Posted on 09/12/2017 8:57:24 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, was to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee about threats posed by domestic extremist groups. The hearing, scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed because of Hurricane Irma. As a black conservative who has been smeared by the SPLC, I recommend against reinviting Mr. Cohen.
When Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. started the SPLC in 1971, it was needed and it had noble goals. In recent years, however, it has become a tool of the radical left....
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
The full WSJ article is not available without subscription. There was an interview on Tucker Carlson tonight. I will try to find and post a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPVn6phiObs
Morris Dees realized that he was no longer going to get PAID representing the KKK. He then started SPLC and has made a lot of money.
How much they have in off-shore bank accounts? $69 million+? Scam artists.
“When Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. started the SPLC in 1971, it was needed and it had noble goals.” Classic wrong premise. No, not needed then, and now a money grubbing classic shame disguised as a legitimate organization. The walls are crumbling on this perverse and phony scam. Watch for everyone to bail ship as the waters rise and the pressure mounts.
If you perform a more diligent web search, Mr. Dees was actively involved in fundraising for George McGovern and others until Ted Kennedy—chief fundraiser.
Political activism and legal activism were combined during the noble SPLC era.
Everyone must Google Morris Dees divorce papers and get his pervert status into play, especially since part of the sworn testimony includes an under aged victim of molestation.
Everyone must Google Morris Dees divorce papers and get his pervert status into play, especially since part of the sworn testimony includes an under aged victim of molestation.
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I will do that. I did not know.
The SPLC never had noble goals, unless you consider making Morris Sleeze rich to be a noble goal.
I have. Why not post the text here?
If you can gently start to plant suspicions about his moral character and ask why reporters are using the splc as a source in light of Morris Dees abuses.
Just seed that in the comments of any article he or the splc is quoted in.
By Carol M. Swain
Sept. 11, 2017 7:07 p.m. ET
755 COMMENTS
Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, was to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee about threats posed by domestic extremist groups. The hearing, scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed because of Hurricane Irma. As a black conservative who has been smeared by the SPLC, I recommend against reinviting Mr. Cohen.
When Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. started the SPLC in 1971, it was needed and it had noble goals. In recent years, however, it has become a tool of the radical left. Domestically, it uses its influence to paint with a broad brush that smears immigration restrictionists, orthodox Christian churches and pro-family organizations as “hate groups.”
What landed me in the SPLC’s crosshairs was a Sept. 10, 2009, Huffington Post blog entry titled “Mission Creep and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Misguided Focus.” I pointed out the SPLC’s silence about video footage released after the 2008 elections showing members of the New Black Panther Party, decked out in full paramilitary regalia, patrolling a polling precinct in Philadelphia where they were clearly intimidating white voters.
Although several news organizations covered the story, the SPLC ignored the incident. At the time, the law center was spending an inordinate amount of time attacking then-CNN host Lou Dobbs for his relentless focus on illegal immigration. It demanded that CNN fire the anchor. After CNN and Mr. Dobbs parted ways, the SPLC took credit for getting him off the air. I ended my post with a one-liner that raised the ire of the organization and had a devastating effect on my life. I wrote: “Rather than monitoring hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become one.”
The SPLC’s retaliation was vicious and effective. On Oct. 17, 2009, my photo appeared on the front page of my local newspaper, the Tennessean, with the headline “ Carol Swain is an apologist for white supremacists.”
That was a quote from Mark Potok, at the time the SPLC’s national spokesman. The context for Mr. Potok’s attack was a review I gave for a film titled “A Conversation About Race.” I endorsed it for classroom use because it offered a perspective on race rarely encountered on university campuses. Mr. Potok argued that the filmmaker was a bigot. I felt then and now that the perspective needed to be heard.
This negative article was featured on the front pages of several newspapers and it went viral, especially in black media outlets. The attacks did not subside until this newspaper’s website published a lengthy article titled “In Defense of Carol Swain.”
Being targeted by the SPLC has had a lasting impact on my life and career. Offers from other universities ended and speaking opportunities declined. Once you’ve been smeared in this way, mainstream news outlets are less likely to cite you as an expert of any kind.
Yet today I wear the SPLC’s mud as a badge of honor because I know I am in the company of many good men and women who have been similarly vilified for standing for righteousness and truth. Other SPLC targets have included Ben Carson (who eventually received an apology and retraction), Somali refugee Ayaan Hirsi Ali, terrorism expert Steve Emerson, political scientist Guenter Lewy (who successfully sued the SPLC), attorney Robert Muise, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, and Princeton professor Robert P. George. The SPLC has tagged Mr. George, a devout Catholic intellectual, as “anti-LGBT.”
Whatever label the SPLC assigns, such smears are harmful and designed to destroy the individual’s credibility and ability to have influence in the public square.
Some of those vilified by the SPLC have been subjected to even worse treatment. The Family Research Council and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise have been violently attacked by individuals inspired by the propaganda the SPLC regularly dishes out—which is often accepted without criticism and passed on by media, law-enforcement agencies and universities.
The SPLC should not be dignified with invitations to provide congressional testimony about domestic extremism as long as it continues to advance a transparently partisan agenda—one Mr. Potok has publicly acknowledged is designed to “destroy” groups it opposes.
Ms. Swain, a former professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, is author of “The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration.”
Appeared in the September 12, 2017, print edition.
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It is a huge PDF file and I’m my phone which doesn’t grab text as well from a PDF.
But that’s a good idea.
Here is an archive: http://archive.is/G3L16
I just read up on all this. He’s a first class creep.
There was never anything noble about it. It was always a money maker for Morris Dees who prior to getting the idea of tapping into the cash and hate reservoir of the left sold auto seat covers. It made him and his associates rich.
Thanks. Having looked at that.
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B. Cathy Bennett. in the fall of 1974, Morris brought to
the family home in Mathews a girl named Cathy Bennett who was a psychologist who had worked with Morris on several cases (R.
284).
She stayed in their home in Mathews for about a week, during
which time theu(sic) had Bobby Kennedy there as a guest (R. 285). Maureene was suspicious of her husband’s relationship with this girl (R.286),
and later Morris admitted having an affair with her (R. 1325). Morris told Mrs Dees that his affair with her was over in December, 1974, But she later found that he and Cathy continued to conduct an affair in Atlanta where Morris lived for a period during the Jimmy Carter campaign (R. 287, 291).
As a note. I am pretty certain the “Bobby Kennedy” alluded to is Bobby Kennedy JR. who has conducted an interview with Dees. Cathy E. Bennett is deceased. And did have the William Kennedy Smith sexual battery case listed on the firm website.
That Weisenhunt case 1977 went to the Supreme Court. Represents a case about sexual misconduct, met his mistress from a jury pool, takes mistress to White House, gives wife busted jaw in D. C. hotel room. The details are epic moments.
Jury selection and more was what Cathy Bennett was about.
Yes he is.
But no one knows it.
This man is beyond disgusting. How, I ask, is he able to get away with the damage he has done over these many years through the SPLC and now, has been able to label the best Christian organizations as hate groups? I can see why he hates Christians because they exemplify a life very much different than the one he has lived, according to those court documents. Inhuman is the way I would describe someone like that.
...”It is a huge PDF file and I’m my phone which doesn’t grab text as well from a PDF.
But that’s a good idea.
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Read it. WOW! George Clooney loves the guy. I read just read recently that George and his wife sent the SPLC a million dollars after the “hate” list against Christians came out.
“girl named Cathy Bennett who was a psychologist”
A full-blown psychologist is a “girl”?
They do it multiple times. That annoys me to no end. She’s a woman, damnit. We’re adults, damnit.
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