2009年 08月 14日
アメリカでミリシア復活！ |
今日の甲州はまたよく晴れました。気温もぐんぐん上がって蒸し暑い一日です。
さて、アメリカでミリシア（市民による民兵）をはじめとする極右武装派の活動が再び盛り上がってきているという話がCBSなどの主要メディアで取り上げられてましたのでその話題を少し。
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SPLC Report: Return of the Militias
（中略）
They're back. Almost a decade after largely disappearing from public view, right-wing militias, ideologically driven tax defiers and sovereign citizens are appearing in large numbers around the country. "Paper terrorism" — the use of property liens and citizens' "courts" to harass enemies — is on the rise. And once-popular militia conspiracy theories are making the rounds again, this time accompanied by nativist theories about secret Mexican plans to "reconquer" the American Southwest. One law enforcement agency has found 50 new militia training groups — one of them made up of present and former police officers and soldiers. Authorities around the country are reporting a worrying uptick in Patriot activities and propaganda. "This is the most significant growth we've seen in 10 to 12 years," says one. "All it's lacking is a spark. I think it's only a matter of time before you see threats and violence."
A key difference this time is that the federal government — the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy — is headed by a black man. That, coupled with high levels of non-white immigration and a decline in the percentage of whites overall in America, has helped to racialize the Patriot movement, which in the past was not primarily motivated by race hate. One result has been a remarkable rash of domestic terror incidents since the presidential campaign, most of them related to anger over the election of Barack Obama. At the same time, ostensibly mainstream politicians and media pundits have helped to spread Patriot and related propaganda, from conspiracy theories about a secret network of U.S. concentration camps to wholly unsubstantiated claims about the president's country of birth.
Fifteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote then-Attorney General Janet Reno to warn about extremists in the militia movement, saying that the "mixture of armed groups and those who hate" was "a recipe for disaster." Just six months later, Oklahoma City's federal building was bombed. Today, the Patriot movement may not have the white-hot fury that it did in the 1990s. But the movement clearly is growing again, and Americans, in particular law enforcement officers, need to take the dangers it presents seriously. That is equally true for the politicians, pundits and preachers who, through pandering or ignorance, abet the growth of a movement marked by a proven predilection for violence.
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ミリシアを訓練する新しい組織が全米だけで５０団体増えたとか。機は熟しており、あとは誰かが火をつけるだけで燃え上がる、というようなコメントもありますね。
もちろんこれは地政学的な状況による事情がありまして、まずメキシコの不法移民の流入と麻薬戦争、そして最大なのはオバマという黒人大統領が出現したことだと言っております。
くわしいレポートはこのPDFを見ていただきたいのですが、経済不安が蔓延してくると、アメリカは国内的にもかなりまずいことになりそうです。
さて、アメリカでミリシア（市民による民兵）をはじめとする極右武装派の活動が再び盛り上がってきているという話がCBSなどの主要メディアで取り上げられてましたのでその話題を少し。
＝＝＝＝
SPLC Report: Return of the Militias
（中略）
They're back. Almost a decade after largely disappearing from public view, right-wing militias, ideologically driven tax defiers and sovereign citizens are appearing in large numbers around the country. "Paper terrorism" — the use of property liens and citizens' "courts" to harass enemies — is on the rise. And once-popular militia conspiracy theories are making the rounds again, this time accompanied by nativist theories about secret Mexican plans to "reconquer" the American Southwest. One law enforcement agency has found 50 new militia training groups — one of them made up of present and former police officers and soldiers. Authorities around the country are reporting a worrying uptick in Patriot activities and propaganda. "This is the most significant growth we've seen in 10 to 12 years," says one. "All it's lacking is a spark. I think it's only a matter of time before you see threats and violence."
A key difference this time is that the federal government — the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy — is headed by a black man. That, coupled with high levels of non-white immigration and a decline in the percentage of whites overall in America, has helped to racialize the Patriot movement, which in the past was not primarily motivated by race hate. One result has been a remarkable rash of domestic terror incidents since the presidential campaign, most of them related to anger over the election of Barack Obama. At the same time, ostensibly mainstream politicians and media pundits have helped to spread Patriot and related propaganda, from conspiracy theories about a secret network of U.S. concentration camps to wholly unsubstantiated claims about the president's country of birth.
Fifteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote then-Attorney General Janet Reno to warn about extremists in the militia movement, saying that the "mixture of armed groups and those who hate" was "a recipe for disaster." Just six months later, Oklahoma City's federal building was bombed. Today, the Patriot movement may not have the white-hot fury that it did in the 1990s. But the movement clearly is growing again, and Americans, in particular law enforcement officers, need to take the dangers it presents seriously. That is equally true for the politicians, pundits and preachers who, through pandering or ignorance, abet the growth of a movement marked by a proven predilection for violence.
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ミリシアを訓練する新しい組織が全米だけで５０団体増えたとか。機は熟しており、あとは誰かが火をつけるだけで燃え上がる、というようなコメントもありますね。
もちろんこれは地政学的な状況による事情がありまして、まずメキシコの不法移民の流入と麻薬戦争、そして最大なのはオバマという黒人大統領が出現したことだと言っております。
くわしいレポートはこのPDFを見ていただきたいのですが、経済不安が蔓延してくると、アメリカは国内的にもかなりまずいことになりそうです。
by masa_the_man
| 2009-08-14 16:12
| ニュース
