Southern Poverty Law Center's Criteria for Naming 'Hate Groups' Subpoenaed

CNS News ^ | 03-07-2014 | Barbara Hollingsworth

[PaulCruz2016]

A local official in Virginia has subpoenaed the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the SPLC Task Force on Hate in the Public Sphere for the criteria it uses to designate other organizations as “hate groups.”

The subpoenas were filed February 28th in Loudoun County Circuit Court. They request "all written criteria, guidelines, bylaws or rules used by Southern Poverty Law Center to designate organizations or groups as 'hate groups' from the inception of the Southern Poverty Law Center to the present date."

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I can save them some court time. The answer is clearly “anyone who disagrees with Obama.”

[Paine in the Neck]

This could be interesting.

[Black Agnes]

Ping.

[BlatherNaut]

SPLC is a hate group.

[cripplecreek]

The only time I’ve seen them speak out against anyone on the left was when they were warning the Gore campaign to break ties with the Westboro Baptist church.

They weren’t real aggressive, more concerned than anything.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[lepton]

Especially given the role that the SPLCs Lists have had in a couple of terrorist attacks.

[miele man]

Now this ought to be really interesting to see this bunch of left of left radicals exposed.

[Viennacon]

Excellent. CRUSH these commies!

[VRW Conspirator]

The light of day.

[SandRat]

or anyone who doesn’t bow down and KISS Al Sharpton’s or Jessie Jacksons back end.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You can broaden that up to anyone who disagrees with any liberal.

[Mark17]

I can save them some court time. The answer is clearly “anyone who disagrees with Obama.”

You are correct sir, but I think it also applies to anyone who is white. They are a bunch of egg sucking dog racists.

[jeffc]

This could be interesting

I hope so, but I doubt it will. SPLC will just find a sympathetic (liberal) judge who will quash it, or at least delay it for "review" and nothing will happen and then it will be "old news".

[GOPJ]

A ‘hate’ group is any group that doesn’t bow down and kiss the butts of dem victim groups... And dem’s have a LOT of ‘victim’ groups.

My guess is if you don’t luv the little totalitarians at the Southern Poverty Law Center you’re a ‘hater’.

[Marcella]

I would like to see Morris Dees in jail. That’s all I can say. Thanks for posting this article, I will send it to an interested party.

[tophat9000]

The SPLC can call anyone anything it wants its a private group..the problem is that anyone should or would listen to anything the SPLC would say..its like credit. .I can say you don't pay your bill as speculation in a bar to whoever. .. .but I tell a credit agency it a fact and the credit agencies tell a lender then we got a problem and your getting sued

[muir_redwoods]

As hard as it is to get a judgment, libel laws are still on the books

[2CAVTrooper]

The only “criteria” they use is if the group is right of center.