The Southern Poverty Law Center is the Morris Dees front that can be best described as civil rights pimps. He has made a personal fortune by exploiting his experience in mail order and liberal guilt. He has suceeded in bankrupting the KKK, however, with a RICO like suit alleging conspiracy. In this new suit against Ranch Rescue he openly admits that the purpose of the litigation is to bankrupt Ranch Rescue.
Dees, of course, is the darling of the media. It is inconceivable that he would be described with the red neck cliches that have been used in this article against our citizens even though Dees himself speaks with a thick southern accent. If you keep an eye on these articles about anarchy on our southern border, you will see an allusion to the The Southern Poverty Law Center in virtually every one. I suspect that that Dees mail machine has been running hot lately and that is how this article came to be written.
Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California-San Diego, has called the border enforcement policy "the clearest . . . and most systematic violation of human rights occurring on U.S. soil today."
How did Professor Cornelius come to be consulted? Was he discovered by good old fashioned investigative reporting by Newsweek? I hardly think so. Either he is a academic flak for Dees or, more likely, he has some connection to the Ford Foundation which has an openly (but not very loudly) expressed objective to see entirely open borders. The Ford Foundation has literally billions and their pockets are so deep that they can set the terms of the national debate this early in the game. Look for some connection among Dees, Cornelius and Ford.
I spoke to Chris Simcox, the leader of Civil Homeland Defense, on Thursday night. He thought this article was going to be a positive portrayal of the rescues that CHD performs in the desert. I told him not to get his hopes up. I was right. I'm going to try to get his reaction to this article and post it here.
If my connect the dots guesses are correct, you were quite right to be skeptical about the treatment Homeland Defense would receive in this article.