From Stossel...
Southern Poverty Law Center Has Become a Left-wing, Money-grabbing, Slander MachineJul 18, 2023
The Southern Poverty Law Center promises to warn us about dangerous hate groups and extremists. In reality, it smears grassroots activists like "Moms for Liberty" for daring to disagree about policy.
The SPLC is, sadly, powerful. It has nearly a BILLION dollars, and reporters pay careful attention to its reports. They shouldn't. The SPLC is a scam.
The SPLC listed the Family Research Council as a "hate group," which led a deranged shooter to attack their office. The SPLC never apologized or removed the group from its list.
Instead, it added more groups, such as ones that started in recent years to oppose new "woke" sex and race teaching in government-run schools.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has become a hate group itself. It is now a left-wing, money grabbing, slander machine.
https://youtu.be/7vwQimmpuSY
Transcript: https://reason.com/2023/07/19/the-southern-poverty-law-center-makes-millions-trafficking-hate/
Story about the 2012 Family Research Council Shooter
Southern Poverty Law Center website triggered FRC shooting
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist |
February 06, 2013 12:00 AM
Quote:The Family Research Council shooter, who pleaded guilty today to a terrorism charge, picked his target off a "hate map" on the website of the ultra-liberal Southern Poverty Law Center which is upset with the conservative group's opposition to gay rights.
Floyd Lee Corkins II pleaded guilty to three charges including a charge of committing an act of terrorism related to the August 15, 2012 injuring of FRC's guard. He told the FBI that he wanted to kill anti-gay targets and went to the law center's website for ideas.
At a court hearing where his comments to the FBI were revealed, he said that he intended to "kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims' faces, and kill the guard." The shooting occurred after an executive with Chick-Fil-A announced his support for traditional marriage, angering same-sex marriage proponents.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said that the Southern Poverty Law Center should take responsibility for the shooting and take down their hate map.
"The day after Floyd Corkins came into the FRC headquarter and opened fire wounding one of our team members, I stated that while Corkins was responsible for the shooting, he had been given a license to perpetrate this act of violence by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center which has systematically and recklessly labeled every organization with which they disagree as a 'hate group,'" he said.
"Once again, I call on the SPLC to put an immediate stop to its practice of labeling organizations that oppose their promotion of homosexuality," said Perkins, adding, "Whether the SPLC continues to demonize those who hold to biblical morality or not, the Family Research Council will remain unequivocally committed to our mission of advancing faith, family and freedom."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/southern-poverty-law-center-website-triggered-frc-shooting
SPLC Connection To Alleged ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Rod Dreher
Mar 7, 2023
T.W. Jurgens, a staff lawyer for Southern Poverty Law Center 'anti-hate' grifters, arrested as part of violent Antifa attack on police training facility
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/splc-connection-to-alleged-domestic-terrorism/