The Hate Group That Incited the Middlebury Melee

Real Clear Politics ^ | 19 Mar, 2017 | Carl M. Cannon

[MtnClimber]

Under different circumstances, Alabama civil rights lawyer Morris S. Dees and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray might have been colleagues, even pals. Instead, Murray found himself in a near-riot at Middlebury College after accepting a speaking invitation from Republican students at the Vermont school. Students and faculty galvanized by Dees’ political organization barred Murray from speaking. They shouted him down, chanted their own manifesto, and pulled fire alarms to prevent him from being heard.

When Murray and Middlebury professor Allison Stanger tried to leave the building, they were followed by protesters who accosted them physically. The professor was grabbed by the hair and her neck twisted—she was fitted with a neck brace at a hospital—and their car rocked in a way that alarmed local authorities.

It was another victory for opponents of free speech, and if that seems like an incongruous scalp for a civil rights lawyer to wear, well, our politics are pretty odd these days.

[MtnClimber]

SPLC the mass marketers of hate.

[sport]

On that one, we agree.

[blam]

Someone should sue them out of existence like was done to the KKK.

These are really POS people.

[Bodleian_Girl]

“Morris Dees divorce papers” is something every freedom loving patriot should know.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Ever seen his divorce papers?

[MarvinStinson]

The SPLC boasts a treasury of more than $300 million, the richest civil rights group in the country.

[Billthedrill]

I’ve heard Dees speak, if you can call it that. Total fraud.

[blam]

"Ever seen his divorce papers?"

No.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Are there no trees in Vermont? Is there no tar available in that state? Are there no birds from which feathers could be plucked? If all the aforementioned exist why are there no "protesters" being treated and paraded?

Do the leftist protesters have teeth? If they still have their teeth WHY?

When are conservatives going to govern again? When do become properly mean once more bashing teeth and cracking skulls?

[Diogenez]

I’ve been around a long time. We knew as far back as the 1950’s that the Communist party had as one of its main objectives the penetration and takeover of college campuses.

Government response at the time: loyalty oaths.

[Uncle Sam 911]

These modern Nazi storm troopers have a lot in common with the book burning Germans of the 1930s. If we don’t like your ideas, we will get rid of them and you.

[GOPJ]

Dees also started a nonprofit, which he named the Southern Poverty Law Center. But he gave up neither the high life nor the direct-mail business. He lives in luxury with his fifth wife and still runs the SPLC, which has used the mail-order model to amass a fortune. Its product line is an unusual one: For the past 47 years, Morris Dees has been selling fear and hate.

Ping to a great read...

[GOPJ]

He’s on his fifth ‘marriage’...

[GOPJ]

The sandwiches? He was going to rub them in the faces of his murder victims. Corkins had heard that a Chick-fil-A executive express opposition to gay marriage. Why the Family Research Council? He told police that the Southern Poverty Law Center had labeled it “a hate group.” This episode prompted the FBI to drop the SPLC as a resource for hate crime cases. It prompted no such soul searching in academia.

Academia doesn't have time for 'sour searching' they're too busy stealing from middle class parents...

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

And rioting.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Divorce papers: not pretty.

Situations involving abuse.

[Bodleian_Girl]

This was an earlier marriage/divorce. Perhaps the second.

[GOPJ]

True. Stealing's become institutionalized - now they have time for rioting...

[publius911]

SPLC the mass marketers of hate.

What else could it be?

It's Soros funded.

Hate doesn't come cheap, you know.