{"id":13395,"date":"2014-08-06T00:04:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T07:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2014-08-06T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T07:04:28","slug":"republicans-get-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/republicans-get-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Get Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019ve certainly had no shortage of writing about one Republicans that the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, has praised and interviewed completely, Cliven Bundy.&#160; He has found his way back into the news in an indirect sort of way.&#160; According to a study of law enforcement professionals, Sovereign citizens are the greatest terrorist threat Americans face.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0806SovCit\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0806SovCit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0806SovCit.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"202\" \/>In a new study conducted by researchers tasked with&#160; studying of the root causes and consequences of terrorism in the U.S. and abroad, <strong>the sovereign citizen movement was perceived to be the gravest terrorist threat, rivaling Islamist extremists and militia\/patriot groups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism \u2014better known as START\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.start.umd.edu\/news\/sovereign-citizen-movement-perceived-top-terrorist-threat\" target=\"_blank\">sovereign citizens<\/a> were the top concern of law enforcement, even as a belief that some domestic groups including the KKK, Christian Identity, and neo-Nazis represent less of an actual terrorist threat when compared to a previous study.<\/p>\n<p>The report, complied&#160; by START researchers David Carter, Steven Chermak, Jeremy Carter and Jack Drew,&#160; is drawn from surveys with&#160; more than 364 officers representing 175 state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies. Those surveys&#160; asked respondents to to gauge their perception on the threat of terrorism, the nature of information-sharing, and their belief as to whether their agencies are prepared to deal with terrorist attacks\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/08\/02\/sovereign-citizen-movement-seen-by-us-law-enforcement-as-top-terrorist-threat-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ed Schultz covered this story in two segments. In the first he discussed the upshot and blowback of Republican hero, Cliven Bundy, including how a Bundy follower, Jared Miller, murdered three people.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wtsWMBXBn0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the second Ed interviews SPLC expert Ryan Lenz and Nevada journalist John Ralston.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/041z6EoikFE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">US Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) called these people patriots, so any attempt to deny the connection between them and the Republican Party is a lie.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have been saying for years that Al Dubya is a greater threat to America than Al Qaeda ever was.&#160; I was right.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve certainly had no shortage of writing about one Republicans that the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, has praised and interviewed completely, Cliven Bundy.&#160; He has found his way back into the news in an indirect sort of way.&#160; According to a study of law enforcement professionals, Sovereign citizens are the greatest terrorist threat <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/republicans-get-recognition\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}