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‘About 60 Organizations’ Are Considering a Lawsuit Against the SPLC Following $3M Nawaz Settlement
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August 27, 2018
July 5, 2018
‘About 60 Organizations’ Are Considering a Lawsuit Against the SPLC Following $3M Nawaz Settlement
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER SETTLES LAWSUIT AFTER FALSELY LABELING âEXTREMISTâ ORGANIZATION #SPLC
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER SETTLES LAWSUIT AFTER FALSELY LABELING âEXTREMISTâ ORGANIZATION
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June 12, 2018
SPLC: A Demagogic Bully – The Southern Poverty Law Center demonizes respectable political opponents as âhate groupsââand keeps its coffers bulging.
“The SPLCâs investment portfolio (which it justifies as a contingency âfor the day when nonprofits like SPLC can no longer afford to solicit support through the mail because of rising postage and printing costsâ) has steadily grown to over $300 million, and includes offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. As Charlotte Allen drolly noted in The Weekly Standard, âSPLC is probably the richest poverty organization in the history of the world.â
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City Journal
Mark Pulliam
June, 2017
A Demagogic Bully
The Southern Poverty Law Center demonizes respectable political opponents as âhate groupsââand keeps its coffers bulging.
H.L. Mencken described the secret of successful demagoguery as âkeep[ing] the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.â Mencken was referring to âpractical politics,â but his insight is equally applicable to public relations and fundraising campaigns trafficking in extravagant claims. For the past 40 years, a self-styled watchdog group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, has excelled in promoting such unwarranted alarm, with a politicized series of hobgoblins, in the process amassing a fortune from its credulous donors.
According to the SPLC, America is rife with dangerous âhate groupsâ: the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, anti-government militia groups, radical-right terrorists, and many more. âWeâre currently tracking more than 1,600 extremist groups operating across the country,â the SPLCâs website claims. Readers of SPLCâs press releases, reports, andâimportantlyâdirect-mail solicitations would be justified in imagining an America teeming with smoldering churches and synagogues, cross burnings, storm troopers bearing swastikas, and even lynchings.
Reality is different. In fact, racial tolerance is at an all-time high, diversity is universally promoted as a civic virtue, and âhate crimes,â as defined and reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have declined over the past decade to fewer than 6,000 incidents a year, a modest number in a country with 326 million people. The principal threats of radical extremism in the United States today are jihadist attacks (radical Islam), militant anti-police rioters (such as Black Lives Matter), and masked Antifa (so-called âanti-fascistâ) mobs shutting down free speech on college campuses and violently protesting the election of President Donald J. Trump, while the greatest perpetrators of violence in America are criminal street gangsâincluding the deadly MS-13âthat have turned some of our inner cities into war zones.
The virulently anti-Trump âResistanceâ movement has fueled partisan acrimony with poisonous rhetoric, to the extent of condoningâand in some cases even encouragingâphysical attacks against political opponents. Yet the SPLC largely ignores such groups, focusing instead on the moribund KKK (many of whose estimated 2,000 members are thought to be FBI informants) and similar relics from the Jim Crow era. The SPLC myopically focuses on white racism directed at minority groups, especially African-Americans. A former SPLC lawyer, Gloria Browne, charged that SPLC programs were calculated to cash in on âblack pain and white guilt.â Racism undoubtedly exists, but it is neither pervasive nor exclusively practiced by whites.
Ironically, the SPLC not only overlooks most of the real hate groups in operation today, along with overtly race-based organizations, such as the pro-Latino National Council of La Raza and MEChA, but also labels moderates with whom it disagrees âextremistsâ if they deviate from its rigid political agenda, which embraces open borders, LGBT rights, and other left-wing totems. The SPLC has branded Somali-born reformer Ayaan Hirsi Ali an âanti-Muslin extremistâ for her opposition to female genital mutilation and other oppressive Islamic practices, and designated the respected Family Research Council as a âhate groupâ for its opposition to same-sex marriage. Likewise, the organization deems mainstream immigration-reform advocates such as the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) as hate groups. British Muslim activist Maajid Nawazâregarded by most observers as a human rights leaderâis suing the SPLC for listing him as an extremist.
Critics of the SPLC accuse the lavishly funded organization of peddling fear and smearing political opponentsâmostly conservativesâas bigots. Its âHatewatchâ list is avowedly ideological, acknowledging that it âmonitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right.â Few left-wing organizationsâand no Islamist groupsâare branded in this way by the SPLC. Nevertheless, the SPLC, founded in 1971, has burrowed itself into the civil rights movement, the organized bar, the cloistered culture of large law firms, the education system, and even law enforcement as a champion for âthe exploited, the powerless and the forgotten.â Its executives are richly compensated, some in excess of $400,000 annually. Operating from palatial six-story quarters in Montgomery, Alabama (sometimes called the âPoverty Palaceâ), it enjoys a $300 million endowment, including more than $23 million in cash.
It fundraises ceaselessly. Itâs no coincidence that SPLC co-founder Morris S. Dees Jr. has been inducted into the Direct Marketing Associationâs Hall of Fame…. read the rest here.
May 20, 2018
SPLC on Dustin Inman Society: Not a hate group…2011 Wayback machine: D.A. King Associated Press profile after HB87 #AP
“The Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center hasnât put Kingâs organization on its list of hate groups.
But the center lists him as a ânativistâ and has expressed concern about his tendency to call illegal immigrants âinvadersâ and his contact with other more extreme activists.
âHis tactics have generally not been to get up in the face of actual immigrants and threaten them,â said the law centerâs Heidi Beirich. âBecause he is fighting, working on his legislation through the political process, that is not something we can quibble with, whether we like the law or not.â
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Activist key to immigration bill
Posted: Tuesday, July 05, 2011
ATLANTA – With the fate of a proposal to crack down on illegal immigration still unknown in the frenetic final days of Georgia’s legislative session, the bill’s author was spotted several times huddled in hushed discussions in the Capitol hallways with D.A. King.
King, 59, has been a permanent fixture at the Capitol for years, lobbying lawmakers and rallying supporters for phone and letter-writing campaigns. The broad-shouldered, 6-foot-2 activist’s approach is sometimes confrontational and always outspoken, making him a hero among those who favor stricter immigration enforcement – and earning him plenty of enemies.
His advice has been welcomed by some legislators, including state Rep. Matt Ramsey, a Republican in the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree City who authored Georgia’s strict measure.
“I can’t think of anybody in my 20 years of working on this issue who has been more adroit in working inside the state legislature to get legislation actually passed,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which pushes for tighter immigration control. “He’s just kind of at the top of the heap nationwide in terms of local activists.”
Ramsey said King provided integral guidance when drafting the new law, and he rallied supporters to pressure lawmakers with phone calls and emails.
Even though a judge last week temporarily blocked two provisions of the law, King claims victory. He cited several parts that were not blocked, saying they “will greatly deter illegal aliens from attempting to take jobs in Georgia.”
One will require businesses with 500 or more employees to use a federal database called E-Verify to check the immigration status of new hires starting Jan. 1. That requirement will be phased in for all businesses with more than 10 employees by July 2013. Another makes it a felony to use false information or documentation when applying for a job. Also starting Jan. 1, applicants for public benefits must provide at least one state or federally issued “secure and verifiable” document.
The Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center hasn’t put King’s organization on its list of hate groups.
But the center lists him as a “nativist” and has expressed concern about his tendency to call illegal immigrants “invaders” and his contact with other more extreme activists.
“His tactics have generally not been to get up in the face of actual immigrants and threaten them,” said the law center’s Heidi Beirich. “Because he is fighting, working on his legislation through the political process, that is not something we can quibble with, whether we like the law or not.”
Other critics take a harsher view.
“I think he works to push his agenda in a very divisive way,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. “One has to look at who this man is. He is a convicted felon who is advising our legislators and our governor on very important policy matters.”
King talks openly about his felony conviction. He pleaded guilty in 1977 to a charge of interstate gambling, stemming from work he did answering phones and picking up money for a bookmaker taking bets on sporting events in Alabama.
He was ordered to pay a fine and to serve two years of probation.
The grandson of a Detroit police officer, King grew up in the suburbs of that city, served two years in the U.S. Marine Corps and built a career as an insurance agent. He had no interest in politics or activism and didn’t vote.
“What happened is when I started learning about illegal immigration, I went from being very, very shy to being very, very upset,” he said.
In the late 1990s, a Mexican family moved in across the street from the house he shares with his wife in suburban Atlanta. Before long, there were about 20 people he suspected were in the country illegally living in the three-bedroom home, the yard was full of old vehicles and loud parties disrupted the neighborhood, King said.
He complained to his local government about code violations but got no response, he said.
Then the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks marked his “aha moment,” he said.
“I realized if I could have people living illegally across the street from me and there are people in the country who are flying planes into our buildings, this doesn’t seem like a big effort at national security,” he said.
That’s when he began researching illegal immigration on an old hand-me-down computer from his brother-in-law.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimated Georgia’s illegal immigrant population to be about 425,000 last year, making it the state with the seventh-largest illegal immigrant population.
King stopped working as an insurance agent in 2003 to devote himself full time to his cause and held a rally at the state Capitol in 2003, the first of more than two dozen. He also was profoundly affected by five trips to the Arizona-Mexico border between 2003 and 2006, he said.
He met Billy and Kathy Inman, whose 16-year-old son, Dustin, had been killed in a car crash caused by an illegal immigrant, and in 2005 renamed his group from the American Resistance to the Dustin Inman Society at their request to make their son’s name live on, he said.
“This crisis took more than 30 years to develop,” he said. “There is no overnight solution.”
But the federal government has a fundamental duty to the secure the nation’s borders and to follow up on visas to make sure people leave once their time has expired, he said.
Federal immigration authorities also must enforce the law so illegal immigrants won’t come and won’t stay, which he calls “attrition through enforcement.” It also is important for English to be the official language of the U.S., he said.
He calls the groups who lobby against illegal immigration crackdowns “open borders crazies” and is quick to call or email journalists about their reporting on the topic.
“I know what gets left out of the news,” he said. “I know and watch every day how illegal immigration is constantly spun.”
King said he’s working on a book, but making the fight against illegal immigration a full-time job for nearly a decade has left him deep in debt and forced him to refinance his house and sell stock his grandmother left him. He said soon he’ll have to do what he can to “return to real life.”
“I’m in no way quitting,” he said, “but I don’t know that I’m going to be regarded as furniture in the Georgia Capitol next year.”
March 21, 2018
SPLC lobbyist, Naomi Tsu, tried to steal my iPhone – she seems very camera shy, but not tolerant
Naomi Tsu – photo, SPLC
An angry Naomi Tsu, an SPLC lawyer and registered lobbyist here in Georgia tried to steal and or damage my iPhone yesterday in a state Capitol committee room. This, in a public space where is is perfectly lawful for photography. She was quite upset that I took her picture and rushed me in the crowded room. It was the only funny thing that happened to me all day.
Tsu registered as a lobbyist on March 1st, which was just three days after the immigration enforcement bill, SB 452 passed the senate – which was (about) two-thirds of the way through the forty legislative day session which ends this year on March 29.
I was one of few pro-American speakers in a recent Georgia state Capitol committee hearing on an immigration enforcement bill – SB452 – yesterday (no, really, I was there!).
To be clear, the lovely Gold-Domed building is a public space and photography is allowed in committee rooms. At least according to Georgia law. But that law takes a back seat to the demands of the anti-borders crazies. They seem to hate photos of themselves on the job.
Below are three pics I took in a crowded space where Tsu had commandeered the committee’s speakers sign-up sheet – because leftists do not wait in line. In the last one, you can see Tsu’s hand just before she grabbed my phone and before I wrenched it back from her. Yes, I did go report her to a State Trooper who was one of several put in placed to control the usual suspects mob.
Before all this, Tsu tried to shake my hand. I avoided that bizarre and revolting situation using the same reasoning that causes me to buy the extra long-handled toilet plungers. I also mentioned that in my educated opinion she is a “slime-er.” She appeared less than pleased with that too. Naomi Tsu, from the discredited SPLCÂ didn’t seem at all, you know… tolerant.
The enforcement bill, a center piece of gubenatorial candidate Lt. Governor Casey Cagle’s campaign was gutted in the Republican committee, but did pass out. The smart money says the senate does not agree to the evisceration, which was led by “this- isn’t-Nazi-Germany”, Rep Heath Clark, Republican committee member.
photo, DAK
photo; DAK
March 17, 2018
*UPDATED: SPLC joins corporate-funded anti-enforcement group, GALEO, in advocacy against passage of public safety legislation in Georgia #SB452
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SPLC joins corporate-funded anti-enforcement group, GALEO, in advocacy against passage of public safety legislation in Georgia
We happily predict SB452 goes to the governorâs desk. *UPDATED: Despite the fact that it had the votes to pass, SB 452 died on the last day of session when Republican Speaker David Ralston refused to allow a vote. He did however keep the House in session past midnight to get a bill passed on which his son was lobbyist. Here.
On a rainy Saturday a contractor (he is an American) is working across the hall to remove and replace our 1984 toilet — which reminded me of Morris Dees, Heidi Beirich and the SPLC….
Monday’s email (March 12, 2018) brought us two frantic emails from anti-enforcement advocacy groups urging us to act to kill legislation pending in the Georgia legislature. One of the groups, GALEO, is well known here for it’s anti-borders advocacy since 2003 and is financed by corporate Georgia (see Cox Enterprises (parent company of the AJC newspaper), Coca-Cola, Georgia Power, State Farm Insurance Co., Southwest Airlines, Telemundo, Univision et al). Run by a perpetually-angry ethnic hustler named Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO is notably radical enough that one of it’s former board member’s nomination for a federal judgeship died in the U.S. Senate because of the association. At DIS, we are proud of our work in stopping Dax Lopez from becoming a federal judge – and going to the state Supreme Court.
The other action alert was from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Both emails urged us to take action to stop passage of SB452, a bill aimed at identifying illegal aliens in Georgia law enforcement custody and sharing that information. According to the left-tilted Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, which also opposes the bill, SB452 is bad for “immigrants” — and Georgia. We disagree and are actively working for passage and have helped amend the bill to quantify the number of foreigners and, separately, the number of illegal aliens in the state corrections system.
The bill has already passed the Georgia Senate and is set to be heard in the House Public Safety Committee Monday.
“The legislation requires local police departments and jails across Georgia to take a series of steps once an unauthorized immigrant comes into their custody. That includes notifying local prosecutors, requiring sentencing courts to review immigration papers and, most importantly, handing over that Georgianâs address and other personal information to ICE. The legislation envisions a seamless process that takes custody of any undocumented resident who comes into contact with Georgiaâs court system, even for minor violations like a parking ticket, and hands them over to federal immigration agents.
A local NPR station hates SB452 too. Rep Jesse Petrea is set to shepherd the bill through the House process. Petrea is a hero from last year here. We happily predict this one goes to the governor’s desk.
With any mention of immigration enforcement and protecting Americans from illegal alien criminals (note: Heidi hates the term “crimigrants”), it is easy to understand why the Marxist hate mongers at the SPLC are up in arms against the bill, but as far as we can remember, this is the first time since we started our pro-enforcement effort here in 2003 that we have seen them send out an alert against specific legislation. It makes me want to take a shower, but we have been on their email list – as well as GALEO’s – for fifteen years. When pro-enforcement groups advocate for passage of such bills or enforcement of immigration laws, the crazies call it “hate.”
Here is the message from GALEO and below is the we-hate-imigration-enforcement, kill-the-bill goop from the SPLC:
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We need your help to ensure public safety organizations protect all Georgians. Tell your Representatives to say NO to SB 452. Nearly 1 in 5 Georgians are part of the immigrant community. This legislation would make it mandatory for local police officers to enforce immigration laws. As a result, police would be unable to focus their time on ensuring that our communities are safe, and immigrant victims and witnesses of crime will be scared to report crimes to police officers. Here are more facts about the bill:
Here’s what you can do:
Thank you, Your friends at the SPLC P.S. Not in Georgia? Reply to this email and we’ll update our records. |
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March 1, 2018
The discredited (con artist, parasitic hucksters) SPLC is a hate group – short video from Tucker Carlson Show: This wicked, SPLC cesspool crew is used by the liberal @AJC to smear critics
Tucker slams Google for allowing “wholly discredited hate group” the Southern Poverty Law Center to censor content. pic.twitter.com/q75db2IWi9
â Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 1, 2018
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November 15, 2017
Georgia immigration enforcement board weighs hiring outside help – from the angry AJC – #SPLC
Photo: AJC.com
Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 14, 2017
Georgia immigration enforcement board weighs hiring outside help
Georgiaâs Immigration Enforcement Review Board is considering hiring a private investigator or a paralegal to help it get through a backlog of complaints, most of them filed by longtime anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King.
Appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker, the seven-member board â which has a $20,000 annual budget â is now tracking 14 pending complaints. All but one were filed by King, president and founder of the Dustin Inman Society, a nonprofit organization the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a ânativist extremistâ group. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle recently filed one against Decaturâs police policies… MORE HERE.
IN-DEPTH: Georgiaâs immigration enforcement panel draws scrutiny