Governors from several states, including Utah and Nevada, have received threatening letters from an extremist group,  advising them, that  all fifty state governors, "need to remove themselves from office within three days or they will be forcibly removed."  A news report says the letters contain "no explicit threat of violence,"  whatever that means. Ask me? Forcibly removing an elected official from office is something that is going to require more can than wishful thinking. The FBI  has launched an investigation, and security has been increased in state capitols.

The Deseret News reports that the letter the Governor of Nevada received was from a Texas-based group called The Guardians of the Free Republics, and that on its Web site, the group, calls for a "bold achievable strategy for behind-the-scenes peaceful reconstruction of the de jure institutions of government without controversy, violence or civil war." The Deseret News reports, "Calls Thursday to the group's office were not immediately returned. Calls requesting information from the Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned. Besides Utah and Nevada, governors in Vermont, Wisconsin and Iowa also received a copy of the letter, and that on Wednesday governors received an advisory about the letter from the FBI. The FBI said the letters came from an  " identified sovereign citizens extremist group."  "Sovereign citizen extremists are individuals who reject all forms of government authority and believe they are emancipated from the responsibilities with being a U.S. citizen," the FBI said that, 'These extremists advocate for their views through the use, support and facilitation of violence or other illegal conduct."

Well, this kind of thing can be expected, in this political atmosphere, poisoned by right-wing talking heads. So called responsible public figures, like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, with their use of heighten rhetoric, pumped, to strike up extreme passion, to help in their political fights against President Obama and the Democrats, speak of their fellow Americans, and of democratically elected officials, as the enemy to be put down; as they do this, they open a door that should not be opened, and invite who know what to jump out. And before anyone says I am blaming Palin and Limbaugh for those threatening letters to the nation's governors, let me say this, Palin and Limbaugh's rhetoric give aid and comfort to violent extremists. Palin and Limbaugh may be thinking that  they are just addressing the street troops of the Tea Party Movement, but other kooks hear, and figure among themselves not to stop with one bunch of politicans, but to target them all, to bring them all down. And so, a door opens wider, that never should have been opened.

News Source: the Deseret News