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This country's militias and other extremist right-wing groups are more of a threat to democracy than Russia or China ever was. Listening to members of these organizations reminds me of Germany at the start of Hitler's rise to power. People who belong to such extremist groups would have been jailed if they were in any country...
...urge the government to fix the real problems that cause people to get this angry. If we eliminate the true violation of our rights, then all we have to fight is right-wing extremist paranoia, and we can save a lot of lives...
Philip Weiss's article on extremist movements, "Outcasts Digging In for the Apocalypse" [COVER, May 1], while attempting to alert your readers to some of the darker elements in our society, ironically generates its own form of paranoia. Most disturbing is the simple insertion of "Christian home-schoolers" into the list of members of the far-right coalition. Of the families I know who educate their children at home, all do so with the goal of providing the best possible education for their children, not as a contribution to some seedy plot. Come...
Fully aware of the danger of its $2.5 million riflery program, the government continues to aid its domestic adversaries by providing extremist groups with cheap weapons, free bullets and Army training facilities. Despite some futile battles in Congress to eliminate the program, it has existed unchecked since its establishment in 1903, when American marksmanship in the Spanish-American War was deemed terribly below standard. The program itself was designed for a blameless purpose then--but that was 92 years ago. Today, such a program is ludicrous, especially since the end of a Cold War that never led to open conflict...
...about to be overthrown by a United Nations force made up of Hong Kong police and Russian troops? It is tempting to dismiss people with such paranoid beliefs as sick, demented individuals. But that doesn't explain the widespread membership in the U.S. in militias and other extremist groups. Experts in psychology and group behavior warn that anyone can fall prey to paranoia-given the right combination of peer pressure and repeated exposure to one viewpoint...