Posted on 08/20/2012 4:36:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
To borrow from President Obama’s Black Nationalist mentor, Jeremiah Wright, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate-baiting chickens “have come home to roost.” The hard-left group has become everything it presumes to expose.
On Wednesday, homosexual activist Floyd Corkins entered the Washington-based Family Research Council (FRC) armed with a gun and a backpack full of ammunition. He also had 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches (FRC recently defended the food chain’s COO Dan Cathy for pro-natural marriage statements).
The only thing standing between Corkins and mass murder was FRC facilities manager and security specialist Leo Johnson. As Corkins shouted disapproval for FRC’s “politics,” he shot Johnson who, despite a severely wounded arm, managed to tackle Corkins and disarm him (of course, this is all impossible as it’s illegal in Washington, D.C., to carry a concealed weapon).
Of Johnson’s actions, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said, “The security guard here is a hero, as far as I’m concerned.”
I agree.
Upon hearing of Leo’s selfless act of heroism, I was reminded of John 15:13: “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”
But according to the SPLC, Leo’s heart is, instead, full of hate. In fact, everyone at FRC is hateful. After all, in 2010 the SPLC, with much fanfare, “officially certified” FRC as a “hate group” for its orthodox Christian positions on marriage and family.
Alongside violence-charged photos of actual hate groups like the Aryan Brotherhood and the KKK, the SPLC lists on its website the decidedly mainstream and always peaceful FRC.
It’s a clever strategy, dishonest and reprehensible though it may be. By juxtaposing FRC and other Christian organizations with violent extremist groups, SPLC has engaged in intellectual sloth at its worst (the organization has repeatedly declined to debate FRC President Tony Perkins over its “hate group” smear).
Rather than debating – on the merits – mainstream Christian groups with which it has ideological disagreement, SPLC has chosen, instead, the coward’s way out: demonization and marginalization through false guilt by association.
It’s a scheme not only slimy, but extremely dangerous.
If ever there were a time I’d prefer not to have been right, now is that time. Back in November 2011, I essentially predicted both the FRC shooting and the SPLC’s undeniable complicity therein.
With a column headlined, “Liberal violence rising,” I wrote, “The SPLC’s dangerous and irresponsible (‘hate group’) disinformation campaign can embolden and give license to like-minded, though less stable, left-wing extremists, creating a climate of true hate. Such a climate is ripe for violence.” (If anyone deserves to be taken out – rationalizes the unbalanced SPLC dupe – its members of this or that evil “hate group” whom, as he’s been repeatedly told, mean him great harm.)
That was before the fact. After the fact – one day after the shooting – Tony Perkins addressed exactly that which I forecast:
“Let me be clear that Floyd Corkins was responsible for firing the shot yesterday,” he told Washington reporters. “But Corkins was given a license to shoot an unarmed man by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations hate groups because they disagree with them on public policy.”
The SPLC “should be held accountable for their reckless use of terminology that is leading to the intimidation and what the FBI here has categorized as an act of domestic terrorism.”
Regrettably, Mr. Perkins finds himself in a uniquely credible position to make this charge.
Still, although there remains a vast ideological divide between the SPLC and the tens of millions of Christian Americans represented by the Family Research Council, the Southern Poverty Law Center now finds itself with a brief window of opportunity to both do the right thing and rehabilitate its badly damaged reputation.
To the SPLC, I say this: Your cynical efforts to dehumanize Christians and equate biblical truth to “hate” are working better than I think even you expected. It’s now within your power to right a horrible wrong and restore a sense of peace and security to the rattled folks at FRC. What a gift that would be.
I appeal to your sense of goodwill. This is not a game. Lives are at stake. I know you have good employees (I’ve met some) who believe they’re doing the right thing; so, please, validate that belief. It’s time to remove your metaphorical “hate group” Star of David from mainstream Christian organizations before another of your ideological allies spills blood.
And to homosexual activists and other liberal groups, I say this: Rise above the fray. Let’s come together. Here is something on which even we can agree. Publicly encourage SPLC to lift this veil of fear.
Media, you, too, are on notice. Remember Wednesday’s shooting next time you even think about repeating SPLC’s “hate group” brand while addressing the Christians upon whom it’s tattooed. You also have share in the blame.
SPLC, hear me now: If, God forbid, something like this – or even worse – happens in the future and you have yet refused to retract and apologize for your “hate group” propaganda, then your hands will forever be stained with the blood of innocents.
Still, either way, we Christians are commanded to speak the truth of Christ “even unto death.”
FRC will not be deterred. “We’re not going anywhere,” Tony Perkins told reporters Thursday. “We’re not backing up; we’re not shutting up,” he vowed. “We feel that – we don’t feel, we know [that] we have been called to speak the truth. Speak it in love, but to speak the truth nonetheless – and we will not be intimidated, we will not be silenced.”
“I was there as [Leo] came to from the anesthesia,” said Perkins, “and I told him, ‘Leo, I want you to know you’re a hero.’ And he thought about it for a minute and he said, ‘You know, this hero business is hard work.’”
Heroes don’t work for “hate groups,” and FRC’s hard work is heroic indeed.
I’m proud to count them my friends.
You should be, too.
I'll see your "shamed" and raise you "sued" and "prosecuted for incitement to assault and murder." These guys are Maoist grifters—con-men with an ideological obsession. They accuse other people of having dreams of violence in classic Leftist projection. I'll bet they e-mail each other about it all the time. Discovery would be very revealing.
Shamed publicly? How about indicted criminally?
“You can still trust the communists to be communists” by Swartz & Noebel
is a must read.
One thing to keep in mind, even when communists appear to be defeated, they just fade back for a while and set up their next assault. They really never give up. They are indeed driven by demonic forces.
I think he went to Chic Fil A to kill a bunch of people. He may have intended to kill one person for every sandwich he bought. Then he CHICKENED out.
You are making the rather silly assumption that the SPLC HAS any shame or conscience.
They should be driven from the shores of this nation - banished to the “paradise” nations of China and North Korea and see how long they would last.
I’ll have to look for something. I first read about this at the time of the Sikh temple shooting, when it emerged that the skinhead band the shooter belonged to had been identified as a “hate group” by the SPLC, which was consulted for a statement on it because they are apparently responsible for identifying and labeling these groups. At that time, I read that about two years ago, they had actually been contracted for this purpose by the government (by Holder’s Justice Department, naturally).
So I’ll have to dig around and see if I can find confirmation of that anywhere.
Thanks for your posts.
You're right. I consider the word "defeat" elastic. If they dare, we should return the favor 10 fold! They should be outlawed, tried for treason and punished by exile or life in prison
Public enemy #1, the MSM, and their communist soldiers should PHYSICALLY suffer 10 fold as we would. They should know that there would be a heavy price to pay for calling patriots "domestic terrorists" and putting an illegal POTUS in the BathHouse BY OMISSION of the truth!
>>>An old woman was walking down the road when she saw a gang of thugs beating a poisonous snake. She rescued the snake and carried it back to her home, where she nursed it back to health. They became friends and lived together for many months. One day they were going into town, and the old woman picked him up and the snake bit her. Repeatedly. “O God,” she screamed, “I am dying! Why? I was your friend. I saved your life! I trusted you! Why did you bite me?”<<<
The SPLC are a bunch of snakes. Why should we think they’re going to change their ways? They’re here to shove h0m0’s in our face every day. A big YES to your, “Communists will never retreat an inch without being FORCED.”
The snake looked up at her and said, “Lady, you knew I was a snake when you first picked me up.”
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Have no idea why the rest of my response din’t show up.
What I wanted included was the SPLC are a bunch of snakes. Why should we expect anything else from them?
A big YES to your, “Communists will never retreat an inch without being FORCED.”
Good grief...din’t s/b didn’t.
What a lot of conservatives do not realize (to their and our great detriment) is that some people have chosen evil and HAVE NO SENSE OF GOOD WILL! NONE! The utopian/atheist view is that all people are born GOOD and it's only the Evil System that made them Bad. And that if Bad people are treated nicely (with compromise and weakness...) they will naturally come around.
Unfortunatey, (Or not) this is just not true.
Mercy to the cruel is cruelty to the innocent. Or as is said in Bengali, feed a cobra with milk [which apparently they like] and one day the cobra will bite the one who pours his dish of milk, after he's built up his store of poison.
Very true, wise one!
***A big YES to your, “Communists will never retreat an inch without being FORCED.”
The self-proclaimed “intellectual, well-educated and high-IQ’d” communists know history too well to not acknowledge or even mention the above statement. This not because it’s embarrassing; it’s because they REALLY believe their self-proclaimed delusion and that led them to believe that all other people are dumb and won’t defend themselves and their Republic if violence is thrust against them.
Yeah, We the People are too dumb and too PEACEFUL to defend the Republic, and ourselves they congratulate themselves on reaching THIS FAR in Communism without negligible opposition from the eunuch Republicans.
Little that they know, we are waiting for the elections to throw them out by a landslide, PEACEFULLY. The communist thugs and their MSM enablers don’t realize that it’s their last chance to walk into the sunset UNHARMED.
The communists and public enemy #1, the MSM, payment will be commensurate with and exponentially proportional to the level of violence they perpetuate against We the People!
I believe he intended them to be “death cards” of a sort ie pose the dead & leave a Chick-fil-a sandwich on each of the dead as a sort of calling card.
Correction:
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