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New 蜜桃传媒 Report: 'Patriot' Movement Explodes

The number of antigovernment 鈥淧atriot鈥 groups grew at an astounding pace last year, as it has in all three years of the Obama presidency, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 (蜜桃传媒) annual count of extremist groups, released today. The number of these groups rose from 824 in 2010 to 1,274 last year.

This dramatic expansion of the radical right was driven by fears related to economic dislocation, the country鈥檚 changing racial makeup, and the prospect of four more years under our first black president. The campaign season, with its vitriolic rhetoric, has also contributed to the overheated atmosphere that is fostering these groups. In addition, many politicians and other public figures increasingly have been pushing conspiracy theories and demonizing rhetoric into the political mainstream.

The report on 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 annual count and review of the last year in American extremism may be found . The table of contents for the entire new issue of the 蜜桃传媒's Intelligence Report is . What follows are synopses of the major stories found in the new edition.

  • Last year, little noticed by the mass media, a Massachusetts man burned himself to death to protest treatment of men by family courts. The death into a dark world, sometimes called the 鈥渕anosphere,鈥 of woman-hating 鈥渕en鈥檚 rights鈥 activists.
  • The National Association for Research Therapy of Homosexuality, which , is seen by many as the preeminent source of 鈥渏unk science鈥 that demonizes homosexuality.
  • The little-known Church at Kaweah in California and is training its congregants for armed combat against the 鈥淣ew World Order.鈥
  • Four members of a Georgia militia were in their late 60s and 70s, but officials say that didn鈥檛 stop them from
  • Floridian Camille Marino is the newest star on the radical animal rights scene, and she鈥檚 frightening. 鈥淚f I have my way,鈥 , 鈥測ou鈥檒l be praying to us for mercy.鈥
  • Breaking a long silence, the son of the neo-Nazi who murdered a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum how his father ruined his life. Now, Erik von Brunn is just trying to survive.
  • The United Nation鈥檚 Agenda 21 accord is a voluntary global sustainability initiative. But to hear , it鈥檚 the leading edge of one-world totalitarianism.
  • Bad press, internecine quarrels and co-optation of their issue by state legislatures have almost in America.

The New York Times ran a this morning reprising the findings of the new 蜜桃传媒 Report. Another, longer was prepared by MSNBC. CNN also .

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