While watching T.V. a few days ago I saw a news report about the arrests of members from a militia group in Michigan. This militia group, also known as a right-wing extremist group, or anti-government group, caused concern because of suspicious military training videos and posts on their website hutaree.com. Allegedly, this group which call themselves CCR (colonial Cristian republic) was planning to attach and kill police officers, and set off bombs at their funerals in order to kill more police.
According to latimes.com (Los Angeles Times)the FBI has been monitoring this groups website for sometime, as the militia hardly kept their online activities a secret. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit from Alabama that tracks extremists online explains that the major cause for the recent explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation, is due to economic downturn and the election of the first black president.
There is a lot more information online about this topic than what I saw on the 30 second news flash on T.V. I was able to find out the name of the website via Internet and explore it myself. I personally think the cause for concern was the post on their site, which read "Training April 24 contact headquarters immediately" that concerned officials. Needless to say, the recent explosion of new extremist groups may be due to the economy and/or Obama, but these groups are able to flourish faster than previous times, because of new media technology, which allows their efforts and beliefs to reach more people.
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