Who Wants to destroy the country? Who's against the government? The Hatriots are here.

The first step is to arm all the conservative paranoids out there with guns, guns, guns. 

All the while running a campaign vilifying liberals and Democrats as traitors trying to destroy the country. 

Daily Beast: The Hatriots have reared their heads again—this time in the form of a Georgia domestic terrorist plot against law-enforcement officials that variously contemplated ricin attacks, blowing up a federal building, and targeted assassination.

The defendants … age … ranging between their 60s and early 70s … their rhetoric was what we’ve come to expect from these unhinged self-styled super-patriots who love their country but hate their government. They would do violence to the Constitution in order to save it. “There’s no way for us, as militiamen, to save this country, to save Georgia, without doing something that’s highly illegal: murder,” said group leader Frederick Thomas according to an affidavit released by the FBI. "When it comes to saving the Constitution that means some people gotta die." “Let's shoot the bastards that we discover are anti-American,” Thomas said. “And to me the best way to do that is to walk up behind them with a suppressed .22"  "I could shoot ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] and IRS all day long," he continued. "All the judges and the DOJ [Justice Department], and the attorneys and prosecutors."

These aren’t liberals or progressives. They aren’t Scott Walker teachers and union members. They aren’t the peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators “beating their drums” either. These are conservatives.

Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center: "In 2008 we counted 149 patriot militia groups operating in the United States—by 2010 that number had increased to 824—that's a 500 percent increase. It's hard not to notice that this jump coincides with both the rise to power of Barack Obama and the subprime mortgage collapse."

The Georgia men in question are claiming they gained inspiration for the attacks from a self-published online novel written by Mike Vanderbough, an Alabama militia leader in the 1990s, who now lives on disability but infamously called for bricks to be thrown through the windows of Democratic congressional-district offices during the health-care vote. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the introduction of Vanderboegh’s self-published novel Absolved; “I must also present what amounts to a combination field manual, technical manual and call to arms for my beloved gunnies of the armed citizenry," Vanderboegh writes. "They need to know how powerful they could truly be if they were pushed into a corner."

Here's an older clip of Alan Colmes interviewing Mike Vanderbough:

What I especially like is that two of the three senior militia men were former government employees, who probably have nice retirement benefits.