http://www.conservapedia.com/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center


The Southern Poverty Law Center is a left-wing legal and activist organization created in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded by trial lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin, and its first president was civil rights leader Julian Bond, who would later take control of the NAACP. SPLC supports a wide variety of liberal positions; it is pro-immigration (both legal and illegal), advocates m**************m and the homosexual agenda, supports racial preferences and defendants' rights, and advocates against what it considers "h**e groups". In 2012, Black pastors confronted the Southern Poverty Law Center for smearing as ‘h**e groups’ pro-family organizations opposed to homosexual agenda. [1] Reverend Dr. Patrick Wooden declared that it is wrong to compare “my beautiful blackness” with homosexual perversion.[2]

The SPLC's op-ed writings have appeared in the C*******t Party USA's newspaper People's World. [3] This "controversial, liberal organization" [4] has been criticized in mainstream press for being extravagant in its spending, and using charges of r****m to stifle conservatives. [5]
Cooperation with law enforcement

The SPLC has been criticized by civil rights writer Laird Wilcox for essentially functioning as a private intelligence gathering agency for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies, doing activities as a private organization that public law enforcement agencies are barred by law from doing (such as keeping dossiers on people solely because of their political or religious views) because for a government agency to do them would be a violation of civil rights. Wilcox points out the dangers of the FBI and other law enforcement working with ideologically-driven groups like the SPLC, which has its roots in 1960s radical liberal activism, because of the danger this poses that the SPLC's own ideological differences with another group can be treated as a law enforcement issue rather than as an ideological dispute between a left-wing group (the SPLC) and a group on the right. This can, and has, led to attacks on such groups' freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.[31]

Indeed, the SPLC has a history of adding groups to its listing of purported "h**e groups" in advance of a government law enforcement campaign against them. The SPLC inexplicably added the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) to its "h**e groups" list just before FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was indicted on charges of arranging polygamous underage marriages. The timing of this listing by SPLC was suspicious, as is the accuracy of calling FLDS a "h**e group" to begin with, any controversy over their polygamous practices notwithstanding.
Into the Mainstream controversy

In the summer of 2003, the SPLC's Intelligence Journal carried a feature article entitled "Into the Mainstream", by Chip Berlet. The cover of the journal had an image of Adolf Hitler in front of the American f**g and the caption, "Marching toward the Mainstream: the radical Right invades American culture". The implication was that such conservative activists as David Horowitz and his Center for the Study of Popular Culture, as well as other groups including the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute, were "radical right" and Hitlerian.[32] This smear was denounced by David Horowitz, who demanded an apology, although none was forthcoming.

For further details see Chip_Berlet#H**e_speech.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center


The Southern Poverty Law Center is a left-wing legal and activist organization created in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded by trial lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin, and its first president was civil rights leader Julian Bond, who would later take control of the NAACP. SPLC supports a wide variety of liberal positions; it is pro-immigration (both legal and illegal), advocates m**************m and the homosexual agenda, supports racial preferences and defendants' rights, and advocates against what it considers "h**e groups". In 2012, Black pastors confronted the Southern Poverty Law Center for smearing as ‘h**e groups’ pro-family organizations opposed to homosexual agenda. [1] Reverend Dr. Patrick Wooden declared that it is wrong to compare “my beautiful blackness” with homosexual perversion.[2]

The SPLC's op-ed writings have appeared in the C*******t Party USA's newspaper People's World. [3] This "controversial, liberal organization" [4] has been criticized in mainstream press for being extravagant in its spending, and using charges of r****m to stifle conservatives. [5]
Cooperation with law enforcement

The SPLC has been criticized by civil rights writer Laird Wilcox for essentially functioning as a private intelligence gathering agency for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies, doing activities as a private organization that public law enforcement agencies are barred by law from doing (such as keeping dossiers on people solely because of their political or religious views) because for a government agency to do them would be a violation of civil rights. Wilcox points out the dangers of the FBI and other law enforcement working with ideologically-driven groups like the SPLC, which has its roots in 1960s radical liberal activism, because of the danger this poses that the SPLC's own ideological differences with another group can be treated as a law enforcement issue rather than as an ideological dispute between a left-wing group (the SPLC) and a group on the right. This can, and has, led to attacks on such groups' freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.[31]

Indeed, the SPLC has a history of adding groups to its listing of purported "h**e groups" in advance of a government law enforcement campaign against them. The SPLC inexplicably added the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) to its "h**e groups" list just before FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was indicted on charges of arranging polygamous underage marriages. The timing of this listing by SPLC was suspicious, as is the accuracy of calling FLDS a "h**e group" to begin with, any controversy over their polygamous practices notwithstanding.
Into the Mainstream controversy

In the summer of 2003, the SPLC's Intelligence Journal carried a feature article entitled "Into the Mainstream", by Chip Berlet. The cover of the journal had an image of Adolf Hitler in front of the American f**g and the caption, "Marching toward the Mainstream: the radical Right invades American culture". The implication was that such conservative activists as David Horowitz and his Center for the Study of Popular Culture, as well as other groups including the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute, were "radical right" and Hitlerian.[32] This smear was denounced by David Horowitz, who demanded an apology, although none was forthcoming.

For further details see Chip_Berlet#H**e_speech.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center


{ My handlers , or “puller” as Old Roy says have authorized the following response…}

Roy wrote: “Outstanding bit of researched information you put out here. I think you are to be seriously bragged on for your work and your writing. You got Chardo's goat pretty fast with it. “
{Research??!! Old Roy said that this was research!! This was lifted from Conservapidia, which is a joke! Consevapedia is a right wing rag that, among other assertions, claims that there is a link between a******n and breast cancer, that the earth is 6,000 years old and evolution is a lie, and that the Theory of relativity is a left wing plot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia Hello people! Research is when you actually investigate a topic and apply some critical thought to it, not just regurgitate what you read. Research means independently verifying information, locating corroborating, credible sources and offering an analysis of the veracity of information. }

“The Southern Poverty Law Center is a left-wing legal and activist organization created in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded by trial lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin, and its first president was civil rights leader Julian Bond, who would later take control of the NAACP. SPLC supports a wide variety of liberal positions; it is pro-immigration (both legal and illegal), advocates m**************m and the homosexual agenda, supports racial preferences and defendants' rights, and advocates against what it considers "h**e groups".

{So what’s the problem? Oh I see….support for the virulent liberal causes. OMG}

In 2012, Black pastors confronted the Southern Poverty Law Center for smearing as ‘h**e groups’ pro-family organizations opposed to homosexual agenda. [1] Reverend Dr. Patrick Wooden declared that it is wrong to compare “my beautiful blackness” with homosexual perversion.[2]

{ The Rev. has a problem with gays. Don’t blame the SPLC….Spewing h**e makes you hatful, a group spewing h**e is, well, a h**e group. http://roseanne-barr.blogspot.com/2012/01/black-pastors-support-h**e-groups.html In addition, the Pastors were cavorting with groups like Americans for the T***h About Homosexuality http://www.aftah.org/ which is extremely h**eful and disseminates misinformation about L**T people. While I realize that you probably agree with their views,that does not mitigate the fact that they are pure slime. In fact that would confirm it. And, of course you fail to mention that the SPLC “is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against w***e s*********ts and its tracking of h**e groups and that it began as a small civil rights law firm. The Center was founded by Morris Dees and Joe Levin in Montgomery, AL. Its first president was civil rights activist Julian Bond. Through the years, the Center has worked to make America's Constitutional ideals a reality”. http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/crusaders-against-injustice-southern-poverty-law-center}

“The SPLC's op-ed writings have appeared in the C*******t Party USA's newspaper People's World. { Yes that’s true but what was conveniently omitted here is the fact that the SPLC article was not written for the CPUSA…..or published with the knowledge and consent of the SPLC “We occasionally write op-eds for a nonprofit organization called OtherWords, which aims at ‘amplifying progressive analysis in the national conversation’ by placing the op-eds in various publications,” according to Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project. Source: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/22/splc-article-featured-in-c*******t-newspaper/#ixzz2SK6OBU83
Also not mentioned is the fact that the article in question has nothing to do with C*******m . Rather, it is a denunciation of a planned celebration of the treasonous rise of the Confederacy and the revisionist view that the war was not about s***ery. http://peoplesworld.org/coming-to-terms-with-the-confederacy/ Now you people on 1PP may have a problem with that. You may condone the glorification of the Confederacy. But that just confirms my worst impressions of you.

And who is accusing the SPLC of C*******t ties? A seething, tormented Islamophobe who lives on the fringes of reality. It goes to credibility folks. http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/09/21/islamophobe-geller-in-new-book-outs-splc-as-c*******t-front/

[3] This "controversial, liberal organization" [4] has been criticized in mainstream press for being extravagant in its spending, and using charges of r****m to stifle conservatives. [5] { Really, I cannot find any credible source for this assertion. Surly you don’t consider the Family Research Council ‘mainstream? Oh Oh! You do don’t you?}

Cooperation with law enforcement { Such as providing training…. “The trainers provide information that allows law enforcement officers to better protect their communities and their own safety. Law enforcement officers learn how to recognize h**e groups, symbols and activity; the threat potential of specific groups; and how to respond to h**e group activity”. http://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/h**e-and-extremism/law-enforcement/law-enforcement-training

The SPLC has been criticized by civil rights writer Laird Wilcox for essentially functioning as a private intelligence gathering agency for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies, doing activities as a private organization that public law enforcement agencies are barred by law from doing (such as keeping dossiers on people solely because of their political or religious views) because for a government agency to do them would be a violation of civil rights.

{ That’s right , gathering intelligence on groups who have little regard for others rights. If they can do it legally and thereby assist the authorities , I have no problem with it. http://legacysplc.wwwsplcenter.org/intel/history.jsp }

Wilcox points out the dangers of the FBI and other law enforcement working with ideologically-driven groups like the SPLC, which has its roots in 1960s radical liberal activism, because of the danger this poses that the SPLC's own ideological differences with another group can be treated as a law enforcement issue rather than as an ideological dispute between a left-wing group (the SPLC) and a group on the right. This can, and has, led to attacks on such groups' freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.[31]

{ The SPLC is speaking out against these groups and in doing so, exercising their own right to free speech. It should also be noted that Lair Wilcox, while having some journalistic creadability, believes that there is a ‘h**e crime h**x” in America and rails against the “watchdog elite: http://www.lairdwilcox.com/tool/order00-01.html#Wolf }


Indeed, the SPLC has a history of adding groups to its listing of purported "h**e groups" in advance of a government law enforcement campaign against them. The SPLC inexplicably added the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) to its "h**e groups" list just before FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was indicted on charges of arranging polygamous underage marriages.

{ Well they got it right before the government did. Are you saying that they are not a cult that sexually abused minors , as well as r****ts? Or is this your idea of religious freedom? http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/05/14/r****t-flds-cult-surfaces-in-new-location/ The right has a bad habit of defending the indefensible in the name of”freedom” }

The timing of this listing by SPLC was suspicious, as is the accuracy of calling FLDS a "h**e group" to begin with, any controversy over their polygamous practices notwithstanding.
Into the Mainstream controversy
{ You mean main stream r****ts don’t you? http://www.splcenter.org/blog/tag/warren-jeffs/ }

In the summer of 2003, the SPLC's Intelligence Journal carried a feature article entitled "Into the Mainstream", by Chip Berlet. The cover of the journal had an image of Adolf Hitler in front of the American f**g and the caption, "Marching toward the Mainstream: the radical Right invades American culture". The implication was that such conservative activists as David Horowitz and his Center for the Study of Popular Culture,

{This is now the David Horowitz Freedom Center and they got this one right too… The SPLC accused Horowitz of blaming s***ery on "'black Africans ... abetted by dark-skinned Arabs'" and of "attack[ing] minority 'demands for special treatment' as 'only necessary because some b****s can't seem to locate the ladder of opportunity within reach of others,' rejecting the idea that they could be the victims of lingering r****m. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz_Freedom_Center The center is affiliated with the rabidly anti Muslim group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad_Watch which has repeatedly been criticised by numerous academics who claim it promotes an Islamophobic worldview and conspiracy theories. More recently,in its 2011 report , "Fear Incorporated: the Roots of the Islamophobia Network in the United States"[26] the Center for American Progress cited Horowitz as a prominent figure instrumental in demonizing Islam and spreading fear about an Islamic takeover of Western society. Horowitz's response was that the Center had "joined the Muslim Brotherhood.".[27] The Anti-Defamation League writes that Horowitz sponsors a college campus project that promotes anti-Muslim views and arranges events with anti-Muslim activists. I fully realize that many of you would agree with this view of Islam, but I maintain that it’s extreme and h**eful and that It’s exactly the thing that the SPLC should be addressing}

….as well as other groups including the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute, were "radical right" and Hitlerian.[32] This smear was denounced by David Horowitz, who demanded an apology, although none was forthcoming.

{ Would that be the r****t Ludwig von Mises Institute http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/f54/r****m-ludwig-von-mises-institute-1015957/ or is there another one out there with the same name that is not r****t.? No , I think I got it right……A key player in the institute for years was the late Murray Rothbard, who worked with Rockwell closely and co-edited a journal with him. The institute's Web site includes a cybershrine to Rothbard, a man who complained that the "Officially Oppressed" of American society (read, b****s, women and so on) were a "parasitic burden," forcing their "hapless Oppressors" to provide "an endless flow of benefits."

So in conclusion, everything being said here about the SPLC is from questionable sources and some are downright indictable. It’s one thing to not like the work of an organization, it’s quite another to smear them with lies and misinformation from extremist sources Seeing how people like you loath and fear the SPLC, along with see who it’s other detractors are only reaffirms my belief in the organization and my support for it LET THE S**T STORM BEGIN!

For further details see Chip_Berlet#H**e_speech.