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Category: SPLC

  • Potok; If you believe in the law, you’re a racist

    TSO sent me an email from the Southern Poverty Law Center which linked to this little beauty of an “Intelligence Report” from the Director of Intelligence – obviously not the kind of intelligence we’d like the SPLC to have more of – Mark Potok. See if you can tell which group is currently worthy of Potok’s alarm;

    [They] are regularly harassed, taunted, and pelted with objects hurled from cars. They are frequently run off the road while riding bicycles, and many report being beaten with baseball bats and other objects. Others have been shot with BB guns or pepper-sprayed. Most will not walk alone after dark; parents often refuse to let their children play outside. A few have been the targets of arson attacks and worse.

    Ya know, every single one of those thinks, except the BB gun thing and the arson thing, happened to me when I lived in Northeast DC. But Potok isn’t interested in white folks living in Black neighborhoods. No, the SOUTHERN Poverty Law Center Intelligence Director (ironic title isn’t it?) is writing about illegal immigrants in Suffolk County, NY. The email was a total joke, by the way – it had to be. I asked TSO if it didn’t come from the Onion.

    The truly frightening thing about the Lucero case is that it could have happened anywhere. The high school students…weren’t members of hate groups. Instead, they were average kids who had been inundated with dehumanizing, poisonous messages about “illegal” immigrants from pundits and politicians. You know the kind of rhetoric I’m talking about. You hear it on the radio and television all the time.

    Yeah, I’m probably a racist just for criticizing the SPLC for trying to protect criminals in this country. Even though my wife is a legal Latin American immigrant and my four children, of course, are of Latin heritage. But none of us have any sympathy for illegal immigrants. If someone steals your getaway car while you’re robbing a bank, do you expect the police to drop what they’re doing to find it for you?

    Did you know that 10% of the entire population of El Salvador live in the DC Metro area according to the Salvadoran Embassy? Did you know that most of the violent crimes committed against them are by other Salvadorans?

    Do I condone violence against illegal immigrants? Nope, not at all. What I don’t condone is the fact that Potok and his minions put the word “illegal” in parenthesis when talking about criminals who cross our borders contrary to the law – and accuse average Americans who believe in the rule of law of being racist and nativists.

  • SPLC finally finds some racist brown people

    VT Woody sends along this link to a Southern Poverty Law Center report in which they finally find some racist brown people. No, it’s not in Southeast DC, or Dearborn, Michigan or Brooklyn, NY. It’s not in East LA or in a Texas border town. It’s those Hawaiians.

    “It is a hateful place to live if you are white,” wrote a woman on one Hawaii website’s comments section. A Hawaii native who is white wrote, “Racism exists in Hawaii. My whole life I’ve never really felt welcome here.” A sailor stationed at Pearl Harbor added that “this island is the most racist place I have ever been in my life.”

    True to form, though, SPLC provides excuses for the racism – excuses that they would never provide, and rightfully so, in a report about hate groups on the right;

    A Hawaiian Studies professor at the University of Hawaii, Haunani-Kay Trask, is one of the most caustic critics of whites in the islands. In her 1999 book, From A Native Daughter, Trask wrote: “Just as … all exploited peoples are justified in feeling hostile and resentful toward those who exploit them, so we Hawaiians are justified in such feelings toward the haole. This is the legacy of racism, of colonialism.”

    Of course, this is just a fund raising tool for SPLC so they can hold up this report and tell contributors that they are color blind, that they’re concerned about white people, too – and the chance that they’ll offend any Hawaiians probably won’t impact their donorship much.

  • Hate Group SPLC to smear troops in Congress

    On the heels of the Salon rush job report on racists in the military, the Southern Poverty Law Center is up to it’s old tricks again. They’ve determined that the military is rife with racists (they found 40 out of how many people serving?) so they’re marching their hate-filled asses to Congress today to tattle according to Stars and Stripes;

    “In the wake of several high-profile murders by extremists of the radical right, we urge your committees to investigate the threat posed by racial extremists who may be serving in the military to ensure that our armed forces are not inadvertently training future domestic terrorists,” Morris Dees, SPLC co-founder and chief trial counsel, wrote to the legislators. “Evidence continues to mount that current Pentagon policies are inadequate to prevent racial extremists from joining and serving in the armed forces.”

    Added Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report, a magazine produced at the law center: “The Pentagon really has shrugged this off and refused to look at this in any serious way.”

    See that quote: “In the wake of several high-profile murders by extremists of the radical right….” I don’t see Potok (the punk asshole SOB) getting exercised about the murderof two soldiers by that Muslim hate group member a few months back – but one octogenarian at the Holocaust Museum and Potok demands that the military purge their ranks. Because they found 40 people on Facebook who CLAIM to be members of the military.

    You remember that Southern Poverty Law Center also named the American Legion a “hate group” recently. Of course, their greasy lawyers will come here and deny that they called AL a “hate group”, which may be true in the greasy lawyer sense, but here’s a screen shot of their report of the AL under their column heading “Hate Watch”;

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    We have to ask ourselves how many of these dildos are really members of the military. S&S quotes one in their article;

    One participant under the username “WhitePride85,” who said he is a 24-year-old staff sergeant from Madison, Wis., wrote: “I have been in the Army for over 5 years now … I am a SSGT … I have been in Iraq and Kuwait … I love and will do anything to keep our master race marching. I have been a skinhead forever.”

    How many Army Staff Sergeants write their rank using the Air Force form “SSGT”? If he was an Army staff sergeant, he’d write it “SSG” like the several thousand of us who wore that rank in the Army and filled out paperwork everyday using the abbreviation.

    To quote that greasy-assed lawyer Mark Potok, who has been to TAH in the recent past to defend his ambulance-chasing organization of greasy lawyers who couldn’t find real jobs in real law firms, by the way, they don’t really know if these people are in the military or not;

    “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.”

    So the military should stop what it’s doing and chase ghosts because the drama queens at SPLC smell money. Even if there are racists in the military (and I don’t doubt that there are, the military is a product of society), how is the military supposed to investigate if they’ve broken no laws? Isn’t that a violation of the soldiers’ civil rights? Maybe the ACLU can instruct their fellow travelers at SPLC about that aspect of their unreasonable demands on the military.

    And, it’s all speculation by SPLC and other anti-military groups;

    In 2006, the SPLC released a report asserting that “thousands” of active-duty troops like clarkpatrick88 could have hate group affiliations. The law center said that some military officers conceded that recruitment and retention pressures forced them to look the other way when presented with overwhelming evidence of hate group membership.

    “Since we issued our 2006 report, the problem may have worsened,” SPLC President Richard Cohen wrote to Gates.

    By this spring, a Department of Homeland Security report said law enforcement groups should beware of extremists coming out of military duty or groups trying to recruit susceptible veterans for their combat skills.

    Emphasis is mine. Of course the “retracted” DHS report raises it’s vile head again.

    This is just another attempt by SPLC to paint all of the troops with a broad, racist brush. I think SPLC should be labeled a hate group. In fact, I’m declaring them a hate group right now. Whatcha gonna do about it, Potok?