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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 07:42 AM
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Right-Wing Extremists Organize and Promote Violence on Facebook
By Justine Sharrock, AlterNet
Posted on June 3, 2010, Printed on June 3, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/147054/

With all the concern about the lack of privacy on Facebook, one would think that the online social networking site would be the last place that paranoid, right-wing extremist groups would organize. But a wide range of groups, from patriot organizations to militias and even white supremacists, are using social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube to organize and even espouse illegal activities.

Take the American Resistance Movement, a network of militia groups that vows to take up arms against what it claims is an increasingly tyrannical government. Its Facebook pages and those of its members are filled with conspiratorial news about the New World Order and impending martial law, information about AK-47s, announcements for meetings, links to YouTube recruitment videos, and information about boycotts and elections.

Clicking through ARM's profiles and walls offers an insider’s view of what these groups are all about. ARM member and Three Percenter Bradley Clifford, who ran the ARM online forum, suggested that I check out Facebook, MySpace and YouTube rather than ARM's own Web site to “get a better picture” of the group. In fact, he eventually ended up taking down its Web site all together.

The photo pages are filled with shots of masked men holding machine guns, some with the U.S. flag tied around their lower faces. There are photos of AR-15s and AK-47s, Palin signs, eagles and hot chicks with guns. There are American flags, Don’t Tread on Me flags and Confederate flags. Images of the Founding Fathers sit next to those of Obama depicted as a socialist in front of the Russian flag. Favored Thomas Jefferson quotes like “The Tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” and "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny" litter posts and individual About Me sections.

http://www.alternet.org/story/147054/right-wing_extremists_organize_and_promote_violence_on_facebook_--_should_the_feds_bust_them_or_leave_them_alone/


You know what really bugs me about their conspiracy narative? They're suppose the be fighting the NWO/Illuminati which are old bankster bloodlines who are very RICH! But they complain about TAXES and SOCIALISM. If you really wanted to destroy the NWO the last thing you would want to do is give them another TAX CUT! It makes NO sense at all.

It's not a one world government they're building. It's a one world company.

They're going to get accused a secretly working for the NWO. It's just a matter of time.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-10 07:59 AM
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1. They've been duped...
...hopefully they'll realize that before someone gets hurt.
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