Extremist militias recruiting in fear of Clinton winning election, activists say

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Extremist militias recruiting in fear of Clinton winning election, activists say
Extremist surge got national attention during the Oregon militia standoff and has continued to rise with Trump, with his legitimization of white nationalist politics
Jason Wilson in Grant County, Oregon Tuesday 18 October 2016 07.00 EDT

In the past 12 months, Jessica Campbell has had her car’s fuel line cut and its wheel nuts loosened. Late last year, she had a GPS tracker surreptitiously attached to her vehicle. She is now accustomed to being tailed by unfamiliar vehicles on Interstate 5 near her home in Cottage Grove, just outside Eugene, Oregon. Strangers have regularly come uninvited onto her property; someone even stripped the barbed wire on her fence “just to send a message”. Online, she has repeatedly been threatened with rape and death.

Campbell co-directs the Rural Organizing Project, a not-for-profit group that sets out to confront the rightwing insurgency that has been bubbling away in parts of rural Oregon and throughout the west. A political organizer since high school, she now coordinates groups attempting to respond to divisive tactics from rightwing activists on immigration, race and public land ownership.

Elsewhere, according to Campbell, Patriot sympathizers are moving into communities in order to tip the electoral balance towards far-right candidates. She fears this trend will continue long after a Trump defeat. “I’m seeing a lot of paramilitary groups recruiting on the basis of a likely Hillary Clinton win,” she said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/18/us-militia-recruiting-clinton-trump-election-patriot-movement

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R ......scary shit going on...

[tonyt53]

2. They like to do things at night because they are cowards. When the shit hits the fan, they run.

[LonePirate]

3. I wonder if they think Clinton will be more successful than Obama at taking their guns.

[BSdetect]

4. Try to record them using Gopro etc

These idiots need to be suppressed - I know they may overreact but they are simply a menace that must be confronted but not by individuals acting alone. we need organized groups to deal with them peacefully.

[stone space]

5. The NRA needs to drop Trump now.

[Runningdawg]

6. In the same way Democrats

see Trumps campaign as a gift, hate groups and militias see HRC as one. They hope she will cause the pot, already full with hate for Obama, to boil over and spill blood in the streets.

[Willie Pep]

7. I recall the militia movement growing during Bill Clinton's presidency as well.

This doesn't surprise me at all. In fact, I expect the Far Right to become even more active after Clinton's likely win this year. Also, watch for Trump supporters to develop a "stab-in-the-back" myth after the election, blaming the media, vote rigging, mainstream Republicans and other enemies of cheating to defeat Trump. There is no way that all of Trump's supporters will just accept defeat and go home. Scary times ahead, I am afraid.

[anamandujano]

8. Hope they will enjoy their time in prison. Guns will not be allowed under their pillows there.

campers in the making.

[BobbyDrake]

9. OK, sure. Make it even easier for the undercover agents to get in.

Picture this as a sarcastic slow clap.