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Target: The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPV building pic)
Over the last couple of years, the Anti-Defamation League has garnered far more attention than its “anti-hate” rival, the Southern Poverty Law Center. But the SPLC remains a powerful and enormously wealthy node of the left, with its pile of available cash exceeding $700 million. The SPLC’s “hate group” designations, instead of being treated as the ideologically motivated trash that they are, have in the past won FBI approval and been used to justify online censorship and more.
In reality, of course, it is the SPLC itself that is the “hate group” for all practical purposes, and its work promoting deplatforming and censorship means that it effectively conspires against the rights of U.S. citizens.
It was the discredited SPLC that the writer of the FBI bulletin used to determine that Catholics who prefer Latin Mass are white supremacist, LGBTQ-phobic, misogynistic anti-Semites. https://t.co/Df5i5JBlj4— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 9,
2023
Much like the left dreams of destroying the NRA or the Federalist Society, it would be good to defang the SPLC. And fortunately, this is very reasonable to imagine.
Other liberals have been calling out the SPLC as a highly questionable organization for decades. In 2019, former SPLC staffer Bob Moser described the SPLC as a “con” that was “ripping off donors.” All the way back in 1996, the head of another progressive non-profit described founder Morris Dees as “a fraud and a conman.”
Morris Dees, even at 82, was SPLC's highest-paid employee. Here are some pics of the mansion he bought with his hated-filled junk-mail earnings: pic.twitter.com/MwKp3M6ghE— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) March 14, 2019
But there’s no reason to stop at the organization’s potentially shady finances. In 2019, the SPLC fired founder Morris Dees and alleged a pattern of both harassment and discrimination. The group promised a sweeping investigation with a full report, and of course, neither happened. Instead, as soon as attention wandered elsewhere, the whole matter was buried. Why not unbury it? Surely Alabama officials don’t want their state to be a haven for harassment and discrimination.
(Dees pic) Disgraced Morris Dees was fired from SPLC amid accusations of harassment and discrimination.
There’s more. During the trial of Douglass Mackey for making illegal memes in the 2016 election, the SPLC menaced one of Mackey’s planned character witnesses, Prof. George Hawley of the University of Alabama. Just before Mackey was to testify, the SPLC planned to release a hitpiece against Hawley, threatening his career to keep him from testifying. The gambit worked, and Hawley backed out. In essence, the SPLC engaged in witness tampering. And guess what? That’s a crime!
There is a simple reason the SPLC should not be able to exist in a state of perfect impunity: it’s based in Montgomery, Alabama. In case you weren’t aware, Alabama is a red state with a Republican attorney general, Steve Marshall. Hey, Steve! Would it kill you to shoot some subpoenas their way? Just as a start?
(Pic: Steve Marshall, Alabama AG ) (Pic: Ken Paxton, Attorney General, Texas, and Suzanne West, District Attorney, Val Verde County)
https://revolver.news/2023/10/the-definitive-maga-legal-counter-offensive-strike-back-against-regime-political-prosecution-spree/