#1441 There is Nothing New About Right-Wing Extremist Violence
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 September 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 9/11/2021
Today we dig through the archives to give deeper context to the current wave of right-wing extremists threatening violence against the government, our election system, mask and vaccine COVID measures and anyone not agreeing with their conspiratorial worldview.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Killing By Numbers: The history of April 19th and 20th - On The Media - Air Date 8-24-10
From Hitler’s birth to the killings at Waco, Columbine and Oklahoma City, each event echoes or evokes the anniversary of the last.
Ch. 2: Gun marches - The Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 4-24-10
Reporting from 2010 on the anti-government, armed rallies in and around Washington, DC
The FBI announced Thursday that it had thwarted a plan by far-right militia members to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and charged six men in relation to the plot. The plot began as talk on social media sites.
As COVID-19 cases surge in the United States, anti-mask and anti-vaccine protests are continuing nationwide, with some turning violent. In a shocking story out of California, at least one person was stabbed and two journalists were attacked.
Radical Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn threatens "bloodshed" if elections remain "rigged"
A rundown of recent right-wing would-be Capitol Bombers.
In an extended conversation with Spencer Ackerman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter, he examines the connection he sees between the rise of right-wing extremism in the United States and the so-called war on terror.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: How The FBI Got Inside The Hutaree Militia - All Things Considered - Air Date 4-24-10
Ch. 9: The Truth Behind The Alleged Michigan Kidnapping Case - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 7-22-21
According to the FBI, a group of men in Michigan hatched a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last year. But a Buzzfeed News investigative report has revealed new details—particularly the role that FBI informants played in it.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: The downsides of term limits - Jonathan from NY
Ch. 11: Term Limits, congressional pay and corruption - Nick from California
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on term limits and congressional pay
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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Description: The U.S. Capitol building dome is outlined by a wooden gallows and a noose, which was erected on January 6th on the lawn of the Capitol by right-wing insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of the left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | give deeper context to the current wave of right-wing extremists threatening violence |
| 0:11.8 | against the government, our election system, mask and vaccine, COVID measures, and anyone |
| 0:17.2 | not agreeing with their conspiratorial worldview. |
| 0:20.8 | We'd best of left our waging a war on entropy, giving context to the contextless, creating |
| 0:28.0 | an order to stave off the chaos. |
| 0:30.4 | To that point, this is another of our experimental remixed episodes in which we sprinkle in some |
| 0:35.0 | classic clips from our archives in addition to the kind of new material you're used to. |
| 0:40.6 | The first two clips you hear today will be from 2010, but from there on out, it's much |
| 0:44.7 | more contemporary. |
| 0:46.4 | Clips today are from On the Media, The Rachel Maddo Show, Consider this, Democracy Now, |
| 0:52.5 | The David Pakman Show, All in With Chris Hayes, and All Things Considered. |
| 1:03.0 | Fifteen years ago, this Monday, Timothy McVey exploded a truck bomb outside the Alfred |
| 1:08.2 | P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. |
| 1:12.2 | The blast killed 168 people, including 19 children and was until September 11, 2001, the |
| 1:21.2 | deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. |
| 1:24.5 | McVey had ties to the militia movement and was retaliating for the government's raid |
| 1:29.0 | on the branch-dividian compound in Waco, Texas, exactly two years earlier. |
| 1:35.1 | But before the FBI identified McVey and co-conspirator Terry Nichols as the prime suspects in the |
| 1:40.7 | bombing, many terrorism experts and news reporters speculated that there might be a middle-east |
| 1:46.9 | connection. |
| 1:48.1 | The first world trade center bombing had occurred only three years before, and it was the Bosnian |
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