Sovereign Citizens Under Attack By SPLC & FBI
ABC Shamelessly Boosts Leftist Group’s Report on ‘Extremists’; Hypes Violence Threat
By Matthew Balan
NewsBusters.org
ABC broadcasted two completely one-sided reports on Thursday’s World News and Nightline on the supposed “huge spike in the number of Americans operating in the shadows, trying to take down the U.S. government even with violence,” as anchor Diane Sawyer put it. Correspondent Dan Harris’s main external source for his reports was a media favorite, the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center .
As she introduced Harris’s first report on World News, Sawyer trumped that “a new study finds there are now nearly 1,300 militias and other extremist groups in this country, an increase from 149 groups in 2008. And one of the fastest-growing groups is called ‘sovereign citizens.'” However, an examination of the SPLC’s report in question find that many of these supposed “extremist” groups have been around for longer than four years, and the only change is that the leftist organization recently designated them as such.
[Update, 09:27 pm Eastern: audio added above; video below the jump]
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