Hatewatch Headlines 10/2/14

Salon: Mainstream corporations funding far-right Islamophobe Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy.

KTBS-TV (Shreveport, LA): Armed ‘sovereign citizen’ threatening ‘hostile takeover’ pepper-sprayed, arrested by police.

Moyers and Company: Cops, gun culture, and the looming role of anti-government extremists.

Media Matters: Did Politico let conspiracy theorist suggest Obama’s assassination a necessity for Secret Service reform?

The Daily Herald (Columbia, TN): Former Ku Klux Klan member pleads guilty to cross-burning threat.

Breitbart Unmasked: Ron Paul’s Confederate sympathies come out of the closet as he defends secession.

Talking Points Memo: Why is extremism not a character issue for voters in the 2014 election?