Living up to the label Group of Psychos

These Are Scary Times

Brian Tamanaha

Consider this recent Harris Poll:

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The most ominous finding in the poll is not the 24% who think Obama might be the Anti-Christ or the 22% who believe he wants the terrorists to win. The truly scary finding is that 45% of the Republicans polled consider him the "domestic enemy that the U.S. Constitution speaks of." In the eyes of the extremist fringe of self-described patriots, this belief provides a compelling justification to assassinate President Obama.

Their crazed sense of urgency is doubtless magnified by apocalyptic rhetoric now issuing from respectable politicians and intellectuals on the right. Thomas Sowell, for example, closed an essay yesterday with this warning: "But the 2010 election may be the last chance to halt the dismantling of America. It can be the point of no return."

Sowell is not advocating assassination, of course, but just before these closing lines he suggests that Obama and the Democratic Congress will rig future elections to maintain their hold on power by ramming "through new legislation to create millions of new voters by granting citizenship to illegal immigrants."

What is a patriot to do?