Assault-weapon Toting, Conspiracy-theory Spouting, Right-wing Crazies Are Domestic Terrorists

The LAX mass shooter, who used an assault weapon like the one below, is alleged to have carried a pamphlet or note referencing the New World Order.

The New World Order is just one of the many conspiracy theories that are so abundant on the right, from birthers, to truthers, to those who have wacko ideas about what is in the tenth amendment known as tenthers, along with neo-secessionists, preppers, survivalists, and some patriot militia groups. Some of those support the Tea Party, some are too far right even for them.  They form a radical right spectrum of overlapping obsessives and fanatics.
Wikipedia sums it up quite well (emphasis at the end added - DG):

Prior to the early 1990s, New World Order conspiracism was limited to two American countercultures, primarily the militantly anti-government right, and secondarily fundamentalist Christians concerned with end-time emergence of the Antichrist.  Skeptics, such as Michael Barkun and Chip Berlet, have observed that right-wing populist conspiracy theories about a New World Order have now not only been embraced by many seekers of stigmatized knowledge but have seeped into popular culture, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.   These political scientists are concerned that this mass hysteria could have what they judge to be devastating effects on American political life, ranging from widespread political alienation to escalating lone-wolf terrorism.

These are people who go off the deep end, from political extremism like the Tea Party, to the religious fundamentalism of crazy cults like the beliefs we see expressed about the end times by Michele Bachmann, to the Christian pretexts and claims of neo-nazis or the religious teachings of the KKK.
As a classic example, Wade Michael Page, the shooter of six people at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsln, was a neo-nazi who first encountered the white supremacists / neo-nazis in the U.S. military.  As noted by Reuters, via the Huff Po back in 2012:

U.S. Military Battling White Supremacists, Neo-Nazis In Its Own Ranks
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Aug 21 (Reuters) - They call it "rahowa" - short for racial holy war - and they are preparing for it by joining the ranks of the world's fiercest fighting machine, the U.S. military.
White supremacists, neo-Nazis and skinhead groups encourage followers to enlist in the Army and Marine Corps to acquire the skills to overthrow what some call the ZOG - the Zionist Occupation Government. Get in, get trained and get out to brace for the coming race war.
If this scenario seems like fantasy or bluster, civil rights organizations take it as deadly serious, especially given recent events. Former U.S. Army soldier Wade Page opened fire with a 9mm handgun at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Aug. 5, murdering six people and critically wounding three before killing himself during a shootout with police.
The U.S. Defense Department as well has stepped up efforts to purge violent racists from its ranks, earning praise from organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has tracked and exposed hate groups since the 1970s.
Page, who was 40, was well known in the white supremacist music scene. In the early 2000s he told academic researcher Pete Simi that he became a neo-Nazi after joining the military in 1992. Fred Lucas, who served with him, said Page openly espoused his racist views until 1998, when he was demoted from sergeant to specialist, dis ch arged and barred from re-enlistment.
While at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, Page told Simi , he made the acquaintance of James Burmeister, a skinhead paratrooper who in 1995 killed a black Fayetteville couple in a racially motivated shooting. Burmeister was sentenced to life in prison and died in 2007.
No one knows how many white supremacists have served since then. A 2008 report commissioned by the Justice Department found half of all right-wing extremists in the United States had military experience.

You could fairly claim this preoccupation with Satan and conspiracy theories was part of the Dana Carvey SNL parody back in the late 80s into the 90s.  The church lady arguably became the tea party lady.
I would add in as a perfect example some of the fact-averse, factually deficient claims made about attacks on Christianity.  Crazy  right wing extremist televangelist Pat Robertson wrote a book by the same title, New World Order, back in 1991.  He makes crazy claims about central banks, Jews, Free Masons, the fictional Illuminati, anything and everything 'New Age', the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission.  Directing and controlling it all, is Satan, as part of those end times, along with the anti-Christ.
We have the same thing, the same wah-wah-wah self-styled martyred victims which seems to be a defining right wing characteristic in the recent mass-email from the Minnesota Family Council, ginning up their share of the radical right spectrum with more misinformation and disinformation that they have to be afraid of the DoD and the U.S. Military  ("whaaa  whaaaaaaa" lie lie):

Why Is Military Leadership Accusing Christians of Being a Domestic Threat AND Attempting to Take Away the Religious Liberty Rights of the Soldiers Who Fight for Our Freedoms?

The reality of course is that there is no problem with the DOD and religion, the overwhelming majority of military chaplains are Christians.  The military is very Christian-leaning and very conservative leaning too.
There is a problem with religious fanatics who don't take no for an answer when rebuffed by fellow members of the military who don't know how to respect boundaries when proselytizing.  The best equivalent would be if you politely listened to someone who came to your door wanting to hand you pamphlets, talk to you about their religion -- and then would not stop, would not leave, but proceeded to hound and harass you "for your own good" whether you liked it or not.  THAT is what the religious right considers their religious freedom.  That is part of the conservative meme that if they can't harass and verbally abuse you, their rights to religion and free speech are impaired. That is the essence of another part of the email from the Minnesota Family Council, always with the hysterical hype type heading:

Christian Organization Labeled as "Domestic Hate Group" by Military Officers; Seriously? "Two weeks ago, at Camp Shelby in Mississippi, counter-intelligence officers presented a briefing that identified the American Family Association – a non-profit Christian organization – as a "domestic hate group." This was not the first time something bizarre like this had happened.

And then the MFC links to an publication on-line by a Bachmann crazy-eyed fanatic which includes this:

As Tim Wildmon, President of AFA, wrote in explanation, "The truth is that the American Family Association doesn't hate anyone. We love everyone, including homosexuals, enough to tell them the truth about the moral, spiritual, and physical dangers of homosexual conduct. Disagreement about the normalizing of homosexual behavior is not hate; it is simply disagreement."

 Here's the problem; there has been a long and ugly history of the abuse and hatred towards individuals, including in the military, who are same-sex oriented.  The reality is that, like it or not, there is no more government sanctioned religious bigotry in our military anymore.  We have a policy of tolerance, and it is not acceptable to try to undermine military policy and military discipline by ignoring that change in policy.  When you enlist in the military (or are drafted) you have to abide by military policy and discipline.  You can keep your beliefs, but you cannot undermine military policy and discipline, and you cannot inflict your beliefs on anyone else who DISAGREES with your beliefs.  This is not about simple disagreement, it is about respecting boundaries.  Your beliefs might dictate racial separation - as is the case with some neo-nazi/white supremacist groups, and there are such groups within our military.  But you cannot object that your religious rights and freedom of speech are being abused, or that you are being treated unfairly, because the armed forces are integrated, or because you are limited by military discipline in what you can display, for example tattoos that show outside your uniform.  You have to keep your bigotry and racism to yourself.  You cannot terrorize your fellow members of the armed forces, however much you want to do so. Then we have the next hysteria headline from the factually deficient source Faux News:

Does Army consider Christians, Tea Party, a terror threat?

Soldiers attending a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood say they were told that evangelical Christians and members of the Tea Party were a threat to the nation and that any soldier donating to those groups would be subjected to punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. A soldier who attended the Oct. 17th briefing told me the counter-intelligence agent in charge of the meeting spent nearly a half hour discussing how evangelical Christians and groups like the American Family Association were “tearing the country apart.”

I find this to be another example of fake news.  It is so improbable that anyone donating to the tea baggers would be subjected to punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.  There ARE limits to what a service member can do while in uniform, in terms of attending events, marching in political related parades, etc.  But so far as I can tell, there is absolutely no prohibition in the UCMJ that applies to donations to organizations like the Tea Party.  There is a prohibition against sending funds to organizations that are designated as terrorist groups, either foreign or domestic, but that is pretty much identical to the same laws which apply to civilians. It is of course true that the actions encouraged by the AFA are contrary to the positions of the U.S. Armed Forces, and that flouting those policies and regulations might get someone in trouble for disobeying orders, etc.  Ultimately, the U.S. Armed Forces is a FEDERAL entity; we see that collision with fundie right wing evangelicals and the feds in which our armed forces are in the middle - again from Reuters via the Huff Po:

Same-Sex Couples' ID Cards Spark Clash Between Pentagon, GOP-Led States
* Defense chief says action furthers prejudice in military * Officials say Pentagon demand violates state constitutions By David Alexander WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Several Republican-led U.S. states on Friday rejected Pentagon demands that their state militias issue identity cards to same-sex spouses and accused the Obama administration of using the military as a pawn in its bid to force social change. The resistance put the Pentagon on a collision course with states that have rejected a Defense Department request, first issued in September, for identity cards to be issued to same-sex spouses so they can begin receiving benefits due to married couples.

This isn't about genuine religious conscience and it isn't about freedom of speech. It is about an offensive lack of integrity on the right, and their determination to be obstructive, to mislead and inflame people, and their desire to create havoc when they don't prevail in their bigotry.