LionsofLaw on X - "If you are paying the Grand Imperial Wizard, the Exalted Cyclops or someone called the Fuhrer, you are not intelligence gathering from an informant. You are funding the organization’s activities."
Zach Jones - Secretary of Psyops on X - "BIDEN DOJ PARTNERED WITH SPLC TO GO AFTER THEIR TARGETS; BANKS FLAGGED SPLC TO DOJ AND BIDEN SHUT DOWN INVESTIGATION WHILE STOKING WHITE SUPREMACY NARRATIVE This just goes to show you that the Democrats can’t exist without racism and the American people aren’t racist at all which is why they’re having to pay to create their own enemy."
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa on X - "The Canadian Anti-Hate Network are utter morons. "We weren't really modeled after the SPLC!" Lmao. You took the startup cash, called yourselves SPLC lite & copied the entire playbook. Same antifa-adjacent trash, different country"
Rick de la Torre on X - "The NGO funding machine is getting harder to ignore. USAID funneled $27 million through the Tides Center, with some of it going directly into the Southern Poverty Law Center. For years, the liberal left inside the federal government hijacked nonprofits as pass-through vehicles; a legal loophole to launder taxpayer dollars into partisan left-wing networks like SPLC. Tides operates as the perfect hub: it receives massive federal grants, buries the ultimate recipients behind multiple layers of 501(c)(3)s, and quietly re-grants the money to activist allies. The American people didn’t authorize this. It needs to end now."
Meme - "r/conspiratard, 9y ago
Alex Jones: Charlottesville was a false flag run by SPLC operatives who hired actors to pose as Nazis
Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/conspiratard
[deleted]: How much do you have to pay an actor to kill people and take a murder charge?"
Meme - "When you realize you never got your SPLC check
*Pensive Rudolf Höss in Zone of Interest*"
Meme - *Brown girl running screaming from KKK member in white hood with torch*
SPLC: "Stop the far right!!"
*Brown girl nonplussed to see that KKK member in white hood with torch is a puppet on the hand of the SPLC*
Meme - Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo: "How the NYT covers the indictment against the SPLC for alleged wire fraud and money laundering to pay neo-Nazis, alt-right organizers and KKK members."
"Justice Dept. Charges Prominent Civil Rights Group With Financial Crimes. Republicans have accused the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for investigating hate groups, of unfairly targeting conservative and Christian organizations."
The Southern Poverty Law Indictment - WSJ - "SPLC says the allegations are false and that the indictment is another case of Mr. Trump weaponizing the Justice Department against his opponents. But the investigation started years ago in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Middle District of Alabama. SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair said in a statement the program was necessary because dealing with hate groups is “among the most dangerous work there is” and this program “saved lives.” Using informants to warn about threats of violence may be defensible. But the charges, if true, reveal a problematic symbiosis between the SPLC and its informant sources. One informant was allegedly the member of a chat group that helped plan the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. The source, who was paid $270,000 between 2015 and 2023, “made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC,” the indictment says. The Charlottesville protests proved to be a great fund-raising event for the SPLC, with sizable donations from George Clooney, Apple Inc., and others. The indictment also says at least two SPLC field sources, including a former chairman of the National Alliance and a leader of the National Socialist Party of America, were featured as “Extremist Files” on the SPLC website at the same time they received money from the SPLC. One received more than $140,000 between 2016 and 2023 while the second received more than $70,000 between 2014 and 2016. SPLC’s business model is to monitor hate groups, and the profiles it creates for media and public consumption are part of its marketing to donors. The complaint notes that one field source from the KKK applied to “take part” in Adopt-a-Highway but was denied. During the informant’s litigation seeking to join the program, the SPLC paid more than $3,500 to the source. Was the SPLC helping encourage the litigation? The donations to hate groups are all the more suspect because in recent years the SPLC has itself spread hate. The outfit has diversified its definition of extremist groups to include mainstream and nonthreatening conservative groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council and Do No Harm, which works against race preferences in medicine. To the extent the money encouraged or sustained the racist groups, tacitly or otherwise, SPLC benefited from perpetuating racial division. A court will decide if that’s illegal, but it’s certainly disreputable."
Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment: SPLC Was Always Awful | National Review - "Engage in a hypothetical and assume, purely for the sake of argument, that absolutely everything alleged in the indictment is completely false. Even if the SPLC neither committed financial crimes nor helped orchestrate bogus “hate” events to create bad optics for conservatives, the organization has long been deserving of ire. The SPLC is societal poison dedicated to disparaging any individual or group perceived as even mildly right-wing. Rather than bashing the SPLC because it allegedly misrepresented its organizational activities and use of funds, we should emphasize that the SPLC misrepresents everything all the time. For those unfamiliar, the SPLC is well known for awarding the “hate” label to certain organizations or individuals. While these designations might seem negligible, they have facilitated actual hate: Floyd Lee Corkins II was motivated to attempt a mass shooting and “kill as many people as [he] could” at the Family Research Council’s headquarters, in part because he had identified the organization as anti-gay from the SPLC website. One might have hoped such an awful incident would have prompted the SPLC to reconsider its “hate” labels, and that the mainstream media would refrain from referencing such designations carelessly. However, high-profile publications routinely cite the SPLC-issued “hate” badge as if it is some sort of assessment grounded in a rigorous methodology. An article will read as follows: “[Right-Wing Organization], which has been named a “hate group” by the SPLC, blah blah blah.” (See here for an example about the Family Research Council in the New York Times, which was published after the terrorist attack on the organization.) But only a quick skim of the SPLC’s profiles exposes that the “hate” classification is often applied prejudicially and then hastily defended with examples that undermine the claim. For example, in its summary of the supposed “hate group” the Alliance Defending Freedom, the SPLC notes that a member of its legal counsel publicly declared the following: “Allowing males to compete in the female category isn’t fair and destroys girls’ athletic opportunities. Males will always have inherent physical advantages over comparably talented and trained girls—that’s the reason we have girls’ sports in the first place. And a male’s belief about his gender doesn’t eliminate those advantages.” Not only are these statements entirely reasonable and based on fact, they are perfectly respectful and wholly lacking animosity. The SPLC promulgates falsehoods — or what progressives might call “misinformation” — not only when borderline defaming individuals and organizations, but in its attempts to refute the claims set forth by those people and groups. In one article, the SPLC insists that “sterilization” is merely “an alleged medical risk” (emphasis mine) of “gender-affirming health care for children,” which is based on “myths, pseudoscience, and flawed historical comparisons to eugenics.” The SPLC further asserts that children are not receiving procedures that would render them infertile, nor does hormonal therapy pose fertility risks. This is difficult to reconcile with the fact that a reality-television show revealed to the world that Jazz Jennings, a male, underwent (botched) surgeries to construct a pseudo-vagina before age 18. Then there’s all the scientific data and personal anecdotes about how hormonal therapy can lead to infertility. Even Planned Parenthood produced materials for students as young as middle-schoolers conceding that puberty-blocking drugs may have long-term fertility consequences, saying they “might change someone’s body permanently, like affecting whether they can get or cause a pregnancy when they are older.” In another post, the SPLC claims that “anti-transgender” and right-wing individuals rely on “junk science” and “disinformation” — ignoring piles of evidence to prove that the so-called studies in support of medicalized gender interventions are not only wrong, but entirely nonsense... But in my view, the most frustrating aspect of the SPLC is its apparent inability to construct a reasonable argument and defend it. Consider some of the SPLC’s “Hatewatch” posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. An article titled “Attack on public education and free speech rights of educators after Kirk killing” states, “Key leaders [‘of the hard right’] blamed ‘left-wing extremism,’ railed against ‘radical left lunatics’ and suggested that universities had fostered a climate hostile to conservative thought.” Naturally, the SPLC neglects to explain how assassinating a right-wing commentator does not qualify as “left-wing extremism” committed by a “radical left lunatic.” (Nor does the SPLC attempt to suggest that academia does welcome right-wing perspectives.) Weirdly, the supposed extreme threat to free speech identified in the article is people saying mean things about leftist professors and suggesting some of them should be fired from their university positions in light of their statements about Kirk’s killing, whereas the obviously more dire threat to free expression on college campuses was the assassination of a man for his views. In fact, the SPLC identifies Kirk himself and Turning Point USA as villains against free expression on campus, in part because the organization maintained a “Professor Watchlist,” a site currently under maintenance. But the “Professor Watchlist” was not too different from the database the SPLC itself has compiled of “hate” perpetrators: Both were designed to describe and summarize an individual’s general ideology, in part by citing public statements and previous controversies. But of course, the SPLC is terribly unfair when it presents the views defended by others. For instance, in one post, the SPLC criticizes “the myth of a ‘trans shooter’ phenomenon” and rejects how “right-wing influencers and news outlets” have attempted to associate Tyler Robinson with “transgender ideology.” Yet it is public information that Robinson had a trans-identifying lover, while Robinson’s mother told law enforcement that he was “becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented.” Curiously, there isn’t a “Hatewatch” post dedicated to explaining how the assassination of Charlie Kirk itself was a hate incident. Then again, the SPLC has overlooked plenty of hate: It reported in 2016 that 40 percent of the more than 10,000 teachers who responded to its survey “have heard derogatory language directed at students of color, Muslims, immigrants and people based on gender or sexual orientation,” but omitted the finding that about 20 percent of educators affirmatively answered that they “have heard derogatory language or slurs about white students.”... Whether or not the SPLC’s agents dubiously orchestrated “hate” demonstrations, the organization has a long track record of promoting hate. It erroneously brands organizations and individuals as malicious, it espouses blatantly false claims about them, and it consistently pushes ridiculous narratives that our untrustworthy legacy media then embrace and weaponize against conservatives broadly. "
ColonelTowner-Watkins on X - "Just when you thought you'd seen it all: "The U.S. Department of Justice released FBI documents indicating that the Southern Poverty Law Center engaged in undercover surveillance of Oklahoma militia groups in 1995 before and after the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The local FBI team, which should have obtained a warrant to dispatch real FBI agents, criminally conspired with SPLC agents to get around Attorney General Janet Reno’s legal limitations on domestic spying. Because the conspiracy was criminal, the espionage was illegal." Embedded in the Oklahoma militia group was a German tied to their Gladio program who was allowed to leave the country. He was training the 'militia.'"
Blake Neff on X - "Extremely detailed, high-quality post about the SPLC fraud case. Explains why the SPLC is almost certainly in deep trouble, but even more importantly, it describes at length how the SPLC became a de facto bank regulator, exercising quasi-governmental power over who was given access to the financial system. SPLC delenda est."
Hunter Ash on X - "Fascinating article on the SPLC indictment. Basically, they managed to make themselves a pseudo-regulatory agency that could debank anyone they deemed a hate group. So when they wanted to pay members of hate groups, they had to lie to banks, which is a crime."
Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud - "The financial industry understands itself to be an arm of the government. We were inducted into this service other-than-willingly through the ordinary operation of law and regulation. This is uncontroversial and unsurprising to insiders. A claim which will be more surprising: some regulated financial institutions have delegated authority for account- and transaction-level decisioning to a non-profit. Another: that non-profit includes a private intelligence agency, which runs covert assets, publishes intelligence estimates, develops target lists, and communicates them to decisionmakers. Still another: the non-profit organized a coalition of the willing as an outgrowth of its intelligence agency. The willing non-profits, that is. The coalition engaged in a years-long campaign to coerce financial infrastructure and other firms to give them the ability to direct accounts to be closed. The infrastructure built to do this against domestic terrorists was applied to an American politician’s fundraising efforts, and no one seemed to think that was odd... Al Capone infamously went down for the tax evasion because it was easier to prove than the murders... Bank fraud is a specified unlawful activity... If you were to have a thousand conversations in the financial industry about non-criminal clients you don’t want to do business with, you would hear the SPLC cited more than any other group or data product... What is the public interest in candidly recounting the exercise of power over Nazis? Because they did not stop once they achieved power over the Nazis... Industry participants were repeatedly told that if they did not accede to demands they would be profiting from evil, complicit in the death of innocents, or benefitting from white supremacy. The innocents claimed to be at risk were often specifically identified as black, including during a period of intense societal concern for the lives of black Americans specifically. Industry participants were told that they wanted this. That they were taking “blood money”. Industry participants repeatedly felt personally attacked, in ways and using language not normative in their professional experience. On the account of multiple industry participants, coalition participants explicitly held individuals in the meeting personally responsible for the actions of their employers. This was aimed at individuals with substantial influence and authority in companies, and also at junior employees. Industry participants describe the coalition participants as threatening their employers, openly and by implication. The most commonly described threat was coordinated negative public messaging with the goal of causing reputational harm to the industry participants... Industry participants were repeatedly told that if they did not accede to specific demands, they would share the blame for future deaths... Industry participants characterize the coalition participants as asserting that speech was inseparable from conduct. Free speech concerns were dismissed and, industry participants report, mocked, including with the dismissive rendering “freeze peach.”"
Thread by @DataRepublican on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨
11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:
• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper
I report. You draw your own conclusions.
It is NOT confirmed fact that Chesny, who appeared to be encouraging running over protesters, was SPLC's informant. But the indictment (paragraph 11a) describes informant F-37, and it matches Chesny:
• Member of the online leadership chat that planned Unite the Right
• Attended Charlottesville (at SPLC's direction)
• Made racist postings (under SPLC's supervision)
• Helped coordinate transportation for attendees
Now here's why this matters beyond the fraud charges. Charlottesville became the single most consequential founding event in modern American political infrastructure. Every one of these organizations says... in their own words.... that they exist or were transformed because of August 12, 2017. 👇
Stand Together (Koch network): "August 12, 2017 was a tipping point." Koch. Soros. Ford. ADL. In one coalition. Because of Charlottesville. ADL founded "Communities Overcoming Extremism: The After Charlottesville Project." Literally named after the event. Listen First Project: "The tragic events in Charlottesville, VA compelled Pearce to leave his marketing job and invest full time." First event? "Listen First in Charlottesville." Integrity First for America. Founded 2017. Single purpose: sue the Unite the Right organizers. Backed at founding by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman ($1M+). Won. Wound down. One event. One lawsuit. One entire organization. UVA Democracy Initiative (now Karsh Institute). $12.9M from 17 donors. "Direct response to the white supremacist attacks in Charlottesville."
All of that traces back to one event. Then in September 2022, Biden held the "United We Stand" summit. Merrick Garland launched "United Against Hate" the same day. Three days before the summit, SPLC wrote a letter to Susan Rice asking to "define the terms and goals of our continued collaboration." And the ecosystem listened. National Civic League webinar: "Mapping America's Healthy Democracy Ecosystem." Over 10,000 organizations cataloged. An audience member asks how they decide who gets excluded. Listen to the answer. Spoiler: it's SPLC.
The org that defined who was a hate group asked the White House to make that role permanent. The org that set the standards the entire ecosystem adopted is now charged with paying the people it was tracking. The org whose informant was allegedly in the planning chat for the event that justified building the machine raised $132 million in the fiscal year that included Charlottesville.
We need to ask... If the organization at the center of America's entire post-Charlottesville "democracy" infrastructure had a supervised informant (or worse, agent provocateur) inside the event that justified building that infrastructure... ... what does that make the infrastructure?"
