on her
> back.<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417979_murray06.html>"
> He also told Murray, "Since you are going to put my life at risk, and some
> bureaucrat is going to determine my health care, your life is at risk, dear
> .. I hope somebody puts a...bullet between
> your...eyes<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417979_murray06.html?source=mypi>
> "
> 
> *April 7, 2010**—*Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, of San Francisco, California, is
> arrested for making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
> (D-CA). Giusti allegedly called Pelosi dozens of times, recited her home
> address, and told her that if she wanted to see it again, she should drop
> her support for health care reform legislation. Giusti had a "history of
> mental health problems <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004070058>" and his
> mother indicated he was influenced by "Fox News and all of those that are
> really radical <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004070058>."
> 
> *April 7, 2010**—*Brody James Whitaker, 37, is apprehended and arrested on
> charges including two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement
> officer, aggravated fleeing, and attempting to elude. The charges stem from
> an incident on March 25, 2010 in which police attempted to pull Whitaker
> over for a traffic violation on I-75 in Sumter County, Florida. Whitaker led
> officers on a high-speed chase, fired shots at them from a 9mm handgun, and
> escaped capture. During his arraignment hearing, Whitaker questions the
> authority of the judge and states, "I am a sovereign. I am not an American
> citizen<http://articles.courant.com/2010-04-07/business/hc-manhunt-winsted-0406_1_troopers-state-police-bail>."
> 
> 
> *April 10, 2010**—*At a "Second Amendment March" organized by the Connecticut
> Citizens Defense League <http://www.ccdl.us/>, Martha Dean, the
> Republican-endorsed candidate for Attorney General in Connecticut, tells
> those in attendance, "If government is legitimate and truly is the voice of
> the people, it need never fear the people themselves when they’re armed.
> Only a government that uses secrecy and force to impose improper laws [to]
> which the people do not consent need fear the wrath of its law-abiding
> citizens at the ballot box or, ultimately, with arms … Our right of free
> speech and to back it up with arms if necessary if our government becomes
> tyrannical and unjust as King George’s was to the colonists are the most
> essential of the rights we as Americans have ... I will oppose all efforts
> to create nonsensical distinctions that are nowhere supported by our
> constitutions between different types of firearms. Nowhere in the
> Constitution does it say that the government gets the effective firearms and
> the people the ineffective ones. Nowhere in our Constitution does it say
> that the government gets the modern firearms and the citizens only get the
> antiquated ones<http://aconnecticutlawblog.com/2010/06/martha-deans-land-of-screwy-habits/>
> "
> 
> *April 13, 2010**—*Reports surface that state Sen. Randy Brogdon (R-OK) and
> Rep. Charles Key (R-OK) have met with Oklahoma Tea Party groups to discuss
> the formation of a new "volunteer
> militia<http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/oklahomas-rightwing-lawmakers-aim-create-antifederal-militia/>"
> to defend against what they see as improprer federal infringements on state
> sovereignty. Brogdon states that the Founding Fathers "were not referring to
> a turkey shoot or a quail hunt. They really weren't even talking about us
> having the ability to protect ourselves against each other. The Second
> Amendment deals directly with the right of an individual to keep and bear
> arms to protect themselves from an overreaching federal
> government<http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/oklahomas-rightwing-lawmakers-aim-create-antifederal-militia/>."
> One Tea Party leader involved in these meetings, J.W. Berry of the
> Tulsa-based OKforTea group, has called for the Militia to "launch a thousand
> guerrilla attacks on the plans that these people have to ruin us and our
> country<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_TQvZwccGEcJ:www.okfortea.com/documents/NewsLetterNo4.doc+site:okfortea.com+militia&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>
> "
> 
> *April 19, 2010**—*Pro-gun activists conduct two rallies in the Washington,
> D.C. area to demonstrate their opposition to an "oppressive, totalitarian
> government <http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36108>." Among the
> featured speakers at the events are current and former militia leaders and
> others with ties to extreme, anti-government groups. The choice of date is
> significant, as April 19 marks the anniversary of the first shots being
> fired in the American Revolution at the Battle of Lexington/Concord, the
> fiery conclusion to the 1993 siege at Waco, and the 1995 bombing of the
> Murrah Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh. At the "Second
> Amendment March" in the District of Columbia, Larry Pratt, the Executive
> Director of Gun Owners of America, states, "We're in a war. The other side
> knows they are at war, because they started it. They are coming for our
> freedom, for our money, for our kids, for our property. They are coming for
> everything because they are a bunch of
> Socialists<http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/19/second.amendment.rally/>."
> Mike Vanderboegh, who made national headlines after taking credit for
> several instances of vandalism at Democratic offices following votes on
> health care reform legislation, is the featured speaker at a rally in Fort
> Hunt National Park in Virginia, where he tells attendees, "Whenever the
> legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or
> to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a
> state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further
> obedience ... This is what the other side doesn’t understand! We are doing
> backing up! Done! Not one more inch<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAJDVEpsdQ>
> "
> 
> *May 4, 2010**—*A questioner at a Heritage Foundation event asks speaker
> Rep. Eric Cantor the question, "In light of what Obama has done to leave us
> vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us vulnerable to outside
> enemies, and to slight our allies ... What would he have to do differently
> to be defined as a domestic
> enemy?<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/04/cantor-event-heritage/>"
> After smiling and stating that "no one thinks that the president is a
> domestic enemy <http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/04/cantor-event-heritage/>,"
> Cantor is booed by several members of the audience.
> 
> *May 6, 2010**—*Dr. Christina Jeffrey, a Republican candidate in South
> Carolina's 4th Congressional District, posts a YouTube video where she holds
> an AK-47 assault rifle and tells viewers, "Why do we have the Second
> Amendment? The Second Amendment ensures all of our other rights ... The
> Second Amendment was placed in the Constitution, plainly, to ensure that our
> limited government stayed limited and that we would be able to enforce those
> limitations if need be ... We are a sovereign people. A sovereign people is
> an armed people <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHJihLaQBw>."
> 
> *May 15, 2010**—*At the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in
> Charlotte, North Carolina, 2012 Republican presidential nominee hopeful Newt
> Gingrich tells the audience, "The Second Amendment is not in defense of
> hunting. It is not in defense of target shooting. It is not in defense of
> collecting. The Second Amendment is in defense of freedom from the
> State<http://news.yahoo.com/video/charlottewcnc-15750615/raw-video-newt-gingrich-speech-19869240;_ylt=AqiFpCtr9aIHoXoHhFkjPNuz174F;_ylu=X3oDMTEwazJwMzJvBHBvcwM1BHNlYwNjbGlwcwRzbGsDcmF3dmlkZW9uZXd0>."
> He goes on to make the following reference to Thomas Jefferson's "The tree
> of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots
> and tyrants" quote: "Anybody who's historically honest has to admit [the
> Founding Fathers] understood the right to bear arms because they routinely
> carried arms. These were tough people in a tough time in a tough country
> doing tough things and the idea that they would allow some D.C. city
> government or some Washington federal bureaucrat to get between them and
> their Constitutional rights, they would have said in Jefferson's terms was
> the legitimate justification for a political revolution in every generation
> which was what Jefferson thought was inevitable to clean out the corruption,
> the arrogance, and the obsolenscence that government would invariably
> have<http://news.yahoo.com/video/charlottewcnc-15750615/raw-video-newt-gingrich-speech-19869240;_ylt=AqiFpCtr9aIHoXoHhFkjPNuz174F;_ylu=X3oDMTEwazJwMzJvBHBvcwM1BHNlYwNjbGlwcwRzbGsDcmF3dmlkZW9uZXd0>
> "
> 
> *May 15, 2010**—*Referring to a controversial new anti-immigration law in
> Arizona, FOX News personality Glenn Beck tells the 2010 NRA Convention, "Let's
> talk a minute about a 'well-regulated militia' and why you might need one
> because the government isn't doing their job. Let's meet people in Texas,
> Arizona and California<http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video/appearances/Glenn-Beck-2010-NRA-Speech/>
> "
> 
> *May 20, 2010**—*Jerry Kane, Jr., 45, and his son Joseph Kane, 16, fatally
> shoot two Arkansas police officers with AK-47 assault rifles during a
> routine traffic stop on Interstate 40 in West Memphis. The Kanes are killed
> during an exchange of gunfire with police in a Walmart parking lot 90
> minutes later<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/kane_west_memphis_arkansas_shootings.php>.
> Jerry Kane, an Ohio resident and anti-government activist, had a long
> history with police and had recently spent three days in jail for driving
> with an expired license plate and no seat belt. Kane considered himself a
> "sovereign citizen" and ran a business that centered on debt-avoidance
> scams.
> 
> *May 27, 2010**—*The *Washington Times* publishes an editorial claiming that
> a United Nations treaty seeking to curb the international, illicit trade in
> smalls arms "would necessarily lead to confication of personal
> firearms<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/>"
> in the United States. The editorial goes on to say, "Not all insurgencies
> are bad. As U.S. history shows, one way to get rid of a despotic regime is
> to rise up against it. That threat is why authoritarian regimes such as
> Syria, Cuba, Rwanda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone endorse gun control
> .. Governments are a bigger threat to most people than their
> neighbors<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/>
> "
> 
> *May 30, 2010**—*Sharron Angle, a candidate for the Republican nomination
> for U.S. Senator in Nevada, tells the *Reno Gazette-Journal* that a recent
> increase in gun sales nationwide "tells me that the nation is arming. What
> are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of government?
> They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second
> Amendment kinds of
> ways<http://www.rgj.com/article/20100530/NEWS19/5300350/1232/Sharron-Angle-s-conservative-credentials-wins-support-of-activist-army>."
> These comments echo ones made by Angle in January, when she told
> conservative radio show talk host Lars Larson, "You know, our Founding
> Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that
> was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government.
> And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a
> revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going, but, you
> know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking
> toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do
> to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is
> take [U.S. Senator from Nevada] Harry Reid
> out<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/sharron_angle_floated_possibil.html>
> "
> 
> *May 31, 2010**—*Oath Keeper <http://oathkeepers.org/> Rex Nichols, a
> candidate for sheriff in Montana's Lincoln County, makes reference to
> federal agents' standoffs at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993 and
> promises to keep them out of the county if elected. "I am going to take my
> deputies and stand in the middle of the road and tell them to get the hell
> out<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBaWAQ_JhXPNbueFC6eg2sV0tYwAD9G1OBU80>,"
> says Nichols. "And if they want a war, they got
> it<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBaWAQ_JhXPNbueFC6eg2sV0tYwAD9G1OBU80>
> "
> 
> *June 2010**—*Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the Republican
> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a campaign ad in
> which he dicusses contemporary political issues with America's Founding
> Fathers. After Barber states "I would impeach
> him<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>"
> and rails about the "progressive income
> tax<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>,"
> the Internal Revenue Service, and health care reform, a Founding Father
> replies, "Gather your
> armies<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>."
> Several Founding Fathers are depicted as being armed with pistols.
> *
> June 9, 2010**—*Addressing the Obama administration and the
> Democratic-controlled Congress, FOX commentator Glenn Beck says, "Tea
> parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the
> principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them. Shoot
> me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me in the
> head if you try to change our government. I will stand against you and so
> will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the media and most
> in Washington don't. The radicals that you and Washington have co-opted and
> brought in wearing sheep's clothing—change the pose. You will get the ends.
> You've been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have
> called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the
> head<http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101220005>
> "
> 
> *June 9, 2010**—*Justine Haynes, 31, of Phoenix is charged with threatening
> to kill a federal official after making two calls to the office of U.S. RepRaul Grijalva (D-AZ). Haynes was incensed over Grijalva's opposition to
> Arizona's controversial new immigration law and threatened to come to the
> Congressman's office and “blow everyone's head
> off<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36281.html>
> "
> *
> **June 27, 2010**—*Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the Republican
> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a campaign ad in
> which he compares taxation and "the tyrannical health care
> bill<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>"
> to slavery and the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany. "We live in
> perilous times ... We are all becoming slaves to our
> government<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>,"
> Barber warns. The "army of voters<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>"
> depicted in the ad includes individuals who are openly armed with guns. In a
> follow-up editorial in the *Washington Post*, Barber makes reference to "the
> possibility of evil conducted on a grand
> scale<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904257.html>"
> and states, "Totalitarianism doesn't come all at once ... The road to
> serfdom is a long one, but I fear that we are well on the
> way<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904257.html>."
> 
> 
> *July 2, 2010**—*The Wyoming Department of Revenue suspends sales tax
> collections at the state's gun shows because of "increasing
> animosity<http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_8ca58b45-3fd5-5dec-9ed4-8552bf189280.html>"
> toward field tax agents. Dan Noble, director of the department's Excise Tax
> Division, cites one particular incident at a gun show that "crossed the
> line" and says, "We tend to have more trouble at gun shows than any place
> .. I have 10 field reps throughout the state, and every one of them has
> experienced some animosity ... I don't want to put my people at
> risk<http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_8ca58b45-3fd5-5dec-9ed4-8552bf189280.html>
> "
> 
> *July 3, 2010**—*Joyce Kaufman, a conservative radio hosts on WFTL in
> Florida, tells a crowd of supporters at a Fort Lauderdale Tea Party event, “I
> am convinced that the most important thing the Founding Fathers did to
> ensure me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a Second Amendment.
> And if ballots don’t work, bullets will. This is the standoff. When I say
> I’ll put my microphone down on November 2nd if we haven’t achieved
> substantial victory, I mean it. Because if at that point I’m going to up
> into the hills of Kentucky, I’m going to go out into the Midwest, I’m going
> to go up in the Vermont and New Hampshire outreaches and I’m going to gather
> together men and women who understand that some things are worth fighting
> for and some things are worth dying
> for<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs>
> ”
> 
> *July 6, 2010**—*Herb Titus, a lawyer for Gun Owners of
> America<http://gunowners.org/>,
> tells *Religion Dispatches*, "If you have a people that has basically been
> disarmed by the civil government, then there really isn't any effectual
> means available to the people to restore law and liberty and that's really
> the purpose of the right to keep and bear arms—is to defend yourself against
> a tyrant<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>."
> Titus goes on to cite the "totalitarian
> threat<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>"
> posed by "Obamacare<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>"
> and "what Sarah Palin said about the death
> panels<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>
> "
> 
> *July 11, 2010—*Supporters of Tea Party candidate Joe Miller openly carry
> assault rifles and handguns during a community parade in Eagle River and
> Chugiak, Alaska, while young children march alongside
> them<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAGdoBcnjWQ>.
> Miller, who is running against Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican
> primary, was endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who described
> him as a “true Commonsense Constitutional
> Conservative<http://community.adn.com/node/151885>.”
> 
> 
> *July 18, 2010—*California Highway Patrol officers arrest Byron Williams,
> 45, after a shootout on I-580 in which more than 60 rounds are fired.
> Officers had pulled Williams over in his pick-up for speeding and weaving in
> and out of traffic when he opened fire on them with a handgun and a long
> gun. Williams, a convicted felon, is shot several times, but survives
> because he is wearing body armor. Williams, a convicted felon, reveals that
> he was on his way to San Francisco to "start a
> revolution<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/21/MNMN1EHB37.DTL>"
> by killing employees of the ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams' mother says
> her son was angry at "Left-wing
> politicians<http://www.alan.com/2010/07/19/oakland-police-stop-suspected-right-wing-terrorist-who-was-angry-at-left-wing-politicians/>"
> and upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these Left-wing
> agenda items<http://www.alan.com/2010/07/19/oakland-police-stop-suspected-right-wing-terrorist-who-was-angry-at-left-wing-politicians/>
> "
> 
> *July 26, 2010—*A proposed ordinance that would prohibit residents from
> firing air rifles and other low-powered weapons within 500 feet of a
> building (unless fired in a target range) is pulled from consideration in
> Exeter Township, Pennsylvania, after the Board of Supervisors receives a
> number of angry and threatening phone calls from gun owners. Citing a
> National Rifle Association "Action Alert" that claimed Exeter supervisors
> were "consider[ing] a broad and overreaching attack on our Second Amendment
> freedoms <http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=237176>," Exeter Township
> Police Chief Christopher Neidert says, "This was totally false information
> that was put out. The anger was building, and I was concerned that someone
> might actually get hurt <http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=237176>."
> 
> *July 28, 2010—*U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) shuts down his district
> office in Yuma after staff members discover a bullet hole in one of the
> office's windows. Authorities also
> report<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40423.html>that U.S.
> Judge Susan Bolton receives hundreds of threats at her Phoenix
> offices after issuing an injunction on Arizona's controversial new
> immigration law.
> 
> *July 29, 2010—*Jack Dailey, the founder of the Appleseed Project (which is
> dedicated to teaching every American how to fire a bullet through a man-size
> target out to 500 yards), explains that Americans should own an AR-15
> assault rifle "because they want to tell us what to do. And we don't want
> them to tell us what to
> do<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01Appleseed-t.html?pagewanted=all>."
> James Faire, an Appleseed trainer, states that, "the government has quite
> literally become tyrannical. It is fulfilling the principles outlined in *The
> Communist Manifesto*. It's completely out of control from city to state to
> federal to international law. All predicate their existence on plundering
> the individual and his rights. The only thing to do now is to organize
> citizens into a militia to abolish this
> government<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01Appleseed-t.html?pagewanted=all>
> "
> 
> *July 30, 2010—*Camp Hill prison guard Raymond Peake, 64, is charged with
> robbery and the murder of Todd Getgen. Peake allegedly shot Getgen to death
> at a local shooting range and stole Getgen's custom, silenced AR-15 rifle.
> Investigators follow Peake to a storage unit when they find three firearms:
> Getgen's AR-15 rifle, a scoped Remington rifle that had been reported stolen
> from the range in May, and a second AR-15 rifle. Thomas Tuso is also
> arrested and charged with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and other
> crimes. Peake tells police that he and Tuso had been stealing guns "for the
> purpose of overthrowing the federal
> government<http://www.whptv.com/mostpopular/story/UPDATE-Guards-charged-in-shooting-suspended/T7TywdSx-0efWskrT3nupg.cspx>
> "
> 
> *August 14, 2010—*Former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack—who gained fame in
> anti-government circles by joining a mid-1990s lawsuit against the federal
> government over the Brady Bill requirement that state law enforcement
> agencies conduct background checks on gun purchasers—tells those in
> attendance at the American Policy Center's 2010 Freedom Action Natonal
> Conference, "My dear friends, I pray for the day that the first sheriff in
> this country is the one to fire the shot heard 'round the world and take out
> some IRS agents!<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/-willing-to-kill-in-gatherings-over-t>
> "
> 
> *August 17, 2010—*Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, opens fire on the Department of
> Public Safety in McKinney, Texas, and unsuccessfully attempts to ignite
> gasoline and ammonium nitrate in a trailer hitched to his truck. Sharp is
> armed with an assault rifle, a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, and a
> 12-gauge shotgun. He is killed after an exchange of gunfire with police
> arriving on the scene. Miraculously, no one else is hurt. Sharp's roommate,
> Eric McClellan describes him as "a great
> guy<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_police_station_shooting>"
> and states, "We're Texans. We have a right to bear
> arms<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_police_station_shooting>
> "
> 
> *August 19, 2010—*Josiah Fornof, 30, of Pasco County, Florida, is arrested
> after threatening to "bear arms
> against<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcwXt1-hso>"
> local law enforcement officers who were trying to serve him with a warrant.
> Authorities recover a letter that Fornof had tried to serve the deputies
> with, which reads, "I have the right to bear arms against such unlawful
> entities, up to and including the President of the United States, that are
> coming against me unlawfully, lethally, and
> genocidally<http://suncoastpasco.tbo.com/content/2010/aug/19/feds-pasco-man-vowed-bear-arms-against-deputies/>
> "
> 
> *August 23, 2010—*Thomas Pidgeon is arrested after he attempts to bring a
> fully loaded .45-caliber handgun into a Cook County
> courthouse<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/facing-foreclosure-man-br_1_n_692749.html>.
> Pidegon was supposed to attend a foreclosure hearing that day. His home was
> to be sold to a lender in North Carolina after New York-based BNY Mellon
> filed an action against him in the county.
> 
> *September 1, 2010—*James Jay Lee, 43, takes hostages at the Discovery
> Communications building in Silver Spring, Maryland, while armed with two
> starter pistols and four improvised explosived devices. After pointing a gun
> at one of the hostages, he is shot and killed by police. Lee, a radical
> environmental activist, had previously issued 11 demands through a
> webpage<http://savetheplanetprotest.com/>that Discovery was to meet
> "immediately." The demands involved the content
> of programming on the Discovery Channel. Lee had also declared on his
> MySpace page, "It's time for REVOLUTION!!!"
> 
> *September 13, 2010—*Police stop Richard Scott McLeod, 48, for a traffic
> violation in Webberville, Michigan, and upon searching his vehicle, discover
> bumper stickers quoting Adolf Hitler, a picture of President Barack Obama, a
> loaded handgun, a bullet-proof vest, and bomb-making materials. McLeod is
> arrested and charged with illegally carrying a concealed weapon and unlawful
> possession of body armor. McLeod tells officers that he is a member of the
> Michigan Militia. The group denies any relationship with McLeod
> *
> September 16, 2010—*Patricia Stoneking, the President of the Kansas State
> Rifle Association, tells Fox News, "People need to arm themselves, We have
> the right to put limits on our government, and that's what [the Second
> Amendment] does<http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/16/second-2nd-amendment-kansas-initiative-would-reaffirm-right-bear-arms>."
> Explaining why America's Founding Fathers drafted the amendment, she
> says, "They
> knew government could become tyrannical. We have the right to defend
> ourselves from a rogue
> government<http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/16/second-2nd-amendment-kansas-initiative-would-reaffirm-right-bear-arms>
> "
> 
> *September 30, 2010—*Kevin Terrell, a self-described "colonel" who founded a
> group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky, predicts war with "the jackbooted
> thugs <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html>" of
> Washington within a year. Referring to the arrest of Hutaree militia members
> earlier in the year, Terrell says, "There was a lot of citizens out there in
> the bushes, locked and loaded. It's only due to miracles I do not understand
> that civil war did not break out right
> there<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html>
> "
> 
> *September 30, 2010—*Steve Kendley, a deputy sheriff running for sheriff in
> Lake County, Montana, threatens "a violent
> conflict<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-5,00.html>"
> with federal agents if "they are doing something I believe is
> unconstitutional<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-5,00.html>
> "
> 
> *October 15, 2010—*Conservative radio show host Glenn Beck lays out a
> hypothetical scenario on the air where the government is considering taking
> his children because he refused to have them receive a mandatory flu
> vaccine. Beck tells his audience that his response to the government would
> be "Meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson<http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010150025>
> "
> 
> *October 21, 2010—*Pastor Stephen Broden, the Republican candidate for U.S.
> Representative in Texas' 30th Congressional District, tells WFAA-TV in
> Dallas that the violent overthrow of the government is an
> "option<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>"
> that remains "on the table <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>."  "Our
> nation was founded on violence <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>,"
> states Broden. "I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the
> table as it relates to our liberties and our
> freedoms<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>
> "
> 
> *October 22, 2010—*Texas Department of Corrections officers searching for a
> missing person, Gill Clements, 69, are confronted by a neighbor while on
> Clements' property in Henderson County. Howard Tod Granger, 46, points an
> AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle at one of the officers, who recalls, "He
> told us to get off the property or he would kill us
> all<http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x1149338339/Former-Gov-son-found-dead>."
> Later that afternoon, officers return to Granger's home with a search
> warrant and an armored vehicle filled with 13 SWAT members. Granger opens
> fire on the vehicle, discharging at least 30 rounds before authorities shoot
> and kill him. Police find guns and "many rounds of
> ammunition<http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x1149338339/Former-Gov-son-found-dead>"
> in Granger's house. They also find the body of Clements, buried in a shallow
> grave on Granger's property.
> 
> *November 2, 2010—*On Election Night, supporters of Republican congressional
> candidate Nick Popaditch shout down and physically confront Rep. Bob Filner
> (D-CA) and his staff as they exit Golden Hall in San Diego following the
> announcment of Filner's victory in the race. "You're a damn liar. You should
> be ashamed of yourself<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>,"
> Popaditch tells Filner, leading the mob. Other Popaditch supporters
> yell "You're
> a scumbag!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"
> "Jew!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"
> and "Don't tread on me,
> Bob!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"
> Another Popaditch supporter punches a Filner campaign staffer in the face.
> 
> *November 3, 2010—*James Patock, 66, of Pima County, Arizona, is arrested on
> the National Mall in the District of Columbia after law enforcement
> authorities find a .223 caliber rifle, a .243 caliber rifle barrel, a .22
> caliber rifle, a .357 caliber pistol, several boxes of ammunition, and
> propane tanks wired to four car batteries in his truck and trailer. Patock
> former neighbor in Arizona reported that, "He hated the president. He hated
> everything. He said if he got a chance he would shoot the
> president<http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13448240>."
> Patock tells authorities he is a member of the National Rifle
> Association<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110407609.html>
> 
> *November 4, 2010—*On his radio show, conservative host Glenn Beck
> fantasizes about President Obama being decapitated during a trip to India,
> saying, "If anybody thinks he was a Muslim over here, well God forbid, they
> think he was a Muslim over there because he left his religion for
> Christianity, death sentence, behead
> him<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>.”
> Beck then tells his listeners that "God
> forbid<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>"
> this should happen, as there would be a "New World
> Order<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>"
> overnight in the United States.
> 
> *November 4, 2010—*Fox News host Bill O'Reilly fantasizes about killing a
> Washington Post reporter while on the air, saying, "Does sharia law say we
> can behead Dana
> Milbank?<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110906643.html>"
> O'Reilly also tells co-host Megyn Kelly, "I think you and I should go and
> beat him up<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110906643.html>
> "
> 
> *November 9, 2010—*U.S. Representative-Elect Allen West of Florida's 22nd
> Congressional District hires conservative radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman
> as his Chief of Staff. On July 3, Kaufman told a crowd of Tea Party
> supporters, “I am convinced that the most important thing the Founding
> Fathers did to ensure me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a
> Second Amendment. And if ballots don’t work, bullets
> will<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs>
> "
> 
> *November 9, 2010—*Concealed handgun permit holder George Thomas Lee, 69, of
> Walhalla, South Carolina, is arrested on the town's main street for
> disseminating and promoting obscenity by bearing signs "laden with
> expletives and taking aim at U.S. foreign policy, President Barack Obama,
> blacks in general, Jews and the nation of
> Israel<http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/nov/17/walhalla-protestor-requests-jury-trial/>."
> Officers also seize literature from Lee that details "the most expedient
> means of killing law enforcement
> officers<http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/nov/17/walhalla-protestor-requests-jury-trial/>."
> The November 9 arrest follows an October 19 arrest for assault after Lee
> kicked and swung his signs at a group of girls between the ages of 12 and
> 14.
> 
> *November 10, 2010—*Public schools in Broward County, Florida, go into
> lockdown after an email threat is received by WFTL 850 AM. The email is sent
> to conservative radio host Joyce Kaufman in response to remarks she made at
> a Tea Party event in July ("If ballots don't work, bullets
> will<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs>").
> The email expresses support for her view of the Second Amendment and says
> that to further "their cause...something big will happen at a government
> building in Broward County, maybe a post office maybe even a
> school<http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Possible-Suspect-Questioned-in-Massive-School-Lockdown-Threat-107271123.html>."
> A phone call is then received at the station, allegedly from the emailer's
> wife, warning that he is preparing to go to a Pembroke Pines school and open
> fire.
> 
> *November 23, 2010—*Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of
> America, writes an editorial in *The Register Citizen* in which he calls for
> state and county sheriffs to organize large, armed "posses" as "a check on
> the unconstitutional exercise of federal
> power<http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2010/11/23/opinion/doc4ceb3b593f453721919056.txt>
> "
> 
> *November 29, 2010—*U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the ranking Republican on
> the House Energy and Commerce Committee, circulates a PowerPoint
> presentation to his colleagues in which he compares the Obama administration
> to the Nazi regime in Germany and likens himself to Gen. George Patton,
> bragging, "Put anything in my scope and I will shoot
> it<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/powerful-republican-calls-assassination-president-obama/>
> "
> 
> *December 3, 2010—*At "Roe & Roeper's Miracle on Indianapolis Blvd. Holiday
> Extravaganza" promoting "Toys 4 Tots" in Chicago, Illinois, actor R. Lee
> Emery (famous for his depiction of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal
> Jacket") tells those in attendance, "The economy really sucks. Now I hate to
> point fingers at anybody, but the present administration probably has a lot
> to do with that. And the way I see it, they're not gonna quit doing it until
> they bring this country to its knees. So I think we should all rise up and
> we should stop this administration from what they're doing because they're
> destroying this country. They're driving us into bankruptcy so that they can
> impose socialism on
> us<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/full-metal-jacket-drill-instructor-apologizes-calling-americans-rise-up-obama/>
> "
> 
> *December 31, 2010—*An anonymous threat is posted in the "Rants and Raves"
> section of the Anchorage Craigslist against Andree McLeod, a citizen
> activist who has requested—under Alaska’s Open Records Act—work-related
> emails that Sarah Palin sent and received while governor of the state. The
> threat states, "I think Andre has used up to much oxygen. So I have my scope
> cross hair on her head! She better watch out, the request may have been her
> last <http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/death-threat-palin-critic>."
> The Anchorage Police trace the message to the AOL account of an Anchorage
> woman in her 50s, but neglect to verify if she is the one who is responsible
> for it.
> *
> **January 6, 2011—*John Troy Davis, 44, is arrested after threatening to set
> fire to the office of Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and shoot members of his
> staff. The threat comes when Davis calls Bennet's office to complain about
> his Social Security benefits, telling a staffer that he is schizophrenic and
> "may go to terrorism<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/john-troy-davis-facing-as_n_806928.html>."
> "I'm just going to come down there and shoot you
> all<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/john-troy-davis-facing-as_n_806928.html>,"
> he declares. Davis is charged with assault on a federal employee.
> 
> *January 8, 2011—*Jared Lee Loughner, 22, shoots U.S. Rep. Gabrielle
> Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others at a "Congress in Your Corner" event at a
> Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. He kills six, including federal
> judge John Roll, and wounds 14, including Giffords, who is shot in the headLoughner has an extensive history of mental illness and substance abuse, yet
> is able to purchase two handguns and a high-capacity ammunition magazine
> legally at Sportsman's Warehouse on November 30, 2010. In a YouTube video
> posted in December 2010, Loughner states, "You don’t have to accept the
> federalist laws ... Nonetheless, read the United States of America’s
> Constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous
> laws<http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10>
> "
> *January 8, 2011—*Fearing violence from tea party activists, Arizona
> Legislative District 20 Republican Chairman Anthony Miller, Secretary Sophia
> Johnson, First Vice Chairman Roger Dickinson, and former district spokesman
> Jeff Kolb resign from their positions. "I don't want to take a bullet for
> anyone<http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2011/01/11/20110111gabrielle-giffords-arizona-shooting-resignations.html>,"
> says Miller, who cites verbal attacks and threatening blog posts from tea
> party members upset with the fact that he is a former campaign worker for
> U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Miller also reports an incident in which a
> detractor made his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed it at him.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:55 PM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Your arguments would have more veracity if you named people on both the
> > right and the left, but you continue to harp on only Palin and the Tea
> > Party. Talk about hate speech, no one has been on the receiving end of it
> > more than Palin. She has been hanged in effigy. Do you condone that?  I
> > suspect that if she were to be assassinated there would be very little
> > condemnation of it from the left. Most likely the comments would be "good
> > riddance" or "she had it coming".
> > Roger
> > -----Original message-----
> > From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
> > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:12:59 -0800
> > To: Dan Carscallen areaman at moscow.com
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health
> >
> > > Dan writes, in regard to the AZ shooting: "This can’t be blamed on
> > rhetoric,
> > > nor on extremists from either side of the aisle.  The blame lays solely
> > on a
> > > sick man who obviously needs help.  And, perhaps, the “blame” lays on the
> > > freedom we enjoy by being citizens of the United States of America."
> > >
> > > First, no one on the V at least "blamed" the shooting on rhetoric, or
> > Palin,
> > > or anyone, or anything. No one that I know who has talked about the
> > > connection between violent rhetoric (or gun control, etc.) and the AZ
> > > shooting has used "blame" talk. So let's get that straight.
> > >
> > > Rather than talk about "blame" for or even "causes" of the shooting,
> > let's
> > > talk about "explanations" for the shooting. Why did it happen? What can
> > we
> > > do to prevent shootings like this from happening in the future? Your
> > opinion
> > > seems to be that we can't do anything, that shootings like this just
> > happen
> > > for NO reason whatsoever -- or they happen in societies that have the
> > kinds
> > > of "freedoms" that our society has. That we should accept them because we
> > > can't do anything about it, unless we want to deprive people of their
> > > "freedoms."
> > >
> > > Sorry but that seems a little too fatalistic and cynical for my tastes. I
> > > think we CAN do something about these kind of shootings. What can we do?
> > I
> > > don't know. I'd prefer to talk about it, though, see if there are some
> > > possible solutions. I'm not claiming to have the solution, I'm just
> > claiming
> > > that we can do something if we put our minds to it and come up with a
> > plan.
> > >
> > > The claim that violent rhetoric and gun laws and even Palin's poster have
> > > NOTHING to do with the shooting, that the explanation for the shooting is
> > > unrelated to the overinflated, violent rhetoric of the right and others,
> > is
> > > an extreme claim. Issues of explanation are empirical issues. You have to
> > > back up such an extreme claim -- a claim like the claim that violent
> > > rhetoric has NOTHING to do with violence in America. Here are a few
> > reasons
> > > why I think you can't back that claim up.
> > >
> > > You'll have to explain why there is more violence in American than in
> > almost
> > > any other country; why the violent rhetoric apparently works when it
> > comes
> > > to getting people to vote (Tea Party candidates had some level of success
> > in
> > > the last election; anti-gay propaganda was a huge part of Republican
> > > victories during the last Bush era) yet has NO other impact on human
> > > behavior; why a lot of the violence from "lunatics" is directed toward
> > folks
> > > on the left (as well as gays, Muslims, etc.). Now if you have the
> > > explanation, please give it -- please explain why you're so certain that
> > > there is NO connection between violent rhetoric and actual violence. I'm
> > > pretty sure you have no formal training in psychology or sociology, so
> > I'm
> > > unsure what your basis is. I don't think the explanation has anything to
> > > with our "freedoms." I don't think the vision of a society that is both
> > free
> > > and nonviolent is an absurdity.
> > >
> > > I think it is clear that there is SOME connection between violent
> > rhetoric
> > > and actual violence. The real questions are how much of a connection is
> > > there (what is the nature of the connection) and what can we do about it?
> > I
> > > refuse to think that "Nothing" is a good answer.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Vizzz peeps,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We live in a free society.  One of the prices we pay for living here is
> > > > that there are some loonballs running around who could snap at any
> > minute> Should they be?  Probably not, but who is to say when and how these
> > folks
> > > > should be rounded up and treated?  Sure, I think all of us can talk
> > about
> > > > the guy in our neighborhood that seems a little sketchy, but what are
> > we
> > > > supposed to do?  Call the cops and have them haul him in because he
> > doesn’t
> > > > fit society’s norm?  I think there are a lot of folks, right here on
> > the
> > > > Vizzz even, that don’t necessarily follow the “norm”.   But we go along
> > and
> > > > live our lives in our free society.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The media talked to this Jared guy’s neighbors, and they said “yes, he
> > > > seemed like a nutjob”, but what were they to do?  They watched him,
> > kept
> > > > their distance, stayed as vigilant as they could.  Unfortunately, he
> > > > “slipped through the cracks”.  Should he have been prevented from
> > buying a
> > > > pistol?  Maybe, but in a free society, how?  He wasn’t a convicted
> > felon, he
> > > > answered all the questions properly, and he paid his money.  It’s not a
> > > > speedy process, no matter who or where you are.  Even with a concealed
> > > > weapon permit, and a pre-checked background, it’s not quick by any
> > means.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This can’t be blamed on rhetoric, nor on extremists from either side of
> > the
> > > > aisle.  The blame lays solely on a sick man who obviously needs help.
> >  And,
> > > > perhaps, the “blame” lays on the freedom we enjoy by being citizens of
> > the
> > > > United States of America.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Your pal
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > DC
> > > >
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