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Category: SPLC

  • SPLC wants Army bases “taken down”

    SPLC wants Army bases “taken down”

    Those creepy guys at the Southern Poverty Law Center who influenced Floyd Lee Corkins to shoot up the Family Research Council offices in downtown DC five years ago have found a new way to raise money and foment hate from the ignorant masses on the Left.

    They’ve provided a helpful map to 1500 monuments to Confederate soldiers along with a sample letter that you can cut and paste and send to your local representative, urging them to “take down” these monuments. Among the monuments are Army forts, like Benning, Bragg and Hood. I’ve also found towns that they claim need to be “taken down”, like poor little Bradley, South Carolina.

    More than 1,500 Confederate monuments stand in communities like Charlottesville with the potential to unleash more turmoil and bloodshed.

    It’s time to take them down.

    Scary, huh? I’m sure the 400 soldiers who are deployed to the hurricane disaster area from Fort Hood are really concerned about the name of their post, and the folks in the Houston area don’t want their help.

    It’s funny (odd, not ha-ha) how this is an issue now, you know since many of these “monuments” have been around for the last hundred years or so. Now they’re going to cause bloodshed. Drama Queens.

    Thanks to Chief Tango for the tip.

  • SPLC inspiring haters

    TSO sends us a link to Newsbusters where Kristine Marsh writes that Craig Hicks, the fellow who murdered three innocent Muslim students in Chapel Hill, NC over a parking dispute this last week was inspired by the Southern Poverty Law Center along with other liberal activists;

    Hicks isn’t the first SPLC fan to turn violent. In 2012, the group’s “Hate Map,” which lists the addresses of various groups SPLC claims are right-wing extremists, inspired a gunman to enter the Family Research Council in 2012 and attempt to kill everyone in the building.

    The media’s continued use of the SPLC as a legitimate and ethical source of information is just plain irresponsible. Besides the Family Research Council shooting, incidents of death threats against conservative organizations and Christian pastors have cropped up because of the group’s much cited “hate map.”

    The SPLC’s Mark Potok is the media’s go-to guy when they want to call the troops potential terrorists and racists, but why isn’t the media asking SPLC about the hate they generate themselves?

  • SPLC Dumped by the FBI

    It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch. Apparently the FBI has dumped our buddy’s at the South Poverty Law Center as a resource for hate crimes

    A letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, drafted by Lieutenant General (Ret.) William G. Boykin, Executive Vice President of the Family Research Council (FRC), calls such an association “completely unacceptable.”

    I wonder if Mark Potok will be looking for a new job?

    FRC president Tony Perkins said, “We commend the FBI for removing website links to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that not only dispenses erroneous data but has been linked to domestic terrorism in federal court. We hope this means the FBI leadership will avoid any kind of partnership with the SPLC.”

  • Atlantic: Despite evidence to the contrary, vets are the greater threat

    The Atlantic publishes the words of completely vacuous David Sterman, of the New America Foundation, as he breathlessly warns “The Greater Danger: Military-Trained Right-Wing Extremists“. This idiot meanderings through the English language was more than likely lifted from the moronic mind of Mark Potok, the anti-American, anti-military hate monger at the Southern Poverty Law Center who inspired Floyd Corkins II to try to shoot up the Family Research Council in DC last year.

    But there’s meanwhile a more worrying danger: that right-wing extremists who have served in the U.S. military will use their training in carrying out terrorist violence.

    Right-wing extremists are more likely than violent Islamist extremists–or, as they are sometimes called, jihadists–to have military experience. They are also better armed, and are responsible for more incidents. The past two decades have seen multiple attacks from right-wing extremist veterans, from Wade Michael Page, who trained at Fort Bragg, to the group of former and active-duty soldiers in Georgia, who collected weapons to carry out a plan to assassinate President Obama. In 2011, Kevin Harpham, who had served in the army, placed a bomb along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. During the 1990s, violent extremism in the militia movement and other right-wing movements relied heavily upon those who served in the military. Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil before 9/11, was a military veteran whose libertarian views were also heavily influenced by a novel by a former American Nazi Party official. Eric Rudolph, the anti-abortion extremist who bombed the 1996 Olympics, had also enlisted in the army.

    Wade Michael Page was the guy who shot up a Sikh temple. He was booted out of the Army in the late 90s. Kevin Harpham did fail at bombing a parade. Harpham, was also booted in 1999 from his Army job as a Red Leg cannon cocker at Fort Lewis, which is in no way related to anything that has to do with making and emplacing bombs. The Fort Stewart murderers had a plot to assassinate the President, but they were a bunch of headquarters wienies who had no skills related to the task that they planned. They murdered two people who they thought might expose their plot, but people who haven’t been trained by the military do that everyday. McVeigh was a Bradley gunner in the first Gulf War, nothing in the 11MB20 Skills Manual is remotely related to anything he did that day in Oklahoma, just like the others, including Eric Rudolph.

    I have no idea why the media is so preoccupied with waving this warning flag about veterans when there are millions of veterans who don’t hurt a soul every day. I think it’s very telling that they’re so preoccupied with warning about veterans in the days after an attack by real terrorists who are violent jihadists with no relationship to the military. They have to go back to the fricken 90s to find military veteran terrorists, for Pete’s sake. Yes, they all had military training, but nothing about their training had anything to do with their deeds.

    The only person Sterman interviews is our old friend Daryl Johnson, who wrote the now-famed Homeland Security Department report which warned of veterans as the greatest threat to our security. Johnson was fired soon after and his sole mission in life is to get morons like Sterman to vindicate his idiot report. The problem is that there are too many people in the media who don’t know what the military actually trains people to do, so since it sounds scary to them, it must be scary to everyone else.

    Oh, yeah, wait until you read the part about scary, nutty veterans accumulate weapons, unlike jihadists, who only accumulate pressure cookers, I suppose. I guess they’re coming for our guns.

  • Big Army; Beware those religious extremist Catholics

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    The above picture is supposedly a slide on religious fanaticism in a presentation to Reservists in Pennsylvania. For some reason, Evangelicals and Catholics make the list mixed in with the Muslim Brotherhood, the KKK, the Nation of Islam and Hamas. Yeah, because I can’t count the times that I’ve read about Catholics suicide bombers.

    It’s been decades since I walked into a church on a Sunday, but that doesn’t mean that I think that there are Christian extremists on par with al Qaeda (also on the list). I mean, they even have the Hutarees on the list. The Hutarees were (I said “were” because they’ve been disbanded) clowns looking for a college. But their presence on the list leads me to believe that the Southern Poverty Law Center is behind the class.

  • SPLC sees a plot afoot…again

    I guess that money is drying up among the Southern Poverty Law Center’s contributors, because they see an opportunity to incite fear among their adherents. Old Trooper sends us a link to CNN while I was reading one from USAToday in regards to SPLC’s fundraising in the media.

    Of course, their whole point is that “hate groups” are on the rise. But the only thing that’s really “on the rise” is SPLC’s lowering of the criteria for including groups as Hate groups. Remember that a gunman tried to force his way into the innocuous Family Research Council in downtown DC last year because the SPLC had included them on the “Hate Map“. But of course, the reason “hate groups” are on the rise is because folks are racists (from their report);

    The resurgence of the Patriot movement, as well as the broader radical right, has been fueled by the election of America’s first black president, the troubled economy and non-white immigration.

    Yeah, that’s the easy answer. Or it could be because a number of people in this country are ideologically opposed to this president irrespective of the melanin levels in his skin.

    The SPLC found there were 1,360 Patriot groups in 2012 – an 813 percent rise since 2008, the year before Obama took office. The groups include 321 militias. These numbers far exceed the movement’s peak in the 1990s, when militias were inflamed by the 1993 Brady Bill and the 1994 assault rifle ban.

    The SPLC also found that hate groups remained at a near-record level of 1,007 groups in 2012, a slight drop from the 1,018 groups documented in 2011.

    Oh, wait, the number of hate groups, as the SPLC defines them has dropped? Then what the hell are we talking about? Actually, the two hate groups that SPLC had on their map last year near my house are gone now. So why isn’t the story about how there are fewer hate groups now than there were a year ago? Some of the groups they list in DC on the “Hate Map” are Masjid Al-Islam – Islamist separatists – and the Nation of Islam – black separatists.

    Of course, because they correctly predicted the Oklahoma bombing (using the blind squirrel and stopped clock method), they’re still clinging to that as their raison d’etre. Remember their scare mongering over the Hutarees? They were supposed strike fear in us – they could barely strike a pose. The Hutarees were bunch of gapped-tooth, mouth breathing retards. And, oh, none of the serious charges stuck to any of them. Mark Potok probably could have rounded them up all by himself.

    From the CNN link;

    “We are seeing a huge reaction to the potential for gun control, and that reaction is so angry that it’s hard not to be afraid of what’s coming down the road,” said Mark Potok of the SPLC.

    Yeah, well, being a gun owner doesn’t make us racist or a hate group. I think it’s pretty comical that the SPLC sees right-wing violence everywhere, but they turned away at the Occupy violence last year. The CNN article mentions a couple of incidences of “anti-government” plots, but one day at an Occupy rally one could see more broken laws.

  • How did SPLC miss this one?

    Celia Alchemy Savage, a college student in Georgia, was the subject of a BATFE raid this weekend according to UK’s Daily Mail for possession of illegal weapons and explosives;

    ‘I despise all law enforcement and any governing authority,’ she writes. ‘I am not one for selective targeting but mass destruction.’

    The weapons were discovered after an army of law enforcement officers – from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement officers – searched Savage’s home in the woods.

    She enjoys blowing up toilets in the woods, too.

    Another [quote on her Facebook page], from Scott Adams, reads: ‘There is no problem that cannot be solved by the use of high explosives.’

    Despite this apparent love of violence, Tommy said his daughter is a church-going college student and a daddy’s girl.

    How did this particular hate group escape the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups. Since they use the single example of Timothy McVeigh to warn the country about veterans, surely this single example of shapely female college students should earn them a spot on SPLC’s list of folks to watch. Or maybe I’m just being silly.

  • Another Neo-Nazi in the MONG

    Last week we discussed the Neo-Nazi, Ryan Riley, from the Missouri National Guard who had trained a white supremacist group in Florida. The Saint Louis Today website reports that the MONG is investigating another Neo-Nazi in it’s ranks by the name of SFC Nathan Wooten who AKO says was in the 35th Engineer Brigade;

    In March, Sgt. Nathan Wooten was fired from his $27,000-a-year state job serving on a state military honor guard that pays last respects at the funerals of Missouri veterans.

    The action came almost a year after co-workers complained that Wooten was a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi who had a portrait of Adolf Hitler in his living room, tried to recruit others to the cause and named his son after a notorious leader of the German SS. A lawyer for Wooten has denied his involvement with an extremist group.

    But, even two out of the thousands of Missouri guardsman doesn’t mean there a huge insurgency of racists into the military. And before our friends at Mother Jones and SPLC start whining that the military isn’t doing enough to keep these guys out, this guy has already been fired before anyone, including the media, found out about him. They’re also investigating Ryan Riley as soon as the FBI let them know about him. So unless the military should be following their soldiers every moment that they’re off duty, they’re doing the right thing as soon as they have actionable information.