Extremism: Here's the Data for Right vs. Left

VERUM SERUM (Blog), 4/19/2009 by Morgen - An Op-Ed in the NY Times on Friday [4/17] commented that conservatives reacted to the DHS report “by throwing a knee-jerk hissy fit” when in fact the report was “true”, and that “nearly all hate groups do indeed follow far-right ideology”. Variations on this theme have been reported throughout the mainstream media the past few days. ∴ This is a clever parsing of words as the most significant left-wing extremist groups are environmental and animal rights groups…which I suppose are guilty only of loving Mother Nature and polar bears just a little too much. ∴ In fact, in a nation-wide law enforcement survey conducted in 2008 by an academic research summit sponsored by the DHS, extreme environmental and animal rights groups ranked 2nd only to Islamic Jihadists as the greatest perceived threats at a national level. Read more and see the related chart at Verum Serum...