When time permits, I'll write a better introduction for this page; but for the moment,
the general overview goes like this: The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted [4/21/2026]
on fraud and money-laundering charges, because the SPLC was allegedly funding the racists
that they pretended to fight. This is a variation on an old principle that guides
a lot of "public service" groups: If you pay me a million dollars a year to
solve a problem, I will make sure that problem is never solved. Since there
aren't more than a handful of militant anti-black racists in the U.S., apparently the SPLC
had to resort to paid actors. Think about it: If you wanted to attend
a KKK meeting, where would you go? The KKK is practically absent.
Overview: Holding
the Media Responsible for the SPLC Scandal. For those who have long watched Southern
Poverty Law Center and the extraordinary influence it has with the media, the last few weeks have
been positively beautiful to behold. That nigh-unassailable bastion of "anti-racist
monitoring" has been indicted in federal court for funneling $3 million of its nonprofit
coffers toward paying the very racial extremists it professed to stand against. The scheme
could have sprung from the pages of a comic book: SPLC funding neo-Nazis and other white
supremacists to actively hate people, so that SPLC could campaign against them. It's
basically akin to the fire department putting the torch to your house and expecting to be paid to
put it out. SPLC's motives and actions could almost be laughable. But there is no
hilarity in this situation. Not with SPLC having fought tooth and claw across the previous
five and a half decades to establish itself as the definitive arbiter of "hate" in America.
Which in the case of SPLC happens to be anything to the right of the Politburo.
Was the OKC Bombing
a SPLC/FBI Sting Gone Wrong? [Scroll down] I would argue that, from the
SPLC's perspective, the Oklahoma city bombing did not go wrong at all. The SPLC exploited the
destruction of the Murrah Building as ruthlessly as it did the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in
Charlottesville. For the SPLC, OKC has been the gift that keeps on giving. No
anniversary passes without a headline from the SPLC such as "Oklahoma City Bombing: 26 years
later, the same extremist threats prevail." This article was listed under the rubric
"Dismantling White Supremacy," the last thing the SPLC actually wanted dismantled. The
evidence for SPLC involvement in the blast "included a leaked 1996 FBI director teletype showing
McVeigh called Elohim City two days before the blast — information the FBI only obtained
through an SPLC informant inside the compound." For the record, Elohim City is a private
"Christian Identity" community in Easter Oklahoma that in the 1990s was sort of a Casablanca for
terrorist wannabes. Some unhealthy percentage of its residents were, if not terrorists,
playing terrorist for some entity, at least two for the SPLC.
The
True Nature Of The Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC) has long posed as America's premier watchdog against "hate." Founded in 1971 in
Montgomery, Alabama, it built a massive endowment — topping hundreds of
millions — by mailing dire warnings about rising extremism to fearful donors. Yet
beneath the polished facade of civil rights heroism always lay a darker agenda: a partisan
smear machine designed to delegitimize, defame, and ultimately destroy conservatives who dare
defend traditional values, border security, religious liberty, and free speech. While most
pro-family groups cowered or avoided talking about the SPLC, MassResistance has consistently
exposed their tactics. With more exposure in a federal criminal case, the institution is
facing well-deserved financial and legal freefall. The organization's recent federal
indictment for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering — alleging it secretly
funneled over $3 million in donor funds to informants tied to extremist groups like the Ku
Klux Klan and Aryan Nations — only confirms what MassResistance has warned about for
years: the SPLC was never fighting hate; it was manufacturing it to justify its existence.
Alabama
AG Investigates SPLC for Deceptive Practices Amid KKK Funding Scandal. Alabama
Attorney General Steve Marshall is demanding the Southern Poverty Law Center hand over donor
information, fundraising solicitations, and other internal documents after a federal grand jury
indicted the SPLC for allegedly funding members of the very hate groups the SPLC claims it exists
to "dismantle." Marshall's office issued a formal subpoena to the Montgomery-based nonprofit
on Monday, launching an investigation under Alabama's law against deceptive trade practices.
"We have always suspected that they were monetizing hate and trading on race-baiting, it was just a
matter of proving it," Marshall said in a statement on the subpoena. "Thanks to the U.S.
Justice Department's action to deal with the SPLC, the state's efforts have now received a shot in
the arm. We look forward to learning more about the inner workings of an organization that we
have long believed was rotten, but until recently, has been impervious."
The
SPLC's Drama Queen Media Defense Swings And Misses. Charged with federal crimes for
allegedly making false statements to banks and making wire transfers in the names of companies that
didn't exist, the Southern Poverty Law Center hired Hunter Biden's lawyer (among many others) and
signaled an Orange Man Bad defense: Mean Donald Trump is having us prosecuted as a partisan
attack, because we're politically left and he's politically right. Previewing the strategy
with an opening salvo on April 28, the SPLC's small army of lawyers filed a 27-page brief (and
do remember that page count) demanding that the courts protect their client against the DOJ's cruel
public lies on scary Fox News. The SPLC posted the whole brief on its website, and you can
read it [t]here. It claims that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has falsely claimed that
the SPLC never told law enforcement about things learned from its informant program, when they
actually did. Screenshot of the opening statement, after a long table of contents and table
of authorities that took up five whole pages: [Advertisement] [Screenshot]
Southern
Poverty Law Center pleads not guilty in federal fraud case. The Montgomery-based
Southern Poverty Law Center pleaded not guilty on Thursday to all charges presented by the federal
government. The 11-count indictment, filed last month, accuses the organization of wire fraud
in connection to a program in which it paid informants to infiltrate and monitor rightwing
extremist groups. "The charges against the SPLC are provably wrong," Abbe Lowell, attorney
for the Southern Poverty Law center said. "They are based on inaccurate facts and
inapplicable law." The SPLC claims the charges are a reflection of a Trump Administration
pushback against long-held American values.
Biden
DOJ Was In Cahoots With SPLC As It Funded Extremist Groups, Former Official Admits.
The Biden administration's Department of Justice and FBI were aware that the Southern Poverty Law
Center was paying "informants" in the KKK — and according to former Obama official Norm
Eisen, that apparently means donors have nothing to be upset about. The SPLC (which has spent
years demonizing conservatives, including The Federalist) was indicted by a federal grand jury last
month for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The SPLC
allegedly funneled millions of dollars it received via donations to pay "a covert network of
informants" who were part of "violent extremist groups" such as groups like the KKK. The press
release for the indictment alleges that SPLC did not disclose to its donors that "some of their
donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time
that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website." Acting Attorney General Todd
Blanche said in a statement that SPLC was "manufacturing racism to justify its existence."
Florida
launches civil investigation of SPLC for alleged 'deceptive' practices. Already, the
leftist Southern Poverty Law Center has been named in an 11-count federal grand jury indictment on
allegations of a decade of fraud and money laundering. The charges allege the group was
paying, covertly, individuals tied to groups like the Aryan Nations, the Ku Klux Klan and the
National Sociality Party of America, the American Nazi party, with money it obtained from donors
who believed it was fighting those groups. Now there's a follow up.
[Advertisement] It is Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier who has begun a civil
investigation to determine if allegations of "deceptive and unfair practices" took place in his
state. Uthmeier has issued an investigative subpoena under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair
Trade Practices Act requiring the SPLC turn over "documents and evidence" by May 25.
According to a report from Liberty Counsel, which long has opposed the SPLC's extremist agendas,
"With these records, investigators seek to uncover how donations from Floridians were used and
whether residents were informed of donations potentially going to the very extremist organizations
the SPLC claims to fight against."
Feeding
Frenzy? Florida AG Opens New Fraud Probe Into SPLC. The more the merrier?
When it comes to interstate fraud, that may be more true than the Southern Poverty Law Center
knows. And more than it can withstand, too. The SPLC already faces a federal criminal
indictment alleging fraud and money laundering in its use of donor funds to pay off hate-group
leaders and organizers, including the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. So
far, the Department of Justice has only indicted the organization and not any of its leaders.
However, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has just announced a new civil fraud probe of the
SPLC and its leadership, and that may make matters for the SPLC even more complicated:
[Advertisement] [Lengthy excerpt] One might ask: What does this matter if the DoJ
is already pursuing criminal charges against the SPLC? Our friend Shipwreckedcrew, a former federal
prosecutor, calls this a very big deal. In fact, Ship thinks this is just the start of
something much bigger: [Advertisement] [Tweet]
Georgia
Sen. Jon Ossoff Has a Few Hundred Thousand Reasons to Stay Mum on SPLC Scandal.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is ostensibly a non-profit devoted to tracking "hate groups"
and fighting for civil rights. However, they've long been known to push a radical woke agenda
and often label organizations as hate groups simply because they don't like their politics.
[Advertisement] In April, however, the chickens came home to roost as the Department of
Justice charged them with 11 federal counts and alleged that they'd funneled over $3 million
to extremist groups. The SPLC claimed it was to pay informants, but the DOJ called BS and
alleged that they were actually funding violence to keep their business model thriving. One
prominent Democrat has been notably silent on the issue, Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff. Looks
like he has good reason to pretend it isn't happening: [Tweet]
The SPLC Was One Giant
Fraud. Fourteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center named me a hate group of
one. The honor wasn't mine alone, I shared it with a sign outside a bar and a brand of gun
oil. What was behind the SPLC's sloppy hate group designation of one man, a bar sign and
other random items was its obsession with manufacturing a constant rise in 'hate groups.' Year
after year, the SPLC would issue reports claiming that hate groups were increasing in number, and
then fundraise off the urgent threat that they had invented. I caught them doing it time and
time again. In 2017, the SPLC issued a report claiming that the "number of anti-Muslim hate
groups tripled since 2015". How did the leftist group arrive at this number? It listed Act
for America, a patriotic organization started by a Christian refugee from Islamic persecution, as
one group in 2015. Then it listed 45 chapters of Act for America as separate organizations in
2017. Suddenly, the number of 'Islamophobic' groups had tripled. Such pathetically obvious
statistical frauds were all too common in the Southern Poverty Law Center's work, but the media
rarely questioned it.
It
Looks Like the Southern Poverty Law Center Wasn't Only Funding White Supremacists.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is already in a precarious position when it comes to keeping his seat
in the upcoming midterm elections. His relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC) might make things even worse. [Advertisement] Federal Election Commission (FEC)
filings revealed that the SPLC contributed over $700,000 to his campaign during the 2020 race,
according to Fox News. Oddly enough, this places Ossoff in the same category as the Ku Klux
Klan and other white supremacist groups whose leaders have received oodles of cash from the
organization. Ossoff and the SPLC have a longstanding relationship. The organization was
so zealous in their advocacy for the center that it even dedicated a page on its website to him.
SPLC
Indictment Shows Partisan Activists Were Running The FBI Domestic Terror Program. The
real Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) scandal isn't just the indictment. The deeper scandal
is that the FBI used a highly partisan activist group as an unelected, unvetted intelligence wing
of the federal bureaucracy. For years, the bureau didn't just consult the SPLC. It folded the
group's ideology into its threat assessments and other work products, then used those products to
brand Americans as hateful or flag them as potential domestic violent extremists. I warned in
June 2021 that the Biden administration's "National Strategy for Countering Domestic
Terrorism" provided the blueprint for this institutional capture. Specifically, Pillar 1 of
the strategy formalized public-private partnerships and relied on "non-governmental analysis" to
identify threats. That framework greenlit a backdoor around the Constitution. By
treating the SPLC's partisan analysis as a substitute for sworn evidence, the government laundered
ideological narratives into official federal threat assessments. This shadow intelligence
partnership was not an accident.
DOJ
Releases Report Alleging Anti-Christian Bias Under Biden. The Department of Justice
(DOJ) on April 30 released a 500-page report detailing alleged anti-Christian bias on the part
of the Biden administration. According to the report by the DOJ's Task Force to Eradicate
Anti-Christian Bias, the former administration's prosecutions, policies, and practices constituted
bias throughout multiple agencies, in accordance with the administration's priorities. The
task force is chaired by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. [Advertisement] "No
American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith," Blanche
said. "As our report lays out, the Biden Administration's actions devastated the lives of
many Christian Americans." Around 200 pages of the report are dedicated to the actions
of more than 17 federal agencies that uncovered alleged religious discrimination. The
investigation included a review of internal discussions and case files, as well as prosecutorial
decisions. There were details of a since-retracted 2023 FBI memo on "radical traditionalist"
Catholics, which cited the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The
SPLC's War on Immigration Restriction and America. The Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC) is in the news because the Trump administration has been investigating, and is now
prosecuting, it for various kinds of malfeasance. In 2025, shortly after Charlie Kirk was
murdered, Kash Patel's FBI "cut all ties" to the notorious left-wing espionage organization, which
has spent years persecuting conservative groups like Kirk's TPUSA, my former employer VDARE.com,
and all immigration patriot groups, no matter how mainstream they are. Last week, Patel
announced the prosecution of the SPLC for "11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a
federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering." [Tweet]
Southern
Poverty Law Center Gets Taste of Its Own Debanking Medicine. After years of the
Southern Poverty Law Center demanding that charitable foundations blacklist conservative and
Christian nonprofits, the shoe is finally on the other foot: Fidelity Charitable has denied
contributions to the SPLC. Fidelity hasn't targeted the SPLC for ideological reasons in the
same way the SPLC targets conservatives, however — America's largest sponsor of
donor-advised funds is merely following its own policies regarding nonprofits under criminal
investigation. As The New York Times first reported, Fidelity cut off grants to the SPLC from
its customers, who have more than 350,000 donor-advised funds — charitable giving
accounts that allow them to maximize tax savings while supporting eligible nonprofits.
"Fidelity Charitable is aware of an ongoing governmental investigation into the Southern Poverty
Law Center," the company wrote in an email to a donor, the Times reported. "Consistent with
our grant-making standards and practices, the organization is not an eligible grant recipient
during the ongoing investigation."
Blind
spot: Media amplified white supremacy narrative as SPLC funded Charlottesville
organizer. In the wake of the Charlottesville rally in August 2017, the media
relied on Southern Poverty Law Center experts to explain an apparent rise in white supremacy in
America after Donald Trump's election. But, while SPLC's experts helped the media understand
America's racism problem after the rally, it was allegedly funding an organizer of the event, a
member of a racist group prone to extremism. At the same time it was double-dipping, the
Charlottesville rally launched SPLC's credibility to new heights and boosted its fundraising
hauls. Throughout the last decade, SPLC also covertly funded members of racist groups prone
to extremism, including the Aryan Nations, the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of
America, federal prosecutors alleged in a recent indictment, which charged the organization with
11 counts of wire and bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. In total,
they allege SPLC funneled more than $3 million from 2014 to 2023 to individuals associated
with these and other similar groups.
There's Never Just
One Cockroach. On April 21, the DOJ flipped on the light in the SPLC's kitchen
and spotted a scurrying cockroach called "wire fraud and money laundering." [...] The fashionable
reaction among online patriots has been to post their battle scars from the SPLC. VDARE.com has too
many to count — but it's an interesting phenomenon because it highlights just how greedy
the SPLC became. Being named as an agent of hate by the SPLC was so common, it practically
became a credential on the right — if you weren't named, you weren't serious.
Every new pin on the SPLC's Hate Map ginned up fears and opened wallets among the paranoid
leftists. And yet it wasn't enough! The SPLC ginned up hysteria about racism as a
fundraising tool. It was extremely effective — so effective, in fact, that the
demand for racism outstripped the supply. Like an undertaker drumming up business, the SPLC
ludicrously labeled Rand Paul, Ben Carson, Majiid Nawaz, and other clearly mainstream people as extremists.
Will
The Real Hate Group Please Stand Up. Revelations that the leftist Southern Poverty
Law Center had been funding "hard right" extremist groups raise an important question beyond
whether or not it was defrauding donors. The question is: If right-wing hate is so
prevalent in America, why does the left have to fund it? We're still learning what it is,
exactly, that the SPLC has been up to, but what we've learned so far is pretty damning. The
group — whose "hate map" holds tremendous sway with the press, politicians, and
corporate America — was apparently raising money on the promise that it would stamp out
hate groups, then use some of that money to fund the worst of the worst hate groups.
SPLC's
Double Game: Funding extremists while spending millions to swing Southern elections.
At the same time it was funding elements of extremist, racist groups, the Southern Poverty Law
Center was doling out hundreds-of-millions of dollars to drive voters to the polls across several
Southern states it claimed were trying to suppress minority votes. For decades, the Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has positioned itself as the nation's preeminent watchdog, which
maintained a controversial "Hate Map" that increasingly labeled benign conservative organizations
and religious groups as hate groups. But a bombshell federal indictment returned by a grand
jury in Alabama last week suggests the organization was playing a far more cynical double game:
allegedly manufacturing the very extremism it claimed to be fighting to keep its fundraising
machine humming. According to federal prosecutors, the SPLC secretly funneled more than
$3 million from 2014 to 2023 to individuals associated with violent extremist groups,
including the Aryan Nations, the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America.
The Southern Poverty
Law Center. The SPLC was established in 1971 by lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph Levin
Jr., with Dees being the main leader within the organization. Dedicated to "fighting hate and
bigotry", the SPLC began to monitor the activities of various hate groups and other organizations
it deemed to be extremist. In 1981, it came with the idea of Klanwatch in order to target the
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) by means of litigation education, and monitoring. Thus, the SPLC would
keep tabs on the KKK and eventually brought lawsuits against the Klan. One of the best-known
lawsuits the SPLC pursued was a 1987 lawsuit against the United Klans of America (UKA). The lawsuit
originated after a couple of its members viciously murdered an African-American named Michael
Donald. Despite both members being convicted (in which one of them was sent to the electric
chair) and the fact the UKA was fledgling, Morris Dees felt that the wheels of justice had not gone
far enough. So, he persuaded Michael's mother Beulah Mae Donald to file a lawsuit against the
UKA. The result of the civil trial resulted in a $7 judgment against the UKA, which was only able
to come up with around $50,000 (and supposedly handed over the deed to its headquarters as well).
Unearthed
video: Jocelyn Benson 'very proud' to be on Southern Poverty Law Center board of directors.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has said she's "very proud" of her work at the disgraced Southern
Poverty Law Center, but whether that changed with a criminal indictment against the nonprofit last
week is unclear. Benson appeared on a Detroit PBS' American Black Journal broadcast in 2015,
while serving as dean of Wayne State University Law School, to heap praise on the SPLC, where she
served on the executive board until 2019. [Tweet with video clip]
Just How Many Criminal
Cases Did the SPLC Corrupt? BLM and its allies may have caused some $2 billion
dollars in damage during their orgy of violence post-Floyd, but that havoc troubled the SPLC not at
all. In an environment that fraught, Derek Chauvin and his three colleagues had no chance at
justice, but the SPLC did not blink. It celebrated "the tens of thousands of people [who]
would march in solidarity for Floyd and BLM" and ignored the mob's poisonous effect on the
Minneapolis jury pool. BLM first showed its clout in Ferguson, Missouri. The SPLC
championed the cause of Michael Brown, "the black, unarmed teenager who was shot and killed in
Ferguson, Mo., by police officer Darren Wilson." As with the other racially charged cases,
the SPLC put its finger on the scale for the black criminal but did so cautiously. The "looting,
clashes with heavily armed police and dozens of arrests" did not make its BLM allies look good.
Manufacturing
Extremism: SPLC Indicted for Funding the Hate It Profited From. The Southern
Poverty Law Center spent decades branding itself as America's watchdog against "hate." Now
the watchdog is under indictment. A federal grand jury has charged the SPLC with wire fraud,
false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money
laundering. According to the Justice Department, the organization allegedly funneled more
than $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to individuals tied to extremist groups, including the
Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America. Prosecutors claim the SPLC hid the
nature of those payments and filed false statements tied to bank activity. The SPLC denies
wrongdoing. Its leadership says paid informants are a standard tool for monitoring dangerous
groups. Reuters reports CEO Bryan Fair defended the program as necessary for intelligence
gathering and staff safety. Fine. Let the case play out. But the indictment
cracks something bigger than a legal case. It cracks the halo. And once that halo
cracks, a harder question comes into view: what if the SPLC wasn't just tracking hate?
What if it helped build the labeling machine that turns political opponents into "extremists"
before anyone bothers to ask what they actually did? If you want to see where that machine
showed up early, go back to Bundy Ranch.
It's
Time for a National Conversation About The CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
is one government agency that remains largely hidden from the American public. It operates
with a secret federal budget and appears to run independent activities, even having the means to
generate its own revenue. By now most people who follow politics understand how the CIA and
State Department operate collaboratively in most foreign endeavors. Many CIA operatives have
State Department covers. The CIA also works jointly with the State Dept on influence
operations through USAID, which makes some recent events a little uncomfortable. Against
revelations about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) funding violent domestic extremist groups,
consider this graphic: [Illustration] It is hard to argue against the possibility that
behind some of the domestic violent extremists (what the FBI calls DVEs) is a network of finance
that traces back to the CIA. It is a fact that USAID is[,] in part[,] a CIA influence operation.
If the SPLC is funded by USAID, then who was ultimately funding the SPLC influence operations?
It is an uncomfortable question.
Charlottesville:
The deceit underlying the hoax. For years, Democratic politicians and their allies in
the legacy media have spread the [...] Charlottesville Hoax: the propaganda myth that President
Trump praised bigots who rioted in 2017 in the Virginia town. Of course, the opposite is
true, as Trump actually said: "I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists
because they should be condemned totally." Now, we learn that the entire hoax of Trump and
Charlottesville is, itself, built upon another grand lie. The media and people like Joe Biden
have continually pushed the narrative that some big, organic gathering of hateful Americans
descended upon Charlottesville and represented some larger threat to the republic itself. But
it now turns out that the "Unite the Right" rally was organized and financed by the highly
partisan, left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.
Look
Who Just Got Indicted for Funding Hate Groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center, or
SPLC, is fond of screaming about racists and white supremacists; they are vocally part of the
school of thought on the left that a white supremacist is lurking around every corner, when in
reality, they are pretty thin on the ground. [Advertisement] Now, we learn that the
SPLC has not only been encouraging real white supremacist and racist groups, but they have been
funding them. And now, they have been indicted on 11 counts of wire fraud, false
statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Acting AG
Blanche and FBI Director Patel made the announcement: [Video clip]
[The] Southern Poverty
Law Center [was] indicted for allegedly funneling millions to extremist and white supremacist
groups. The Department of Justice announced Tuesday an indictment against the
Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly funneling money to extremist groups. The SPLC said
earlier on Tuesday that the organization was being "targeted" by the Trump administration and
speculated that the action was related to money paid to informants to gather information from hate
groups. In a post on social media, the Department of Justice accused the SPLC of paying
$1 million to a National Alliance affiliate, $300K to an Aryan Nations affiliate, and $73K to
former members of the Ku Klux Klan, among others. "As the indictment describes, the SPLC was
not dismantling these groups; it was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by
paying sources to stoke racial hatred," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a media briefing.
DOJ
charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud for paying white supremacist groups $3M to 'stoke
racial hatred'. The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a grand jury
indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for making fraudulent payments of millions of dollars to
members of the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations. Acting Attorney General Todd
Blanche said at a news conference that the 11-count indictment filed in an Alabama federal court
alleged the left-wing nonprofit had in the past decade paid at least $3 million to eight
members of the far-right groups. One leader of the 2017 Unite the Right protest in
Charlottesville, Va., received roughly $270,000 over an eight-year period. Neither that
person nor others were identified in the 14-page indictment.
Grand
Jury Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center For Secret Fraudulent Payments To Racist Groups.
A federal grand jury indicted the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday for
allegedly making fraudulent payments to racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). "The
SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said
in a statement announcing the charges. "Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen
cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent
organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the
law." [Advertisement] According to a Justice Department press release, the
SPLC — which has often put targets on the backs of nonviolent conservative organizations
by falsely labeling them as "hate groups" — has been charged with 11 counts of
"wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment
money laundering." Per the presser, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of
Alabama Northern Division "filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the
organization's fraud scheme."
Justice
Dept Indictment of SPLC Confirms Long-Held Suspicions of Leftist/Progressive Groups Funding Racism
and Chaos. The DOJ indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for wire fraud,
money laundering and false statements, confirms long-held suspicions that Democrat-aligned activist
groups have been financing racism, hate mobs and political violence. For all intents and
purposes, the SPLC is a leftist/progressive activist organization who bills itself as anti-racism,
yet this same SPLC organization was using cut outs to fund the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of
America, Unite the Right, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations affiliated,
Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party) and
American Front. In essence, Democrats funding extremist groups, just so they can label them
as right-wing.
Flashback:
Indicted SPLC Once Targeted The Federalist For Publishing An Attorney General's Speech.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left outfit that disparages conservative organizations by
categorizing them as "extremist" alongside actual racist groups, was indicted by a federal grand
jury Tuesday night for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
According to the indictment, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million it received from
unsuspecting donors toward racist groups by paying "a covert network of informants" who were part
of "violent extremist groups." One of the SPLC's chief activities is what it calls "tracking
hate," which includes cataloguing racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan as well as mainstream civil
liberties groups like Alliance Defending Freedom. The smear campaign it wages against
Christian and conservative organizations by equating them to actually extreme groups threatens not
just their reputations but their fundraising prospects and even their physical safety. In
2012, a gunman opened fire at the D.C. office of the Family Research Council, intending to "kill as
many as possible" because he didn't "like what they stand for." He told law enforcement
afterward that he was inspired by the SPLC's inclusion of the Family Research Council on its list
of so-called "hate" groups.
SPLC
Funneled $270K Cash to Charlottesville Hoax Rally Planner — 'Manufacturing
Racism'. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for decades has lectured America
about the ever-present threat of "hate" groups while raking in hundreds of millions from donors
fearful of these organizations. But on Tuesday, the Trump DOJ dropped a bombshell: an
11-count federal indictment charging the SPLC with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering for
secretly funneling more than $3 million in donor cash to actual extremists. Among those
nefarious payments was a staggering $270,000 allegedly paid to a member of the online leadership
chat group that planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. That paid insider
attended the event at the SPLC's direction, helped coordinate transportation for attendees, and
even made racist postings under the group's supervision. That rally, of course, led to the
wholly media-manufactured "fine people" hoax. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche explained
how the law center funded hate groups, which allowed them to feign fighting said hate groups.
The SPLC Was One Giant Fraud.
In 2017, the SPLC issued a report claiming that the "number of anti-Muslim hate groups tripled
since 2015". How did the leftist group arrive at this number? It listed Act for America, a
patriotic organization started by a Christian refugee from Islamic persecution, as one group in
2015. Then it listed 45 chapters of Act for America as separate organizations in 2017.
Suddenly the number of 'Islamophobic' groups had tripled. Such pathetically obvious
statistical frauds were all too common in the Southern Poverty Law Center's work, but the media
rarely questioned it. Or why the SPLC seemed so bent on artificially inflating the number of
supposed hate groups. Next year however the SPLC listed a progressive town on its 'Hate Map'
because there had been an online comment that proposed a Neo-Nazi book club should meet
there. There was no evidence that the club existed, that it had ever met at the town or that
the town had anything to do with it, but the town still found it impossible to get the SPLC to
delist it. And media stories appeared for the first time questioning the SPLC's methodology
which proved to be made up.
Trump Calls SPLC 'Crooked as Can Be'
After DOJ Indicts Woke Group. It's a classic story, really. An organization
starts with a noble mission, earns public trust, and then, somewhere along the way, gets addicted
to money and power. The original purpose becomes a marketing slogan, a convenient fiction to
hide the cynical machine whirring just beneath the surface. It's the story of a hero who
lives long enough to become the villain. [Advertisement] This week, one of the Left's
most celebrated heroes was exposed as a complete fraud. For decades, they operated as a moral
authority, pointing fingers and ruining lives, all while hiding a rotten core. But the truth,
as it always does, finally came knocking. And it came in the form of a federal indictment.
Leftist
SPLC Donor George Clooney and Others Silent on DOJ Indictment. Some of the left-wing
Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) donors have apparently remained silent after the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ) charged the nonprofit this week with fraud and money laundering.
[Advertisement] One of those big-name donors is actor George Clooney, whose foundation has
not yet said a word about the indictment, the New York Post reported Thursday, noting that
left-wing billionaire George Soros' foundation and MGM Resorts have also stayed quiet.
[Advertisement] The SPLC has been accused of funneling "more than $3 million to the hate
groups it claims to fight," the outlet said. A federal grand jury in Alabama charged the
nonprofit with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and
conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, per Breitbart News.
The Siege of Iran, and
Other Matters. The fall of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in an eleven-count
fraud and money-laundering indictment is a watershed moment for exposing the bad faith business
model of the Lefty-left: pay for the creation of imaginary monsters so you can pretend to be the
defender of your fake victim-clients, the sundry "oppressed minorities" yearning to breathe
free. The money was paid to various manifestations of "white supremacy," ranging from the
good old Ku Klux Klan (more venerable in America's memory than Frankenstein) to the avant-garde
Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, affiliated with the Aryan Nation. And, turns out, the SPLC
also engineered the Fine People Hoax in Charlottesville, 2020, that loomed so large in "Joe
Biden's" supposedly victorious campaign for president. The Left's moral center-of-gravity is
a black hole of grift and subterfuge. Of course, this SPLC farrago might raise some questions
about many other Lefty-left NGOs that infest our political landscape, such as the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Black Lives Matter (BLM), and Al Otro Lado in California, which
launders taxpayer money into all manner of freebies for illegal aliens — all of these
orgs accused of rank improprieties. CAIR, which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and
Hamas, was declared a terrorist or transnational criminal organization by Texas and Florida.
BLM grifters in Atlanta and Oklahoma City were indicted for wire fraud and money laundering.
Unraveling
the lies we were told about hate in America. For most Jews and many other people, the
"Unite the Right" neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017 was among the most
shocking and disturbing moments in recent American history. [...] But what if it turned out that
among the funders of those involved was a group that not only hyped the threat from the far right,
but also profited from it with a huge surge of fundraising? If that were true, then perhaps
so much of what had shaped American public opinion about not only the alleged threat from such
extremists and Trump, now in his second term as U.S. president, would have to be rethought.
As it turns out, that's the truth about Charlottesville. The indictment of the Southern
Poverty Law Center on charges of fraud ought to put in perspective much of the hysteria and
alarmism about Trump supposedly empowering racists and engendering an epidemic of racism,
xenophobia, antisemitism and Islamophobia. The SPLC is charged with pouring millions of
dollars raised from gullible liberal donors to far-right operatives. In its defense, the
group claims that it was operating a vast undercover operation, obtaining intelligence about
extremists that it could then use to better inform the nation about the threats it faced from
dangerous organizations. But its funders didn't know that's where their money was going.
USAID Is
Back in the News For All the Wrong Reasons. It turns out that the Southern Poverty
Law Center was funded by USAID. More specifically, USAID funded the "Vote Your Voice" program
at the SPLC through the Tides Center (a left-wing NGO-funding organization).
[Advertisement] And you just thought your USAID dollars were funding poor kids in Africa or
something. [Tweet]
Democrat Governor
Candidate Served on SPLC Board While It Bankrolled KKK Member. Michigan Secretary of
State Jocelyn Benson served on the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center while the SPLC paid
members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations. Benson, a Democrat running for governor,
joined the organization's board in 2014 and left in 2019, when the SPLC fired its co-founder,
Morris Dees, amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal. The SPLC gained
its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s, and today it maintains
a "hate map" that plots mainstream conservative and Christian groups alongside Klan chapters.
According to a Justice Department indictment filed Tuesday [4/21/2026], the SPLC broke the law by
paying $3 million to members of the Klan and other white nationalist groups while claiming to
oppose "white supremacy" and by lying to banks about the shell companies it created to hide the funding.
More Than
a Lie: SPLC's Charlottesville Meddling Rises to Sedition. The Charlottesville
Lie has been the foundation of nearly every ounce of bitterness, division and political violence
since it was first thrust upon us in 2017. The left has used the 'very fine people on both
sides' propaganda to fuel their every anti-American impulse. That lie has permeated and
fractured the most important relationships in our nation, pitting husband against wife, parent
against child and neighbor against neighbor. The entire reason conservatives are subjected to
the constant slur of 'Nazis!' is the Charlottesville Lie. It wasn't a term floating around in
common parlance until that moment, and suddenly it became the left's favorite insult for the
right. But it was worse than a slur. It became the impetus for a culture that accepts
political violence as a necessary mean to an end. Nazis are/were the worst people on
earth. The entire world united to defeat them in the 1940s, and subsequently the term became
synonymous with evil. If those people back then were willing to kill to defeat the Nazis, why
shouldn't these people now do the same?
So Did the SPLC
Buy the Tiki-Torches for Charlottesville? Joe Biden knowingly launched his 2020
presidential campaign on a hoax — "the very fine people" hoax — likely
knowing that his hoax was based on a deeper hoax, one that the United States Department of Justice
exposed on Wednesday. The DOJ confirmed in a grand jury indictment what many people had
suspected about the fund raising mill known as the Southern Poverty Law Center: "The SPLC
also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017
'Unite the Right' event in Charlottesville, Virginia. That field source made racist postings
under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several
attendees." [Photo] And who paid for these guys? The indictment continues:
"In order to covertly pay its field sources, the SPLC opened bank accounts connected to a series of
fictitious entities. The covert nature of the accounts allowed the SPLC to disguise the true
nature, source, ownership, and control of the fraudulently obtained donated money the SPLC paid the
field sources. In order to keep the scheme going, the SPLC made a series of false statements
related to the operation of the accounts."
We
discovered 15 years ago SPLC was "creating fictitious hate so that they could then fundraise
off of it". The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been a focus of ours since
2009. We were against SPLC before it was cool to be against SPLC. [Tweet] We
uncovered multiple instances where its Hate Map showed Klan and Nazi groups in Rhode Island which
didn't appear to exist in real life. [Tweet] But that was not all. We covered
their inflated statistics and how they manufactured groups and branches of what often was only an
entry on a website somewhere. So while I didn't expect the level of criminality alleged in
the recent indictment, I knew these were bad people doing bad things. That the Indictment
alleges they helped organize and promote the "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville is mind
boggling — they helped create an event that changed the course of our political history,
and then raised funds off of it. [Tweet]
'There
Are No Coincidences': Posobiec Reveals SPLC Connections to Soros, Obama, and Biden.
Political commentator Jack Posobiec discussed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) following
reports of a Department of Justice indictment in the Middle District of Alabama, describing the
organization as a significant domestic concern and raising questions about its leadership, funding,
and associations. [...] He identified individuals associated with the organization's leadership,
including its board. "Karen Baynes Dunning. She's the current chair. As far as we
know. Just checking out the websites, you see, they actually try very hard to cover this
up. They don't want us to know because they've already had so many issues." Posobiec
also highlighted financial contributors and board affiliations. "But who else do we see on
the list? This is very interesting, Josh Bekenstein, Bain Capital, a guy who's been a
hardcore donor to Democrats and left-wing causes. Josh apparently still donates so much money
to the SPLC that they put him on the board. Isn't that interesting? Who else do we see
associated here? Oh, that's a that's right, George Soros. George Soros, another major
donor to the SPLC." [...]
It's
Official: The Southern Poverty Law Center Is a 'Hate Group'. The Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has awarded itself far more grace than it deserves by having the word
"poverty" in its name, which conjures up images of bootstrap liberal attorneys who live and work
like the fictional Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. The founders of the
organization, in 1971, integrated a myth that became a legend in the very naming of the
organization. From a branding standpoint, this is an amazing feat. [...] Now it seems that
this fictional archetype may have run its course in terms of usefulness for the SPLC. For one, how
many kids these days graduate from high school and even know who Atticus Finch is? Even if
they do, they didn't grow up in a culture that might fully appreciate what Finch represented and
the very context for his story. That's why the news this week of the SPLC propping up groups
like the KKK might seem unfathomable to a Boomer but no big deal to someone in Gen Z.
The
Invention of White Supremacy. The Southern Poverty Law Center scandal is
reverberating everywhere today. We always knew the SPLC was a fraud perpetrated for the
benefit of the Democratic Party, but I, for one, never imagined that it was actually funding the
organizations that it excoriated. But with hindsight, it makes sense: the SPLC needed to keep
alive absurd groups like the Ku Klux Klan to keep the money coming in, so that it could smear
completely innocent organizations like Turning Point USA, Coral Ridge Ministries, the David
Horowitz Freedom Center and the Family Research Council, which was its true purpose. This is
what makes the claim of SPLC's defenders that it was paying "informants," just like the FBI does,
so ridiculous. [...] A final point: the SPLC is all about "white supremacy." I know hundreds
of conservatives, but I have never met a white supremacist. In fact, I am not entirely sure
what that term means. But its use has exploded, not because white supremacists have suddenly
burst onto the scene — they haven't — but because the Democratic Party found
the term to be politically useful as a distraction from its own failed policies: [Tweet]
Biden
Loves to Say His WH Bid Was Sparked by Charlottesville Rally, Which DOJ Says the SPLC Helped
Plan. Joe Biden has told his absurd Charlottesville story so many times that it has
become folklore. He has framed a 2017 rally in Virginia as a moral turning point and the
moment that supposedly compelled him to step in and "save" the country, and run for president in
2020. Biden's claim was emotionally effective — even if difficult to
believe — which is exactly why it has been repeated so often.
[Advertisement] But the narrative is even more laughable when you juxtapose it with what the
Department of Justice is now alleging. The DOJ has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center
with an 11-count federal indictment that accuses the group of funneling millions of dollars to
extremist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation.
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In
2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center Put Dr. Ben Carson on an 'Extremist' List.
Now that the Southern Poverty Law Center is being exposed, it is important to look back at some of
the outrageous claims made by this group in the past. It is absolutely amazing to think that
in 2015, they put Dr. Ben Carson on an 'extremist' list. Is 'extremist' one of the words
that comes into your mind when you think of Carson? Perhaps when they targeted one of the
most renowned and highly respected pediatric brain surgeons in the entire country in this way, it
was a clue that they were not operating in good faith. They were eventually forced to take
Carson off the list and then apologized... sort of.
SPLC's
high-profile donors like Clooney, Soros stay mum after nonprofit indicted over alleged $3M hate
group informant scheme. Big-name donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center, including
George Clooney and George Soros, have stayed silent amid allegations that the nonprofit funneled
more than $3 million to the hate groups it claimed to fight. The SPLC was charged with
wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering on Wednesday for allegedly bankrolling at least eight
leaders and members of extremist groups — all behind the backs of their deep-pocketed
benefactors. The foundations of Clooney and Soros, along with MGM Resorts and other
high-profile backers, haven't spoken up about the Justice Department indictment.
Democrats
Beclown Themselves by Defending SPLC Amid KKK Funding Scandal. The Southern Poverty
Law Center, which makes its money by exaggerating "hate" to scare donors and by comparing
conservatives to the Ku Klux Klan, was itself funding Klan members — and now major
Democrats are beclowning themselves by defending it. Like a dog returns to its vomit, so
Democrats return to the ridiculous claim that the SPLC is some sort of noble civil rights group and
that to attack it is to attack America's soul. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,
claimed that the Justice Department's indictment against the SPLC is "turning what America's all
about inside out." He noted that "in 1983, the Ku Klux Klan tried to burn down the Southern
Poverty Law Center for daring to oppose its hatred." "More than four decades later, the Trump
administration is trying to do the same thing in the courtroom," Schumer said.
Southern
Poverty Law Center Story Sends the Legacy Media Into a Schizophrenic Fit. To set the
stage, you have to know the actual facts, which are:
• A grand jury in Montgomery, Al., indicted the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud,
false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
• A U.S. Attorney's Office filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds
of the organization's fraud scheme.
• The counts center on allegations from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to
individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan,
Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America.
• The DOJ claims that the SPLC's donors weren't told of this, and that since the
SPLC publicly said it was working to dismantle the same groups it was allegedly funding, they
likely never would have donated in the first place.
• The DOJ and multiple news reports have indicated that front groups were
allegedly created to launder the payments to those whose organizations the SPLC was publicly demonizing.
Now, in terms of the battle for the truth, the reality seems to be that when the SPLC paid certain
operatives in these "hate groups," the purpose was not to pay an informant to aid the SPLC in taking
the group down, even though that's not the SPLC's job anyway. Rather, it was to pay the operative
to help advance the cause of the targeted "hate group" through certain actions, and even under certain
direction from the SPLC.
So When Are The "Punch A Nazi" Sorts Going
To Punch SPLC Donors? The big news this week is that Southern Poverty Law Center was
secretly funding all the racist hate groups it claimed to be fighting. [Lengthy excerpts]
You run into some definitional problems here. The actual indictment lists one of SPLC’s money recipients
“F-30” as someone who lead “the National Socialist Party of America.” (Some online have identified
F-30 as one Paul Mullet, the very first Internet search hit is his SPLC page which states “Paul Mullet
is a neo-Nazi and Christian Identity adherent with a long history of theft. He has been involved
with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations and formed the American National Socialist
Party in 2010.”) Is someone who is a member of a “National Socialist Party” really a “neo” Nazi,
or just a plain old Nazi? Are they “neo” because they’re not members of the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party? Also: “F-unknown was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America.”
Imperial Wizard is pretty much the highest rank in the Klan. Another: “F-unknown was a member of
the Klu [sic] Klux Klan and married to an Exalted Cyclops of the Klu Klus Klan.” If you’re
funding the people at the very top of a hate group, you’re not paying “informants,” you’re subsidizing
the hate group.
News articles about the SPLC before their federal indictment:
California
Conservatives, Beware: Newsom's 'Commission on the State of Hate' Is More Nefarious Than It Seems.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., on Tuesday announced five appointments to his new Commission on the State of Hate, and
they don't bode well for conservatives in the Golden State. According to Newsom's office, the commission will
"assess data on hate crimes in California, provide resources for victims, and make policy recommendations to better
protect civil rights." The commission aims to help all Californians, but Newsom has nominated a slate of Democrats
and activists — without including a single Republican — to serve on it. Worse, one of the
top nominees has a history at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Those four words should send a shiver down the
spine of conservatives. While the Southern Poverty Law Center began as a public interest legal nonprofit
representing poor people in the South, it has long since morphed into a far-left smear factory, branding mainstream
conservative and Christian organizations "hate groups" and placing them on a map alongside the Ku Klux Klan. It
brands socially conservative organizations "anti-LGBT hate groups" and national security nonprofits "anti-Muslim hate groups."
Southern
Poverty Law Center Now Has $162 Million Stashed in Offshore Accounts. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC),
which last year faced accusations of racism among its highest ranks, reported $162 million stashed in offshore investments
and paid its disgraced former leaders over $1 million. The controversial group has continued to build its massive war
chest by tens of millions of dollars even after employees claimed that the group's leadership allowed sexual harassment and
racial discrimination against its minority staffers. The ensuing media firestorm ultimately led to the ousting of
cofounder Morris Dees, longtime president Richard Cohen, and legal director Rhonda Brownstein from the group in March 2019.
New forms, covering a period beginning Nov. 1, 2018, and ending on Oct. 31, 2019, show that Cohen and Brownstein
each received six-figure severance packages.
Southern
Poverty Surpasses Half Billion in Assets; $121 Million Now Offshore. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a
far-left nonprofit known for its "hate group" designations, has surpassed a half billion dollars in total assets and now has
$121 million parked offshore, according to the group's most recent financial statements. The SPLC, which is based in
Montgomery, Ala., has not publicly posted its most recent financial statements on its website. However, the organization
applied for renewal in the state of California days ago and submitted a number of documents pertaining to its financial standing
including its most recent audited statement and tax forms for calendar year 2018, which covers Nov. 1, 2017 to Oct. 31,
2018. According to the filings submitted to California's Office of Attorney General, the group reported total assets of
$518 million from November 2017 to the Oct. 31, 2018, an increase of $41 million from the $477 million in
total assets it reported on its previous year's tax forms.
The
Southern Poverty Law Center Has $69 Million Parked Overseas. The Southern Poverty Law Center invests almost 20 percent of
its nearly $320 million endowment fund in offshore equities and other investments. The 2016 annual report of the Alabama-based civil
rights organization reports $69,093,576 of "non-U.S. equity funds" among the assets comprising the total endowment fund of $319,283,961, a
fund the SPLC describes as a "plan for the day when nonprofits like the SPLC can no longer afford to solicit support through the mail
because of rising postage and printing costs." (Given that 2016 contributions topped $45 million, that day has not yet arrived.)
Southern
Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a
liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its "hate
group" designations, pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show.
Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees while spending little
on legal services despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy.
The Worst
Smear Site In America. The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center relentlessly promotes the Big Lie, wildly
popular in the media, that conservative Americans are racists and the real threat to the nation rather than Islamic
terrorists. The group claims the principal enemies of the American people are presumptive Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump, conservatives like David Horowitz, and the Tea Party movement. The SPLC is a shamelessly
hypocritical leftist attack machine funded by radical speculator George Soros and a rogue's gallery of rich people and
established philanthropies that want to fundamentally transform America. The fabulously wealthy 501(c)(3) nonprofit has
an astounding one third of a billion dollars ($338 million) in assets, as well as investments in Bermuda and the Cayman
Islands, two offshore tax havens the Left loves to attack (but only when non-leftists stash cash there).
The
SPLC: A Massive, Multi-Million-Dollar Character Assassination Machine. As Brett Kavanaugh defended himself on
Thursday against scurrilous and unsubstantiated allegations brought forward by the Democrats, who have now richly earned the
sobriquet "the Evil Party," David Horowitz tweeted: "The left lives by character assassination — Bork, Thomas, Kavanaugh."
Yes, it does, and this doesn't manifest itself solely in Supreme Court nominee hearings. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC),
the establishment media's principal source for determining who is acceptable in the public square and who isn't, is a well-heeled,
unscrupulous character assassination machine, destroying lives and reputations with impunity for years now. The SPLC has for
years defamed me as a "hate group leader" and an "anti-Muslim extremist." These are not mere words. Tyler O'Neil reported
in PJ Media last September that former SPLC spokesman Mark Potok declared: "Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring
hate groups, I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them."
Southern
Poverty Law Center Claims Antifa Is NOT a Hate Group. Testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee
on Thursday, Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen stated that Antifa is not considered a "hate group" by his
organization. "If you are familiar with our work, we write about antifa often," Cohen testified during the hearing on
domestic terrorism. "We condemn their tactics — I've said so publicly and we do so always — but
antifa is not a group that vilifies people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion and the like." While they may not
hate over religion, they certainly spread hate based on political leanings. In fact, Cohen's statements came one day
before a man in Boston was hospitalized with three fractures in his face after being attacked by a group of 7-10 Antifa
militants over his support of President Donald Trump.
Nonprofit
Tracker Smears Dozens of Conservative Organizations as 'Hate Groups'. The nation's leading source of
information on U.S. charities faces mounting criticism for using a controversial "hate group" designation in listings for
some well-known and broadly supported conservative nonprofits. GuideStar, which calls itself a "neutral" aggregator of
tax data on charities, recently incorporated "hate group" labels produced by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.
The decision by the tracker of nonprofits prompted 41 conservative leaders to protest the move in a letter provided
exclusively to The Daily Signal.
'Occupy'
terrorists now called 'radical right' by Southern Poverty Law Center. Did you know that the Occupy Movement is actually a part of
the "radical right"? The movement, which received favorable comments from the commanding heights of the American left —
President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, the New York Times, and MSNBC — has now shown itself to include very violent elements, including
actual terrorists, who began a bomb plot in Cleveland, only to be apprehended before carrying out their program of terror.
Dr.
Seuss shows leftists again blurring fantasy and reality. What makes it simultaneously amusing and disturbing is
that it treats Seuss's nonsensical worlds as real and extrapolates racial messages from them. Here's the short version
of the left's latest attempt to cancel all cultural touchpoints that don't mesh with Marx: Dr. Seuss's works ended
up in the crosshairs when a Virginia school district discovered that Learning for Justice, an education (i.e., indoctrination")
site affiliated with the Southern Poverty Law Center, had declared in 2019 that Dr. Seuss's works are racist. Once the
school's story hit the news, the pile-on began, with every leftist rushing to condemn Seuss for making his Asian, Inuit, and
African humanoid characters every bit as weird, misshapen, and ugly as his (presumably) white American humanoid characters.
Six Seuss works were pulled from Amazon and eBay because of their racial horrors and Biden ignored Seuss entirely on Read Across
America Day, which is held annually on Dr. Seuss's birthday.
Censorship:
A Personal Story. All Islamic political and religious doctrine is found in 3 texts — Koran,
traditions of Mohammed (Hadith) and life of Mohammed (the Sira). The only ideas that I speak about come from Allah and
Mohammed. Political Islam is the part of Islamic doctrine that deals with the non-Muslim, the Kafir. Oddly
enough, more Islamic doctrinal text is devoted to politics than religion. My books sold like crazy. I was selling
books by the tens of thousands. My Sharia Law for Non-Muslims was a #1 best seller on Islamic law on Amazon. My
video "Why We Are Afraid" had millions of views on YouTube. [...] But a storm cloud appeared on the horizon. The
Tennessean newspaper put out a Sunday front page article which said that I was an anti-Muslim bigot and a hater. This
was followed by several other attack pieces. An organization called the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center, (the SPLC is
not a civil rights group, is not southern, is not poor and is not a law center) declared that I was one of the biggest bigots
in the US. Indeed, the SPLC said Nashville was a hate city because I live here. Then the media tornado hit.
Disqus'
De-Platforming of Frontpage: The Left's fascistic purges continue. The relentless de-platforming of
conservatives in general and of the David Horowitz Freedom Center specifically, continues. On March 3rd the Editors at
FrontPage received an email from Disqus, the networked community platform used by hundreds of thousands of sites all over the
web. [...] As of tomorrow, March 17th, Disqus is de-platforming us. They have refused to respond to inquiries seeking
further explanation. Disqus has taken on faith the libelous accusations of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a
widely-discredited, partisan group that frequently characterizes mainstream conservative organizations as "hate groups."
The
All-Out Assault on Conservative Thought Has Just Begun. After the white nationalist riots in Charlottesville,
Va., in 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and others renewed their demands for the suppression of conservative
speech on social media. After Trump's supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Big Tech companies clamped
down on President Donald Trump and many of his supporters. Incoming President Joe Biden has said he plans to pass a law
against domestic terrorism. While conservatives rightly denounced the violence this week, this response bodes ill for
conservative speech not just on social media, but in the public square and even in private organizations. In the
aftermath of the Capitol riots, Twitter suspended President Donald Trump's account for the first time and Facebook
permanently banned the president. After Trump deleted the tweets Twitter had flagged and had his account restored,
Twitter proceeded to ban him entirely on Friday, and then it banned the official President of the United States (POTUS) account.
Google
Erases the Existence of Those Who Speak Unwelcome Truths. Daniel Greenfield, the peerless Shillman Fellow and
FrontPage writer, tweeted the news on May 7: "Google just erased my Sultan Knish blog and Front Page Mag articles from the
first pages of results for my name doubt very much this is accidental." I did too, so I checked for myself, and sure enough:
a Google search for "Robert Spencer" now does not bring up Jihad Watch, where most of my writing outside of books has been
published for the last seventeen years, but it does give you defamatory and distorted attack pieces from the far-Left
Southern Poverty Law Center and the Saudi-funded Bridge Initiative, and nothing that doesn't portray me and my work in the
most unfavorable possible light. This latest example of the tech giants' determination to silence all dissenting voices
reveals one often overlooked fact: they are desperately afraid. Google is so afraid of Jihad Watch, in fact, that it is
going to great lengths to make you think that the site (which you can find here)
doesn't exist at all.
Cartoonist
Asks Everyone to Stop Calling Everyone Else Hitler, Facebook Bans Him. Godwin's Law now joins the legion of
things that Facebook inappropriately bans. The target is talented cartoonist Bosch Fawstin, who was the target of the
first ISIS attack in America over his Mohammed cartoon. The Southern Poverty Law Center responded by naming Bosch,
rather than ISIS, as a hate group. Facebook has managed to go one better by banning Bosch for a cartoon pointing out
the fallacy of accusing everyone else of being Hitler.
We are Slaves
to the Children of the Lie. Just this week MasterCard and Patreon pulled services from conservative David
Horowitz Freedom Center and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. David Horowitz exposes communists who hate America, and
Robert Spencer exposes radical Islamists who hate the West. Horowitz and Spencer were targeted by the radical, evil
organization the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC pretends to oppose "hate," but actually spreads hate
and defamation, with the support of the media and government.
David
Horowitz: Visa, Mastercard Cut Off Payments to My Think Tank Based on SPLC 'Hate Group' Label. The David
Horowitz Freedom Center has had their donation processing system blocked by Visa and Mastercard allegedly following a
campaign by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Visa has since contacted Breitbart News to deny involvement in the
blacklisting of the Freedom Center. The David Horowitz Freedom Center stated in a recent email that its ability to
accept donations by credit card has been disabled by both Visa and Mastercard following a campaign by the SPLC to label the
Freedom Center as a hate group. This situation comes shortly after Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch was forced off the
funding platform Patreon following pressure from Mastercard.
Robert
Spencer: Silicon Valley Blacklisting Conservatives 'with No Recourse, No Appeal, No Discussion'. Robert
Spencer, founder and director of Jihad Watch and author of "The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS," warned of
expanding online left-wing political censorship via large technology companies. [...] Spencer said, "The social media giants,
now, have more control over the means of communication than the Soviet Union did in its heyday, or Nazi Germany, and they are
pursuing a genuinely totalitarian initiative, and it's based largely on the work of Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a
far-left group trying to demonize all dissent from the leftist agenda by lumping in legitimate conservative voices with groups
like the KKK and neo-Nazis. If you end up on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate-group list, then the tech media
giants will deplatform you on that basis with no recourse, no appeal, discussion; nothing." [Audio clip]
Spotify
Announces Partnership with Far-Left Groups Including SPLC to Police Platform. Music streaming service Spotify
has announced a partnership with several far-left groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in an attempt to
police the platform and remove "hate content." The groups include the SPLC, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Color of
Change, GLAAD, Showing Up For Racial Justice, Muslim Advocates, and the International Network Against Cyber Hate.
Prominent
Christian Legal Group Barred From Amazon Program While Openly Anti-Semitic Groups Remain. Amazon has barred
prominent Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) from participating in its Amazon Smile charitable program,
which allows nonprofits to recoup a small fraction of the money their supporters spend through Amazon. ADF, which
specializes in First Amendment law and has won cases at the Supreme Court, is barred from Amazon Smile on account of the
left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, which labeled ADF a "hate group."
Stop
treating the Southern Poverty Law Center like it's a respectable and responsible organization. YouTube has
tapped the Southern Poverty Law Center to help it police objectionable content, according to the Daily Caller.
Hopefully, this isn't true. But if it is, it's a disaster. YouTube couldn't have chosen a worse or less
trustworthy partner. The SPLC is a dishonest, irresponsible and obnoxiously partisan organization. Trusting them
to decide what constitutes objectionable and "extremist" content, as YouTube's more than 100 "Trusted Flaggers" have been
asked to do, is like asking the inmates to run the asylum. YouTube's monitoring program dates to 2012. However,
according to the Caller, it has "exploded in size in recent years amid a Google push to increase regulation of the content
on its platforms, which followed pressure from advertisers."
Exclusive:
YouTube Secretly Using SPLC To Police Videos. The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing
content on their platform, The Daily Caller has learned. The left-wing nonprofit — which has more recently
come under fire for labeling legitimate conservative organizations as "hate groups" — is one of the more than 100
nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government agencies in YouTube's "Trusted Flaggers" program, a source with knowledge
of the arrangement told The [Daily Caller]. The SPLC and other program members help police YouTube for extremist
content, ranging from so-called hate speech to terrorist recruiting videos.
How
will Facebook, Google and Twitter define the "Hate" they plan to censor? [Scroll down] What is "hate," as
defined by leftists, the very community from which these curators hail? The Southern Poverty Law Center is a prominent
radical leftist group hell-bent on poisoning society against conservatives, especially the social kind. It features a
"Hate Map" with the locations of conservative organizations of all stripes. The Family Research Center, The Center for
Security Policy, the Center for Family and Human Rights, ACT for America and the Traditional Values Coalition —
these are but a few. And what views do these "haters" hold? Some support traditional marriage, some stopping
illegal immigration, some fighting radical Islam. A writer for the leftist website Salon has his example of
hatred — the Confederate flag, which he calls "the American swastika."
Southern
Poverty Law Center Stops Monitoring Black Hate Groups Because of 'Equity'. The Southern Poverty Law Center
claims it's dedicated to fighting hate. But some things are more important than fighting hate. Like "equity".
In the name of equity, the SPLC announced that it's shutting down its black nationalist hate groups category like the Nation
of Islam. After "doing the internal work of anti-racism", the SPLC will no longer list black racist hate groups because
"the hate is not equal". Even racism requires its own equity. The SPLC's move dismantles the last remaining shred
of credibility of the organization, but it also comes after Democrat politicians and activists, including Senator Cory Booker
and Kamala Harris pressured the FBI to stop monitoring black nationalist hate groups before several murderous antisemitic
attacks by members of the Black Hebrew Israelite hate group.
SPLC
Promotes Teaching Kids About Black Lives Matter on MLK Day — in First Grade. The Southern
Poverty Law Center's education arm, Learning for Justice, promoted a former teacher's article about using Martin Luther
King Jr. Day to teach first graders about the Black Lives Matter movement and the "need for continued
protest and action in the face of ongoing systemic injustice." Critics slammed the lesson as "child abuse" and a
"shameful form of indoctrination." Learning for Justice shared the January 2018 article, "From MLK to
#BlackLivesMatter: A Throughline for Young Students," on Twitter on Wednesday. In the article, Bret Turner (then a
first grade teacher at Head-Royce School in Oakland, California) wrote that Martin Luther King Jr. Day represents
"a great opportunity" to connect King's work with "the work of today's civil rights activists." "First-graders are
excited to study through a lens of fairness; it is largely what drives them in their daily interactions," Turner wrote.
Emails
Expose Collusion at Highest Levels between Department of Justice and Communist SPLC. The communists over at the Southern
Poverty Law Center are among the gravest threats to freedom in the United States, and are named as such in the AFDI Threats to Freedom
Index. The enemedia eagerly laps up and repeats their designation of pro-freedom groups as "hate groups," and uses this designation
as a propaganda tool to demonize and discredit us. But here is an excellent expose that shows what these subversives are really all
about.
Washington
Post Says Fake Hate Is Rare, and Other Fairy Tales. The reality is that black victimization is the biggest hoax of our lifetimes, and fake
hate is a part of that huge liberal con game. And it is easy to see with even a cursory look at a list of recent fake hate stories that gathered
national attention. The SPLC tells so many fibs about so many fake hate crimes even they have trouble keeping track. After the election of
Donald Trump, Mark Potok and MSNBC's Chris Matthews were talking about the millions — or was it billions? — of hate crimes that Trump
supporters were creating all over the universe when they settled on one particularly egregious example of a Moslem woman in New York whose hijab was
torn from her sainted head. Trump supporters did it, of course, all the while threatening even more violence. It never happened. Even the
New York Times figured that out a few months before. But that hardly mattered to Potok and Matthews.
Chris
Matthews and SPLC Fall for Hoax Even the NYT Says Is a Lie... Again. [Scroll down] Chris and the Goofy Looking Dude said Trump and his ilk have been
responsible for gajillions of acts of hatred and violence against everybody except white men, starting the day after the election. In most newscasts,
this is usually the time when they run a video that supports at least a little bit what they said. This they did not do, at least not at first.
But when they did get around to giving a specific example of this nationwide tsunami of hatred and violence, the Goofy Looking Dude from SPLC reminded Chris
how a woman in a hijab in a New York subway was attacked by the Trump acolytes on a mission of hate: "37 percent of the perpetrators, as you said,
either named President Trump by saying something like — you know — yelling to a woman wearing a hijab 'you go back to your country, now Donald
Trump is President. That kind of thing.'" Chris nodded in knowing satisfaction. That was the only specific example the Goofy Looking
Dude could come up with. And it was a lie. A fabrication. A hoax.
SPLC
Keeps Denying. Black-on-White Violence Keeps Happening. Let's look at just a few examples of black
violence, all of which happened since the SPLC's latest report a few days ago. All of the keep happening wildly out of
proportion. All of them, the SPLC could not care less about. In New York City, a black woman was walking down the
street, bumping into white ladies. When one of the white women suggested she stop assaulting white pedestrians, the
black woman started hitting the white woman with a heavy metal box, all the while yelling and threatening, "Take that you
white b----," followed by "that's what you get, white b----."
That
SPLC Survey on Post-Election 'Hate Crimes' Left Out 2,000 Committed Against White Students. How else are you
going to create the fake news narrative that a wave of so-called "hate crimes" was sweeping the nation? For one, just
make things up, as the SPLC is famous for doing. Two, ignore all the actual crimes committed against Trump supporters,
or people who just happen to be white.
Provocateur Journalism.
When a news organization reports an impending weather event based on forecasts from the National Weather Service, or warns of potential
seismic activity anticipated by the U.S. Geological Survey, or alerts the public concerning an infectious-disease outbreak being tracked
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no one questions the news organization's motives, because the underlying information
is factual and derived from a reliable, nonpartisan, and authoritative source. CNN presents itself as a news organization, yet today [8/17/2017]
it posted a dubious story titled "Here are all the active hate groups where you live," based entirely on data from the Southern Poverty Law
Center. The SPLC is not the equivalent of the National Weather Service, the USGS, or CDC, to put it mildly. It is risible for
CNN to recite SPLC data uncritically, with no additional validation, as a credible list of "domestic hate groups," let alone to describe
SPLC's data as "widely accepted."
CNN, DHS &
SPLC's Blame Righty hit job. The Department of Homeland Security refuses to release a report on "right-wing"
terrorism that somehow found its way into CNN's hands last week during the farcical White House summit on Don't Say Islamic Extremism.
CNN, DHS and
SPLC's Blame-Righty Hit Job. The Department of Homeland Security refuses to release a
report on "right-wing" terrorism that somehow found its way into CNN's hands last week during the
farcical White House summit on Don't Say Islamic Extremism. [...] CNN splashed the big scoop on its
website: "DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat." The fear-mongering
piece featured a huge map of 24 alleged acts of "violence by sovereign citizen extremists since
2010." [...] But a closer look at the rigging of that phony factoid simply confirms the malevolent
intention of so-called objective journalists and "hate watch" groups to marginalize conservative
political speech and dissent. The CNN/MSNBC/SPLC smear job involved both the dishonest deflating
of left-wing and jihadist incidents, and the dishonest inflating of "right-wing" incidents.
Media's
Lack of Curiosity About Killer of Muslims in North Carolina. [Scroll down] The
SPLC runs a hate crimes racket, and the media — desperate to promote headlines that fit
their pre-existing left-wing narratives about race, inequality and religion — are quick
to swallow their propaganda. "I think it's perfectly natural to guess that this is anti-Islamic,"
[Mark] Potok told the [Washington] Post in the interview regarding the triple murder. "Not just
because the three victims are Muslim, but because there has been so much terrible news in recent
days about extremist Muslims." Potok also appeared on MSNBC on the morning of February 13 with the
news anchor Tamron Hall, and there was no mention of Hicks' political leanings, which appear to be
consistent with their own.
A
Lawsuit Exposes the Southern Poverty Law Center's Lies. Twenty-one years ago, Dustin Inman, a sixteen year
old boy, lost his life to a Mexican illegal alien. That alien is still a wanted fugitive. Under the Trump
administration, the ICE VOICE office was established to help victims of illegal aliens and Dustin's killer appear on its
most wanted list. In one of his numerous acts of calculated cruelty, Biden shut down ICE VOICE. And two
decades later Dustin's killer is still out there. There are tragically a thousand cases like this. But some
of them make people step up. That's how D.A. King founded the Dustin Inman Society. The former Marine
financed it with his life savings, borrowed against his house and sold his inheritance. Since then he has fought a
tireless campaign in Georgia against an illegal alien crisis that only keeps getting worse. And now he's fighting
one against the Southern Poverty Law Center. A decade ago the Southern Poverty Law Center called him a "nativist",
but admitted the Dustin Inman Society wasn't a hate group. "Because he is fighting, working on his legislation through
the political process, that is not something we can quibble with, whether we like the law or not," Heidi Beirich, the
woman behind the SPLC's infamous hate labeling, conceded. Now, the SPLC lists the Dustin Inman Society and D.A. King
as an "anti-immigrant hate group" because he favors enforcing the nation's laws. King responded by suing the SPLC.
Teaching assistant docks point on conservative
student's Black Panther essay: 'White people cannot experience racism'. A student at Virginia Tech University
was told by a teaching assistant that "White people cannot experience racism" when asked why she received a low grade on her
final paper. Students in the Nations and Nationalities class at Virginia Tech were asked to complete a paper describing
a hate group from the Southern Poverty Law Center's list, and analyze how that group justifies its worldview, according to
Alyssa Jones, a student in the class. Jones is also the president of the Virginia Tech University Turning Point USA
chapter and a campus ambassador for The Leadership Institute, the parent organization of Campus Reform. Jones
told Campus Reform that she decided to pick "the New Black Panther Party with the focus of the essay being on separatism."
Kindergarten
History Lessons in Virginia to Focus on Slavery. Most adults who attended public school remember early history
lessons about American leaders and symbols — George Washington crossing the Delaware, Betsy Ross sewing the
American flag. But starting this fall, kindergarteners in Loudon County — a wealthy suburb of Washington
D.C. — will be taught a new radicalized history curriculum focusing on slavery and social justice. Loudon
County has elected to partner with the disgraced far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to develop the new curriculum
which deliberately paints America in a highly negative light.
Anti-conservative SPLC now has chapters on 100+
campuses. The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that maintains a list of conservative "hate groups,"
now has more than 100 chapters on college campuses across the country. Chapters are expected to distribute materials
such as a guide to the "alt-right on campus," as well as "further the SPLC's goals by raising awareness of the growth and
activities of hate and extremists groups."
SPLC
Suggests Gun Ownership a 'Red Flag' For Violence. Authorities still haven't released
any official motive for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, but the media has already
started to point the finger at "gun culture" for the crime. At USA Today, reporters
Kenny Jacoby and Lucas Aulbach spoke to a representative of the Southern Poverty Law Center about
the assassin's family, who was all too eager to portray the family's gun ownership as a red flag.
[...] As sociologist David Yamane has emphasized, gun ownership is normal and normal people own
guns, but to the Southern Poverty Law Center buying a firearm is a red flag for violence. At
a time when voices across the political spectrum are calling on Americans to take a deep breath and
deescalate the political tensions, the SPLC is throwing gasoline on the fire by blithely asserting
that gun ownership or "gun culture" is a warning sign that should alarm both average citizens and
law enforcement.
20
years after 9/11, Islamophobia continues to haunt Muslims. Sept. 11, 2001, marked the start of a new era for
Muslims in the United States. Shortly after al-Qaida terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, many
Muslims, as well as other Arab Americans, became the targets of anger and racism. Mosques were burned or destroyed and
death threats and harassment followed many Muslims in the weeks following the attacks, according to congressional testimony
from the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2011. Some victims were beaten, attacked or held at gunpoint for merely being
perceived as Muslim, the organization said.
The
Great Hijab Cover-Up. Forget fake news; the real issue is fake "hate." Has there been one (1) documented
hate crime committed by white people against any hue in the Rainbow Coalition since Nov. 8? That's out of the 9,456,723
hate crimes alleged by America's leading hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC is to "hate" what Rolling
Stone is to rape. It is the biggest peddler of fantasies since Walt Disney. I've read through dozens of SPLC "hate crimes"
and they are all lies. The Muslim girls in particular seem to be very spirited liars.
Left's Orwellian Censorship
Campaign. The evidence of this calculated assault on free speech is overwhelming, but the most recent and high-profile
examples include carefully orchestrated campaigns by three well-funded, interconnected, George Soros-linked organizations:
Media Matters for America (MMFA); the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC); and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
(GLAAD).
Ben
Carson lands on Southern Poverty Law Center's 'extremist' list because he opposes gay
marriage. An iconic American civil rights group that was founded to fight the Ku Klux
Klan is now taking aim at the only African-American to hint he might run for president in
2016 — because he opposes gay marriage. Republican Ben Carson, a retired world-class
pediatric neurosurgeon, has found himself listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center's 'Extremist Watch'
website alongside neo-Nazis, skinheads, and Klansmen, in a peculiar example of the group's mission-creep.
Carson said Monday [2/9/2015] that the characterization is 'projectionist and ignorant.'
Update: Southern
Poverty Law Center issues totally unconvincing apology to Dr. Ben Carson. The Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC) apparently realized its primary goal, fundraising, was in danger by its
placing of Dr. Ben Carson on its "Extremist File" list. But the apology it has issued is the least
convincing pretense of remorse that I have ever seen.
Southern
Poverty Law Center Apologizes To Ben Carson For Putting Him On Its 'Extremist' List.
Retired neurosurgeon and possible 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson isn't an anti-gay extremist
after all, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Under intense scrutiny after it was
revealed that the civil rights organization had lumped Carson in with the likes of KKK members and
other zealots on its "extremist watch list," the SPLC announced on Wednesday [2/11/2015] that it was
scrubbing Carson's name.
The
Southern Poverty Law Center Has Become a Dangerous Joke. [Scroll down] We heard from men and women who've long served gay customers and
formed lasting friendships with gay neighbors who now face death threats because they simply refused to lend their artistic talents to
celebrate a gay wedding. We heard one man's voice break as he told the story of how his father fought across Europe and helped liberate
a concentration camp from Nazi control — and now his son is called a "Nazi" in part because he wants all people to enjoy the same rights of
conscience and wants no man or woman to be coerced into supporting events they find immoral.
