http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/28/today-in-right-wing-paranoia Comments On: Today in Right-Wing Paranoia by Goldy en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by The Third Rail]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:36:37 -0800 The Stranger
I have to believe there are millions to be made by promoting paranoia this way.

No organization that writes anything like that fundraising letter can ever be taken seriously by policymakers. They must know that. Therefore that cannot be their goal. Their goal is clearly just to take money from those they scare.
Posted by Charlie Mas]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:09:55 -0800 The Stranger It'd be nice if education was valued in this country. It'd really cut down on our kook ratio.
Posted by CbytheSea]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:04:45 -0800 The Stranger
The lone wolves still manage to pull this shit though, because the hate groups have largely wised up to how to pull off their race war without getting the FBI on their asses. So, instead, they stoke paranoia and subtly encourage loser, chinless, middle aged white men to act out on that paranoia, and we get "isolated" incidents like the murder of Dr. Tiller and the Sikh temple massacre.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:56:49 -0800 The Stranger
Start to? Look at all the domestic terrorism under Clinton.

The difference is, now we have a massive anti-terrorism infrastructure in place, and it's much harder for them to pull it off. They send up red flags to Homeland Security with a thousand online telltales, and they get busted.

They would have blown up all sorts of things across America as soon as we put a black man in the White House. If they could. But they can't. They've tried and tried and they don't have the chops for it.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:36:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:36:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Tiffany]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:29:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:18:22 -0800 The Stranger
So the more they turn inward, the more they spend their money on stocking up ammunition and food, and the more they plug into their right-wing echo chamber media, the less they participate.

Fox News tried to counteract this. They tried to get out the angry white male vote, but all their paranoid reporting worked against them. Voter turnout is precisely why Obama was reelected, and it's only going to get worse for the right.

So let them hole up in their bunkers. They're ceding the future to the rest of us. We can pass gun control, expand health care, even switch to single payer. Secure voting rights, fix regressive taxes. The list goes on.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:08:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sperifera]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:45:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:43:10 -0800 The Stranger
Everybody knows that corporations will manage these conspiracies much more efficiently.
Posted by tkc]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:39:09 -0800 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:25:09 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tedb310]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:22:05 -0800 The Stranger more than the population of the US-of-A!. They must be planning to put EVERYONE... including all 120 million ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS... into FEMA internment camps! fuckfuckfuck.. whaddo-I-do? uhhhmmmm... I know! I'll pack up my truck and go camp in the National Park, and then wait it out. Once people are in camps, and the resistors flee to the hills, I'll be ready to organize them. YEP!
(Good thing I bought all that junk silver!)
Posted by treacle]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:16:55 -0800 The Stranger Why does the church have the lovely granite vaults up in Little Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake?
Posted by StuckInUtah]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:03:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:00:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:52:02 -0800 The Stranger What is the Mormon Church planning?
Posted by Zebes]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:35:24 -0800 The Stranger Am I the only one who noticed that?
Posted by tacomagirl]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:28:55 -0800 The Stranger
I actually just joined the SAF, along with the Gun Owners of America and Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership. http://jpfo.org/

They well with my NRA and ACLU memberships.
Posted by Cascadian Bacon]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:28:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:57:12 -0800 The Stranger
So, if you wanted to stock enough shelf-stable food to feed 10 million people for two weeks on short notice, how many meals would that be? Hmmm... About 420 Million?

All things considered (and ignoring for a second that this story is undoubtedly complete horseshit), that's hardly an apocalypic-event-grade number.
Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:46:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Dr_Awesome]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:46:16 -0800 The Stranger
Thank you short sighted Americans, and hi-tech electronics industry!
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:37:03 -0800 The Stranger