Re the tea party and the troofers:
It seems to me that any time you have a movement that is organized and well publicized, such as the tea party thing, you will have it infiltrated and overrun with other fringe groups looking to ride the publicity coattails. Think of Cindy Sheehan’s whack job convention and its subsequent attendance by David Duke and other neo-nazi skinhead types. Where the media gather, so will the nuts.