Southern Poverty Law Center president seeks removal of Lou Dobbs from air, citing ‘birther’ claims

J. Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), asks CNN President in a letter dated today to remove Lou Dobbs from the airwaves. He describes Lou Dobbs reporting as “both deplorable and an embarrassment to all serious journalists.” The letter ends with:

Respectable news organizations should not employ reporters willing to peddle racist conspiracy theories and false propaganda. It's time for CNN to remove Mr. Dobbs from the airwaves.

The letter was prompted by Mr. Dobbs repeated questioning of the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate, despite evidence to the contrary:

The truth about the president's birth is not in dispute. It has been verified by Factcheck.org, among many other serious news organizations, and his official birth documents have been made public. CNN itself has repeatedly reported on the falsity of the claims of the "birthers," and the network's esteemed legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, recently called those claims "a joke." As you know, even Mr. Dobbs' frequent fill-in anchor, Kitty Pilgrim, debunked the birthers on the July 17 edition of Mr. Dobbs' own CNN show. The fact that Mr. Dobbs suggests otherwise on CNN — while real CNN reporters tell the truth — is both deplorable and an embarrassment to all serious journalists.

was first developed by an open anti-Semite and circulated by right-wing extremists who cannot accept the fact that a black man has been elected president of the United States. Among its adherents was neo-Nazi James von Brunn, the alleged murderer of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this June. Von Brunn had helped spread the birthers' claims on the Internet and attacked the "dishonest & conspiratorial Media" for not taking them up.

If push comes to shove, there will be regional fault lines but the conflict will be mainly urban vs rural.

The bottom line is the cities cannot feed themselves, but most of the rural regions can.

So the only option the fedgov will have to bring food to the cities will be to pass draconian “anti hoarding” laws etc, to force the farmers to bring their produce to market at govt set prices.

This might have worked in the USSR in the 1920s, but only at bayonet point against the unarmed kulak farmers.

This won’t work in the USA, with millions of scoped deer rifles in private hands.

The cities will starve and explode in fury, but the rural regions will be able to outlast them, with local and regional food distribution (farmers markets etc) keeping them going.

“If push comes to shove, there will be regional fault lines but the conflict will be mainly urban vs rural.”

That would be true IF, (and it is a huge IF,) the madrassas that have gone up in almost any rural area you can imagine did not exist. But they do, and in every state in the country. They have weapons caches the likes of which any paramilitary organization or militia would drool over. They have food stores to last for years, if necessary.
They have made a point to buy up acreage which contain, among other things, Civil and Revolutionary War Battlefields and fortresses for their strategic placement. Most are surrounded by heavily wooded areas and/or some hilly, even mountainous, terrain, and they know their areas like the backs of their hands. Hidden trails, mapped routes, who owns what property where, and who will fight and who won’t.
They are heavily trained in the use of firearms, heavy weapons, explosives, and tactics. AND they are brutal with a fervor most Americans do not realize or appreciate.
When this happens, (conflict,) and it WILL happen, they will set upon anything that moves including anyone from outside the area who tries to get in for whatever reason. They will raid, burn, rape, pillage, and plunder and leave NOTHING standing.
We have nothing, or very little of anything, to combat an all out campaign like this, but they have planned for it, trained for it, and WILL carry it out.
While the cities erupt, there will be NO protection against a rural onslaught from either law enforcement or National Guard Troops. Their hands will be full.
Hoarding laws or not make no difference. Those who have planned this and intend to survive it will have/have their own nests protected. They do not care what happens to us.
This is about pure, raw power. Creation of a slave class to do what they cannot. so they do not ever have to.
THIS is just Part 1.

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