The SPLC Was One Giant Fraud: The Southern Poverty Law Center’s indictment; Report: DOJ Investigating Southern Poverty Law Center For ‘Use Of Paid Informants’

The SPLC Was One Giant Fraud:

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s indictment.

Fourteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center named me a hate group of one. The honor wasn’t mine alone, I shared it with a sign outside a bar and a brand of gun oil.

What was behind the SPLC’s sloppy hate group designation of one man, a bar sign and other random items was its obsession with manufacturing a constant rise in ‘hate groups.’

Year after year, the SPLC would issue reports claiming that hate groups were increasing in number, and then fundraise off the urgent threat that they had invented.

I caught them doing it time and time again.

In 2017, the SPLC issued a report claiming that the “number of anti-Muslim hate groups tripled since 2015”. How did the leftist group arrive at this number? It listed Act for America, a patriotic organization started by a Christian refugee from Islamic persecution, as one group in 2015.

Then it listed 45 chapters of Act for America as separate organizations in 2017. Suddenly the number of ‘Islamophobic’ groups had tripled. Such pathetically obvious statistical frauds were all too common in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s work, but the media rarely questioned it.

Or why the SPLC seemed so bent on artificially inflating the number of supposed hate groups.

Next year however the SPLC listed a progressive town on its ‘Hate Map’ because there had been an online comment that proposed a Neo-Nazi book club should meet there. There was no evidence that the club existed, that it had ever met at the town or that the town had anything to do with it, but the town still found it impossible to get the SPLC to delist it. And media stories appeared for the first time questioning the SPLC’s methodology which proved to be made up.

In addition to inventing and faking ‘hate groups’, we already knew that the Southern Poverty Law Center had been helping fund some hate groups, but the recent grand jury indictment of the organization shows that the scale of these payments had surpassed $3 million.

Even while old ladies were being sent envelopes stamped with klansmen burning crosses and urged to donate to stop them, the SPLC was using their money to fund members of both the Ku Klux Klan and the United Klans of America through bank accounts linked to fake organizations. --->READ MORE HERE

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Report: DOJ Investigating Southern Poverty Law Center For ‘Use Of Paid Informants’:

Even as the SPLC allegedly shuttled millions to actual racists, it coordinated a campaign to paint numerous mainstream conservative organizations as violent and racist extremists.

The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over its “use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.”

The Associated Press (AP) disclosed the explosive development on Tuesday, when it reported comments from the leftist group’s leadership indicating that “it’s the subject of a criminal investigation” by federal officials.

“Although we don’t know all the details, the focus appears to be on the SPLC’s prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups,” SPLC CEO Bryan Fair said in a statement.

Hours later, the DOJ released an indictment charging the SPLC with multiple offenses, including wire fraud for secretly funneling donated funds to those groups. According to the DOJ, the funds totaled more than $3 million.

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2046704517119377577?s=20

As described by the AP, Fair said that the SPLC “previously paid informants to infiltrate” groups the SPLC designated as extremist to “gather information on their activities” and pass it on to “local and federal law enforcement.” He further contended that this infiltration program was used to “monitor threats of violence,” and that details about its operations were “kept quiet to protect the safety of informants,” according to the outlet.

Fair seemingly indicated that the SPLC had been using informants since the aftermath of the civil rights movement, and referenced the violence of that era as justification for the use of informants. He claimed the group has “saved lives.”

But even as the SPLC allegedly shuttled millions to actual racists, it coordinated a campaign to paint numerous mainstream conservative organizations as violent and racist extremists.

That breathless smear campaign against conservative groups has gotten at least one person shot. As The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd previously reported, “On August 15, 2012, a man armed with a 9mm handgun, 50 rounds of ammunition, and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, arrived at the Family Research Council, a notably conservative group, headquarters in Washington with the intent to ‘kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard.’” While the attempted killer — who shot the group’s security guard — was subdued and nobody died, he confessed to law enforcement “that he was targeting anti-gay organizations as designated by the SPLC.” --->READ MORE HERE

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