Fox News "war games" the coming civil war -

Bill Clinton's election in 1992 gave rise to the American "militia movement": hordes of overwhelmingly white, middle-aged men from suburban and rural areas who convinced themselves they were defending the American way of life from the "liberals" and "leftists" running the country by dressing up in military costumes on weekends, wobbling around together with guns, and play-acting the role of patriot-warriors. Those theater groups -- the cultural precursor ... Full Story »

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Gregory Kruse
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by Gregory Kruse - Feb. 23, 2009

This article grounds itself in the recent past and makes a good projection into the near future of what dangers we face as a democracy because of the violence-loving right wing of the now practically defunct GOP. Ironically, in preparing for the permanent Republican majority, the Bush Administration handed over a military honed to a razor's edge in Iraq, and plenty of precedent for violating and ignoring the Constitution in the name of national securtiy. A civil war would be the most dire threat to national security short of an invasion from another solar system. Obama has already shown that he is not afraid to use the military to kill people if they are deemed a security risk.

Eight years of pandering to the gun-loving Southern white male and the sudden reality of a black woman in the White House has turned the veil the militant insurrectionists have been wearing during the Bush era transparent . They have been wanting a race war for decades, and they want to pick the Civil War up where it left off. Terrorism in the Southern states, insurrection in the region, and sabotage will be rooted out just like it was in Iraq. Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Bill O'Reilly will be tried and convicted of sedition if they arrogantly and audiciously continue to incite their followers to violence against the State or Nation.

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