Southern Poverty Law Center didn't just fund white supremacists

Jon Ossoff

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is already in a precarious position when it comes to keeping his seat in the upcoming midterm elections. His relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center might make things even worse.

Federal Election Commission filings revealed that the SPLC contributed over $700,000 to his campaign during the 2020 race, according to Fox News. Oddly enough, this places Ossoff in the same category as the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups whose leaders have received oodles of cash from the organization.

Ossoff and the SPLC have a longstanding relationship. The organization was so zealous in their advocacy for the guy that it even dedicated a page on its website to him.

The Justice Department brought an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center in April, alleging that it secretly used donor money to pay informants inside potentially violent extremist organizations. The DOJ claims the organization concealed those payments and lied to financial institutions.

The organization faces charges of wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. Investigators claim the group opened bank accounts in the names of fictitious entities so it could pay the informants without anyone knowing where the money was really coming from. 

The SPLC then allegedly used the accounts to route more than $3 million in contributions to informants between 2014 and 2023 who occupied leadership roles in groups that the SPLC publicly labeled as dangerous hate groups.

Aside from all this, the SPLC is above board and doing a great job supporting Democrats.

Prosecutors allege that at least nine informants tied to the Ku Klux Klan, the National Alliance, the Aryan Nations, and other white supremacist groups were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each. One informant allegedly received over $1 million over several years.

While the SPLC was paying these individuals, it told donors they were using their funds to dismantle these extremist organizations. Prosecutors said the organization defrauded donors by not telling them about the informant program.

This comes as polling continues to show Ossoff is fighting for his political life against his Republican challengers. 

An Emerson College Polling/Nexstar survey shows him narrowly defeating Rep. Buddy Carter 47 percent to 44 percent, Rep. Mike Collins 48 to 42 percent, and Derek Dooley 49 percent to 41 percent. He does not have enough of a lead to make victory certain over any candidate. These revelations will not exactly benefit Ossoff's bid to remain as senator.

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Can the FBI be as corrupt as they appear?

Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is demanding answers from the FBI after the agency admitted to working with the far-left leaning Southern Poverty Law Center.

The FBI has a long history of collaborating with the SPLC, a group that labels Christian groups such as the Christian Family Research Council (FRC) as a hate group, while giving a free pass to actual hate groups such as Antifa.

In a 2009 memo, the FBI described the SPLC as a "credible" organization. Credible. How incredible they would do so.

In a letter obtained by Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Gaetz said the FBI "admitted to working with the SPLC," which he calls "surprising and worrisome."

SPLC labels groups hate groups based on their politics, not actual hatred. For example, ACT for America, founded by Brigitte Gabriel to educate the public about the ideology of Islamic terrorism, is labeled a hate group and claims that it is 'anti-Muslim." It is by no means anti-Muslim; it is anti-extremism. Muslims are people, not the extremist ideology the group opposes. SPLC has clearly mischaracterized her good work.

Gaetz pointed out that after the FRC was labeled a hate group by SPLC, Floyd Corkins shot an FRC employee and admitted later that he targeted the group as the SPLC labeled them it as "anti-gay."

The FRC sees gay sex as a sin but does not hate gay people--they pray for them and support those who refuse to bake a cake for gay weddings, for example. That isn't hate.

"The SPLC's conflation of mainstream political advocacy groups with legitimate hate groups and domestic terror groups is absurd, frequently indiscriminate and dangerous," Gaetz said.

The alleged relationship between SPLC and the FBI are unclear, but what is clear is the 2009 memo, and that SPLC has briefed the FBI on alleged domestic terror threats in the U.S.

Gaetz's letter requests more information on the ties the FBI has to the group, including how much credence the FBI gives to SPLC designations of "hate groups" and what input, if any, the bureau provides to the hateful SPLC.

Although the DOJ wouldn't confirm nor deny any relationship, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered that any such relationships be re-evaluated.

"The attorney genera has directed the FBI to re-evaluate their relationships with groups like this to ensure the FBI does not partner with any group that discriminates," a spokesperson said in a statement.

The SPLC recently issued an apology and a $3.3 million settlement to Maajid Nawaz and his organization, the Quilliam Foundation, for including them in a list of "anti-Muslim extremists."

Their walk-back went like this:

"Although we may have our differences with some of the positions that Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam have taken, we recognize that they have made important contributions to efforts to promote pluralism and that they are most certainly not anti-Muslim extremists," the statement said.

Nawaz is a Muslim himself, and at one time in his life, was a terrorist but has since reformed and is now a strong anti-terrorism advocate. His understanding of the terrorist mind is accurate and useful in the fight against terrorism.

The SPLC would rather be politically correct than correct. Just Google these morons and understand who the real hater is. Some on their hate group list is quite accurate, but it's the groups they leave out that's most disturbing, along with some they label as a hate group.

The SPLC cannot suck enough and the fact the FBI even considers their political tripe is unsettling.

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It wasn't racism, it was Hillary's arrogance and stupidity

Democrats simply cannot make a case to vote for them based on policy so they their only alternative is identity politics. 

The top members of the Trump and Clinton campaigns got into heated exchanges at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government forum. 

Naturally, the Democrats accused the GOP of cultivating white supremacists. 

Jennifer Palmieri, the Catholic lady who was disrespectful to Christians who actually believe in their religion, told Trump's team, "The platform that they gave to white supremacists, to white nationalists, is a very, very important moment in our history."

Kellyanne Conway, the Trump campaign manager was furious. She responded to the accusation: "Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?"

"You did, Kellyanne. You did," Palmieri emotionally said.

Conway spoke on Fox & Friends and called the Clinton staffers "sore losers." She went on to say, "I do think some people are stuck in the permanent campaign and not really past the anger, grief and denial stages and into the acceptance stages. But that's okay, because we won."

During the forum, someone noted that the Southern Poverty Law Center collected reports of almost 1,000 hate-related incidents from almost every state since the election. Conway countered by saying that Trump called for an end to such incidents and called the SPLC a far-left center and "anti-Trump group."

It's noteworthy that even the FBI no longer recognizes the SPLC as a legitimate hate crime resource, but leftists love to cite them. A more recent article discusses the SPLC and their bogus "monitoring" here.

Robby Mook, (aka "The Quicker Mucker-Upper") blamed FBI Director James Comey for Clinton's defeat after bringing up the inconvenient issue of her illegal email server. If it wasn't for Comey, Hillary would have won.

 It's as if Clinton was the victim of the FBI investigation, rather than the perp. If she obeyed the law, there would have been no FBI investigation. And if Mook is so prescient, why didn't he tell Hillary not to call Trump supporters a "basket of deplorables?" That might have gotten her more votes.

Instead, he called the email investigation during the campaign one of the "most over-reported, overhyped, over-litigated stories in the history of American politics." But never mentioned how stupid, irresponsible, lazy, arrogant and incompetent Hillary had to be to use an illegal private server as secretary of state.

A yooge key to Trump's victory was Clinton herself, Conway explained. "I said to Mr. Trump, 'You're running against one of the most joyless presidential candidates in history. Why don't we find a way to be the happy warrior?'"


Clinton also presumed that people who previously voted Democratic would do so again, Kellyanne said. That was an example of her short-sightedness. But Mook said Clinton's campaign never took the win as a foregone conclusion, obviously not recalling that Hillary's campaign, according to the  New York Post, prepared to throw a yooge party after the election to celebrate a victory that never was to be. 

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A good guy falls victim to liberal cowards

You cannot call gang bangers who act like id-driven animals 'animals' if they are black. That's because black lives matter even if they are gang bangers, and even if they don't think yours does. 

Clay Higgins, the tough St. Landry Parish Sheriff's department captain, found that out the good old fashion liberal way: he had to resign. He wasn't politically correct when he called them "animals." He should have called them "misunderstood African-American, under-performers." 

The ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center, both anti-American organizations, went after him.

Higgins made a series of "crime stoppers" videos that went viral. He didn't mince words and shot his words straight from the hip, John Wayne style. He became a folk hero in Opelousas, Louisiana and he drew a following from the videos.

In one video shown on Fox News, Higgins stood in front of the camera, hand resting on the grip of his holstered pistol, as he spoke: "You can run but you can't hide; we will find you."

Then he did a video on KATC TV, an ABC affiliate. He called for wanted gang bangers of the Gremlins, to turn themselves in. He called them "thugs," "animals," and "heathens."

He should have called them "miscreants," "ne'er do wells," and "poor misunderstood folks who just need a second chance in life." Liberals would agree and would not have called for his removal from his profession.

The fact that the videos actually succeeded in bringing the public up to speed and eventuating in the capture and arrest of several of the scumcrumpets makes no difference to liberals. They are deeply offended, not by the violence perpetrated by the Gremlins, but by the words used to accurately describe them. 

Words used by officers who risk their lives to protect those same liberal a-holes who are only brave when there's no pushback to fear. 

Gay liberals, for example, are quicker to go after Christian bakeries for refusing to cater a gay wedding than an Islamic book that calls for the death of gays.

"We live in a system of laws, and there are legal rights that apply to everyone," the ACLU chimed. [Except when they apply to conservatives' free speech and Christians rights not to go against their beliefs.]

 The ACLU continued: "It is the job of law enforcement to protect those rights while also keeping our communities safe. Nothing that Mr. Higgins said will make his community safer, but there is much to suggest violations of fundamental rights of all . . . In doing so he must honor the laws of this country, or he is unfit to serve."

Except that the videos were effective and helped keep the community safe. 

The ACLU sounds a lot like Obama whose administration removed 1,000 terror watchlist names because he believes even terrorists have rights too.

Is it any wonder why people are so damn angry? 

Now you can understand Trump's success.



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