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Category: SPLC

  • SPLC won’t track Occupados

    I know you’ve all been wondering with the news the other day that some Occu-tards had planned to blow up a bridge near Cleveland whether the Southern Poverty Law Center would begin tracking the Occupados like they did the Hutarees or the militias. According to Charles C. W. Cooke at National Review OnLine, the answer is an unsurprisingly resounding ‘no’;

    “Do you have any plans to start tracking Occupy Wall Street after a hate group tried to blow up a bridge?”

    “No, I don’t think so,” he said. “We blogged it right away when it happened.” I asked him why he thought this deserved only a blog post, and he explained that the SPLC only deals with “hatred of people based on class characteristics,” which a little more pushing revealed meant “immutable characteristics such as a person’s eye or skin color.” “So,” I asked, “Occupy doesn’t count because it doesn’t hate people based on their innate characteristics?” He assented, but didn’t explain adequately why SPLC is vocal on “Islamophobia,” for example — whatever Islam is, it is not an “immutable” characteristic — and why it concerns itself with matters of traditionalist Catholic theology.

    “We did go after the eco-terrorists,” he told me. “But that was because they’d adopted the same tactics as the abortion activists: vilification, the use of ‘Wanted’ posters, highlighting the names and whereabouts of people’s children and spouses.”

    Yeah, if the SPLC only goes after “hatred of people based on class characteristics”, don’t these Occutards qualify since the class of people they hate are those of us with jobs? Or, at least those of us with jobs who drive over bridges.

    But, you need to read the whole interview in order to get the full retard effect. At least the interviewee finally admits that they’re only interested in “Right-wing” groups and only with leftist groups if they are somehow related to the Right.

    They did blog about the bridge plot in their “Hate Watch Blog“, but it was immediately buried by four (count ’em…four) posts about JT Ready, the Neo-Nazi mass murderer in Arizona.

  • Potok crawls out of his hollow log

    I figured that George Zimmerman’s Hispanic heritage and Jewish surname would keep the Southern Poverty Law Center out of the discussion of the shooting of Trayvon Martin, but no chance. CNN wants to call him an expert of some sort when they’re starting to feel uncomfortable about how they were wrong in the beginning of this story and it’s starting to look like Zimmerman had cause to defend himself;

    Mark Potok, an expert on extremists for the Southern Poverty Law Center, says white supremacist attitudes often emerge during such hot-button controversies.

    “You see this every time there really is something like this,” an attempt to portray victims as perpetrators and this slain 17-year-old as a “gangster thug,” he said.

    If CNN meant “Mark Potok, an expert” like the History Channel’s experts on aliens and Bigfoot, then yeah, they got it right. I wonder why he doesn’t mention how every time a so-called disadvantaged child gets arrested or accused of a crime the perpetually outraged flood the television screens to tell us how he could never have done what he’s accused of doing, how he was a good kid and someone is lying about him. Or how they drag out their perpetually outraged expert Mark Potok to tell us how we’re all racist for pointing out the reasons we don’t feel much sympathy for criminals.

    Potok…compared the slams at [Shirley Sherrod, the black Agriculture Department employee] with the crude doubt cast on Martin’s character and innocence.

    Yeah, except that Martin was really a thug, according to the available evidence. Not that he deserved to die because of it.

    Thanks to TSO for the link.

  • Mark Potok on suicide watch

    Remember these goofballs, the Hutarees (put down your drink before watching);

    They were the only thing that Mark Potok, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, had that proved that there was a massive right wing movement to over throw the government. The Hutarees were arrested almost two years ago and they languished under house arrest for the last year or so, until today when the Clinton appointed Federal Article III Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Victoria Roberts admonished the prosecutor;

    “The government’s case is built largely of circumstantial evidence. While this evidence could certainly lead a rational factfinder to conclude that ‘something fishy’ was going on, it does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt … [the militia members] … reached a concrete agreement to forcibly oppose” the government, wrote US District Judge Victoria Roberts.

    So Potok and the Homeland Security Department had pinned all of their hopes on an easy conviction of this small collection of dick weasels who couldn’t shoot their way out of a paper bag. So, if I were a member of a militia group, which I certainly AM NOT, I’d hunker down, because Potok and Napolitano need somebody locked in the Gray Bar Hotel to justify their security threat warnings more than three years ago.

    Maybe they’ll find someone who makes better videos. They’d better do it before the elections.

  • SPLC: Those Patriots you should be worried about

    I know SPLC is TSO’s beat, but he’s nursing his head after a night of drinking up that Blackfive beer money, so I guess it falls to me to make you aware of the latest anti-intellectual rhetoric of the race baiting retards at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Ponsdorf sent us a link to a CNN article yesterday about their latest attempt to insinuate themselves into the fundraising opportunities of an election year;

    The number of anti-government groups in the United States grew dramatically in 2011 for a third year, fueled by a rising tide against President Barack Obama, the struggling economy and illegal immigration, a report released Thursday finds.

    The three-year trend amounts to an “astounding” 755 percent growth since 2008, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center report “The Year in Hate & Extremism: The Patriot Movement Explodes.”

    Of course, SPLC focuses on what they call “anti-government “Patriot” groups” and their sole evidence is the wacky Hutarees who we wrote about nearly two years ago. Those retards were a danger to themselves, but not the rest of us. Go watch the video on that post and tell me they were even remotely a serious threat.

    But, the SLPC gets their stratospheric number from counting each individual branch of a particular organization. And their definition allows them to include the New Black Panther movement in their “right wing hate group” counts – and each city that has a NBP chapter is a different “hate group”. Their “hate groups” include innocuous shit like this one I found in Pennsylvania on their “Hate Map”

    So because someone calls themselves “Pokerface” and plays racist music, that makes them qualified to be part of the “astounding” surge in anti-government hate groups. Real towering intellect you got there, Potok.

    But, ya know who they don’t mention? The anti-government Occupy movement. Claymore sends us this link from the Blaze in which they discuss why the Occupy Movement should be included in the SPLC’s report.
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  • SPLC hates everyone

    TSO sent us this link yesterday to Immigration Reform.com in which they compare Southern Poverty Law Center’s rhetoric to reality. In this first chart, is SPLC’s portrayal of the alarmingly sharp rise in the number of “hate groups”;

    Now, compare that to the FBI’s report on falling incidences of hate crimes:

    Now, i may be stupid, but it seems to me that an increase in hate crimes would occur when there’s an increase in Hate groups, but that seems to not be the case. Maybe we should advocate for more hate groups if the result is fewer hate crimes.

    Of course, the whole thing can be explained when we realize that SPLC has expanded it’s definition of hate groups rather than an actual growth of hate groups. Any group that opposes illegal immigration is a right wing hate group, no matter how innocuous their opposition. SPLC has also included the Black Panthers in their right wing hate group list- each local branch is a separate hate group. Of course, you won’t hear SPLC announce that hate crimes are on the decline…that would affect their fund raising activities, so they engage in fear-mongering. That’s why this banner decorates their front page today;

    I guess everyone who opposes Islamic terrorism is a hate group, too.

  • 2 arrested for plotting against recruiting and daycare centers

    Fox News reports that the Justice Department claims it has prevented an attack on a Seattle recruiting processing center by two Mormons..er, sorry, did I say Mormons? Those people who 44% of voters won’t elect? Sorry, you figure out their religion;

    Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph Anthony Davis, of Seattle, and Walli Mujahidh, also known as Frederick Domingue Jr., of Los Angeles, were arrested Wednesday night.

    They were scheduled to make initial court appearances Thursday on terrorism and firearms charges.

    The building, the Military Entrance Processing Station on East Marginal Way in Seattle, also houses a daycare. Recruits for all military branches are screened and processed there.

    Agents became aware of the plot through someone the men tried to recruit as a participant and monitored the plot. The weapons the men purchased had been rendered inoperable, the government said.

    Investigators said they have video and audio recordings of the men discussing their plans to attack the station.

    Abdul-Latif and Mujahidh are charged by complaint with conspiracy to murder officers and employees of the United States, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and possession of firearms in furtherance of crimes of violence. Abdul-Latif is also charged with two counts of illegal possession of firearms.

    From ABC News;

    “We’re not only trying to kill people,” the complaint quotes Abdul-Latif as saying, “We’re trying to send a message. We’re trying to get something that’s gonna be on CNN and all over the world.”

    But, yeah, Potok and the SPLC are complaining that anti-Muslim hate is on the rise.

    “We’ve seen a remarkable resurgence of anti-Muslim hatred around the country,” said Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report. “Unlike the first and far more understandable wave that followed the Sept. 11 attacks, however, this one was largely ginned up by politicians and commentators pandering for votes and ratings.”

    Yeah, none of it could have anything to do with the resurgence of terror plots, could it?

  • Marine arrested near Pentagon implicated in shootings

    Yonathan Melaku who was arrested near the Pentagon last week is currently suspected of the shootings at the Pentagon and Marine Corps Museum last year according to the Associated Press/Stars & Stripes;

    The shootings last year did not injure anyone. The Marine Corps museum was targeted twice. Two windows were shot out at the Pentagon, and a Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly, Va., outside Washington was also targeted.

    At the time, FBI officials suspected that the shooter had some sort of gripe against the Marine Corps. Authorities said the shootings were done with the same gun.

    Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in the eastern District of Virginia, declined comment except to say that Melaku remains under investigation following last week’s incident. An FBI spokesman also declined comment Wednesday.

    So I guess this what Mark Potok, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Department of Homeland Security were talking about two years ago when they said that veterans are susceptible to terrorist activities committed by the right’s hate groups. Since the Black Panthers are considered to be right wing, I guess al Qaeda is, too.

  • SPLC back on the right-wing terrorist kick

    The Southern Poverty Law Center is getting back in the Homeland Security Department’s face again about how right wing terrorists are a bigger threat than anyone else;

    The Southern Poverty Law Center this week urged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reassess the resources it devotes to investigating non-Islamic domestic extremism. The request came as the SPLC published an interview with a former top DHS analyst who charged that the department effectively dismantled the unit he once headed following the political right’s unjustified criticism of a 2009 report on right-wing terrorism.

    “The department’s work should never be compromised by misguided criticism from any quarter,” SPLC President Richard Cohen wrote in a letter sent this week to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.

    Do you mean like criticism from the Southern Poverty Law Center? The same people who called the American Legion a right-wing hate group?

    Daryl Johnson, who headed the DHS unit responsible for analyzing security threats from non-Islamic domestic extremists, was the principal author of the April 7, 2009, report “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.”

    The report was intended only for distribution to law enforcement agencies. But after it was leaked to the media, a firestorm erupted among conservative commentators who wrongly claimed it equated conservatives with terrorists. Within days, Napolitano had disowned it.

    Oh, so we weren’t supposed to know about it? Is that the whole problem? Maybe the whole problem was that the report was based almost exclusively on SPLC’s biased research. SPLC…the same people who toss the New Black Panther Party in the mix when they’re adding up the number of new right-wing hate groups.

    Johnson, who was interviewed for the upcoming summer issue of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report, said that following the controversy, the DHS dismantled the intelligence team that studied the threat from right-wing extremists and that the department no longer produces its own analytical reports on that subject. When the 2009 report was written, there were six analysts in the unit, including Johnson. Today, he said, there is one.

    It took six people to cut and paste the SPLC’s report into the headers for the DHS? Then I guess we’re lucky that there’s only one guy now – we saved some money. Looks like Johnson is still cozy with the SPLC;

    “DHS stopped all of our work and instituted restrictive policies,” said Johnson, who has since left the department. “Eventually, they ended up gutting my unit. All of this happened within six to nine months after the furor over the report. Since our report was leaked, DHS has not released a single report of its own on this topic. Not anything dealing with non-Islamic domestic extremism – whether it’s anti-abortion extremists, white supremacists, ‘sovereign citizens,’ eco-terrorists, the whole gamut.”

    Eco-terrorists? Who is he kidding? DHS doesn’t give a furry rat’s ass about ELF or ALF or ATM or whatever they call themselves. And if I’m not mistaken all of the terrorists who’ve been rolled up lately don’t belong to any of those groups. And the fricken Hutarees don’t count. (whatever happened to those guys anyway?)

    “What worries me is the fact that our country is under attack from within, from our own radical citizenry,” Johnson said in the SPLC interview. “My greatest fear is that domestic extremists in this country will somehow become emboldened to the point of carrying out a mass-casualty attack, because they perceive that no one is being vigilant about the threat from within. That is what keeps me up at night.”

    What worries me is that the Homeland Security wienies will take their eyes off the real threat to mollify the left wing pseudo-intellectual nutballs at SPLC.

    head spaz, mark potok gets the laugh line;

    Mark Potok, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, said Johnson’s 2009 report was wrongly maligned and falsely characterized by conservative pundits.

    “The fact is, the DHS report accurately predicted the sort of radical-right terrorism that we’re now seeing across the country,” Potok said. “It’s troubling that the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security would bow to unfounded criticism from the political right.”

    It’s really troubling that the Department of Homeland Security bowed to the SPLC’s unfounded research in the first place.

    Thanks to TSO for the link.