"Report Shows How Cliven Bundy Has Emboldened Right-Wing Extremists"

Report Shows How Cliven Bundy Has Emboldened Right-Wing Extremists

by Scott Sonner at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/10/cliven-bundy-report_n_5574512.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — The victory a Nevada rancher claimed in a government standoff with armed militiamen has served to embolden right-wing extremists and conspiracy theorists across the country, an organization that tracks hate groups said Thursday.

The Southern Poverty Law Center based its report on online chatter among extreme right-wing groups and a surge in organized protests against regulation of public lands.

Cliven Bundy's faceoff with Bureau of Land Management agents and Las Vegas police at his ranch in southern Nevada in April has "invigorated" an extremist movement that has exploded since President Barack Obama was elected, growing from 150 groups in 2008 to more than 1,000 last year, the SPLC's report said.

"We've never seen growth like that in 30-plus years of monitoring groups on the radical right," said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the center in Montgomery, Alabama, who co-authored the report.



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