{"id":8388,"date":"2009-06-24T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2009-06-24T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T16:50:10","slug":"right-wing-extremism-plus-guns-a-recipe-for-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/06\/24\/right-wing-extremism-plus-guns-a-recipe-for-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Wing Extremism Plus Guns: A Recipe for Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-062409\/2009_06_24_berlet.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-062409\/2009_06_24_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrimespace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/197231178.jpg\" alt=\"right wing gun nuts\" \/>Three recent incidents bring to sharp relief what seems to be a growing trend of right-wing reactionary gun violence: the murder of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in Kansas, the shooting at Washington DC\u2019s Holocaust Museum, and the home invasion and murder of a Latino mother and son in Arizona. All three incidents were perpetrated by white, gun-toting extremists, and seem to confirm conclusions by the Department of Homeland Security and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which in separate reports warned of a spike in extremist groups and their potential hate crimes. A deadly confluence of factors is cited for this spike: the nation\u2019s first black presidency, the economic recession, and an increase in immigrant populations. Added to that the striking ease of obtaining guns, and the perception that Obama plans on tightening gun control. The right-wing blogosphere is rife with conspiracy theories about Obama\u2019s country of birth, urgent calls to stockpile ammunition, gas, and food, and even disturbing hints towards the President\u2019s assassination. Are we entering a new deadly phase of right-wing extremism?<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst with Political Research Associates<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read Chip Berlet\u2019s blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publiceye.org\">www.publiceye.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three recent incidents bring to sharp relief what seems to be a growing trend of right-wing reactionary gun violence: the murder of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in Kansas, the shooting at Washington DC\u2019s Holocaust Museum, and the home invasion and murder of a Latino mother and son in Arizona. All three incidents were perpetrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}