Actually, the post is an excerpt from Rachel Tabachnick's 10-page article.

If you read Jeff Sharlet's book, The Family, there is a long historical connection between the evangelical Right and the business community that was opposed to the New Deal and, especially, the newly forming unions. Her article is about these connections. Plus, there is a new book that looks into the business-church history in greater depth. Sharlet's book mostly focused on the development of The Family.

Jason, you really made me laugh with this one. Just great.

Excellent post, Eric. Full disclosure: he's a former colleague, but a long-time friend.

I am certainly looking forward to your analyses because I am one of the "unclean and unwashed" on Afghanistan.

Whether you comment on the political dimension or not, your analyses of the miltary situation will certainly have a bearing on the political dimension. I am sure we'll be better able to judge the interaction between the two.

I recommend that those reading her article also go through the comments to the article where she posted a reply to my comment.

Thank you for the clarification. I actually wrote two different things. In the lead of my article I wrote that the hotels chose not to rent AR space. My comment on the SPLC site implied you had persuaded them not to rent. The lead of my article actually represents what your organization did. But, your clarification puts the record straight.

I am not a lawyer. I am not sure if your explanation absolves the two hotels. But, since I am not versed in constitutional law, I cannot pursue the discussion.

Again, thank you for the making the public record straight. And, best wishes in your fight for human dignity, human rights, and diversity. I spent nearly four years in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina and have seen firsthand the human tragedy that is a consequence of hatred.

I cannot be there, but I would be. This is always a tough fight. I know from the California experience with drilling offshore.

The key is to protest. But, the bigger key is to organize and network. Get local political folks involved. Think national, act local. Get that very promising Democratic candidate for governor, the Iranian-born guy promoting the great idea of a Florida State Bank, to make an appearance. I wish I could remember his name. Sorry, for being a dunce.

Thank you for your comment and congratulations on becoming a new American citizen. Since you are a "proud SAM Board of Directors member," you might be interested in the following information.

You may already know this, but I will write this for the benefit of other readers who may not be aware of the information.

The "anti-immigrant nativist extremists" refers to groups like the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and others who directly confronted, openly wearing weapons, Hispanic workers congregating at local work sites, Catholic Churches, and businesses.

In Arizona, open neo-Nazis joined with the local sheriff to intimidate American citizens (white and Indian), Hispanic immigrants, and even children at a church service and other places.

The rhetoric from these groups--documented all over the country--expressed a willingness to kill Hispanic immigrants. They created video games for young adults in which the object was to kill as many immigrants as possible. They characterized Hispanic immigrants as vermin or a disease. They blamed these immigrants, based on faulty data, for every political, economic, and social ill in the country. These nativist extremist groups were supported by parallel protests by the racist Council of Conservative Citizens, Ku Klux Klan groups, neo-Nazi groups, racist skinhead groups, and other white nationalist groups.

These groups derived their faulty data from NumbersUSA, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and the Center for Immigration Studies. The latter two, linked to John Tanton, are considered hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They also received faulty data from the Heritage Foundation, a group well connected to the Christian nationalist's Council for National Policy.

All of these nativist extremist and hard-right groups subscribe to the "rhetoric of insurrection" I noted in my article and my comment to RKBAmom above.

There is ample reporting from around the country that Tea Party protests have been joined or sponsored by nativist extremists groups as well as the other hard-right groups mentioned above, including in some cases the Patriot militia.

It is no accident that NumbersUSA made a presentation at the recent Tea Party Nation convention railing against immigrants. NumbersUSA is directly linked to and funded by a group headed by John Tanton, a white nationalist who received funding in the past from a Nazi-era eugenics organization called the Pioneer Fund. The head of the Pioneer Fund was at one time a member of the Council for National Policy (CNP). There are links between the CNP, nativist extremist movement, the Tea Party movement, and the John Birch Society--the far-right group promoting a wide variety of conspiracy theories over the past 50 years.

Since you are from the former USSR, you might be interested to know that the Society promoted the conspiracy theory in the 1950s that President Eisenhower was a communist. Senator Joseph McCarthy and the JBS pushed the conspiracy theory that the US Army and the State Department were run by communists. In fact, the whole federal government was run by communists.

There can be little doubt that the Tea Party movement, Christian nationalists, nativist extremists, and the hard-right willing be joining the Second Amendment March in DC and around the country.

The fact that two of the main speakers, Pratt and Mack have long, historical ties to the militia movement and Christian nationalism speaks volumes about what is driving this SAM. The SAM is but another example of white nationalism mainstreaming itself. Adding Rhodes only reinforces this.

To clarify, as Leonard Zeskind has written and documented extensively in his book, Blood and Politics, this white nationalist movement believes itself to be dispossessed. They believe they have already lost control of the federal government to a Jewish-liberal elite conspiracy. They believe they have been politically, economically, and socially dispossessed and will be displaced by Hispanic immigrants as the nation's demographics change. Thus, there is the rhetoric of having to "take back the country."

On the Christian nationalist side, they too believe they have to "take back the country." This time the enemy is secular humanism or liberalism, or, anyone who does not subscribe to their interpretation of the bible. They believe that all of their enemies are agents of Satan.

I support you and others in exercising your constitutional rights. I defended those rights for 20 years in service to the government on behalf of the American people. But, many of the groups that will be participating in your SAM do not believe that all of us Americans should have the same rights.

I could cite example after example of rhetoric explicitly implying the willingness to use violence to achieve political gains. I may have to address this in another blog post.

Moreover, I could cite dozens of examples of right-wing violence coming from the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, militia adherents (ideologically), and the Army of God that have actually used violence towards a political end. The targets they have killed or wounded include Jews, blacks, immigrants, abortion-related clinics and personnel, places where gays congregate, and gays themselves. All of these examples come from the extreme right-wing in America.

The Tea Party sign reading "We came unarmed (this time)" clearly implies a threat of explicit future violence.

It is but one example of the rhetoric of insurrection. Here are more:

Horwitz's November 2009 article (footnote 3) quotes Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the NRA twice: "The people have the right, must have the right, to take whatever measures necessary, including force, to abolish oppressive government." And again: "Our founding fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules." And, there is the t-short saying worn by Timothy McVeigh and many Tea Party protestors: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” Sometimes, it is shortened to "It's time to water the tree of liberty." This is an explicit threat of violence.

This rhetoric of insurrection is part of the culture of violence on the right-wing and extends to Christian nationalists and Republican lawmakers who employ it against the Supreme Court and other judges. It includes Republicans who encouraged people to bring guns to town hall meetings.

There is so much evidence for it that footnote 20 is just a tiny fraction.

There is nothing in my article that comes close to "hate speech." Nor, do you provide any examples to substantiate your assertion.

The article is about how the rhetoric of insurrection is moving further into the mainstream from such figures as Larry Pratt, Richard Mack, and Stewart Rhodes.

Of course, gun right advocates have the constitutional rights to free speech, to peaceful assembly, and to petition the federal government. They are exercising those rights.

But, that does not mean that I should refrain from examining what "speech" they are actually conveying and its origins.

Thank you for the comment.

The Tea Party Nation's convention has invited key speakers from the Christian Right who have long engaged in attacking homosexuals as agents of Satan and leading America (and its families) into ruin. They have also long advocated a Christian theocracy in America. The prominence of these speakers at the convention and the anti-gay agenda (among other issues) they will state will tie the Tea Party movement together.

Whatever the rank-and-file Tea Party activists may believe, the Christian Right's agenda is moving to provide "guidance," if not dominate the Tea Party movement.

In short, an anti-homosexual agenda is being added to an ostensibly libertarian agenda against the bank bailout, stimulus spending, and health care reform--the same mix within the Christian Right.

The Christian Right has long supported robust interpretations of the Second Amendment and has drawn support from gun rights advocates. The leaders of the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America are both members of the secretive Council for National Policy that brings together the elite of the Christian Right--especially its big business funding support like Koch and Hunt. Far right extremist groups such as Posse Comitatus and the Patriot militia recruited from guns rights advocates.

My concluding statement in the article meant that there will be cross-support between the Tea Party protests and the Second Amendment marches around the country at roughly the same time. I write in a probabilistic sense (meaning 95 percent) due to my former work as an intelligence analyst.

NumbersUSA will be presenting at the convention against comprehensive immigration reform.

The Tea Party movement is very much looking like a white Christian nationalist, white nationalist movement. I will be posting on this more in the future.