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Southern Poverty Law Center: ‘Our Hate Map Doesn’t Cause Anybody to Attack’
CNSnews ^ | 8/6/13 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 08/06/2013 8:45:33 PM PDT by Nachum

(CNSNews.com) – Co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center Morris Dees said his group’s “Hate Map” “doesn’t cause anybody to attack,” despite Floyd Lee Corkins’ admission that he targeted the Family Research Council (FRC) after going to the center’s website.

As Corkins told the FBI after his arrest, he learned of the FRC online, “It was a, uh, Southern Poverty Law, lists, anti-gay groups. I found them online. I did a little bit of research, went to the website, stuff like that.”

Corkins attempted a mass shooting on Aug. 15, 2012, opening fire at the Family Research Council and wounding Security Guard Leo Johnson.

Armed with more than 95 rounds of ammunition and 15 Chick-fil-a sandwiches, Corkins told the FBI that he chose the FRC as his first target after looking at a list of “anti-gay” groups on the SPLC’s website.

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KEYWORDS: center; law; poverty; southern; splc
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Let's see if a judge and a jury have the same opinion.
1 posted on 08/06/2013 8:45:33 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Bump


2 posted on 08/06/2013 8:46:06 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Nachum

Retards. They know absolutely nothing about leftist “hate groups”. To these pinheads, all “hate groups” are right wingers.


3 posted on 08/06/2013 8:47:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Senator Foghorn says, You should never resist being raped, robbed, beat down or murdered.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Zionist Rakshasas


4 posted on 08/06/2013 8:48:42 PM PDT by rashley (Rashley)
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To: Nachum

Is the family of the guy who was shot suing the SPLC? I hope so!


5 posted on 08/06/2013 8:50:14 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Nachum

its a communist organization. check the history


6 posted on 08/06/2013 8:51:07 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Nachum

What possible purpose does a map providing physical locations of groups the SPLC itself hates serve, other than to encourage harassment and other unpleasant, potentially violent actions at those locations?

I hope the FRC, and especially that brave security guard who stopped the SPLC-inspired attempted mass murderer, wipes out Morris Dees and his little money-making machine financially.


7 posted on 08/06/2013 8:53:57 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Morris Dees is a pandering fool who’s worn out tons of kneepads


8 posted on 08/06/2013 8:54:57 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (LEAVE THE ZIMMERMANS ALONE . . . NOT guilty . . .you LOST Now SHUT UP)
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Let’s post a map showing the location of this racist, bigoted organization ans see what happens, OK?


9 posted on 08/06/2013 9:04:51 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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50 years ago they might have been relevant.

I went to a brand new Christian private school in Alabama for 1st grade in 1964; they had sprung up everywhere. I was a little kid and had no clue what was going on.

Found out later..


10 posted on 08/06/2013 9:05:54 PM PDT by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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Morris Dees: “My money machine has nothing to do with that attack! Don’t associate the Southern Poverty Law Center with that hatred! And keep sending me your donations. Especially those donations.”


11 posted on 08/06/2013 9:06:01 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Rakshasas = boy am I out of the loop. I had to look that up. Interesting.


12 posted on 08/06/2013 9:06:33 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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Amen!
This is one hideous organization.


13 posted on 08/06/2013 9:07:22 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Nachum

Gives real Jews a bad name.

I hope he ends up owing that guy a lot of money.

Inspired the violent hate he purported to abhor.


14 posted on 08/06/2013 9:08:16 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Nachum

They never hold themselves up to the same standards they hold others to


15 posted on 08/06/2013 9:10:28 PM PDT by GeronL
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Then it must be ok to put out a map showing communist organization locations, their leaders’ homes, etc. America hating groups such as La Raza, Party for Socialism and Liberation, AnswerCoalition.org, CPUSA, etc.


16 posted on 08/06/2013 9:29:15 PM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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50 years ago they might have been relevant.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has never been "relevant" -- to the civil rights movement, or anything else, in any positive way.

It was founded by Morris Dees, a cheesy second-string trial lawyer in Montgomery, AL, for the express purpose of mulcting millions from gullible liberals to do "good works" for the "oppressed".

Wealthy liberal Jews, in particular, represented especially profitable targets for SPLC's reports on "militant Christian organizations".

By virtue of his aggressive fundraising and inflammatory reporting -- plus an occasional (and increasingly rare) legal representation -- Dees has become an exceedingly wealthy man.

At the same time, Dees is also estranged from his family, who universally and uniformly hate his guts.

He's that kind of guy...

17 posted on 08/06/2013 9:29:17 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Ray76

bump


18 posted on 08/06/2013 9:30:01 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: cloudmountain; rashley

Is Morris Dees white? Perhaps octoroon?


19 posted on 08/06/2013 9:34:49 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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Is Morris Dees white? Perhaps octoroon?

I knew a Paul Dees. He was black. I knew a Morris Vaden; he was white. But I never knew a Morris Dees. Is he a third baseman in the American League?

20 posted on 08/06/2013 9:58:20 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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