Better Watch Out

Wednesday 6 March 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

You’d better watch out for those anti-government grandmother death squads hell bent on knitting their way towards a revolution against the feds.

Also, the center’s definition of hate groups has changed in the past year, kicking up a controversy. Critics accused the group of unfairly bundling together organizations with vastly different points of view — and painting them all as potentially violent.

For example a North Carolina-based group calling itself “Granny Warriors” appears on the SPLC list of active “patriots.”
But founder Linda Hunnicutt says her organization is harmless.

“I am deadly!” she joked. “I’m 74 years old. I have COPD. I have congestive heart failure. I’m sewing a quilt.”
Hunnicutt acknowledges she’s no friend of the federal government, but, she wishes no harm on anyone.

“All these people that want to bomb places and kill children, come on,” she said. “Who would be in sympathy with them?”

If part of your mission is to single out elderly knitters as domestic terror threats, you probably need to reconsider the entirety of your mission.

But if trying to induce pants shitting because some grandmothers don’t particularly like the federal government isn’t bad enough for you to make you scoff at the SPLC, how about their mischaracterization of government violence perpetrated by the government against its citizens as anti-government violence on behalf of gun-loving right wingers against their government.

The rise in such groups echoes a period almost 20 years ago, around the time when Congress passed the 1993 Brady Bill and the 1994 ban on assault weapons, the SPLC said. That legislation came near a period of infamous and deadly anti-government violence in Waco, Texas; Ruby Ridge, Idaho; and Oklahoma City, “and led to the first wave of the patriot movement,” the report said.

Both Ruby Ridge and Waco were intensely violent incidents that were started by government stormtroopers against citizens without provocation other than contempt of their rule, yet somehow the SPLC has redefined hostile government aggression as anti-government violence taken by crazy members of militias. The fear mongering is fucking pathetic.

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