SPLC Ruse
The recent disclosures of the indictments against Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for money-laundering, wire fraud and most intriguing, paying some of the heads of “white supremacist” organizations to do what, exactly? To keep them funded? They say they were involved in exposing racism, but why pay the organizers themselves? A lowly trench monkey, maybe. One who had slid in unannounced and crept in the shadows exposing the treacherous white supremacy within these white supremacist organizations? No, they were paying off the organizers, those in charge. They were helping to fund their efforts.
The specious argument that the SPLC was running covert ops within these organizations and relaying that information to the FBI just sounds implausible. What sounds plausible is that they were inspiring provocative actions that could be pointed to in the newspapers and inspire more funding for the SPLC. It was an investment.
I heard, at one time, that I was on the hate list of the SPLC. Who cares? They name everyone and everything without cause or evidence. They’ve long been a joke to everyone I know. The seriousness of this is, however, that they have been providing false or misleading information to both their donors and the FBI, which is a felony on both counts. That they use the media to defame the same organizations they’re breathing life into, to keep donations flowing, should dry up that revenue fairly quickly, but it won’t. The left doesn’t care.
It’s the leftist defense time, after time. “Of course they were paying informants and supplying the FBI with evidence.” Of course! That’s just what lawyers defending poor minorities in the South do, don’t ya know? The SPLC has been mostly a hate-mongering disinformation mill since inception.
There should be a class action lawsuit against them, now that the truth has come to light. It wasn’t just the good ol’ boys who were getting mistreated here. Their donors were defrauded, were never made aware of the extra-legal proceedings that they have been involved in and were it known that they were paying off some of the leaders of the organizations they publicly decried, I bet it would cause a stir. Well, if they weren’t all leftists who understand the ruse, that is.
But SPLC is just the tip of the 501 c 3 iceberg. At one time I had a 501 c 4, which is allowed to do political work, because they are not tax exempt and PayPal shut me down and confiscated donations because I didn’t make it clear enough that a 501 c 4 isn’t tax exempt, even though it was right under the header of the webpage. “Not good enough,” they said. I was also targeted by the Obama IRS for much the same reason, if not the same tactics. The IRS said I didn’t pay my employee’s share of taxes into SS and Medicare. This was 2009 and they never found any evidence of that, because it wasn’t true. I paid all taxes due. It didn’t matter; they filed false returns on my behalf, claimed I owed $50,000 in back taxes and they rode that donkey all the way home. They tried to keep me distracted with this defamation.
Why should this happen to me, when I had done nothing illegal or improper? Because I spoke out against the Obama Administration, campaigned against Obamacare, organized truly grassroots events all over the country and even went to DC, where my conservative brethren abandoned me completely. It wasn’t Obama that put a stop to that, it was my own kinsmen in the conservative party, people I would have likely called friends. That betrayal was the end of it for me for several years, oh I wrote my articles, but I was not much of an activist again until 2012-13 with the pursuit of Patcons. It was at the tail end of that, that we produced our first film Lies of Omission in 2016.
What they’ve done to me, without much success, is what they’ve been using the SPLC to do for decades. The sad part of issue-oriented activism is that if one is successful, there’s no longer a need for your efforts or your organization. That’s why I’ve only ever put my efforts toward specific projects. The success of these projects does not inspire the need to find another cause. The SPLC, however, seems to have paid people to be their nemesis to keep the donation train running. Offering information to the FBI was not a good deed done by the SPLC, it was siccing (yes, its a word) the dog on their enemies.
Despite the many defenders of the SPLC, it’s not appropriate and in many cases, by the indictments, illegal to do what they’ve done, which gets grittier the more one looks into it.
The greater concern, for me, is that this has been going on for a long time. Despite living in pretty rural, pretty redneck communities most of my life, the amount of times I’ve heard out and out racist talk has been almost non-existent, at least where it’s a supposed “white supremacist” doing the talking. Where I hear a lot of racist verbiage is from non-whites. It’s nearly their only vocabulary, because they have been convinced, by the leftists, that the person of color cannot be racist, it’s an impossibility. So, they can be as racist as they want without ever being called a racist. That’s a hell of a propaganda success to convince the vast majority of people that they can’t be racist against a population of less than 13% worldwide.
In my frame of mind, I let it all go. I don’t care what people say. When that moves to action, it’s a different story.
What needs to happen, though I doubt it will, is a lot of these NGOs and 501 c 3s like SPLC need to be investigated to the hilt. Very few of them are legitimately doing what they advertise they are doing. The fraud involved in claiming to do one thing and doing something else, sometimes opposite of what one claims, is massive across the country, because these same NGOs supply campaign funds to those who would hold them accountable.
It’s part of why I find very little to work with when attempting to correct the system. The system itself is corrupt. As I’ve written before “there are no solutions, just consequences” and I think the consequences need to be realized by many more organizations.