Southern Poverty Law Center Slapped with Racketeering Suit Over False Hate Group Designation

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This is long overdue. The “work” of the hate group SPLC is to smear, defame and libel anyone who effectively counters the hard-left/Islamic agenda. Veterans, tea party patriots, counter terror activists, even Presidential candidates on the right have been the target of their smear campaigns. They wield enormous power in the information battle space — media, movies, academia, etc.

The subversives and seditionists are very much in control of the mainstream narrative. It’s our elected officials who must take the necessary steps to reverse the coup.

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“Southern Poverty Law Center Slapped with Racketeering Suit Over ‘False Hate Group Designation,’” by Matt Naham, Law & Crime, January 16, 2019:

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has filed a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), claiming that SPLC operators Richard Cohen and Heidi Beirich have violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) by “falsely designating CIS as a hate group.”

CIS describes itself as “an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization” that “pursue[s[ a single mission – providing immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.”

The SPLC, on the other hand, describes itself on its website as “dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.”

If you go to the SPLC website, the CIS mission is presented as being the “go-to think tank for the anti-immigrant movement” and racism:

The Center for Immigration Studies, like the rest of the organized anti-immigrant movement we see in America today, was founded by John Tanton, a Michigan ophthalmologist turned population control alarmist whose racist beliefs stirred him to create a network of organizations with a simple agenda: heavily restricting the immigration levels to the United States in order to maintain a white majority. As Tanton himself wrote in 1993, “I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.”

“CIS’s much-touted tagline is ‘low immigration, pro-immigrant,’ but the organization has a decades-long history of circulating racist writers, while also associating with white nationalists,” SPLC continues.

Now CIS has responded to SPLC’s statements by filing a lawsuit.

CIS executive director Mark Krikorian said that SPLC has no right to “label us a hate group.”

“SPLC and its leaders have every right to oppose our work on immigration, but they do not have the right to label us a hate group and suggest we are racists,” Krikorian said. “The Center for Immigration Studies is fighting back against the SPLC smear campaign and its attempt to stifle debate through intimidation and name-calling.”

Krikorian et al. allege that SPLC damaged CIS by a “conspiracy to falsely call it a hate group.” The damages listed included termination from the AmazonSmile Program, which CIS said occurred because of SPLC’s “hate group designation.” CIS says that has cost the organization “at least $10,000 in donations to date and damages are ongoing.”

CIS argued that “Hatewatch” blog posts violated the wire fraud statute.

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Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

The SPLC should designate Saudi Arabia a hate group. They own the biggest share of Twitter & divorce couples in which a partner is African & enslave Africans.
Trump sells them weapons which is also wrong.
Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed today in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.
& did the SPLC designate the Nazis a hate-group?
The Nazis were a Muhammadist organisation.
Hitler viewed the unjust Muhammadism as ultimate Nazi religion that as he told his architect & minister of war Albert Speer matches the German temperament better & many Nazi criminals openly converted to the unjust Muhammadism after the war & worked in the Egyptian Muhammadist tyranny under Nasser & in Syria.
& Islam too: Unjust Muhammad burned people for not praying, enslaved Africans, crucified critics, commanded the forcible lifelong torture of declitorization of girls, forced theism on anyone, raped, tortured, commanded to beat children, declared war on atheists, Jews & all other Non-muhammadists & ‘kissed’ penises of boys & sucked boys’ tongues & lips (see Wikiislam).

Molon Labe!
Molon Labe!
5 years ago
Reply to  Jay Wizzy

The SPLC should be run out of business with massive law suites for being the lying leftist pos group they are. They do nothing but slander and liable groups they disagree with for political purposes.

Dick Bates
Dick Bates
5 years ago
Reply to  Jay Wizzy

You spelled the beloved prophet’s name wrong ! It’s MOO-HAM-HEAD ( may pis be upon him ) !

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
5 years ago

The FBI has an “ongoing” relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing tax free scam that once placed brain surgeon, Dr. Ben Carson on an “extremist watch list.”

Southern Poverty Law Center is a fraudulent enterprise.. It’s a left-wing political group that uses ‘hate crime’ designations to target its ideological enemies and to crush people.
~Dr. Carson.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

I do have the sense that their influence is waning, and that a lot of people are becoming aware of what a scam SPLC has become. But perhaps that sense is merely a product of my hanging around too many right wing web sites!

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
5 years ago

SPLC co-founder Morris Dees molested his step-daughter.. according to court testimony,

Hoosier Daddy
Hoosier Daddy
5 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

Good little Dem right there.

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
5 years ago
Reply to  Hoosier Daddy

SPLC Co-Founder Morris Dees had an affair with an employee / Dianne Hicks when Morris was married.

Morris Dees — Child Molester, Pervert, and a Liar?

Jackie
Jackie
5 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

He also tried to molest his step daughter with a sex toy.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/court-docs-splc-co-founder-accused-of-trying-to-molest-step-daughter-with-sex-toy/

He’s right. I am a hater. I hate creeps like him.

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
5 years ago
Reply to  Jackie

Southern Poverty Law Center is in bed with Islamists. It’s allied with Islamic Supremacists and their hatred for women and all non-Muslims. And when corporations fund the SPLC, they’re funding the suppression of critics of Islamism.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

I haven’t bought a Kellogg’s product in two years when I found out they gave a million dollars to BLM…BLM advocates killing law enforcement and first responders….
I have long list of other companies that either give to groups that are covers for Antifa, BLM,SPLC, CAIR, etc….my shopping is very limited these days.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

Then FO to Little Green Crescent Footballs or the Huffington Hoe — you’ll be among your own kind there — muslum apologists/sympathizers all.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

When Obama was in office he gave the SPLC an office in D.C. and funds…”to help identify terrorists and hate speech” (according to them). I’m curious if they still have that taxpayer office in D.C….
In his last two years he brought in UN Police to America to spy on Americans and “identify terrorists and hate speech in America”!!!……I remember being shocked to the core that foreign “police” were in our country spying on American citizens and reporting to the Muslim Marxist Obama….and not one peep out of Congress or the American people….
..I don’t know how many people remember this: When Obama was running for office the first time he was being interviewed on Good Morning America. He stated that he believed a President should have their own private police force!!I I was so shocked I yelled at the television to him: “You communist idiot! We don’t have private police forces in America!!!”
Turns out I was wrong…..we’re now finding out that his “police force” was/is our own FBI, DOJ, CIA, and other spy agencies

…everything we’re seeing today started with the Bushs with Brennan and Clapper and the Deep State….then Obama came in and put it on steriods….the Kenyan, the Dimms, and the RINOs rolling over free speech that if they spoke out they would be called racists….call me anything you want, doesn’t make it true…I suspect a lot of them were getting money under the table from the Hungarian Billionaire….
Think about it….a broke Mormon, in the desert of Nevada becomes a multi-millionaire in Congress…..Harry Reid….and he ushers in a 150 day Senator from Chicago into the Presidency….
Wake up, folks….we work for them…not the other way around…
Thank God for President Trump!

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
5 years ago

Somali-born women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was also on the list.. Ali, a victim of female genital mutilation who advocates against FGM , is an award-winning human rights activist. For the last decade, her nonprofit, the AHA Foundation, has worked to protect women from honor violence, forced marriage and genital mutilation.

But according to the SPLC’s list, Ali is an “anti-Muslim extremist.”

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

Agree. Left/liberal pro-jihadis can only suppress conservatives, patriots from exposing them

Like Left/Liberal Loons Run Canada has been turned into ISIS/jihadi base https://tinyurl.com/y74v5327

But MSM will not talk about it.

Here’s why Ayaan Hirsi was on that fake “hate” list
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Castile
Castile
5 years ago

It was about damn time…
These people (the Southern Poverty Law Center) who spend their lives calling everyone they disagree with “Hate Group” are a quintessential hate group themselves.

AcheArtist
AcheArtist
5 years ago

About time someone took them to task.Many more should follow suit,lawsuits that is.

Alpacalips Now!
Alpacalips Now!
5 years ago

Why has it taken so long?

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

I do not think this Center is a place of either true “justice” or “law”. Almost anything that is not locked in line with politically correct leftist views, they see as their enemy, even Christian family groups. How dangerous those believers who speak out against abortion must be to our society….

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

…we just saw a great example with the young men from the Covington Catholic Church….

Dave
Dave
5 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

Not sure what you mean, ‘lady’, but you do know that the MSM’s narrative was a lie, don’t you? See the full videos, not the selective edited ones. Even the MSM has backed away from their first claims. It’s called “fake news,” which you also might have heard of. (Oh yeah, “deal with it”, as you say.)

Dave
Dave
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave

If I have misread your inference, I’m sorry. You have to admit, your sentence is a bit cryptic.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave

…..for sure. It’s okay. I was in a hurry to get to an appointment….

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave

I was replying to the post above me…I saw the real videos and sound on Fox Business. The Indian guy is a lying, thieving, criminal thug …..I feel so bad for the kids from Covington….
ALL OF THE MSM…jumped on this without one scintilla of evidence….
I am also a member of Rush’s site and get his daily shows….
The Covington kids being attacked is a great example of Nazism and prejudice against Christians….

Jackie
Jackie
5 years ago

NumbersUSA also got on the list. Gumballs and faxes. Such hate/sarc.

1984  George Orwellesque
1984 George Orwellesque
5 years ago

Sue them to bankruptcy.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Hillaryous! The greatest hate group labels others like themselves. C’mon admit it, you must be like us, they say.

Ummm… no.

dhd123
dhd123
5 years ago

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WM1
WM1
5 years ago

Where are the competent, wealthy and judicious-minded attorneys who would take the cases of Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and dozens of other organizations pro-bono (or on a contingency basis) in a class-action representation against SPLC-knowing, full well, they cannot lose?

Their damages must be extensive, to say the least.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why this hasn’t already been done. Someone, anyone, please explain! I can’t figure it out.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
5 years ago

I’m still waiting for President Trump to declare SPLC and CAIR terrorist organizations and kick them all out of our country….waiting…waiting….waiting….

Frank
Frank
5 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

There are plenty of terrorist organizations in the USA. Pres. Trump can declare them but none would have to leave. Welcome to the USA

Jim
Jim
5 years ago

Now do you see why it was a danger to the First Amendment to allow the concept of “hate crimes” to take a foothold? It all gets down to who gets to define the word “hate.” Obviously, the SPLC is not to be trusted with that responsibility. (Nor should anyone be given it. It’s unamerican.)

Silver Bullet Gun Oil
Silver Bullet Gun Oil
5 years ago

I see my lengthy comment on my experience with the SPLC has been removed.
Is there ANYONE else here commenting on their “Hatewatch” list besides myself ?
I have been on it since 2011 and have firsthand experience of their tactics.
I would elaborate as I did in my removed post,but I don’t have the time to waste only to have another of my posts censored.

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