Hate Groups Claim Obama’s Win Sparked Recruitment Surge
From Pamela On Politics:
As if things aren’t bad enough with the faltering economy, devastating job losses and rapid home foreclosures, a new government report is warning that right-wing extremist groups could be planning to use the hard times and the election of the nation’s first Black president as a recruiting tool.
In a nine page report done by Department of Homeland Security in coordination with the FBI they found, “No specific information that domestic right-wing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence,” but the current climate “could create a fertile recruiting environment for right-wing extremists and even result in confrontations between such groups and government authorities similar to those in the past.”
The report was published April 7 and compared the current racially charged environment to the 1990’s, “when right-wing extremism experienced a resurgence fueled largely by an economic recession.”
