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Category: SPLC

  • Who speaks for you?

    This will be my last post for a few days. I am getting more pissed off by the second, which usually heralds my getting sick, and Caro just had some problems on an airplane, so that theory is working to betray my (already well seeded) hypochondriacal nature.

    But, before I leave, this is the latest shit to piss me off. Here’s Potok who is now the personal arbiter of all things racist, followed by some African Americans that Potok is in essence accusing of being dupes.

    In line with Susman’s jurisprudence, I have filed a class action law suit on behalf of all Herculoids watchers demanding the immediate return of the Swamp Things hair from Herr SPLC:

  • Pentagon to chase tail for Potok

    The Pentagon is about to conduct a witch hunt for “extremists” based on information they were handed by the left wing extremist hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the organization of Grand Flea Eagle Arbiter of Hate Mark Potok. This according to Stars & Stripes;

    The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group in Montgomery, Ala., presented dozens of the user profiles to Congress and the Pentagon. The center estimates “thousands” of extremists serve in the ranks and has lobbied the Pentagon for three years to adopt clearer anti-hate measures and more vigorously pursue servicemembers known to be affiliating with hate groups.

    I wrote about those profiles which were dredged up by Wikileaks, of “Collateral Murder” fame. Of the emails I examined then, membership in the hate groups was questionable and SPLC didn’t bother to check to see if those claiming to be in the military were servicemembers at all.

    To quote Mark Potok; “We can’t verify these things,” Potok said, because his group does not have access to military personnel records. “We feel that clearly military investigators could.” But that certainly doesn’t stop him from blasting military members as a whole for being members of extremist hate groups.

    And, of course, there’s no solid basis of research upon which SPLC can rest their estimates of ““thousands” of extremists serve in the ranks”.

    “The one worry here is that enforcement of these regulations may be very uneven. It leaves the decision up to local commanders and we’ve really yet to see how that’s going to work,” Potok said. “The hope is that this clarifies that even advocacy of these kinds of ideas is not consistent with being in the military.”

    So apparently, Potok and the Pentagon are going to try policing thoughts, since “advocacy” is such a subjective concept. Only a Pentagon under a Democrat Administration could consider anything from Mark “Mighty Hairpiece” Potok and the SPLC anything other than hyperbolic crackpottery.

  • Potok disproves his own report

    We’ve been hearing for years from Mark Potok and the Southern Poverty Law Center about the rise of “hate groups” in the country. So in his “Hate Watch” column today we find Potok asking the question “What if They Gave a Klan Rally and Nobody Came?”

    This Saturday, the Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan — a once-powerful organization that in 1960 coordinated more than 1,000 simultaneous cross burnings in a frightening display of Southern resistance to desegregation — held a rally in Gloverdale, S.C. It was attended by a single Klansman: state leader Tim Bradley.

    Not making an appearance were the 1,000 people from four states that a confederate of Bradley’s had predicted. A promised speech never materialized, only endless rounds of Bradley giving interviews to local reporters while some 100 curiosity-seekers looked on. And the 30 or so Klansmen who Bradley said were headed to the rally that day? Well, they got lost on the way from North Carolina. Bradley kept telling reporters his comrades were about to arrive. But they never did.

    So, if Potok’s predictions of racist groups multiplying and gaining strength, and, oh, the connections between hate groups, Tea Party activists and militias were true, wouldn’t the Klan meeting be well-attended? I guess Potok doesn’t recognize irony when it sits on his stupid face.

  • Oathkeepers feel the heat

    Apparently, I have spies inside Oathkeepers about which I know nothing. One of them sent me this missive from Stuart Rhodes, the founder of Oathkeepers and a former Ron Paul stafferl

    [S]elf identified IVAW members are NOT allowed to post on our forums, period. I simply don’t want them in this org. That is why Eric [Orseske] has been given the boot. They are just too divisive, and also have too many links to radical leftists and outright Marxists. Marxists are just as much enemies of our Constitution as Fascists. I’m not saying ALL IVAW are Marxists, because I know for a fact not all are. But they have some among them, and I just don’t have time to try to separate them out. And they have certainly gotten into bed with some high profile, self-identified far leftists who I consider Marxists. And, as Eric shows, they tend to be one issue people who can’t resist getting in the face of active duty with their opposition to the war. So, until a person resigns from and renounces membership in IVAW, I don’t want them here.

    Oath Keepers is neutral on the issues of the constitutionality of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars because we are focused on what is happening here at home. Yes, the constitutionality of a war certainly matters, but this org is focused on the rapid destruction of our Republic here at home. I want to reach ALL current serving, whatever their opinion of the war. I want to reach the ones in the sandbox as well as those who are here at home, most of whom support the war and are obviously emotionally invested in it. Whatever your opinion on it, how will it help to beat them over the head on it? The main point of Oath Keepers is to keep them from being used as tools of force and oppression against our people, not to debate foreign policy. So, it is counterproductive to have people here who don’t know how to leave those topics alone

    That’s 180 degrees from last September when I first posted about Oathkeepers. After that post, Rhodes and other Oathkeepers not only defended IVAW, they quoted Ron Paul’s endorsement of Adam Kokesh as justification for allowing IVAW members to broadcast their propaganda on Oathkeepers’ website. From some of the comments left here at TAH, it appears that Oathkeepers has been hemorrhaging membership as a result of their brief foray into the Left side of the political spectrum.

    It also appears that when their true thoughts about US foreign policy is known, it hurts their organization, why else would they forbid discussion of the subject? In fact, I’m sure the more we discover about the oathkeepers the less we’ll like them. Not at level of the SPLC or Mark Potok, though.

  • Hutaree’s party preference

    Everyone has been emailing me to say that the sole registered voter of the Hutaree militia group is a Democrat. Yes, it’s ironic, especially given Mark Potok’s unfortunate (for him) comments earlier this week. This is from the Toledo Blade by way of Ace of Spades;

    Jacob J. Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio, voted as a Democrat in the 2004 and 2008 primary elections. He also voted in 10 other elections since 2000. Party affiliation in Ohio is determined by which party’s ballot they requested in the most recent primary election.

    Ringleader David Stone hasn’t voted since 2004 – so what’s he got to bitch about? Seems to me that if you can’t take a couple of hours out of your life to vote, you should keep your lazy mouth shut and suffer the election results in silence. But Ward’s primary ballot result might have been an attempt to astroturf the election, ya know. But primafacie (I think that means “right in front of your stupid face”) evidence is currently against Potok

  • Mark Potok targets American Legion…again

    Potok was on Keith Olbermann’s failing TV show and in defending the Homeland Security Department’s report on right wing terrorist groups Potok calls the American Legion “a right wing group”. It comes at about 3:15 in this video;

    Potok goes on to equate the Hutarees with the Tea Party movement. He calls them “nutty groups” but I think the only nutty group are associated with SPLC if they truly think that the American Legion is a “right wing” group. I guess when you’re to Left of Mao, everyone is Right Wing.

    Thanks to TSO for the video. Just for TSO;

    Mark Potok the Swamp Monster

  • Potok endorses DHS report

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    Mark Potok, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s lead bomb-thrower was on Anderson Cooper the other night and he endorsed the report from the Department of Homeland Security which claimed there was a rise in the number of right-wing terror groups. That’s really not surprising since most of the research from the DHS report was lifted directly from SPLC’s report. Why wouldn’t Potok endorse it, since his masters wrote it.

    So it turns out that these Hutarees are just a band of inbred morons who like to buy military gear and run around the woods and use a language that they created. Remember how you and your friends made up words to play in your tree house? Same thing only more pathetic.

    Their website spends more time advertising for Brigade Quartermaster and Ranger Joes than actually explaining their philosophy. In fact, it looks to me like their philosophy takes a back seat to their daring-do of running past smoke grenades, running through the water, running through through the woods and shooting from behind old Chrysler K cars. I watched a video last night of one of the arrestees, Joshua John Clough, who explained to viwers how to avoid detection and detention from the authorities – how’s that workin’ out for you, Joshua?

    The video from their website;

    Their YouTube channel

    But nine blivet heads with guns don’t make a ferocious movement. As TSO has pointed out countless times, with good evidence, SPLC counts all groups as Right Wing Hate Groups.

    In fact if you look at SPLC’s map of Hate Groups, go to the West Virginia groups and you’ll notice there are NeoNazis in Keyser and Romney, WV. I live halfway between the two towns, you’d think I’d see Nazis everyday. However the addresses for those two organizations are PO Boxes. I wonder how many Nazis fit in a PO Box?

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  • Militia Raids by Feds in three states

    Fox News reports that the FBI raided several enclaves of militia groups in three states this weekend, resulting in several arrests;

    Federal warrants were sealed, but FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said there had been activity in two southwest Michigan counties near the Ohio state line. She wouldn’t say whether they were tied to the raids in the other states.

    FBI spokesman Scott Wilson in Cleveland said agents arrested two people Saturday after raids in two towns in Ohio. A third arrest was made in northeast Illinois on Sunday, a day after a raid took place just over the border in northwest Indiana.

    A U.S. official told the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity that some of the people arrested face gun charges.

    While Fox mentions only three arrests, the Detroit News says there were seven in Michigan alone;

    On Sunday, a source close to the investigation in Washington, D.C. confirmed that FBI agents were conducting activities in Washtenaw and Lenawee counties over the weekend in connection to Hutaree, a Christian militia group. Detroit FBI Special Agent Sandra Berchtold told The Detroit News the federal warrants in the case are under court seal and declined further comment.

    It is difficult to tell what beef the Feds had with the militia groups from the reportage, but nonetheless, the Left (most noticeably, Little Green Footballs) is using the raids to prove that there are terrorists on the Right who are a bigger threat to our security than the others. Another Left Winger, at The Reaction, says it’s about time;

    For all the focus of Islamic jihadism, which indeed deserves such focus, it’s about time Americans woke up and realized that one of the truly gravest threats to their country comes from within, from far-right militia groups, usually linked either to Nazism or to Christianity (or to both).

    I thought Nazism IS Christianity. That’s what I get from trolling the depths of Leftist *ahem* thought.

    Of course, on Friday, when the militia groups actually helped police in Michigan, Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center’s chief bomb-thrower was quick to disparage the groups helping police search for lost people;

    One militia watchdog group said the township supervisor crossed a line by enlisting help from the local militia.

    “When officials welcome people like this in their capacity as militias, they help mainstream these ideas and these ideas can become dangerous,” said Mark Potok with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

    I guess Potok wants to outlaw “ideas”.

    UPDATE: According to Fox News, the arrestees had been planning to kill cops.

    Nine suspects tied to a militia in the Midwest are charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more law enforcement people, federal prosecutors said Monday.

    No one I know does that – and it’s pretty likely that other militia groups aided police.

    ADDED: Some guy named MOTHAX at The Burn Pit wrote some familiar-sounding stuff today in relation to the SPLC.