Des milices armées US, “qui poussent comme des champignons”


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Les milices armées, blanches, furieuses, conservatrices, etc., poussent aux USA “comme des champignons”, selon Mark Potok, du Southern Poverty Law Center qui suit le développement des mouvements extrémistes. (Dans RAW Story, du 16 novembre 2009.)

«In a re-run of the phenomenon seen when President Bill Clinton took office, gun-rights advocates, libertarians, survivalists and others are forming militias as a symbol of their resistance to what they see as an administration that threatens to restrict their right to bear arms and expand government control over the lives of private citizens.

»“The truth is that these groups are popping up like mushrooms after a spring rain,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a social-justice group that has been tracking the rise of militias over the past year. Potok's group put out a report earlier this year raising the alarm about the resurgence of armed militias. Since then, he told CNN, the group has counted about 100 new groups formed across the country. “There really is this terrible fear mixed with fury about the idea that President Obama is somehow leading a socialistic takeover of America,” Potok said.»

Le développement des milices n’est pas vraiment une surprise dans le climat actuel aux USA. Une législation réglementant ou interdisant la vente libre des armes étant impensable dans les circonstances actuelles, ce développement va se poursuivre. Il a évidemment à voir avec le climat économique, la polarisation de la vie politique aux USA et l’élection de Barak Obama, c’est-à-dire d’un Africain-Américain. Il y a donc une dimension raciste nouvelle par rapport aux milices qui proliférèrent dans les années 1990.

«In its report from August, the Southern Poverty Law Center pointed out that the most recent wave of militia groups differs slightly from the wave seen under President Clinton in one respect.

»“A key difference this time is that the federal government — the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy — is headed by a black man,” the report states. “That, coupled with high levels of non-white immigration and a decline in the percentage of whites overall in America, has helped to racialize the Patriot movement, which in the past was not primarily motivated by race hate.”»

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