Originally posted by Holden Karre:
from what I can read of it the splc is like a civilian domestic spy operation. I wonder where they get their loot?
In the old days they funded themselves through proceeds gained in lawsuits. The idea being that if someone were poor and southern, assumed probably Black, and being oppressed by any person or organization with financial means, the SPLC would show up file the lawsuits and provide legal representation in civil matters for free, usually pointing to violations of the civil rights act to get big federal court settlements against local school boards, municipalities, and employers in discrimination lawsuits. Most of the money was then put into the SPLC warchest for further political efforts and to pay for various programs they ran, including funding the education for new lawyers who would then go to work for the organization.
We have tried unsuccessfully to copy that funding model in the patriot movement, but the municipalities simply refuse to pay on the lawsuits, and the people who do collect the money are not doing a lot to fund the rest, but on our side of the fence the closest thing has been the folks at the US Observer.
What Morris Dees did at some point in the 1980s though was jump in bed with the Justice Department, and then solidified the deals during the Clinton/Reno years where they talk the talk of being a civil rights lawsuit mill, but in reality have become a contract arm of the federal government. I think what happened was that a bunch of the young lawyers they had helped educate and get into the profession in the 1960s and 1970s eventually just became a powerful enough force in the legal establishment that they pulled sufficient strings to openly get funding by the time the Clintons were in office, and Morris Dees is rumored to have as much as $200 million stashed away as a "war chest". During the "dry years of civil rights" as they like to refer to the Bush administration, a lot of the liberals were getting highly critical of Dees and his personal greed. Many of the Jewish run groups now openly criticize him and a lot of the civil rights movement hold Dees in contempt as a government sellout. Their main points being that the SPLC has not filed any police brutality lawsuits in years. I think maybe even decades. Nowdays they don't even pretend to criticize the government in the name of civil rights.
You look at how Edog hates the US Observer over the way they may have not handled the Dyer case, there are some liberals out there who hate Dees so much that they are the real reason he has such a high security presence. I went to a security school with one of his former bodyguards (same fucker was one of the people who had me banned from tacticalforums.com). No joke, that guy was a hangaround with another pro bodyguard who worked for George Soros and they were part of the "club" that was going around making sure I got banned from the pro forums and one of them was put in charge of an operation in Iraq that I was slotted to be a part of, and told the people he would not run the op if I was allowed to be there. He lasted I think maybe a month into the six month deployment and bailed on the contract because his "stateside work" paid as well as Iraq anyway. A bunch of the "tactical pro" guys still kiss his ass because the guy is well enough connected to get them the high paid NGO bodyguard work.
The far left know that Dees and SPLC are just another tool/lackey/crony organization of the elites at this point. I think Anonymous has pretty openly threatened SPLC to stay out of their business or suffer consequences, and it is hush hush, but they apparently had some way of getting that message across where it was well understood. Wikileaks has come up with some stuff on them, basically sufficient proof that Dees is probably the second most influential white nationalist leader behind David Duke.
Don't discount his fingers in the Militia movement either. JT Ready most likely reported to Dees at least through his intermediary contacts in the FBI. JT Ready's antics while parading around in an improvised SA uniform were straight from the SPLC playbook. JT Ready showing up to defend the Occupy rally from police brutality was probably his own move, and what he was most likely killed for, either that or messing with someone's dope shipments. Same difference, same pigs in bed with the cartels anyway. JT Ready got too big for his breeches and thought his paid informant status was equal to a professional status. Nope.