Remember the hysteria about 'militias' during Bill Clinton's reign? His Attorney General was Janet Reno. She is not as nice as she looks. Her FBI murdered eighty people at the Waco HQ of an extreme religious sect. Then the FBI murdered a woman called Vicki Weaver because her husband is a white separatist. In a panicked over-reaction, two right-wing extremists blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, killing 168 people. One should think twice before stirring up paranoia.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/04/anti-racist_group_argues_shoot.html

"Police in Portland will review reports from a group called Portland Anti-Racist Action, which argues that ... was the victim of an orchestrated attack by neo-Nazis"

This article even repeats Anti-Racist Action's fictional history of British working-class youth culture. Perhaps ARA will soon be taken as seriously by the police and the media as the Southern Poverty Law Center.

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/04/sowing_seeds_of_extremism.html

"Even more disturbing has been the increase in militias, a paramilitary wing of the Patriot movement."

That's exactly what they said in 1995. Left-wing anti-fascists just repeat the same alarmist nonsense in more radical language. Whose interests does this serve?