{"id":13519,"date":"2009-08-12T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13519"},"modified":"2009-08-12T04:57:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T09:57:54","slug":"splcs-connections-to-the-dhs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13519","title":{"rendered":"SPLC&#8217;s connections to the DHS report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you all remember TSO&#8217;s work on the Department of Homeland Security report in which DHS warned that veterans returning from the wars should be deemed possible terrorists. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9619\">his post, TSO wrote<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Part Two of what pisses me off is the second bullet up there, to wit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A prominent civil rights organization reported in 2006 that \u201clarge numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads, and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the [U.S.] armed forces.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what \u201cprominent civil rights organization\u201d are they citing to?  The Southern Poverty Legal Center, SPLC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/getliberty.org\/\">Americans For Limited Government<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/netrightnation.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1251795:alg-finds-details-on-qright-wingq-threat-assessment&amp;catid=1:nrn-blog&amp;Itemid=7\">NetRight Nation<\/a> filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getliberty.org\/files\/DHS-FOIARequest.pdf\">Freedom of Information Act request<\/a> for the sources of that DHS report and guess what they found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getliberty.org\/files\/09-502%20Interim%20Response%201.pdf\">the initial response<\/a>. It was rife with Southern Poverty Law Center links;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/splc-links.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13520\" title=\"splc-links\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/splc-links.jpg\" alt=\"splc-links\" width=\"495\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/splc-links.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/splc-links-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m tooting TSO&#8217;s horn for him&#8230;well, maybe not &#8211; it depends on how you interpret that line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you all remember TSO&#8217;s work on the Department of Homeland Security report in which &hellip; <a title=\"SPLC&#8217;s connections to the DHS report\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13519\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPLC&#8217;s connections to the DHS report<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}