Made From A Molehill By The Media

Not just the AP but now more wimpy liberal elitists from the Northeast are all over a few hotheads letting off some steam after a long drawn-out campaign. Just like the AP story, it's a reaction to the Southern Poverty Law Center mongering a bit of fear, in the grand American style.

"Most of this movement is not violent, but there is a substantive underbelly that is violent and does try to make a bridge to people who feel disenfranchised," says Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. "The question is: Will this swirl become a tornado or just an ill wind? We're not there yet, but there's dust on the horizon, a swirling of wind, and the atmospherics are getting put together for [conflict]."

Poetry is where one finds it.

The CSM does get a bit farther into the story than the AP did, w/ the poetic academic (from San Ber'doo, yet) & this bit of apocalyptica.

But for nonviolent secessionist groups like the League of the South, the hope is for a more vigorous debate about the direction of the US and the South's role in it, says Michael Tuggle, a League blogger in North Carolina.

Mr. Tuggle says his group isn't looking for an 1860-style secession but, rather, a model that Spain, for one, is moving toward, in which "there's a great deal of autonomy for constituent regions" – a foil to what is seen as unchecked, dangerous federal power in Washington.

"To a lot of people, the idea of secession doesn't seem so crazy anymore," says Tuggle. "People are talking about how left out they feel, ... and they feel that something strange and radical has taken over our country."

Ooohh, somebody feels "left out?" Cracker, please!!