I also think that saying that Fox News is partially responsible for murders committed by several distraught, often mentally ill individuals is sleazy, at best. It’s laughable to suggest that Beck’s comments about “Obama taking away your guns” is responsible for violence. So what that certain homicidal individuals use language similar to Glenn Beck’s? Islamic terrorists/fundamentalists use passages directly from the Koran and Hadith all the time.

this seems fair. the only thing i would say that even more frightening would be an organized and institutional movement. right now what you are seeing are crazies who are acting out in response to the leftward shift in american politics.

Yes, but how long until the individual crazies become a full-fledged terrorist group?

I never thought I’d be seriously considering that scenario. Doesn’t seem too far-fetched now.

We’re still a long way from center, let alone left, but I guess to these guys it looks that way.

Another method is to create socially engineered copies of your organization through the use of social media. Basically, this means providing the motivation, knowledge, and focus necessary for an unknown person (external and totally unconnected to your group) to conduct operations that advance your group’s specific goals (or the general goals of the open source insurgency). All forms of self-replication will rapidly improve with advances in technology and connectivity.