Posted on 01/16/2019 11:57:32 AM PST by zeestephen
The Center for Immigration Studies has filed a civil lawsuit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) against Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of Montgomery, Ala. The case is filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and seeks damages and an injunction prohibiting Cohen and his colleague, Heidi Beirich, who heads the group's "hate group" project, from repeating the false claim that the Center is a hate group.
(Excerpt) Read more at cis.org ...
https://cis.org/Overview-SPLCs-Hate-Groups-List
Read the Complaint:
Good, everyone should take out a suit against those balnkety blank blankers.
Judicial Watch obtained the DOD documents in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) filed on April 8, 2013. The FOIA requested “Any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force.”
Included in the 133 pages of lesson plans and PowerPoint slides provided by the Air Force is a January 2013 Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute “student guide” entitled “Extremism.” The document says that it is “for training purposes only” and “do not use on the job.” Highlights include:
•The document defines extremists as “a person who advocates the use of force or violence; advocates supremacist causes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or national origin; or otherwise engages to illegally deprive individuals or groups of their civil rights.”
•A statement that “Nowadays, instead of dressing in sheets or publically espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.”
•“[W]hile not all extremist groups are hate groups, all hate groups are extremist groups.”
•Under a section labeled “Extremist Ideologies” the document states, “In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.”
•In this same section, the document lists the 9/11 attack under a category of “Historical events.”
•“[A]ctive participation…with regard to extremist organizations is incompatible with military service and, is therefore prohibited.” [Emphasis in original]
•The document details the “seven stages of hate” and sixteen “extremists’ traits.”
•The SPLC is listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced several times throughout the guide.
•Of the five organizations besides the SPLC listed as resources, one is an SPLC project (Teaching Tolerance) and one considers any politically or socially conservative movement to be a potential hate group (Political Research Associates).
•Other than a mention of 9/11 and the Sudan, there is no discussion of Islamic extremism.
https://www.splcenter.org/about/staff/heidi-beirich
Take a look! If you looked like this, you’d hate the world! ( or your’d start a business to stamp out mirrors)
If the DOJ goes after SPLC with a RICO case, the SPLC has half a BILLION in the bank to lose.
BACKSTORY The conniving SPLC stashed a lot of its income offshore.The Southern Poverty Law Center is best known for its "hate map" -----a collection of organizations the nonprofit SPLC deems "domestic hate groups" that lists mainstream conservative organizations alongside racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and is often referenced in the media. A gunman opened fire at the Washington, D.C., offices of the conservative Family Research Council in 2012 after seeing it listed as an "anti-gay" group on SPLC's website.
Its the same old liberal con game----faking concern for your fellow man....and conniving to make a buck on it. That con has has turned SPLC into a fundraising powerhouse, recording more than $50 million in contributions and $328 million in net assets on its 2015 Form 990, the most recently available tax form from the nonprofit. SPLC's Form 990-T, its business income tax return, from the same year shows that they have "financial interests" in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. No information is available beyond the acknowledgment of the interests at the bottom of the form. (Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Long overdue.
‘Our Aim in Life Is … to Completely Destroy Them’——SPLC’s smear campaign against the Freedom Center
Frontpagemagazine | 9-3-18 | John Perazzo / FR Posted on 9/4/2018, 8:46:43 AM by SJackson
The SPLC’s latest smear campaign against the Freedom Center.
SPLC’s worldview is rooted in the premise that the United States is perpetually “seething” with “racial violence” and “intolerance against those who are different” — i.e., members of minority groups like blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals, and Arabs/Muslims.
To combat this purported epidemic of malevolence and white supremacism, SPLC periodically publishes updated lists of U.S.-based “hate groups” and “extremist groups” from coast to coast. By its latest count, there are currently 954 active “hate groups” in the United States.
But SPLC does not indict only organizations whose platforms center on the hateful endorsement of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, or sexuality. Rather, the list also includes many groups that are thoughtful, articulate conveyors of mainstream conservative values and principles; groups that unambiguously condemn the maltreatment of anyone, for any reason. Their only “sin” is that they have the temerity to disagree with SPLC on certain social or political issues.
Consider, for example, that the many “hate groups” identified by SPLC in recent years include:
Family Watch International, which, while opposing same-sex marriage as an institution, explicitly declares that “there is never any justification for violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation or gender identity”;
the Sharia Awareness Action Network, which seeks to educate Americans about “how Sharia Law stands in opposition to Constitutional Law”;
Americans for Immigration Control, which “is about strictly enforcing the current immigration laws” of the U.S.; and
the Ku Klux Klan, a group of pathetic miscreants who embrace a barbaric racial ideology that views black people as inferior.
Can any of you figure out which of those four groups is different from the other three? Perhaps you can, but SPLC is apparently too dense to distinguish between them.
In fact, in a 2016 survey, the Chronicle of Philanthropy found that no fewer than 63 of the organizations that SPLC identified as “hate groups” or “extremist groups” were actually IRS-approved charities.
The inclusion of legitimate conservative organizations in SPLC’s list of “hate groups” constitutes an egregious libel rooted in the Center’s remarkable intolerance for ideas with which it does not agree. The aforementioned Mark Potok unwittingly acknowledged this himself when he stated that the SPLC blacklists have “nothing to do with criminality or violence or any kind of guess we’re making about ‘this group could be dangerous.’ It’s strictly ideological.”
By conflating actual hate groups on the one hand, with respectable conservative organizations on the other — and thereby giving the impression that conservative values are somehow inherently hateful, racist, or otherwise repugnant — SPLC seeks to shut down debate, shut down free speech, and delegitimize all conservatives as odious monsters whose viewpoints do not even merit access to a public forum.
In contrast to its eagerness to brand conservatives as “racists,” SPLC typically gives a free pass to left-wing groups, no matter how hateful or exclusionary their agendas may be. Consider UnidosUS, which for 45 years was called the National Council of La Raza (“The Race”). Though this race-obsessed organization views virtually any opposition to its amnesty/open-borders/welfare-state agenda as “a disgrace to American values,” UnidosUS/La Raza has been hailed by SPLC research director Heidi Beirich as “a venerable civil-rights organization.”
Moreover, UnidosUS/La Raza is known to have given money to MEChA, a “Chicano Students” organization that has explicitly vowed to repel the “brutal ‘gringo’ invasion of our territories,” and whose organizational slogan translates to: “For the race, everything; Outside of the race, nothing.” But SPLC sees nothing amiss here. As Mark Potok puts it, “we have found no evidence to support charges that [MEChA] is racist or anti-Semitic.”
Similarly, SPLC has elected not to include, in its list of “hate groups,” the violent Marxist/anarchist movement known as Antifa, which, as Atlantic magazine has noted, is responsible for “a level of sustained political street warfare not seen in the U.S. since the 1960s.” SPLC president Richard Cohen explains that Antifa does not qualify for designation because its brand of hate is “not the type of hate we follow.”
Likewise escaping the opprobrium of SPLC is Black Lives Matter, an entity whose founders were Marxist revolutionaries, and whose rank-and-file foot soldiers have routinely engaged in some of the vilest anti-white, anti-police rhetoric (and violent race riots) in living memory. By SPLC’s telling, “The perception that [BLM] is racist” only “illustrates [that our] society as a whole still does not accept that racial injustice remains pervasive.”
While SPLC identifies itself as a “nonprofit civil rights group,” its net assets currently total more than $449 million — including some $92 million invested in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda.
“Hate” is SPLC’s perpetual motion machine; the gift that keeps on giving. It is time for Americans to wake up and realize what this organization is all about, and to finally consign it to the dustbin of history, where it can take its rightful place alongside similar collections of discredited charlatans, demagogues, hate mongers, and smear merchants. September 3, 2018 John Perazzo
Good these people are terrorists, with an innocuous sounding name...
What a mouth on that guy...
They are garbage people of the lowest order and have been for years.
Good guys fighting back.
SPLC is a hate group.
They hate America.
Don’t just sue him. File it against SPLC itself.
About time!
If you’re not a commie pig, you’re on their “hate group” list. Who died and left these maggots in charge?
Now we’re getting somewhere!
The SPLC is a hate group. Everyone should know that by now.
I know nothing of the Center for Immigration Studies though.
CIS is the second most quoted immigration research think tank in America.
Pew Research is the number one most quoted, and Pew has like ten times more people than CIS.
CIS was an overtly Right wing institutional leader in stopping the Bush-McCain Amnesty during the 2005-2008 period.
Unfortunately, that was a Pyrrhic victory, CIS made a lot of powerful enemies, and their corporate and foundation funding took a big hit.
By 2010, CIS had moved conspicuously to the political center, and they now focus almost entirely on basic research, with little or no political activism.
I think SPLC labeled CIS as a "Hate Group" in 2017.
It was an absurd charge since most of the CIS staff now support limited Amnesties and moderately lower numbers of work visas and Green Cards.
Thank you. :)
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