The SPLC is actually the private organization to which the Obama regime has turned over the tracking and naming of hate groups. One of the recent articles about that shooter at the temple contained several paragraphs about the SPLC, and that is exactly what they said.
The government is not permitted to perform that level of surveillance of private citizens who have committed no crime and also not permitted to declare an organization something as nebulous as a “hate group,” and for this reason, the SPLC is actually contracted to identify and monitor “hate groups.” (Needless to say, they don’t consider radical black anti-white groups as hate groups, of course.)
I was stunned that they were not only open about it, but boasting about their power to identify and track “hate groups” on behalf of the Federal Government.
Pretty scary.
I think of the Southern Poverty Law Center as the German's Gestapo, Russia's secret police, and the Mob's enforcers... Any newspaper could debunk 99% of the crap they feed the 'select'... and that's why the 'good stuff' is NOT given to newspapers.
And yeah livius, 'scary' is the right word...