Southern Poverty Law Center "reckless in labeling organizations hate groups because they disagree with them on public policy"

The SPLC is an integral part of the ongoing Leftist effort to demonize and destroy legitimate conservative voices -- like Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative, of which I am associate director, and which they also classify as a "hate group" -- by lumping them in with the likes of the KKK. The SPLC turns a blind eye to the real hate that comes from the Left and Islamic supremacists, and offers with its hate group listings not only an incitement to violence, but a handy tool that lazy Leftist mainstream media journalists use to try to intimidate people away from supporting our message of human rights.

"SPLC draws conservative ire," by David Ariosto for CNN, August 17 (thanks to Robert):

(CNN) -- Founded on the heels of America's civil rights movement, the Southern Poverty Law Center burnished its name with legal wins over white-supremist groups and helped integrate institutions like the Alabama State Police.
But it has also stoked anger with the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian policy group that lashed out this week after a 28-year-old gunman stormed their downtown Washington headquarters and opened fire.

"Let me be clear that Floyd Corkins was responsible for firing the shot yesterday," said council president Tony Perkins. "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 has listed The Family Research Council as a hate group since 2010, pointing to what it describes as its anti-gay propaganda and legislative agenda....

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Remco Kimber | August 17, 2012 8:08 PM | Reply

Came across this revealing video on the SPLC,

Protecting Rights: Loyal Americans Targeted by the SPLC | William F. Jasper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB2XQ92ufSA&feature=relmfu

Meryl Petkoff | August 17, 2012 8:49 PM | Reply

It's psychological projection, typical of ultra radical and bigoted front groups like SPLC, who accuse others of being a "hate group" just because they don't think like them. Typical Goebbelian, Stasi, G2, NKVD... tactics. In Cuba, North Korea, China, Bielorussia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador... etc. those same tactics and verbiage is used to discredit, persecute and prosecute dissidents and opposition.

pdxnag | August 17, 2012 10:05 PM | Reply

Someone should review the case of Planned Parenthood v. Amer. Coalition of Life, 290 F. 3d 1058. (one link)

SPLC's website is now like the Nuremberg Files website, posting their hit list -- which gets repeated approvingly by TV as though they are still a reputable source. A financial judgment against them might be as effective as the one against Tom Metzger related to the killing of Mulugeta Serwa.

Morris Dees wants counter-Jihadists dead. That is clear to me. He intends to incite such violence. That is clear to me. The proof question would be the same as the one long ago: i.e., could a link be established between a bat wielding thug and Morris Dees that is as strong as that for Tom Metzger? Morris Dees has an educated understanding for where that line is and how close he can come to it without plausibly going over it. Has he gotten too cocky for his own good and, like an Occupier, crossed over on purpose.

ApolloSpeaks | August 18, 2012 3:20 AM | Reply

WHY DOESN'T SPLC BRAND HUMANITY A HATE GROUP?

Since the vast majority of human beings on this planet define marriage as between one man and one woman wouldn't that qualify humanity as an anti-gay hate group?

London Jim | August 18, 2012 4:02 AM | Reply

Cogency does not appear to be SPLC's strongpoint.

Tom Davis replied to comment from ApolloSpeaks | August 18, 2012 6:18 AM | Reply

"WHY DOESN'T SPLC BRAND HUMANITY A HATE GROUP?"

I don't know about the SPLC or humanity, but it is quite clear that many leftists already view the majority of Americans as a hate group.

Clare | August 18, 2012 11:56 AM | Reply

This is a copy of a letter that I wrote to SPLC. I have not received any solicitations from them since.

20 Jan 2012

Dear Morris Dees, and the Southern Poverty Law Center:

I have repeatedly ignored the material that you send to me hoping that you would remove me from your mailing list. So the only polite thing for me to do is to return the favor and write you.

It is Obama’s Presidency that I have to thank for the urgency with which I began to educate myself and to become adequately informed in order to make wholesome associations.

Therefore, since May 2011 to the present, I have contributed to Gun Rights organizations, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, AIPAC, Border Sheriffs Project, Arizona Border Patrol, Citizens United, David Horowitz Freedom Center, Alan West, Newt For President, Constitution Sheriff Project and I became a member of the United States Patriots Union at the same time supporting A Declaration To Restore The Constitutional Republic and the National Call for United Action on 11.11.11 in D.C. As well, I continue my support of Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller among others and I have signed numerous petitions that resist the illegal actions of my government because

“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse…the charter of its own existence.” – Justice Tom Clark, TX

You frequently “go after” many of these same individuals listed above with whom I have associated; persons who are acting for freedom, liberty and the Constitutional Republic. So I would say that you and I do not intersect except in cross hairs, euphemistically speaking.

I have disassociated myself with the Democratic political party and party leadership, with Marxism and socialism, with separatist illegal alien groups and separatist immigrant groups represented by members of the fascist Islam ideology, the Muslim Brotherhoods who align themselves with radical social interest groups, Communist Party members active in America, labor union socialists, and other anti-American agencies too numerous to list.

I am willing to be proven wrong, but you are frequently associated with various persons listed above. I don’t think there is much ambiguity here; I am not.

So if I receive more material from you, I will write again as well. Perhaps I’ll have more alliances to share with you by then.

NewCrusader replied to comment from Clare | August 18, 2012 12:20 PM | Reply

Clare,
What a great letter. Well said.

KFerrer | August 19, 2012 10:44 PM | Reply

It's not just the SPLC that has made a shooting at the FRC thinkable. It's the relentless media drumbeat that at every turn equates any opposition to gay marriage as mindless hatred and bigotry. It's actually a wonder such a thing has not happened sooner.

fairmack | August 25, 2012 11:23 PM | Reply

(Yo, Jihad Watch. What's below is what I spied on the net.)

Jewish "Codes" Behind the DC Shooting

If something is unnatural or anti-American or anti-Christian, the Southern Poverty Law Center is drawn to it like flies to something smelly. Which is why the SPLC hates the Family Research Council which is pro-traditional family, pro-America, and pro-Christ.
After the shooting at FRC headquarters, which could have been a massacre, FRC president Tony Perkins stated that the SPLC has "been reckless in labeling organizations hate groups because they disagree with them on public policy."
The SPLC calls the FRC a "hate" group because it follows Christ who said to His followers "Love your enemies" (Matt. 5:44).
By way of contrast, heavily Jewish SPLC follows the ages-old Talmud which HATES science, females, children (homosexual sex with children is okay!), all Gentiles, Jesus (who was born a "bastard" - Jewish Encyclopedia), and all Christians! For sources Google or Yahoo "The Earliest Hate Criminals," "The Talmud and double standards" (July 3, 2012), and "Talmud" (Wikipedia).
Be sure to Google "Zionist Watch" (5/26/2007) which called SPLC founder Morris Dees "a Jewish radical leftist pervert...sexual deviant...flagrant adulterer...[and] alleged child molester," also Google "The Anti-Chick-fil-A Jihad" and "Mikey Weinstein, Jesus-Basher."
As you can tell, the SPLC (which is chummy with fellow schmucks including the ADL and ACLU) is a "love" group!
BTW, the one five-letter name starting with "J" that SPLC etc. hate (no, not James or Julia) warned in Matt. 24:9 that in the end times "ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." (I wonder how soon the SPLC will work for the banning of the Bible, the one book that America's greatest leaders highly exalted - Google "Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right.")
While the SPLC and think-alikes are busy back-stabbing evangelicals (viewed as Israel's best friends), the same schmucks are creating a huge backlash that will bring about the predicted end-time slaughter of two-thirds of Jewry and Jerusalem's devastation (Zech. 13 & 14). By doing all it can to help fulfill the Bible's predictions, the pervs at the you-know-what are actually making the Bible even more believable!

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