Disturbing

We noticed this report from NBC News of a plot in Las Vegas to abduct and murder police officers by members of the lunatic "sovereign citizens" movement.  The movement doesn't recognize the authority of police officers or of government, and actively plans and executes killings of law enforcement officials.  Adherents to this crackpot movement have killed police in shootouts in Louisiana and Arkansas.  The Southern Poverty Law Center categorizes the movement as engaged in domestic terrorism.

Charles P. Pierce, writing in Esquire.com, connects the dots of this dangerous movement with the far-right:

"It has an audience because an audience has been created for it, in dozens of books, hundreds of hours of radio programs, and an entire Internet universe. It has an audience because its more polite adherents have found politicians to pander to it, politicians who should know better, but who would rather not. It has an audience because the NRA has told that audience that it is a besieged remnant of the America that once was free. People are making a buck on it. People are achieving power behind it. I don't really know how they sleep at night."