liberal mandate for his great society programs like medicare, the war on poverty, which continued to be the bane of far right groups today. . it was 16 years before another full-fledged conservative would gain the republican nomination and this time win the presidency. in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. unlike goldwater, the far less threatening ronald reagan had help from the bad economy in 19 0 and from a well-organized network on the right that started in the 1970s. including the intellectual heft t heritage foundation, the conservative women s groups campaigning against the equal rights amendment. we ve got a right to be treated like ladies. just because there s a noisy bunch that s been promoting this dale that men and women have to be treated the same, we re not going to acquiesce in that. and powerful religious right
the radical right, that the federal emergency management agency, fema, is building secret concentration camps for american citizens. i wanted to debunk these fema camps. i m tired of hearing about them. i m tired of hearing i wanted to debunk them. well, we ve now for several days done research on them. i can t debunk them. rumors like this one, which beck later distanced himself from, stoked the new right s fear of federal tyranny. they give a nervous rationale to far right groups, including a new patriot organization called the oathkeepers. its members are military and police officers, both active duty and retired, who swear an oath to defend their view of the constitution, promising not to obey a list of hypothetical orders from the government. these include, in possession of martial law, the herding of american citizens into concentration camps. stewart rhodes, the founder of
patriot movement was ignited by the government assault on the branch davidian compound in waco. the waco siege was seen as this is what the government will do to people who dissent. if we were to have a similar kind of event now, i think it is entirely possible that we could see this movement grow even more rapidly than it s been growing over the last 12 or 1 months. in april, 2009, the department of homeland security warned that homegrown terrorism could be fueled by the severe recession and the election of the first african-american president. office of president of the united states. a common theme in the anger is across the spectrum of the new right is the deep dislike for barack obama. the deem onization of the president decorates many of the posters at the grassroots rallies. they call him a socialist. a communist. a nazi. a historic threat to the country. mr. obama is pushing a
recessions, big government spends your money and takes it away from you and you have less to save from your family. will this rage on the right help win elections or will it scare off voters? we will all know more in the fall with the voter reaction to this new range of voices from center right to far right, the tea parties, the birthers, the patriot groups, and the militias. but the new right, as we have seen, may not be satisfied with the election of officeholders a few notches to the right. increasingly, the anger on the right is stirred not just by a particular political party, the democrats, but by the federal government itself, and anyone whose part of it. to some on the right, and not only those who wear military garb on weekend training exercises, washington itself is viewed as a remote, even foreign capital. the elected government housed there is a tranical menace. those who work in it are agents
brother. and a taped message from al qaeda s chief financial officer who was killed last month says operations are stagnant due to a severe shortage of money. back to our special edition of hardball. the tea party so far is more aligned with republicans but they have some major ideological differences. many on the new right no longer strust the institution of government at all. embracing libertarian positions likeneding the federal reserve and perhaps even abolishing programs like social security. and medicare. positions far to the right of the regular gop. do you think the movement of people the tea party movement and other activism on the right will pull the republican party to the right? the republican party, of course, as a political party, their first objective is to elect ourselves. if they look back, where have we been successful in the business of getting folks elected it s when we have been the party of