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!
well that was entertaining. You are using the same argument the Council of Conservative Citizens use when I challenge them. All they do is shout SPLC and DEES. Even though much of what the SPLC states can be verified from original sources for truthiness quite easy.
The problem is that it appears that the assorted Kookdum out their either didnt a cut of the money, or the true believers (like the racist Council of Conservative Citizens )didn't want to be associated with this scam. However, I have a hard time thinking all these allegation from these folks are the product of Dees their sworn enemey.
Also maybe it is out there, but I have yet to see a SPLC document that really went into the alleged money making scam of this fence. I am not sure how the SPLC can be brought into this if they haven't made those allegations. Their concerns that I have seen were mostly with the extremist groups in this movement. I never saw a splc article on the allegation of massive mail fraud. Perhaps it is out there, but I am not going off that
Just saying, I am lookin around the net right now andit looks like people are starting to dig into this.
Anyway that is what I am going to do tonight. I would suggest you might instead of just going into defense mode might want to dig too. It might be time to figure out a way to distance and cut ties as quick as possible. It won't be pretty if this is true and there are stories of 90 year old ladies that mortgage the house so they could help build a fence that never was going to be built anyway. All to protect their little grandson form the "invaders"
Till then nite and I will report what I find