WASHINGTON, DC - The Southern Poverty Law Center, a so-called “anti-hate group,” once again finds itself in hot water as the Department of Justice hit the activist group with a superseding indictment filed Tuesday, alleging that the organization helped manufacture so-called “hate groups” to fill its coffers with donations from naive contributors.
The Daily Signal reports that the SPLC claims to be the “experts” on combating hate; however, the group then exaggerates those claims to scare donors into donating cash. As the outlet reported, the SPLC’s “demand” for hate has outstripped the supply of true hate groups so that has led the SPLC to target any group that is politically opposed to its objectives.
The SPLC also has included individuals such as Dent “Wildman” Myers, 76, a throwback if you will who owns Wildman’s Civil War Surplus and Herb shop in Kennesaw, Georgia. Myers displays relics from the Civil War era, including KKK daggers and Civil War bullets. Granted, the shop contains white power novels and some other racist paraphernalia.
But as a small store in a small Georgia town, using his store to fill up their so-called “hate map” is a stretch. However it is his ties to white supremacist Randy Weaver, shot in a dispute with federal agents, that has the SPLC’s panties in a bunch. Such is how desperate the SPLC is to push its narrative of widespread “white supremacy.” Stores like Myers’ are irrelevant to a majority of Americans, but the SPLC acts like it’s a sign that America is a racist country.
Among groups or organizations the SPLC has painted as a “hate group” are the Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, the Federation on American Immigration Reform, Moms for Liberty, Prager U, Focus on the Family, and Turning Point, USA. An overwhelming majority of hate groups are right-leaning. Some of those missing but who could show up on the Hate Map are congressional Republicans, ICE officers, and anyone who believes climate change is a hoax.
Among SPLC’s “greatest hits” included busing protesters and counter-protesters to the famous (or infamous) rally in Charlottesville, Virginia to inflate the numbers and of course, to foment a riot.
The indictment accuses the SPLC of paying at least one of the “Unite the Right” organizers around $270,000 between 2015 and 2023. The Daily Signal, citing the DOJ indictment, added that the SPLC was supervising his “racist postings,” while also helping to “coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees.”
Recall that this riot allegedly served as the basis for Joe Biden entering the 2020 presidential sweepstakes, so “enraged” was he by the violence. It also served as the basis for the “good people” hoax where the media conveniently edited comments made by President Trump to make it appear he was supporting white nationalists and Klan members.
The SPLC is also accused of bankrolling a member of the KKK who is suing to sponsor a portion of a highway. They funded a report on homegrown Nazis to the tune of $70,000. All of that information is included in the DOJ indictment.
The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC set up shell companies to hide the fact they were funding the above, and much more. All told, the indictment charges the group with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of false statements to federally insured banks, and one count of conspiracy to conceal money laundering.
How did the SPLC excuse their criminality? For one, it claims the group hired “paid confidential informants” to “gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups.” The difference is, private organizations cannot hire “paid confidential informants” to skirt federal banking regulations. While using sources to infiltrate an organization to tip off an impending attack might be worthwhile, setting up shell companies to hide that fact from regulators while also supervising and paying a leader to foment trouble at the Unite the Right rally as he made racist posts you are supposed to be combating seems a bit, disingenuous?
The SPLC’s endowment, according to The Daily Signal, stands at just short of $740 million dollars. In other words, they have become very adept at bilking people out of money for mostly bogus claims of rampant white supremacy, which they not only identify but actually fund.
Stay tuned, this is about to get interesting.
You can read the report from The Daily Signal below:
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