The Southern Poverty Law Center’s grift has just gotten even more ugly
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), confirmed that a lawyer was taken into custody and charged with domestic terroristic over violence that broke out in Atlanta Sunday. It was in response to protests against a planned training facility for officers in the city.
“An employee of the SPLC was taken into custody while acting as a legal observer for the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). “The employee is an experienced lawyer observer and their arrest does not prove any crime but heavy-handed law enforcement intervention towards protesters,” said the SPLC in a statement.
Thomas Webb Jurgens was one of the 23 suspect domestic terrorists that the Atlanta Police Department released on Monday. Violence broke out in Atlanta Sunday, after protesters at a planned police training center hurled bricks, Molotov cocktails and cars at officers.
The SPLC is able to make its money by branding the Right and anyone associated with it as “hate groups” and convincing donors (including George Soros) that it is fighting the good fight against HATERS. More:
The Family Research Council was a Christian non-profit that was labeled as a hate group in 2012 by the SPLC. In Washington, D.C., a man fired a gun at the headquarters of the group. A security guard subdued him before he could even kill anyone.
Investigators were told that the man was motivated by seeing FRC listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s site as an anti-gay organization.
Because that’s how leftists and liberals get their money, they call everyone haters. Bob Moser, an ex-SPLC writer, revealed the secrets of the grifters after Morris Dees, cofounder, was allegedly sexually harassing female employees. Excerpts:
Since the shocking dismissal of Morris Dees (the co-founder of Southern Poverty Law Center), on March 14, I have been thinking about the many jokes that my S.P.L.C. has told me. To keep our sanity, my colleagues and I used tell the same jokes we used to tell each other. We walked to lunch past the Maya Lin-designed memorial for civil-rights martyrs. As we passed the center, we glanced at the black marble inscription of Martin Luther King, Jr.–“Until justice roll down like waters”- and intoned, in our deepest voice, “Until justice roll down like dollars.”
Moser said he was stunned to find that his new employer was located in a modernist, super-fancy building. It was also home to white fundraisers, lawyers, and researchers. Moser:
My first few weeks were filled with laughter from a new friend. She said, “Well honey, welcome to Poverty Palace.” “I can guarantee that you will never walk in a more contradictory location as long as your life continues.”
I replied, “Everything feels out of control.” “Where are the lawyers?” “Where are the lawyers?” “What in God’s Name is happening here?”
She laughed again, “And you call yourselves a journalist!” “Clearly, you didn’t do your homework.”
The center’s reputation for being a beacon of justice was damaged by reporters who had viewed behind its facade in the decade before I arrived. The 1995 Pulitzer finalist, Montgomery Advertiser, was for a series that covered, among other things the allegations of racial discrimination by staff members. Ken Silverstein, in Harper’s had revealed that the center had amassed an endowment of over a hundred and twenty millions dollars. It also paid lavish salaries to its top-ranking staffers while spending far less than other nonprofit organizations on the work it claims to do. John Egerton, a great Southern journalist, wrote a damning picture of Dees as a “super-salesman” and “master fundraiser” who saw civil-rights work as a marketing tool to bilk gullible Northern Liberals. Dees said to Egerton, “We just ran our business like it was a business.” It doesn’t matter if you sell cakes or cause work, it’s all about the same.
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It’s not easy for anyone who has worked at the Poverty Palace to put it all in perspective. Our team was made up of talented and dedicated people who were fighting for good causes, while making the lives of the poor miserable. But, there were dark shadows over all of it: the racial, gender, and sexual harassment whispers, the abuses that resulted from top-down management, as well as the guilt that you couldn’t help but feel about the legions who believed their money was being faithfully used to carry out the Lord’s work in Dixie. We knew we were part of the con.
We spent much of our time outside of work drinking and eating in Montgomery bars and restaurants, talking about the oppressive security system, hyperbolic appeals for fund-raising, and the fact “hate” continued to rise with each annual report on hate groups. We’d add, “The S.P.L.C. – making hate pay.”
Current Affairs, a socialist magazine, described the SPLC in 2019 as “everything wrong with liberalism.” Excerpt:
Dees was just as successful selling causes as selling cakes. The direct mail campaigns of Dees helped the Southern Poverty Law Center bring in millions after millions. It took in $136 Million last year, and now has an endowment of almost half a million dollars. Even though some inside the organization believed it should stop fundraising, and despite Dees’ promises that they would, the organization’s fundraising pitches became more desperate and chaotic. A 1995 pitch sent by the SPLC when it had more than $60m in reserves stated that the SPLC needed to stop raising money. Dees also promised that they would do so. One former associate of Dees reported that the organization used six low-value stamps to make the impression that it couldn’t afford 35 cents per envelope.
Sometimes all this was downright bizarre. The SPLC sued Klan in 1980 over the lynching Michael Donald. Donald’s mother received a $7 million verdict. However, the Klan had almost disappeared by this point. The Klan’s only asset was a warehouse, which was purchased $55,000 by Donald’s mother. A large amount of the money was used to repay an interest-free loan she received from the SPLC. The SPLC used photos of Michael Donald’s body in fundraising letters to raise $9 million. Donald’s mother was not aware of the money. However, Morris Dees was praised in her obituary for her bravery when she died just one year later.
The SPLC has been criticised for spending too little on its huge resources for many decades. It spent only a third of its money on its programs. The NAACP spent almost all of the money it received. The Southern Center For Human Rights was also a recipient. One death penalty lawyer who worked with the center stated that he was initially naive. The SPLC spent $15 million on its current office building. It was designed by a New York architecture company and is 150,000 square feet in size. Cohen and Dees also made over $300,000. The tragedy of the SPLC is that it is spending its money on things that aren’t.
You can go on. Take a look at the screenshot, which shows the latest Federal tax form 990 online. this document lists the top executives’ salaries and compensation. It’s a great way for you to become rich!
These cretins can call any Right organization a “hate” group and make money from it, even if they do it wrong. paid over $3 million to settle the case against an anti-violence Muslim activist. also had to apologize for the mistake. The fact that many corporations, news agencies, and individuals are serious about this could have devastating consequences.
But, being included on the SPLC’s hate group list still has serious consequences. Amazon, an online retailer, has used the list as a disqualifier for nonprofit organizations to use the “Amazon Smile” program to receive donations.
NBC reported last year that 14 organizations designated “hate group” by the SPLC benefited form the Paycheck Protection Program. This program was designed to help small businesses who were affected by coronavirus lockdowns.
The Ruth Institute, a Louisiana-based pro-life group, was one of the listed groups. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse was the founder and president of the Ruth Institute. She said that the report brought bad publicity to the group and created unfair bias.
“NBC depends on the Southern Poverty Law Center to give the ‘hate groups’ designation. This simply means that the SPLC hates the Ruth Institute. Big deal. Their hate-mongering methods raise a lot. Their net assets reached a quarter of a billion dollars in 2018, Morse stated.
Morse stated that the Ruth Institute was a non-profit global organization, which leads an interfaith coalition to protect the family and build a civilized society of love. We are a hate group if we have to fight sex abuse, pornography and divorce.
In its 2020 990 filing The Ruth Institute received $564,116 in the previous year and ended up with $173 275 in the bank, after expenses. The SPLC, which denigrated the Ruth Institute as hate groups, received $108,078,656 in that year’s Form 990 filing and ended the year with $587.803,614 in bank. These people are left-wing bullies – and worse.
The consequences of being a “hate group member” have been even more severe. Floyd Lee Corkins II was armed with a 9mm pistol, 50 rounds of ammunition and entered the lobby at the Family Research Council headquarters in Washington D.C. Unarmed, he shot a security guard who was unarmed and wrestled Corkins down to the ground. Authorities believe that the security guard may have prevented a mass shooting by his actions.
Corkins was sentenced to 25-years in prison and admitted to being motivated by an “anti-gay label” given to FRC (the SPLC).
William Boykin, the executive vice president of Family Research Council said that the SPLC was “a political defamation device that has little respect for freedoms of thought and expression.”
Now they have a staff attorney who was part of an antifa terrorist attack on a police training center. Worse, they are defending him as an innocent “legal observer”, for the old communist front National Lawyers Guild. Wonder if Tommy was disguised. In a statement , the NLG supported Jurgens and other antifa attackers.
On Sunday, March 5, law enforcement in Atlanta detained at most 35 people at a solidarity concert festival located over one mile from the Cop City building site. An NLG Legal Observer was among those detained. These arrests are part state repression and violence against environmental justice protesters and racial activists who are trying to defend their communities from the effects of militarized police and environmental degradation on taken Muscogee land. These cases, along with the numerous protesters being charged with domestic terrorist acts, show that law enforcement regards movement activists as enemies.
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This is a link to an Antifa video that documents its attack on “Cop City”. These are the things these people brag about.
You should ask Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet and all other companies that have made major donations to the SPLC whether this is something they are proud to support. They should continue to ask them.
