'Our Aim in Life Is … to Completely Destroy Them'-SPLC's smear campaign against the Freedom Center

SPLC's worldview is rooted in the premise that the United States is perpetually “seething” with “racial violence” and “intolerance against those who are different” — i.e., members of minority groups like blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals, and Arabs/Muslims.

To combat this purported epidemic of malevolence and white supremacism, SPLC periodically publishes updated lists of U.S.-based “hate groups” and “extremist groups” from coast to coast. By its latest count, there are currently 954 active “hate groups” in the United States.

But SPLC does not indict only organizations whose platforms center on the hateful endorsement of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, or sexuality. Rather, the list also includes many groups that are thoughtful, articulate conveyors of mainstream conservative values and principles; groups that unambiguously condemn the maltreatment of anyone, for any reason. Their only “sin” is that they have the temerity to disagree with SPLC on certain social or political issues.

Consider, for example, that the many “hate groups” identified by SPLC in recent years include:

Can any of you figure out which of those four groups is different from the other three? Perhaps you can, but SPLC is apparently too dense to distinguish between them.

In fact, in a 2016 survey, the Chronicle of Philanthropy found that no fewer than 63 of the organizations that SPLC identified as “hate groups” or “extremist groups” were actually IRS-approved charities.

The inclusion of legitimate conservative organizations in SPLC's list of “hate groups” constitutes an egregious libel rooted in the Center's remarkable intolerance for ideas with which it does not agree. The aforementioned Mark Potok unwittingly acknowledged this himself when he stated that the SPLC blacklists have “nothing to do with criminality or violence or any kind of guess we’re making about ‘this group could be dangerous.’ It’s strictly ideological.”

By conflating actual hate groups on the one hand, with respectable conservative organizations on the other — and thereby giving the impression that conservative values are somehow inherently hateful, racist, or otherwise repugnant — SPLC seeks to shut down debate, shut down free speech, and delegitimize all conservatives as odious monsters whose viewpoints do not even merit access to a public forum.

In contrast to its eagerness to brand conservatives as “racists,” SPLC typically gives a free pass to left-wing groups, no matter how hateful or exclusionary their agendas may be. Consider UnidosUS, which for 45 years was called the National Council of La Raza (“The Race”). Though this race-obsessed organization views virtually any opposition to its amnesty/open-borders/welfare-state agenda as “a disgrace to American values,” UnidosUS/La Raza has been hailed by SPLC research director Heidi Beirich as “a venerable civil-rights organization.”

Moreover, UnidosUS/La Raza is known to have given money to MEChA, a “Chicano Students” organization that has explicitly vowed to repel the “brutal ‘gringo’ invasion of our territories,” and whose organizational slogan translates to: “For the race, everything; Outside of the race, nothing.” But SPLC sees nothing amiss here. As Mark Potok puts it, “we have found no evidence to support charges that [MEChA] is racist or anti-Semitic.”

Similarly, SPLC has elected not to include, in its list of “hate groups,” the violent Marxist/anarchist movement known as Antifa, which, as Atlantic magazine has noted, is responsible for “a level of sustained political street warfare not seen in the U.S. since the 1960s.” SPLC president Richard Cohen explains that Antifa does not qualify for designation because its brand of hate is “not the type of hate we follow.”

Likewise escaping the opprobrium of SPLC is Black Lives Matter, an entity whose founders were Marxist revolutionaries, and whose rank-and-file foot soldiers have routinely engaged in some of the vilest anti-white, anti-police rhetoric (and violent race riots) in living memory. By SPLC's telling, “The perception that [BLM] is racist” only “illustrates [that our] society as a whole still does not accept that racial injustice remains pervasive.”

While SPLC identifies itself as a “nonprofit civil rights group,” its net assets currently total more than $449 million — including some $92 million invested in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda.

“Hate” is SPLC's perpetual motion machine; the gift that keeps on giving. It is time for Americans to wake up and realize what this organization is all about, and to finally consign it to the dustbin of history, where it can take its rightful place alongside similar collections of discredited charlatans, demagogues, hate mongers, and smear merchants.

In June, after one of SPLC's targets sued and received a settlement, about 60 organizations named by SPLC as "haters" are considering a lawsuit against the SPLC for defamation. If the DOJ goes after SPLC with a RICO case, the SPLC has half a BILLION in the bank to lose.

BACKSTORY The conniving SPLC stashed a lot of its income offshore.The Southern Poverty Law Center is best known for its "hate map" -----a collection of organizations the nonprofit SPLC deems "domestic hate groups" that lists mainstream conservative organizations alongside racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and is often referenced in the media. A gunman opened fire at the Washington, D.C., offices of the conservative Family Research Council in 2012 after seeing it listed as an "anti-gay" group on SPLC's website.

Its the same old liberal con game----faking concern for your fellow man....and conniving to make a buck on it. That con has has turned SPLC into a fundraising powerhouse, recording more than $50 million in contributions and $328 million in net assets on its 2015 Form 990, the most recently available tax form from the nonprofit. SPLC's Form 990-T, its business income tax return, from the same year shows that they have "financial interests" in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. No information is available beyond the acknowledgment of the interests at the bottom of the form. (Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...

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REFERENCE--Southern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities
freebeacon / FR Posted by Sub-Driver
The SPLC off-shore banking scam sounds suspiciously like the Madoff fraud. When he went to jail, investigators found Ponzi King Bernie Madoff had stashed billions offshore---into a labyrinth of financial entities.

COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACIES GALORE---Some $8.9 billion was funneled to Madoff through a dozen so-called feeder funds based in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America......a labyrinth of hedge funds, management companies and service providers that, to unsuspecting outsiders, seemed to compose a formidable system of checks and balances. But the purpose of this complex architecture was just the opposite: the feeder funds provided different modes for directing money to the cunning Madoff in order to avoid scrutiny.

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ACTION NOW---The Bank Secrecy Act should be mobilized----to follow the paper trail and determine how money changed hands among (a) SPLC (b) Obama and OFA, (c) leftist groups and donors.

Demand that the scope and dimension of collusion in sub rosa deals be examined, as to who might be personally profiting and if financing domestic terrorism is being facilitated.

<><> L/E needs to examine bank accounts of the aforementioned.

<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer funds from one account to another, and/or wire-transferred offshore;

<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into SPLC accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.

<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders' personal use and/or for financing domestic terrorism.

Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.

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<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of SPLC checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) SPLC correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.

L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub- brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize bank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> SPLC bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures;

Tax fraud may also be a factor, facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from legal bank accounts into personal accounts, or redistribution schemes.

<><> A huge tipoff is whether SPLC bank withdrawals support luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts and purchases from luxury outlets.

Morris Dees co-founded the SPLC in 1971 following a successful business and law career. He started a direct mail sales company specializing in book publishing while still a student at the University of Alabama, where he also obtained a law degree.

After launching a law practice in Montgomery in 1960, he won a series of groundbreaking civil rights cases that helped integrate government and public institutions. He also served as finance director for former President Jimmy Carter’s campaign in 1976 and for Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern in 1972.

Known for his innovative lawsuits that crippled some of America’s most notorious white supremacist hate groups, he has received more than 20 honorary degrees and numerous awards. Those include Trial Lawyer of the Year from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Award from the National Education Association and The Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice.

He was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal in 2006. In addition, the University of Alabama Law School and the New York law firm Skadden, Arps jointly created the annual Morris Dees Justice Award to honor a lawyer devoted to public service work.

Dees has written three books: A Season For Justice, his autobiography; Hate on Trial: The Case Against America’s Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi; and Gathering Storm: America’s Militia Threat. In 1991, NBC aired a made-for-TV movie called “Line of Fire” about Dees and his landmark legal victories against the Ku Klux Klan.

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