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SPLC fires co-founder Morris Dees as problems deepen

Multiple lawsuits over smearing individuals, groups with 'hate' labels

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The troubles for the much-sued Southern Poverty Law Center got worse Thursday with the firing of co-founder and chief litigator Morris Dees.

The Montgomery Advertiser reported SPLC President Richard Cohen said in a statement Dees’ dismissal was effective Wednesday.

SPLC’s assets recently passed $500 million, of which about a quarter was being concealed in overseas bank accounts.

“As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world,” Cohen said in an email. “When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action.”

SPLC said it was announcing “a number of immediate, concrete next steps we’re taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that our talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve – one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected.”

The newspaper said Dees’ biography appeared to be scrubbed from the group’s website. But no details of the circumstances that prompted the move against the multimillionaire were revealed.

A series of articles in the newspaper 20 years ago alleged the group discriminated against black employees.

It’s just the latest trouble for the SPLC. WND reported last week the American Freedom Law Center sued two Michigan officials for a policy directive that targets groups based on SPLC’s “hate” groups designation.

The lawsuit names Dana Nessel, the attorney general, and Agustin Arbulu, the director of the state Department of Civil Rights, as defendants.

Robert Muise, AFLC co-founder, said Michigan’s policy directive “should be dubbed the ‘Crimespeak Policy’ because it takes a page right out of George Orwell’s 1984, where the goal of ‘Thinkpol,’ the Thought Police, was to eradicate ‘crimespeak.'”

“In ‘1984,’ to even consider any thought not in line with the principles of those in power was ‘crimespeak,’ subjecting the perpetrator to punishment. The same is true of the challenged policy at issue here. Not surprisingly, this is what you get when you elect left-wing progressives to public office.”

AFLC noted SPLC, funded partly by left-wing billionaire activist George Soros, “has for years dishonestly and falsely labeled and smeared its political opponents as ‘hate’ groups in an effort to marginalize them and the work they do.”

In January, Cohen and SPLC’s Heidi Beirich were sued in federal court in Washington, D.C., by the Center for Immigration Studies under the nation’s organized crime law for “falsely” designating CIS as a “hate group.”

The civil case filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act charges they have violated federal wire fraud and other laws. It alleges a “pattern of racketeering through SPLC enterprise” and seeks a judgment of three times the damages to CIS as well as attorneys’ fees and costs.

It also seeks an order “prohibiting defendants from again calling CIS a hate group and requiring defendants to state on the SPLC website that CIS is not a hate group.”

SPLC was identified in 2012 by Floyd Lee Corkins II as the source of his information when he launched a violent attack on the Family Research Council that injured an FRC employee before he was stopped.

In an interview with the FBI, he admitted he wanted to kill as many as he could.

Author and pundit John Stossel once called SPLC a hate group itself.

SPLC also recently was sued by a lawyer who claims SPLC paid for stolen documents in an attempt to get him fired and destroy his future work prospects.

And a previous case brought against SPLC was settled by a payment of more than $3 million to Maajid Nawaz and his Quilliam Foundation, who sued after SPLC put them on its “hate” list.

As many as six dozen other organizations are considering similar cases against SPLC.

When Jeff Sessions was attorney general, he criticized SPLC as an illustration of “hostility” to religious believers.

That event was hosted by one of the groups that SPLC lumps together with the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, the Alliance Defending Freedom, or ADF, reported the Daily Signal.

Sessions told ADF’s annual religious liberty conference in Washington, D.C., that “people of faith are facing a new hostility.”

“Really some of it is a bigoted ideology which is founded on animus towards people of faith,” he said. “You’ll notice that they don’t rely on the facts. They don’t make better arguments. They don’t propose higher ideals. They just call people names — like ‘hate group.’ Does that sound familiar?”

Sessions said SPLC once was a legitimate group that partnered with the FBI to identify racist groups. But now it is using the “hate” designation “as a weapon and they have wielded it against conservative organizations that refuse to accept their orthodoxy and choose instead to speak their conscience.”

“They use it to bully and intimidate groups like yours which fight for the religious freedom, the civil rights, and the constitutional rights of others,” he said.

I'm hearing it has to do with sexual harassment. I doubt we'll get the whole story any time soon.

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SPLC Implodes: President & Legal Director Resign Amid Sexual Misconduct Scandal

Leftist propaganda arm regularly defames conservatives as 'hate group'


By Zero Hedge Saturday, March 23, 2019

The Southern Poverty Law Center – the “vicious left-wing attack dog” used by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon to identify “hate groups” – is unraveling.

A week after co-founder Morris Dees was ousted over sexual misconduct claims – with two dozen employees signing a letter of concern over “allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism,” the head of the SPLC, Richard Cohen, as well as the organization’s legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, resigned on Friday.

Cohen had been with the organization 33 years and was one of its most prominent figures.

“At 5:03 p.m. Friday, Cohen sent a message to staff, with the subject line ‘Stepping Down,’ announcing that he, too, would be leaving the organization that he and Dees had turned into a research and fundraising juggernaut”.

“‘Whatever problems exist at the SPLC happened on my watch, so I take responsibility for them,’ Cohen wrote, while asking the staff to avoid jumping to conclusions before the board completes an internal review of the Montgomery, Ala., organization’s work culture.” -LA
Times

Earlier this week, the SPLC board of directors appointed Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff, Tina Tchen – who, in an unrelated matter, unsuccessfully tried to pull strings and have the Jussie Smollett case transferred from the Chicago PD to the FBI. Tchen is heading up the inquiry into the sexual misconduct claims.

Also out on Friday was Rhonda Brownstein – who had worked with the organization for nearly three decades, according to the Montgomery Advertiser’s Melissa Brown.

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Inside the SPLC “Scam”

As the Washington Examiner’s Beckett Adams writes, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a “scam,” which has taken ” no care whatsoever for the reputational and personal harm it causes by lumping Christians and anti-extremist activists with actual neo-Nazis.”

“As it turns out, the SPLC is a cynical money-making scheme, according to a former staffer’s blistering tell-all, published this week in the New Yorker. The center’s chief goal is to bilk naive and wealthy donors who believe it’s an earnest effort to combat bigotry.”

“The only thing worse than a snarling partisan activist is a slimy conman who merely pretends to be one.” -Washington Examiner

““Outside of work,” recalls Bob Moser of his days working for the organization, “we spent a lot of time drinking and dishing in Montgomery bars and restaurants about … the hyperbolic fund-raising appeals, and the fact that, though the center claimed to be effective in fighting extremism, ‘hate’ always continued to be on the rise, more dangerous than ever, with each year’s report on hate groups. ‘The S.P.L.C.—making hate pay,’ we’d say.”

“[I]t was hard, for many of us, not to feel like we’d become pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam,” added Moser.

The way Moser tells it, the center’s chief founder, Morris Dees, who was dismissed unceremoniously last week for unspecified reasons, discovered early on that he could rake in boatloads of cash by convincing “gullible Northern liberals” that his group is doing the hard work of fighting “hate.”

But the center’s supposed mission of combating bigotry doesn’t actually matter to its top brass, Moser says. It’s just a business choice and one that has been extremely lucrative throughout the years. Moser’s article reminds readers of the time Dees actually said of the SPLC in an interview with then-Progressive magazine reporter John Egerton, “We just run our business like a business. Whether you’re selling cakes or causes, it’s all the same.” -Washington Examiner

Moser claims that the SPLC’s business model centers entirely around keeping its precious donors in constant fear using gimmicks such as “hate maps” and “hate lists.”

“[T]he center continues to take in far more than it spends. And it still tends to emphasize splashy cases that are sure to draw national attention,” he writes adding the group’s “central strategy” involves “taking on cases guaranteed to make headlines and inflame the far right while demonstrating to potential donors that the center has not only all the right enemies but also the grit and know-how to take them down.”

Moser adds there is an inescapable sense of “guilt” that comes with thinking about “the legions of donors who believed that their money was being used, faithfully and well, to do the Lord’s work in the heart of Dixie. We were part of the con, and we knew it.”

Who knew you could make the big bucks simply by lumping Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ben Carson with actual, honest-to-God neo-Nazis? -Washington Examiner

Right wing commentator and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes is currently suing the SPLC for labeling his right-wing fraternal organization, the Proud Boys, a hate group.

The SPLC has gone from a noble institution genuinely dedicated to eradicating hate to a hate group in and of itself that pretends this country is frothing with bigots desperate to foment World War III,” McInnes said in a press release.

McInnes has raised nearly $200,000 out of a goal of $250,000 to continue his lawsuit. From his website Defendgavin.com:

“I’m suing the SPLC. And it’s not just because they destroyed my career and shattered my reputation. It’s because they could do the same to you. Though this group is often cited as a credible source by the media, nobody who actually knows stuff takes them seriously.”

“No, being called an extremist by the SPLC does NOT mean you’re an extremist. No, being called a Hate Group by the SPLC does NOT make you a Hate Group. And no, being called a racist or an anti-Semite or an Islamophobe or a transphobe or a homophobe by the SPLC does NOT make you any of those things.” -Gavin McInnes

We wonder if there will even be an SPLC left to sue by the time it reaches a courtroom.

And now two more are gone. The SLPC's president, Richard Cohen, and the legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, both resigned Friday. Both had worked with the SPLC for over thirty years.

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I love how so many are turning on each other now. Hopefully the 'Deep State' is next..................

I'm not holding my breath.

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Even the Washington Post wants the SPLC investigated. A lot of rats are jumping off the ship.



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