Pat Sellers candidacy follows the peaks of extremist Patriot & Militia Groups in the USA.

It's interesting that when John Birch Society member Pat Sellers ran for Congress in 1996 the number of Patriot & Militia Groups peaked at 858.

When he ran for Congress in 2010 the number of Patriot & Militia groups peaked again at 824.

“It's comforting to describe the Norwegian mass murder as the act of a madman, an aberration, but the experience of America and the radical right suggests otherwise. 

Norway’s Oklahoma City came last week, when a man who saw himself as a contemporary Christian knight defending Europe against a new Muslim onslaught slaughtered 76 people, most of them young people attending an island youth camp. 

After the Oklahoma tragedy, many commentators, reacting to the horror of the attack, predicted that right-wing antigovernment violence would decrease as dissidents found less bloody ways to register their protests. They were wrong. 

In fact, although the antigovernment “patriot,” or militia, movement did wane in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it has come roaring back, from 149 groups in 2008 to 824 in 2010, even as the number of hate groups reached more than 1,000 for the first time since the Southern Poverty Law Center began counting them in the 1980s.” 

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What the U.S. Has Learned