Ronin13
06-22-2011, 13:25
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110622/ap_on_re_us/us_hate_groups_fertile_ground
Just found this on the Yahoo main page and thought it kinda goes along with what was being discussed here a week or so ago. Pretty interesting stuff how Montana has all these extremists and crazies, but mostly they tolerate it... unless they cross the line. Some of it does make sense.
Experts say the number of radical right groups is growing across the country because of the poor state of the economy, rising immigration and fears that President Barack Obama's administration has an agenda to curtail individual liberties.
But when does tolerance lead to animosity?
Fisher said the Kalispell community does have its limits, as Gharst found out when he showed the pro-Nazi movie. But groups espousing their own views on government are tolerated.
"Montana has a live and let live mentality, and respect for each other's privacy and beliefs," the mayor said. "Sometimes that leads to people with beliefs outside the norm finding refuge in the Flathead Valley."
Just found this on the Yahoo main page and thought it kinda goes along with what was being discussed here a week or so ago. Pretty interesting stuff how Montana has all these extremists and crazies, but mostly they tolerate it... unless they cross the line. Some of it does make sense.
Experts say the number of radical right groups is growing across the country because of the poor state of the economy, rising immigration and fears that President Barack Obama's administration has an agenda to curtail individual liberties.
But when does tolerance lead to animosity?
Fisher said the Kalispell community does have its limits, as Gharst found out when he showed the pro-Nazi movie. But groups espousing their own views on government are tolerated.
"Montana has a live and let live mentality, and respect for each other's privacy and beliefs," the mayor said. "Sometimes that leads to people with beliefs outside the norm finding refuge in the Flathead Valley."