Wednesday, April 15, 2009

warning: radicals stockpiling food

Read the whole DHS report on right-wing extremism here.
(U) Economic Hardship and Extremism
(U//FOUO) Historically, domestic rightwing extremists have feared, predicted, and anticipated a cataclysmic economic collapse in the United States. Prominent antigovernment conspiracy theorists have incorporated aspects of an impending economic collapse to intensify fear and paranoia among like-minded individuals and to attract recruits during times of economic uncertainty. Conspiracy theories involving declarations of martial law, impending civil strife or racial conflict, suspension of the U.S. Constitution, and the creation of citizen detention camps often incorporate aspects of a failed economy. Antigovernment conspiracy theories and “end times” prophecies could motivate extremist individuals and groups to stockpile food, ammunition, and weapons. These teachings also have been linked with the radicalization of domestic extremist individuals and groups in the past, such as violent Christian Identity organizations and extremist members of the militia movement.
PROBLEM: paranoia

IMPACT: stockpiling food, ammunition, and weapons

1 comment:

DJ said...

I also liked this bit:

"Many rightwing extremist groups perceive recent gun control legislation as a threat to their right to bear arms[.]"

No, really?