Y a-t-il une forte r\u00e9surgence des milices, groupes racistes, x\u00e9nophobes, etc., aux USA? Plut\u00f4t que r\u00e9surgence, d’ailleurs, on devrait parler d’\u00e9mergence, et m\u00eame d’\u00e9mergence explosive puisque les chiffres et le rythme d\u00e9passent largement la p\u00e9riode de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence des ann\u00e9es 1990. Un texte de Sam Stein, d’Huffington.com<\/em>, du 2 mars 2010<\/a>, rapporte les derni\u00e8res r\u00e9f\u00e9rences du Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abWhen the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security released a report this past August raising concern about the rise of right-wing extremist activity, a debate erupted over whether the findings were politically motivated or based on factual analysis.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbA slew of stories of right-wing violence from the shooting at the Washington D.C. Holocaust Museum to attacks on IRS buildings seem to verify DHS’s warnings. And a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that tracks instances of violent extremism, provides further evidence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOn Tuesday, the SPLC released its quarterly intelligence report, titled Rage on the Right, in which it charted what officials described as an astonishing rise in nativist extremist and anti-government Patriotic groups. The former, which includes institutions that go beyond mere advocacy of restrictive immigration policy to actually confront or harass suspected immigrants, saw its numbers bulge from 173 groups in 2008 to 309 in 2009. The latter saw an even larger explosion in numbers, going from 149 groups (including 42 militias) in 2008 to 512 (including 127 militias) in 2009. That is cause for grave concern, the SPLC concludes. Individuals associated with the Patriot movement during its 1990s heyday produced an enormous amount of violence, most dramatically the Oklahoma City bombing that left 168 people dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe entire report presents a rather grim and alarming portrait of the state of extremist organizations in America. Pointing to media figures (Fox News’s Glenn Beck) and lawmakers (Rep. Michele Bachmann) who have indulged in some of the conspiracy theories that drive these groups and their members, the SPLC suggests that a radical ethos is gradually becoming institutionalized in American politics.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe m\u00eame texte introduit un avertissement concernant les indications donn\u00e9es par le SPLC, selon le rappel que cette organisation avait \u00e9t\u00e9 l’objet d’investigations soup\u00e7onneuses, avec la propension qu’elle aurait \u00e0 lancer des indications alarmistes sur le sujet de son observation (les groupes d’extr\u00eame droite) pour obtenir des subsides et des abattements d’imp\u00f4ts: \u00abIn March 2007, Ken Silverstein of Harpers Magazine, pointed to the massive financial resources the group had on hand (per its tax filings) and concluded that: What<\/em> [SPLC] does best… is to raise obscene amounts of money by hyping fears about the power of those groups; hence the SPLC has become the nation’s richest civil rights organization.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\nNotre commentaire<\/h4>\n