Racist extremists now use the internet. In 2005 in Coatesville they used paper and ink.

"Ammon Bundy, the figure at the center of an extremist antigovernment occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, appeared to make an announcement on Twitter yesterday –– his struggle against the federal government was in the same tradition as Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience. 

 

Coverage of the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge until then included many articles on the racial double standard between armed whites threatening violence while protesting the government and the peaceful, if confrontational tactics, of racial justice protests like Black Lives Matter. 

The tweet about Rosa Parks hit a nerve for observers everywhere. Publications including The Washington Post, USA Today, Mediate, and The New Republic ran stories with headlines like “Oregon 'militia' leader says he's doing the 'same thing' as Rosa Parks." The problem? The Twitter account was a total fake. 

Gizmodo was the first to discover another Twitter account, @TheSaintNegro29, that was crowing about the success of their fraud and posting correspondences they had via the account with journalists. That account, with its obviously racist name, was marked with racist images of the major players in the Oregon standoff. Diving deeper into other images the account tweeted, the racist images got worse and worse. 

The publications that ran stories on the fake account soon ran corrections. But this was not the first time a extremist troll was successful in hijacking a media moment. And in all likelihood, it won’t be the last." 

MORE AT: 

How the extremist right hijacked ‘Star Wars,’ Taylor Swift and the Mizzou student protests to promote racism

The fake “news” in Coatesville was called the “Coatesville Recorder”

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2014

Poor Coatesville, the 1/2 Black Town that was Manipulated by a White Nationalist JBS Chapter Member

The Coatesville Recorder was the publication of John Birch Society Chapter Leader Patrick Henry Sellers. It was circulated intermittently since the 1990s when Sellers was on the Coatesville Area School District School Board. 

In 2005 it became a four color four to six page flyer delivered to every home in Coatesville paid for by ??? Paid for in part by Pennsylvania taxpayers???

SEE:

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015

CrakPowerVille Did PA Rep. Hennessey have a role in the Coatesville Power Plant Plan?

I watched the Wereth Eleven-About the all African American 333d U.S. Field Artillery Battalion

A tribute to eleven WW II G.I.s of the 333d U.S. Field Artillery Battalion and to all African-American soldiers who served during World War II.

As a boy who grew up in the 1940s in a town that sent many people off to war including several of my uncles, Hitler and the Nazis were not exactly boyhood heros. 

In my 72 years I came across a number of people who think Hitler was not such a bad guy. One "Hitler wasn't a bad guy" statement came from a former artillery soldier in Hitler's army. Sort of understandable. 

The other times it was from just plain right wing folks in America. That's harder for me to swallow. 

I strongly suspect that John Birch Society Chapter Leader and former Coatesville resident Pat Sellers is one of those Hitler loving people. 

Pat Sellers would have had a much better chance of winning in 2014, Republicans made a dramatic slide to the extremist right wing.

It seems to me that being called a Nazi would not insult Pat Sellers. 

Pat Sellers stood at the podium in the Coatesville City Council Meeting Room just after Dick and Ricky Saha shouted "Nazi" at Coatesville City Council member Bill Chertok. I suppose he was trying to defend the Sahas when he said "Hitler wasn't so bad..." caught himself and stopped speaking. Dick Saha apologized in a Daily Local News article. Ricky Saha refused to apologize in that same article. 

Pat Sellers first run for Congress was in 1996. 

He had support and the blessing of Larry Pratt. 

LARRY PRATT  

Larry Pratt is a gun rights extremist who also advocates a theocratic society based on Old Testament civil and religious laws, and a pivotal figure in the militia movement.

Pat Sellers ran again for Congress for the 6th Congressional District in Pennsylvania in 2010. He ran openly as a John Birch Society Chapter Leader. 

Both of the Patrick Henry Sellers for Congress correspond to the rise of anti-government militia groups in the United States. 

SEE:

It’s not just Obama: Militia groups thrived under the last Democratic president too 

Pat ran against Jim Gerlach in 2010.

In 2014 Jim Gerlach was out of the race. He retired. It seemed like a good chance for Pat Sellers to make another go at running for Congress. 

In just those 4 years Republican politics made a dramatic slide to extremist right wing. Pat Sellers would have had a much better chance of winning in 2014.

But there was nothing from him. I found out later that he had some illness and moved to Texas. 

Republican Party headliner Donald Trump is a modern day Benito Mussolini. Not a Nazi but very close.

Washington Post 

Donald Trump, America’s modern Mussolini

By Dana Milbank Opinion writer December 8, 2015

Koch family has found an alliance in the continued homogenization of society. Republicans gain purity in a world they have always viewed as a dirty,  impure space and corporate empires like Koch Industries,  built under the care of Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union,   rise to lead the police state.

W's SS to hedge fund swap was DOA. Sooo,GOP Statehouses like PA are swaping teacher & police pensions to hedge funds

George W. couldn’t give our Social Security over to his credit default swap Wall Street & Swiss HSBC money laundering for terrorists banker pals. But PA Republicans are making up for it by passing teachers & police pensions to hedge fund managers. 

Whenever something with cash in it is “reformed” by Republicans you know there’s a lot of stealing going on.

"In the video clip, the Senator described the pension overhaul as a:A reform the was praised by the two largest chambers of commerce in Pennsylvania.  Praised by national organizations like Pew Foundation and ALEC, a conservative organization. 

After he claims that the bill was supported by the organizations, Corman takes shots at public sector unions for killing the bill, even though more than half of Republicans voted against it. 

In 2013, the Pew Foundation released a FAQ on “Why Pew Works with States on Pension Reform,” and in the questionnaire, the organization states why they are “parenting with the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.  At the time, the organization stated: 

We share the goal to help states design and adopt retirement systems that are fair, affordable and fiscally sustainable—while at the same time preserving governments’ ability to recruit and retain a talented public-sector workforce. We realize there is no one-size-fits all solution so we offer policymakers information that can help them offer retirement security to public workers,  protect taxpayers and maintain the state’s ability to deliver important public services. 

Around that same time, Matt Taibbi from the Rolling Stone exposed John Arnold for being a hedge fund manager who has profited off of state and municipal pension overhauls.  A few months later, Philadelphia native and investigative journalist David Sirota reported that the “Pew Center on the States, without mentioning that Arnold is financing Pew’s pension research with a $4.8 million grant 

A month after State Senator Jake Corman admitted that the Pew Foundation and ALEC both praised Pennsylvania for it’s approach on pension reforms, State Senator Jake Corman appeared on WITF Smart Talk, a local National Public Radio and Public Radio International affiliate, and cited ALEC for calling Pennsylvania “the leader in pension reform.” 

Take a listen to the audio below.  Disclaimer, State Senator Jake Corman was choking back the word “ALEC” but eventually came around to calling the organization by it’s proper name.  The American Legislative Exchange Council. 

MORE AT: 

#PABudget: Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman Admits Why ALEC and Hedge Fund Managers Want Pension Reform 

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Sean Kitchen in Front Page, January 2016

ALSO SEE:

Looting the Pension Funds

All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers

By Matt Taibbi September 26, 2013

The FBI lays an electronic siege on the Y'All Qaeda Reality Show-They’re nothing without internet access.

I can't help comparing the Bundy Ranch thing with the Saha Farm thing in Coatesville. 

Too many similarities. It brings back memories. 

 Dick Saha and Cliven Bundy are both smooth talkers when they speak to the press. 

The main difference is Dick Saha is no longer a threat to the people of Coatesville.

His primary John Birch Society henchman, Pat Sellers, Moved to Texas. 

The terrorist takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge established by President Theodore Roosevelt has escalated:

The Guardian 

Authorities plan to cut off power to militia at occupied Oregon refuge 

"Armed militants will begin their third day at the wildlife refuge and have vowed to remain for months in protest at over the treatment of two local cattle rancher"

I think it won't be violent.

I know this kind. 

I know what they need. 

It's not .50 Cal sniper rifles and AR-15s. 

This guy made a Martyrdom Video.  

Seems final. Seems like he expects a violent ending, right?  

It’s fake.  

It's political propaganda like everything else these people do. 

Just like the actual ISIS what they need most is internet access. Access for their political propaganda. They may have military style firearms and uniforms but they are just politicians pushing an extremist political agenda.

AR-15s, sniper rifles & army outfits are props. 

The FBI’s siege on VanillaISIS is electronic. 

The FBI knows they're nothing without internet access.

Femen political activists show their boobs. Y’ All Qaeda political activists show their  assault rifles. 

It won't get violent at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. But their Property Rights political propaganda machine might provoke some crazy gun nut to act:

SALON almost got it- "Vanilla ISIS," / "Y'all Qaeda" isn't shrinking & it's in Chester County, PA not just Outwest.

SALON almost got it- "Vanilla ISIS," / "Y'all Qaeda" isn't shrinking & it's in Chester County, PA not just Outwest.

"Something scary is happening in the so-called libertarian west. Armed terrorists have taken over a federal building in Oregon. By now, you know the story, even as it plays out in real time. It’s an escalation of an ongoing battle that started with the Cliven Bundy Ranch fiasco, wherein a gutless Federal government let a bunch of armed kooks run roughshod over basic law enforcement. Bundy refused to pay his grazing fees, and instead decided to make his private profit with stolen public resources, threatening violence if authorities attempted to correct his infractions. This latest dustup is superficially about a couple of ranchers given five-year prison sentences for setting fires that destroyed public land, but that is only a flimsy pretext; this is another round of antisocial behavior by a group of (mostly) men who are watching the decline—if not outright elimination—of their power and influence in the west.

This battle is not about individuals in any sense. Rather, it’s a fundamental disagreement about who controls public land. Nevada, like so many western states, has a tremendous amount of land controlled by the federal government. It’s complicated and technical, pitting business interests against recreation, access versus the protection of vulnerable species and habitat. The federal government does not always get it right and there are always winners and losers, but the vast majority of people who live here want public land to be protected, and the numbers aren’t even close. Thus, the central conceit of this battle is utter nonsense. By massive majorities, Nevadans do not want to give up public land to the likes of Cliven Bundy, who would use it to enrich themselves while denying access to others." 

MORE AT; 

MONDAY, JAN 4, 2016 04:04 PM EST 

The Bundy siege is a wake-up call: American extremists are getting desperate — and dangerous 

People like the Bundy family are on the decline in America. But before they disappear, they're going to raise hell VIDEO

EDWIN LYNGAR

Edwin Lyngar almost got it- "Vanilla ISIS," or "Y'all Qaeda" isn't shrinking, it's expanding:

“In its annual count of militias, released today", (January 4, 2015) "the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 276 militia groups – up from 202 in 2014, a 37 percent increase.” 

And it’s hardly restricted to outwest. We got a "libertarian" east in Chester County, PA. 

There’s Chester County Sheriff and extremist "Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association" leadership member Bunny Welsh. 

And this guy:

At a meeting in Philadelphia SPLC Chief Trial Attorney Morris Deeds put up 2 photos. One guy had a swastika on his forehead. The other guy had no tattoos and was wearing a coat and tie. 

Morris Dees and Ingrid Jones

Mr. Deeds said that the guy without the swastika is the scary one. 

“The armed militia occupying wildlife reserve wants to 'overthrow US government and spark national uprising’” 

Chester County has it’s very own "VanillaISIS"/ "Y'llQaeda"  types. They're more likely dressed up in camo than cowboy outfits and ride in pickup trucks with Confederate flags.

The fight here was over City of Coatesville land not Federal land. 

The scary ones are quiet and well armed.

ALSO SEE:

MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016

Land Use "Patriots" of Chester and Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania

Land Use "Patriots" of Chester and Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania

I had to learn this stuff in the Southern Poverty Law Center “Timeline: Land Use and the 'Patriots'” begining in the late 1980s before I knew how to use a computer. I used libraries and microfilm. 

"Timeline; Land Use and the 'Patriots'" is a look back. It's clear. It’s logical. 

As it was happening in the communities I lived in. especially in the pre-internet days, it was chaotic, threatening and sometimes nonsensical and difficult to understand. But we needed to understand how to deal with the people who opposed the Perkiomen Trail in Montgomery County PA. 

By the time I came back to Coatesville I was educated. I understood perfectly what was happening with the whole Saha “Save Our Farm” thing:

The language, the lawsuits, the threats that the Sahas and their mentor White Nationalist John Birch Society 30 year member & JBS Chapter Leader Pat Sellers used will show up in the “TIMELINE: LAND USE AND THE ‘PATRIOTS’”

If you really want to understand why the Perkiomen Trail took 11 years to get started.

Why the City of Coatesville’s plans for revitalization were quashed. 

And why the drug business that brought so much violence to Coatesville and that was begining to be under control was made good again by the election of the Coatesville City Council members called the “Bloc of Four”:

Read this first for background:

TIMELINE: LAND USE AND THE ‘PATRIOTS'

“The so-called “Patriot” or militia movement, which hit the United States in two waves cresting in the 1994-2000 period and again beginning in 2009, is animated by conspiracy theories about the federal government and its alleged intentions to merge the country into a global government ruled by dictatorial, socialistic elites.”

Piccolo mussoliniano candidates-“Privilege, Pathology and Power"-Koch/RNC primaries-Il Duce Donaldo ?

“Modern America is a society in which a growing share of income and wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, and these people have huge political influence — in the early stages of the 2016 presidential campaign, around half the contributions came from fewer than 200 wealthy families. The usual concern about this march toward oligarchy is that the interests and policy preferences of the very rich are quite different from those of the population at large, and that is surely the biggest problem. 

But it’s also true that those empowered by money-driven politics include a disproportionate number of spoiled egomaniacs. Which brings me to the current election cycle. 

The most obvious illustration of the point I’ve been making is the man now leading the Republican field. Donald Trump would probably have been a blowhard and a bully whatever his social station. But his billions have insulated him from the external checks that limit most people’s ability to act out their narcissistic tendencies; nobody has ever been in a position to tell him, “You’re fired!” And the result is the face you keep seeing on your TV. 

But Mr. Trump isn’t the only awesomely self-centered billionaire playing an outsized role in the 2016 campaign.” 

MORE AT: 

New York Times 

 “Privilege, Pathology and Power”

Paul Krugman 

In his column, “Privilege, Pathology and Power”, Paul Krugman doesn’t mention Charles and David Koch.  

Perhaps it’s because the Koch brothers are much more than donors to the Republican Party. They are part of the RNC.  

Or to put it more accurately the RNC is a sub corporation of the Charles and David Koch corporate empire. 

For now the RNC or Koch Empire is letting the racists roam free in Republican/Koch) Primaries. 

Soon the RNC/Koch will replace the piccolo mussoliniano candidates with kinder, gentler racist fascists:

“For a prescient comparison between today’s GOP and 20th Century fascism, it is worth considering Benito Mussolini’s ghostwriter and “philosopher of fascism,” Giovanni Gentile’s definition of fascism. Gentile writes that, “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” If that one statement does not accurately describe the Republican Party, and all its iterations, then the Sun rises in the West. It is nearing the point that although large corporations do not yet have ultimate control and power over government, republicans have brought the nation precariously close to government by corporation and achieved their fascist goals by closely following 20th Century fascist tactics of spewing hateful and religious intolerant ideology based on “traditional values;” values they claim the left have destroyed. 

Those traditional values of guns, god, and racial purity predominate the official GOP platform that corporate interests fund to elect conservatives to serve those corporate interests; not the people. There is a reason the Republican establishment, or the Koch brothers, have not yet brought their considerable power to bear on Donald Trump to end to his campaign; he is conditioning the base for a “kinder gentler” Republican fascist to appeal to more mainstream voters. It is why fascists like Scott Walker, Rand Paul, and Jeb Bush are being labeled “moderate” when they are just as vicious, just as fascist, and just as much a Koch-Republican as Donald Trump.” 

MORE AT: 

Donald Trump Exposes Koch Republicans As Glaring Fascists
By: Rmuse

The GOP wants an Il Duce to lead the party in the 2016 elections. But and establishment Il Duce might not win the primary.

Il Duce Donaldo could be on the November ballot. 

Or even:

Presidente Il Duce Donaldo