IF YOU ARE GOING TO
TAKE A STAND, YOU MUST TAKE IT NOW
By
Chuck Baldwin
February 7, 2013
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February 7, 2013
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The
SPLC Collaborates With The DOJ: It Is NOT A Coincidence!
No sooner would the SPLC issue some attack piece in their newsletter and police agencies all over the country would be issuing bulletins to their officers regurgitating what the SPLC had just spewed out. No private organization has this kind of connection to, and influence over, police agencies nationwide without collaboration with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, D.C. Well, now, we have evidence that such a collaboration exists.
Brietbart.com
has just released a report by Judicial Watch confirming that the DOJ
and the SPLC are intricately tied to the hip. The report states, “Judicial
Watch (JW), a Washington D.C. based non-partisan educational foundation,
released some two dozen pages of emails it obtained on Tuesday revealing
connections between the Department of Justice Civil Rights and Tax divisions
and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
“According
to JW, the e-mails reveal questionable behavior by agency personnel
while negotiating for Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) co-founder
Morris Dees to appear as the featured speaker at a July 31, 2012, ‘Diversity
Training Event.’ Judicial Watch obtained the records pursuant
to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) submitted to the DOJ on September
10, 2012:
“‘The
Judicial Watch FOIA request was prompted by an apparently politically
motivated shooting at the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters
in August, 2012. At the time of the shooting, FRC president Tony Perkins
accused the SPLC of sparking the shooting, saying the shooter “was
given a license to shoot… by organizations like the Southern Poverty
Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations as hate
groups because they disagree with them on public policy.” On its
website, the SPLC has depicted FRC as a hate group, along with such
mainstream conservative organizations as the American Family Association,
Concerned Women for America, and Coral Ridge Ministries.’
“The
FOIA request specifically requested ‘any and all records concerning,
regarding, or relating to the Southern Poverty Law Center’ between
January 1 and August 31, 2012, including the Dees’ presentation
sponsored by the Civil Rights and Tax divisions of the DOJ.
“JW
says that they filed the request to see if any of SPLC’s branding
of hate groups had an influence on government agencies. According to
the emails SPLC’s diversity speech ‘was to be simulcast
to everyone’s PC throughout the Department’ which fulfilled
DOJ supervisors’ ‘mandatory annual diversity training.’
“The
emails produced by the DOJ show communications between DOJ personnel
planning the Diversity Training Event and SPLC personnel, including
Dees.”
The
report went on to say, “The Southern Poverty Law Center has, in
the past few years, taken to labeling organizations with conservative
views on social issues as ‘hate groups,’ said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton, in a press release.
"'Given
these fawning emails, one would have thought that a head of state was
visiting the Justice Department. The SPLC is an attack group, and it
is disturbing that it has premier access to our Department of Justice,
which is charged with protecting the First Amendment rights of all Americans.
And these emails further confirm that politically-correct “mandatory”
diversity training programs are a waste of taxpayer money,' Fitton claimed.
See
the report here:
I
have been personally victimized by the SPLC and DOJ’s vicious
smear campaigns. In 2008, the State of Missouri issued their now infamous
MIAC report, which identified supporters of Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and
me as being potential dangerous militia members and similar absurdities.
This report was issued after State officials received the inflammatory
accusations from DHS Fusion Centers. After an outcry of protest from
people all over America, and after Ron, Bob, and I demanded an apology
from those Missouri officials who issued this libelous report, the report
was rescinded and an apology was issued.
I
have an entire webpage devoted to the MIAC fiasco. To see it, click
below:
I
wish I could say that the MIAC episode was the only such time this has
happened, but that just isn’t true. I have had police officers
and deputy sheriffs in several states personally show me memorandums
that they had received from their respective police agencies depicting
me and other notable conservatives with the same derogatory characteristics.
These memos were once again issued to local police departments and sheriff’s
offices via DHS-DOJ Fusion Centers. And those memos were almost word-for-word
the same kind of character-assassination that appeared in SPLC publications.
Now we know why, don’t we?
So,
will the national and even local media now stop using the SPLC as a
credible source for identifying so-called “hate” groups?
Don’t count on it. The national press corps is mostly in bed with
big-government zealots in Washington, D.C., and will do everything they
can to smear and besmirch limited-government conservatives. Yes, ladies
and gentlemen, this matches the definition of the word “conspiracy.”
On
a related topic, let me remind readers to let their pastor-friends know
about the webpage where they can sign up to publicly state that they
will support the right of their church members to keep and bear arms,
no matter what law is passed in Washington, D.C.
All
over America, hundreds of sheriffs have publicly said that that they
will not enforce any attempt by the federal government to confiscate
semi-automatic rifles from the citizens of their counties and neither
will they allow federal police agents to confiscate semi-automatic rifles
from the citizens of their counties. We are asking pastors all over
the country to take a similar stand, by encouraging their congregants
to NOT obey any federal law to disarm.
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