Season 2, Episode 50: Teabagging Hutaree: How Political Posturing Is Fomenting Sectarian Militantism

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Permalink Reply by JayBarti on May 13, 2010 at 2:44pm

At long last the void which has been part of my MP3Player may now be filled.

Permalink Reply by mxyzptlk on May 16, 2010 at 2:40am

I commented on your site already, but wanted to add a little more nuttiness for flavor.

I’m here in Virginia where they recently held a gun-owners rally in a national park north of my city — it was the closest they could legally get to Washington, D.C. with a loaded weapon. They brought semi-automatics, hand guns, rifles, shotguns, etc., the works, a gun show fire sale parking lot. They did it as a warning to the president to be wary of taking their guns.

The irony is it was illegal for people to bring guns into a national park like they were doing until the Obama administration passed legislation making it legal (pissing off a lot of liberals). So if it wasn’t for the administration they were threatening from that park with those guns, they wouldn’t be able to go to that park and threaten the president with those guns.

It's of a piece with keep your government hands off my medicaid.

Permalink Reply by Lord Scarab on May 17, 2010 at 9:46pm

Woot episode! :D

Permalink Reply by Vash on May 18, 2010 at 6:02am

Great Episode guys. I was reminded of this article I read in TIME magazine from March 29, 2010 which says:

"the Hutaree are a symptom of the continuing militia phenomenon, one that seems to have gained impetus since the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the U.S. The Southern Poverty Law Center says that last year alone, the number of patriot and militia groups increased 244%, to 512. Though not necessarily racist, such groups fiercely oppose the federal government. In recent weeks, the health care debate seems to have fueled antigovernment sentiment that is far different from the last noticeable rise in extremist-group activity, after the 1992 election of Bill Clinton. "These shifts are a little more than some people can take," says Heidi Beirich, the Southern Poverty Law Center's director of research."

The full article is here: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1976308,00.html

Keep up the great work and the interesting topics!

Permalink Reply by Richard J on June 2, 2010 at 10:57pm

What's the schedule now guys. I'm feeling very unsatisfied by that last episode. How about some cross promotion. Have you thought of getting the guys from Irreligiosphy on the show? Whose guys are pretty funny.