Southern Poverty Law Center rep says goal is destroy those they list
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These revelations will likely be a serious problem for the SPLC in law suits brought by those who were put on their lists. A Christian group has already brought a defamation claim against the group. I suspect other claims will follow. It will be interesting to see if donors to this group will be joined as defendants.
The John Birch Society and some of its affiliates got in trouble for similar activities on the extreme right. What they are doing is a form of black listing.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has gained traction in recent weeks, but contrary to media reports, the group does not exist to "monitor hate groups" but to destroy groups that it targets for "strictly ideological" reasons. In light of large donations from Apple, J.P. Morgan, and George Clooney, and CNN's favorable coverage of the SPLC, Americans should learn the real motivations behind this far-left organization.There is more.
In the words of SPLC former spokesman Mark Potok (who spent 20 years as a senior fellow at the SPLC and only retired this year, according to LinkedIn), the group does not exist to monitor hate groups.
"Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate groups, I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them," Potok declared at an event in Michigan in 2007.
Potok reiterated this point at a Vermont school group in 2008. "You are able to destroy these groups sometimes by the things you publish," he declared. "It's not so much that they will bring down the police or the federal agents on their head, it's that you can sometimes so mortally embarrass these groups that they will be destroyed" (emphasis added).
The SPLC "mortally embarrasses" groups by equating mainstream conservative, Christian, and other organizations with the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists. Make no mistake, this is not a "hate group monitoring" organization, it's a far-Left defamation racket that exists to target any group it disagrees with politically.
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These revelations will likely be a serious problem for the SPLC in law suits brought by those who were put on their lists. A Christian group has already brought a defamation claim against the group. I suspect other claims will follow. It will be interesting to see if donors to this group will be joined as defendants.
The John Birch Society and some of its affiliates got in trouble for similar activities on the extreme right. What they are doing is a form of black listing.
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