Who are the SPLC? Very leftist:
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a nonprofit legal advocacy and civil rights organization based in the United States. It was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama.
The SPLC became well known for suing extremist groups (especially in the 1980s–90s), sometimes winning large civil judgments that financially crippled those groups.
The SPLC publishes reports and maintains a widely cited list of what it classifies as “hate groups” and extremist organizations in the U.S. Its “hate group” designations are frequently cited by media, researchers, and some government bodies.
DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud. By Jeff Christenson at The New York Post.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for making fraudulent payments of millions of dollars to members of the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference that the 11-count indictment filed in an Alabama federal court alleged the left-wing nonprofit had in the past decade paid at least $3 million to eight members of the far-right groups.
One leader of the 2017 Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Va., received roughly $270,000 over an eight-year period. … Another embedded in a neo-Nazi organization was paid $1 million to steal 25 boxes of the hate group’s documents
Others had affiliations with the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Aryan Nations, the Nationalist Socialist Party of American Nazis and the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club.
Starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began using informants who had infiltrated various groups.
But Blanche said in the press conference that the nonprofit never informed law enforcement that it was “paying off the Klu Klux Klan” or other extremist groups.
Several of the informants were also being paid while simultaneously being featured in SPLC publications — including on its public-facing “Extremist File” webpage — as members of the hate groups. …
“As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” he said.
Simply put, the SPLC’s hypocrisy is now on full display. At the same time that the SPLC wielded unprecedented influence over federal civil rights enforcement, it was also allegedly bankrolling the very extremist groups it purported to seek to destroy.
This is stunning: the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, the most notorious of all the extremist displays of the last ten years, tiki torches and all, was actually a subsidized racket funded by the supposedly anti-hate SPLC. The DOJ has all the receipts.
I’m not cynical enough to have imagined such a thing. …
Another interesting feature unmentioned in the indictment: the SPLC has long worked with the FBI. What if SPLC is really an FBI front and all these crazy funding networks are really FBI networks using SPLC? Now SPLC is offloaded to cover up what is really agency shenanigans.
This would mean there wasn’t enough organic extremism for them to exploit, so they needed to fuel it with cash.
There is so little racism in America today that The Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the Ku Klux Klan & the American Nazi Party people to be racist so it could report on them.
This SPLC thing seems to reveal that the smartest of the American right were being paid $5/mo by frens for podcasts and newsletters and the dumbest of the American right were being paid $100,000/yr by the global left for a look under the hood. A lot to chew on there.
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They’re more advanced in subversion than us. Organize your friends, disorganize your enemies. …
Money doesn’t just talk, it rewires what people are willing to say. That’s the part most people aren’t ready to admit …
I mean it’s also still happening. The biggest idiots are being paid 7-8 figures by our enemies to peddle slop and the brightest minds among us all survive on small dollar support from frens. …
I really wish people would stop proving Alex Jones right. If this is true than the nation has been in the midst of a color revolution starting in 2017 upon Trump being sworn in.
It might have started off as paying informants, but obviously it went far beyond that. Like a firefighter who deliberately lights fires.
Dangerous right wing extremism? It was mostly a hoax, after all.
Are the “Nazis” in Australia paid by the left too? They seem to pop up mainly at times and places convenient to the left.
hat-tip David Archibald