The problem is not so much that the Southern Poverty Law Center libels and defames me and others who are calling attention to the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat. The problem is that the establishment media uniformly acts as if the SPLC were an impartial and reliable arbiter of what constitutes a “hate group” and what does not. Yet there is no evidence whatsoever that the SPLC is anything but a smear machine in service of a hard-Left, pro-jihad agenda.
“Southern Poverty Law Center: ‘Our Aim in Life Is to Destroy These Groups, Completely,’” by Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media, September 1, 2017:
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has gained traction in recent weeks, but contrary to media reports, the group does not exist to “monitor hate groups” but to destroy groups that it targets for “strictly ideological” reasons. In light of large donations from Apple, J.P. Morgan, and George Clooney, and CNN’s favorable coverage of the SPLC, Americans should learn the real motivations behind this far-left organization.
In the words of SPLC former spokesman Mark Potok (who spent 20 years as a senior fellow at the SPLC and only retired this year, according to LinkedIn), the group does not exist to monitor hate groups.
“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,” Potok declared at an event in Michigan in 2007.
Potok reiterated this point at a Vermont school group in 2008. “You are able to destroy these groups sometimes by the things you publish,” he declared. “It’s not so much that they will bring down the police or the federal agents on their head, it’s that you can sometimes so mortally embarrass these groups that they will be destroyed” (emphasis added).
The SPLC “mortally embarrasses” groups by equating mainstream conservative, Christian, and other organizations with the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists. Make no mistake, this is not a “hate group monitoring” organization, it’s a far-Left defamation racket that exists to target any group it disagrees with politically.
“We see this political struggle,” Potok added in his 2008 Vermont speech. “We’re not trying to change anybody’s mind. We’re trying to wreck the groups. We’re trying to destroy them. Not to send them to prison unfairly or to take their free speech rights away, but as a political matter to destroy them.”
In yet another 2008 speech, Potok explained the SPLC criteria for a “hate group.” The spokesman said, “Our criteria for a ‘hate group,’ first of all, 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” (emphasis added).
Here’s the criteria: “So we look at a group and we say, ‘Does this group, in its platform statements, or the speeches of its leader or leaders — Does this group say that a whole group of people, by virtue of their group characteristics, is somehow less?”
The SPLC’s actions have revealed what “group characteristics” means. The “hate group” list features Christian organizations like D. James Kennedy Ministries, the Family Research Council (FRC), Liberty Counsel, the American Family Association (AFA), and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), along with other groups like the American College of Pediatricians and the Center for Immigration Studies. It also lists Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz and women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali as “anti-Muslim extremists.”…
The SPLC’s broad definition of a “hate group” is exceedingly important, because this “hate” labeling has inspired at least one terror attack.
In the summer of 2012, the SPLC’s “hate map” inspired Floyd Lee Corkins III to break into the Family Research Council (FRC), a Christian nonprofit in Washington, D.C. Corkins aimed to murder everyone in the building, and he later pled guilty to committing an act of terrorism. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison….
“The SPLC depicts itself as a big champion of rights, but it’s become a champion of wrongs,” Dan Gainor, vice president of Business and Culture at the Media Research Center, told PJ Media in an email statement. “It is no longer the civil rights era group that many of its supporters believe. It now exists largely to attack groups it doesn’t agree with and to fundraise millions and millions of dollars off of uninformed donors.”…
RonaldB says
Dealing with the SPLC is more like theology than political science or journalism. They hit the “sweet spot” of political influence and fundraising (or perhaps we should reverse the order) so at the same time, they provide the means for Jewish leftists to virtue signal to themselves, and also give an excellent cover for communist journalists to malign the groups they wish to malign.
One aspect to keep in mind is that Jewish leftists and far-left journalists are not susceptible to reason, which is why dealing with the SPLC is like dealing with theological dogma. The US is becoming divided, with one side of the debates impervious to logic or actual facts.
My own opinion is that the events during and following Charlottesville have highlighted the fact there is a coordinated and well-funded campaign to transform the US into a totalitarian government, possibly a soft totalitarian government, where the consequence for unorthodox expression is not imprisonment, but impoverishment. The SPLC, until recently, has been funded by small donors, rather than foundations, so it’s less likely to change its modus operandi in response to exposes, however true they are. But, the SPLC is very useful to the Deep State, which is a pretty good term for the network of oligarchs, intelligence bureaucrats, bankers, and corrupt politicians trying to construct a Hillary, rather than a Trump, presidency.
Westman says
“Does this group say that a whole group of people, by virtue of their group characteristics, is somehow less?”
Jihad Watch is on the SPLC hate list because of its group characteristics.
“I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them,”
Uhhh, doesn’t this logically mean that the SPLC should be on its own hate list?
gravenimage says
Southern Poverty Law Center: “Our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely”
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They don’t want *anyone* to disagree with them. Who cares about freedom of speech?
Irene Brekelmans says
IT IS GETTING CRAZIER BY THE DAY. MR. DACON HAS NO IDEA WHO THREATENS THE JEWS OR THE PEOPLE, WHO DON’T HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND WHO ARE NOT ALOUD TO HAVE CRITICISM ON ANYBODY OR ANYTHING, WHEN THEY SEE THEIR COUNTRY FALLING TO PEACES.
That is clear language: Our aim in life is to destroy these groups completely and I am glad that none of us has ever made threats, may be because we try to live as Xtians or the Torah.
Lydia says
This noahide nut has found his way on here and is obviously here to cause discord and divert people into other issues, get people angry, and slander Christians falsely of course. He probably works for the SPLC (slander, persecute, and lie center).
I highly advise ignoring this troll and not allow yourself to get hijacked by his angry rants, he is under satan. Everything he says is false. The Bible and Christianity are true. It is funny, the supernatural world is real and one of the most common ways to watch it is by how the natural world aligns around it, like leaves blowing in the wind. I see this all the time.
The SPLC is definitely out to destroy the true church of God, in any way, shape, or form, and martyrdom is in the blueprints of their plan, they are at the drawing board all the time as to how to arrive. But, they won’t succeed in destroying the church, Jesus has spoken it and thus it is and will be.
On another note, I have researched so many things and been on a LOT of blogs and learned much about what is happening now, some of it by revelation from the Holy Spirit. It has never failed to come true. Anyway, on one blog there was a discussion about the noahide laws coming into fashion and the persecution of Christians as a result, namely beheading. One guy said he worked for a trucking company and noticed that he was hauling a lot of guillotines and became concerned about their purpose so he inquired about it. They were heading north I think in the US to certain prescribed destinations or detention centers or something and he discovered it was related to this. Anyway, I can’t vouch for every item but I just thought this was interesting in light of all of this. Many sinister schemes and plots are afoot behind the scenes, make no mistake.
Just remember, the martyrs path has many that have gone before us, we are in good company. Jesus was the first one, in a unique way of course, dying for our sins.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
“Does this group say that a whole group of people, by virtue of their group characteristics, is somehow less?”
Pretty much describes Islam to a tee. The “whole group of people” being all non-Muslims in general, and Jews in particular.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Seems to me that the “Southern Poverty Law Center” is a monopoly.
Darmanad says
Ah, the joys of an unmonitored comment section.
p.s. Would those arguing about god and religion please stop littering the comments – Mr Spencer’s blog is not whether your god is better than my got. It is about human and civil rights.
boakai ngombu says
are there not certain inalienable rights, endowed by the Creator, which we enjoy?
the slaves (Muslims) of the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) and its suggested exemplar to mankind, muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts and having no compassion) would steal these away … and certain associates would help them running rough shod over any and all rights “human and civil” which you assert.
patriotliz says
I hereby declare the SPLC a “Hate Group.”
Shan LIm says
Can someone tell me what phone can I switch to after I ditch iphone?