Something strange is happening in Short Creek, the desert home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
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Something strange is happening in Short Creek, the desert home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
The anti-Muslim hate parade continued its shameful march across the country in recent months. Six days before Christmas, Randolph Linn, 52, of St. Joe, Ind., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to setting fire to a mosque outside of Toledo, Ohio, on Sept. 30 after driving nearly two hours from his Indiana home “to get some payback” for Americans who had been killed, according to The Blade newspaper.
What’s in a name? For the American Third Position (A3P), the only white nationalist political party in the United States, apparently some sleight of hand.
In the months leading up to his trial on federal tax crimes, James Timothy Turner, the head of the largest antigovernment “sovereign citizens” group in the country, boasted that he knew “truths” about the federal government and history that would set him free.
If misery loves company, so does wacky, at least when it comes to America’s elected officials and some of the laws they think up and sometimes even pass. Take the City Council of little Nelson, Ga., home to 1,300 souls about 50 miles north of Atlanta.
In another act of violence attributed to the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement, a Florida man accused of printing his own currency and defying the courts was shot and killed after a four-hour standoff with police.
He’s getting closer.
It seems that as Americans become more accepting of same-sex marriage and LGBT people in general, many anti-gay groups grow more desperate in their attempts to smear gay men and lesbians with rhetoric linking them to all kinds of societal ills.
Influential groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) that have long fueled the Republican Party’s hard-line stance in the immigration debate have come under fire in recent months from the very conservative movement they have influenced for so long.
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