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.
SPLC should be shamed publically for what they have done.
I don’t think the SPLC has a sense of goodwill.
It was founded by radicals, and while it has done some good work (such as a project to clear land titles for property owned by poor blacks in the South), in recent years it has become nothing but a left wing pressure group.
A couple of years after the election of The One, the SPLC was contracted by the government to identify and track “hate groups.”
First of all, this is unnecessary, since true hate groups are pretty obvious and in any case tracking the dangerous ones is the responsibility of the FBI and not some private, politically connected organization. Secondly, because it is primarily political in nature, the group exists solely to classify as a “hate group” any organization that does not conform to the left-wing policies that motivate our current government.
Did the perp intend to throw Chick-Fil-A sandwiches at his victims?
Excellent article. Thank you, Kaslin.
There's two lines of thought here, neither of which can be proven or disproven at this point:
1) The perp was trying to pass himself off as an intern, so the sandwiches were part of the bluff to try and get past the entrance and deep into the office area. ("I'm bringing food for the bosses.")
2) In some form of sick symbology, the perp was going to place a Chick-Fil-A sandwich on each body.
SPLC is a hate group. They are the ungodly.
Collectivists do not possess shame, as a hundred million murdered will readily testify.
“SLPC shuld be shamed publically for what they have done.”
Impossible.
They have no sense of shame.
IMHO
save for later
They should, but I doubt they are
very well said
You are welcome
SPLC should be shamed publically for what they have done.
The Left have no shame, no conscious, and apparently no soul. They have nothing but mindless rage toward anyone who objects or disagrees with their perverted world view. Incapable of accepting facts, common sense, or thousands of years of precident-setting history, their sole purpose in life is the preservation of their false ideology. They are pathetic and dangerous people, and the general public had better wake up to that danger before its too late.
I tried to find that; all I get is redirects to Lew Rockwell.
If you have that link, I'd be ever so grateful if you'd share it?
The SPLC is proof of just how much money there is still to be made off of white liberal guilt.
The SPLC is proof of just how much money there is still to be made off of white liberal guilt.
There's none. Wake up, idiot!
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.
Obviously, the naive author has no idea how to deal with communists. How can anyone think of coming "together" with communists and 0h0m0sexuals?
They are empowered by the chief 0h0m0Communist in the BathHouse, period.
For the umpteen time, Communists will never retreat an inch without being FORCED.
The Communist Chicago thugs are perpetrating violence to win the election by intimidation and/or the inevitable MSM calls for Martial Law to “protect” the citizens; thus an indefinite postponement.
The communist Chicago thugs have been training their paid soldiers; flash mobs; OWS; unions and NBPP who are protected by H0lder's D0J through THE NO ARRESTS OR PROSECUTION POLICY.
I disagree with "getting together" with people who hate regular Americans to the point of physically harming them. I think that We the People will NOT sit around and try the "get together" thingy!
If you ask people who lived under the tyranny of dictatorships what do they think of the situation, the majority will agree with the above.
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah....
Good ‘ol buddy Floyd was going to stuff them into the mouths of the people he intended to kill.
yes, shoot someone and drop a chicken sandwich from Chick fil A.
Nice huh?
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