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“The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered”

Aug 21, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

It is good to see this in USA Today, which up to now could be counted on to parrot faithfully the establishment media line on everything. But the SPLC’s stranglehold on the establishment media is weakening: first the Washington Post, and now this.

“It has always been easier to smear people rather than wrestle with their ideas. It’s a bully who calls names and spreads lies rather than thoroughly reading a brief’s legal arguments or challenging the rationale underlying a policy proposal. The SPLC has chosen to take the easy path — to intimidate and mislead for raw political power and financial benefit.”

Welcome to my world. For a couple of decades now I’ve been smeared and defamed by the SPLC, Hamas-linked CAIR, and their allies, without anyone ever bothering to show that what I said was actually false, and with numerous false claims about what I actually meant by what I said. But as this article shows, this was never about me: it is how Leftists and Islamic supremacists operate in general against those whom they hate and fear.

“For years, former employees revealed, local journalists reported and commentators have lamented: The Southern Poverty Law Center is not what it claims to be. Not a pure-hearted, clear-headed legal advocate for the vulnerable, but rather an obscenely wealthy marketing scheme. For years, the left-wing interest group has used its ‘hate group’ list to promote the fiction that violent neo-Nazis and Christian nonprofits peacefully promoting orthodox beliefs about marriage and sex are indistinguishable. Sometimes, it has apologized to public figures it has smeared, and it recently paid out millions to settle a threatened defamation lawsuit.”

Indeed. Let’s hope there will be many more such suits.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered,” by Jessica Prol Smith, USA Today, August 17, 2019:

I’ll never forget the moment I learned we were on lockdown. It was Aug.15, 2012. My frustration mingled with fear. Trapped on the sixth floor, we knew someone had been shot. We knew we couldn’t leave yet. We knew little else.

While I was missing lunch, a crime scene played out in the office lobby below me. My coworker and friend Leo wasn’t armed, but he had played the quick-thinking and inadvertent hero, disarming a young man on a mission to kill me and as many of my colleagues as possible. The gunman had packed his backpack with ammo and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches — later admitting that he had planned to smear them on our lifeless faces as a political statement. Leo took a bullet in the arm but managed to hold the attacker until law enforcement arrived.

I wrote and edited for the Family Research Council, a public advocacy organization that promoted the principles I have cared about since childhood: protecting the family, promoting the dignity of every human life and advocating for religious liberty. It reads like a tagline, but it’s also just what I believed and the way I chose to match my career with my convictions.

I never expected that everyone would celebrate or share my beliefs. But I did expect to be able to discuss and debate these differences without becoming a political target in an act of terrorism, the first conviction under Washington, D.C.’s 2002 Anti-Terrorism Act.

The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled us a ‘hate group’

It was the type of violent incident that one could expect a group that purportedly monitors “hate,” like the Southern Poverty Law Center, to notice, research and decry. In fact, we were on the center’s radar but for all the wrong reasons. The assailant acknowledged later in FBI testimony that he had selected our office precisely because the SPLC had labeled my employer a “hate group.”

It has always been easier to smear people rather than wrestle with their ideas. It’s a bully who calls names and spreads lies rather than thoroughly reading a brief’s legal arguments or challenging the rationale underlying a policy proposal. The SPLC has chosen to take the easy path — to intimidate and mislead for raw political power and financial benefit.

For years, former employees revealed, local journalists reported and commentators have lamented: The Southern Poverty Law Center is not what it claims to be. Not a pure-hearted, clear-headed legal advocate for the vulnerable, but rather an obscenely wealthy marketing scheme. For years, the left-wing interest group has used its “hate group” list to promote the fiction that violent neo-Nazis and Christian nonprofits peacefully promoting orthodox beliefs about marriage and sex are indistinguishable. Sometimes, it has apologized to public figures it has smeared, and it recently paid out millions to settle a threatened defamation lawsuit…

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  1. FYI says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 11:15 am

    Lawyer:So ,what can I do for you?
    The Abdools:Hi,i’m Abdool,this is my brother Abdoool and this is my other brother Abdooool and this is my wife Abdoolia.These are my sons Abdool#1,Abdool#2 and Abdool #3 and that’s my dog Laika named after the first muslim in space.
    We’re from Abdoolabad,the capital of Abdoolistan.
    We want to make money from the kuffar..I mean..I mean..we are victims of islamophobia and we need to sue somebody,anybody,just as long as they are infidels.

    Lawyer:Maybe you’ll need the SPLC.Why me?Is it a case of “Better call Saul”?
    The Abdools::More like “Better NOT call Saul” haha..he sounds like an Israeli Zionist Jew.

    Lawyer: hmm…we’ll need some evidence of “islamophobia”:was your “prophet” insulted or something?
    The Abdools:No.Abdoolia was sneered at by a white man wearing a MAGA hat.

    Lawyer:THAT’S IT?You’ll definitely need the SPLC
    The Abdools:say I trust there are no Jewish lawyers at the SPLC:allah forbids me from dealing with THOSE people.

    • Oldone says

      Aug 21, 2019 at 12:55 pm

      Abdools —- You may need a new lawyer…Most of the lawyers at the SPLC are Jewish…Which makes no sense for an organization, that supports all of the Muslims ideology, and institutions…

      • Shirley Ann says

        Aug 21, 2019 at 6:48 pm

        Your comment made me think about the Jewish DEM Congressional Reps. When the Notorious Omar was singled out for Anti-Israeli Hate, she demanded an Explanation from her accusers. Her Congressional Colleagues formed the Letter & the first Two were American Jewish Reps.
        This is No Shock, Liberal Jewish Americans usually stand for Muslim & Left-Wing People & Causes.
        I never understood WHY?

        • CRUSADER says

          Aug 22, 2019 at 3:37 am

          Liberals feeeeeel for the perceived victims
          and fall for sociopathic users and schemers
          all the time….all the time….all the time !!!

          Read the book by Jamie Glazov :

          “JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH “

        • SAFI says

          Aug 22, 2019 at 7:44 am

          CRUSADER, I haven’t got my hands on Glazov’s book but it’s well established by now that liberals often “feeeeel” even for their own rapists provided that the rapist is a foreigner – preferably a Muslim (“best of people” you see). There have been plenty of cases in countries such as Germany, Sweden, Norway,etc of leftists, such as volunteers at “refugee” centers and others, getting raped by a “refugee” and then lying in their report in order to conceal the (muslim) identity of their rapist, and even of some who go on to express guilt for their rapist having to be deported on account of raping them!
          https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3528236/Male-Norwegian-politician-raped-asylum-seeker-says-feels-GUILTY-attacker-deported-man-suffer-Somalia.html

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 22, 2019 at 10:22 pm

          SAFI, Glazov specifically mentions these cases.

      • marc says

        Aug 22, 2019 at 4:50 pm

        Oldone says Aug 21, 2019 at 12:55 pm
        Abdools —- You may need a new lawyer…Most of the lawyers at the SPLC are Jewish…Which makes no sense for an organization, that supports all of the Muslims ideology, and institutions…

        The point is they are liberal lawyers, the fact that they are Jewish is irrelevant
        Jews are just as split left and right as any other group, ethnicity/religion is irrelevant.

        What might be true is a large proportion of lawyers are Jewish, I know, I’m the father of one. Lawyers also are split politically, and many, quite educated ones sit on the fence.

        And you are wrong, last time i looked at a list of the lawyers at SPLC, Jews were somewhere near 1/4 to a 3rd of staff, so for a law firm, they might be under represented. What was shocking, they were all white, I suspect the SPLC is racist.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 22, 2019 at 10:24 pm

          Yes–there are plenty of clueless liberal Gentiles out there, as well.

    • No Muzzies Here says

      Aug 21, 2019 at 1:14 pm

      Hard to keep track of all the Abdrools.

    • Victoria says

      Aug 22, 2019 at 9:50 am

      The Southern Poverty Law Center is a tool to discredit anyone with enough courage to ring the alarm bell. fFnanced by deep state that is financed by the evil man with a name that is protected by the left and therefore cancels out on posts. However everyone knows his name.

  2. mortimer says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 11:15 am

    A SLANDER CLUB. SPLC’s job is to criticize, to slander and condemn all tried-and-true American traditions and to promote untried Utopian dreams.

    They are creating such an atmosphere of hatred towards American tradtionalists, that brainwashed Leftards feel no shame in threatening and physically attacking traditional Americans without provocation. The Trotskyist Antifa hoodlums are the Leftist equivalent of Hitler’s brown-shirted Sturmabteilung who smashed heads and property of opponents of Hitler without prosecution.

    No one should be slandered and libelled but that is the main purpose of SPLC. It’s a filthy philosophy coming out of the Frankfurt school of Marxism. They seek to change America through slander.

    The result of SPLC’s vicious slanders will be increased levels of Leftist vigilante violence against traditional Americans of all colors and creeds.

  3. mortimer says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 11:21 am

    ‘Leo’ who took a bullet in the arm. He’s a genuine hero.

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 11:49 am

    Southern Poverty Law Center Is a Hate Group by Josh Goldstein

    The SPLC has lost its way … The list of hate groups has kept getting longer and longer while our nation has become more tolerant of those who are different. In March 2013, the publication Foreign Policy ran an expose on the methodology of SPLC’s listing of hate groups, noting that SPLC counted many groups several times.

    The overall impression from SPLC’s list is designed to make Americans believe that America is a nation filled with racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and every other form of hatred that the conservative cause specifically disavows.

    SPLC’s senior leadership is shameful. It uses its past legacy of fighting against racism to add legitimacy to their evolving agenda of hatred towards the large number of Americans who hold conservative and religious values.

    In 2010, SPLC added the conservative Family Research Council to its list of hate groups.

    In early 2015, SPLC added Dr. Ben Carson to its list of hate groups.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an atheist, feminist, and former Muslim who speaks out against female genital mutilation, was added to the SPLC hate list in recent years. Ali has many death threats on her life by Islamic radicals but SPLC labels her, and not those who have made the threats, on the hate watch list.

    https://townhall.com/columnists/joshgoldstein/2017/07/26/splc-hate-group-n2360208

    • GreekEmpress says

      Aug 21, 2019 at 4:17 pm

      The SPLC has Oathkeepers listed as a radical anti-government hate group. I have met several members the past few years and their basic concern seems to be adherence to the Constitution. Most of them had been combat veterans or law enforcement officers. They support shelters for homeless veterans, and clean up trash from a section of a road here in town. I have never known any of them to be racist or hate filled.

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 21, 2019 at 5:10 pm

        Upstanding folks, those OKers.

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 22, 2019 at 3:40 am

        Gun Rights Policy Conference

        https://www.saf.org/grpc/

        Come meet national gun rights leaders and your fellow grassroots activists at the 34th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC 2019) in Phoenix, Arizona at Sheraton Crescent on September 20, 21, & 22nd, 2019. This is your once-a-year chance to network, get an insider look and plan pro-gun rights strategies for the coming year. Past GRPCs have outlined victory plans and made public the latest firearms trends. They allow you a first-hand chance to hear movement leaders–and make your voice heard. This year we’ll take a look at critical issues such as: city gun bans, “smart” guns, concealed carry, federal legislation, legal actions, gun show regulation and state and local activity. The full roster of GRPC 2019 speakers has not yet been set. Past speakers include: Alan M. Gottlieb, Joseph P. Tartaro, Eugene Volokh, Wayne LaPierre, Michael Reagan, Larry Elder, Rep. Bob Barr, John Lott, Mark Walters, Sandy Froman, Rick Patterson, Gene Hoffman, David Hardy, Dave Kopel, David Sigale, Sidney Powell, Tim Schmidt, AWR Hawkins, Massad Ayoob, Tom Gresham, Alan Gura, G. Gordon Liddy, and many others.

  5. Angemon says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled us a ‘hate group’

    “That’s a nice store front you have there. Would be a shame someone threw a rock at it because they think you’re a hatemonger…”

  6. revereridesagain says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    Robert, indirectly the SPLC helped nearly get you killed — or at least badly injured — as well, when you were poisoned by a leftist in Iceland who may well have been familiar with, and influenced by, their corrupt material. If more people are finally waking up to the disgraceful scam represented by that organization it is way past time.

    • Mark Swan says

      Aug 21, 2019 at 2:56 pm

      No matter how much truth there is to acknowledge, there will always be,
      those, who are perfectly willing to blur the view of truth, when the truth
      is not favorable to their own interest, the SPLC’s interest is money.

      • James Lincoln says

        Aug 21, 2019 at 4:28 pm

        Yes, Mark Swan.

        If I may also add power, influence, and support of the leftist/Marxist/globalist narrative…

        • Mark Swan says

          Aug 22, 2019 at 12:54 am

          Absolutely James Lincoln, I do agree.

        • Victoria says

          Aug 22, 2019 at 9:54 am

          SPLC funded by the man who’s name won’t print. However we all know who the man with dual citizenship is.

  7. Peter says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 4:40 pm

    SPLC =

    Socialist

    Propaganda &

    Libel

    Commissariat

  8. CRUSADER says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    What’s SPLC to do with its gobs of money reserves?

    • Victoria says

      Aug 22, 2019 at 9:55 am

      Funds Antifa.

  9. Lydia Church says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 5:40 pm

    The bottom line is…

    They hate Christians.
    Anyone who opposes abortion, gay marriage,
    and any other forms of sin, as well as false
    religions and their evil fruits, like islam.
    We will be in the crosshairs of their target.

    There is seething black smoke style hatred coming from such groups as the SPLC aimed at us.
    Whatever excuse and false chain link they need to slander us, they will use.
    This is becoming more evident by the day.

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 21, 2019 at 6:53 pm

      Satan
      Promoting
      Licentious
      Conduct

  10. gravenimage says

    Aug 21, 2019 at 9:16 pm

    “The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered”
    …………..

    Kudos to her for speaking out!

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