You know shouting Southern Poverty Legal Center all over the place is not going to make this go away. La Raza? I don't think so. These are serious charges that have been circulating from various members and ex memebers of the minutemen. Are they involved in a Aclu plot also. I think not. Also this was a 4 month investigation by the TV station. Is the Southern Poverty Legal Center behind all these people and making them all lie.
And that's the best they could do? LOL...
Here's a few choice facts about the source of some of these slurs against Simcox, newbie:
Here's a gem about the FROBL's favorite source vis a vis Chris Simcox. The ironies of the FROBLs using Morris Dees as a source are too rich for words:
But Dees and the SPLC are impervious to such facts. The pursuit of cash supersedes Dees’ fidelity to reality, as left-wing journalists have noted.
“Morris Dees doesn't need your financial support,” writes Ken Silverstein in “The Church of Morris Dees” (Harper’s, November 2000), observing that:
"The SPLC is already the wealthiest civil rights group in America…Back in 1978, when the Center had less than $10 million, Dees promised that his organization would quit fund-raising and live off interest as soon as its endowment hit $55 million. But as it approached that figure, the SPLC upped the bar to $100 million, a sum that, one 1989 newsletter promised, would allow the Center 'to cease the costly and often unreliable task of fund raising.' Today, the SPLC’s treasury bulges with $120 million, and it spends twice as much on fund-raising-$5.76 million last year-as it does on legal services for victims of civil rights abuses. The American Institute of Philanthropy gives the Center one of the worst ratings of any group it monitors, estimating that the SPLC could operate for 4.6 years without making another tax-exempt nickel from its investments or raising another tax-deductible cent from well-meaning 'people like you.'"
JoAnn Wypijewski has remarked in The Nation (February 26, 2001):
"What is the Southern Poverty Law Center doing…? Mostly making money…In 1999 it spent $2.4 million on litigation and $5.7' million on fundraising, meanwhile taking in more than $44 million--$27 million from fundraising, the rest from investments…On the subject of 'hate groups' …No one has been more assiduous in inflating the profile of such groups than the center's millionaire huckster, Morris Dees, who in 1999 began a begging letter, 'Dear Friend, The danger presented by the Klan is greater now than at any time in the past ten years.”…With…a salary close to $300,000 putting him among the top 2 percent of Americans, Dees needn't worry about 'fitting in' with the masses of Montgomery [SPLC headquarters]. Naturally, he'd erect a multimillion-dollar office building that's a monstrosity. 'I hate it,' a security guard across the street told me, as the sun's hot rays bounced off the building's vast brushed-stainless-steel-clad southern exposure and onto his face, making him sweat, roasting his skin while he stood watch for the militia nuts Dees would have his donors believe are lurking around every corner."
Keep up the great work, Mr. Dees. Don’t let truth and decency get in your way.
Sometimes I wonder if certain posters here aren't actually Morris Dees.
Note to FReepers who haven't bought into this slander campaign:
Folks like Tex would have you believe that organizations like the Minutemen are supposed to fight the hundreds of millions of dollars available to the SPLC and the ACLU with no ammo, no resupply, no resources of any kind. They want you to think that fundraising is "dirty", at least if a conservative engages in it. If it's the GOP or the K Street bandits, it's fine, but not grassroots organizations, no way!