Socialist Propagandists Liars & Crooks (SLPC)

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is without a doubt one of the most Politically Correct “hate-watching” groups.

Disclaimer. Your Author has had personal contact with a few of the people who had the misfortune of being publicly targeted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as “radical, traditional Catholic.” Nothing could be further from the truth concerning what the SPLC claims about these particular contacts. Moreover, Your Author, himself a traditional practicing Catholic, ¹ finds some of the SLPC’s writing about this topic to be personally and profoundly scandalous.

Any efforts by anybody to expose violence against African Americans, Jewish people, and others are good deeds. However, SPLC’s twisting programs into an act of spiteful revenge show a lack of balance. With extraordinary African American and Jewish friends, Your Author would never engage in any of the racist or other despicable behaviors described by the SPLC and deplores such things perpetrated by others. Your Author holds allegiance to and defends our God-given Constitution enabling any person to practice their religion of any creed and recognizes their freedom of expression as enshrined under the precepts of the First Amendment.

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The Socialist Propagandists Liars & Crooks, better known as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is, without a doubt, one of the most Politically Correct “hate-watching” groups. The members of this organization have made a comfortable living through guilt-by-association tactics. For example, it takes out-of-context quotes to automatically make anyone who criticizes American immigration policy (or lack of) a racist xenophobic simply because immigrants typically belong to a “minority” group. To merely state approval of heterosexual marriage, or mention the indisputable fact of biological gender, triggers the SPLC’s homophobe Pavlov Dog bark.

SPLC applies its smear tactics by attacking people who question foreign policy or merely write about specific historical facts concerning Abraham Lincoln. People who write or speak about historical matters concerning the Confederacy, even if not remotely connected with the neo-Nazis, are on the same SPLC pages as the bad guys. Most disturbing is that it projects a racist broad brush toward those belonging to historical groups such as the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. When conservatives use the same tactics, they face McCarthyism charges. Remember the “red under every bed” meme?

The SPLC remains largely silent about the illegal tearing down of statues and vandalism of historical sites. Of course, it applauds the canceling confederacy history. And yes, slavery was a terrible thing, but that is not the only issue that fueled the Civil War. From a historical perspective, we need to know our history holistically and not be subject to the Caustic Canceal Culture Pogrom. Otherwise, we are in the same boat as the Eastern Block during the spawning of the vile collectivist virus we call Communism. SPLC publications project phobias: hetero-phobic, citizenship-phobic, tradition-phobic, etc.

While exposing bigotry and racism is indeed desirable and necessary, it is clear the SPLC has a covert plan. The November 2000 edition of Harper’s magazine ran an article by Ken Silverstein titled The Church of Morris Dees - How the Southern Poverty Law Center profits from intolerance. The report covers SLPC’s winning case for an African American woman who lost her son due to vile and detestable KKK violence. Morris Dees, the leader of the SPLC at that time, garnered 9 million dollars by featuring gruesome pictures of the victim in his fund-raising letters. The mother of the victim received a paltry $51,875.

In 1999, the SPLC raked in $44 million from donors and spent $13 million helping the “poor” fight for their civil rights. The media has an infatuation with SPLC cronies who are self-proclaimed experts on hate and purveyors of “tolerance.” While it is true that there is indeed racism, the SPLC has an infatuation with intolerance coming from the “right.” As such, SPLC is the quintessential example of how to use the “sandwich smear.” It is also proper to note that they are guilty of tunnel vision, something the left continually accuses the right of doing. For example, its “Intelligence Report” consistently contains several stories about genuinely despicable neo-Nazi groups, then sandwich in other reports about conservative mainstream personalities. In its September 2003 edition, SPLC ran several articles about the bad neo-Nazi organizations. Interspaced between these articles were stories about people such as Mel Gibson.

In its Summer 2003 Intelligence Report article titled Long, a favorite actor of the far-right, Mel Gibson comes under attack over a new film and his father’s views of Jews; the SPLC does its best to smear the actor. SPLC believes that Gibson is a part of the radical right based on a March 9, 2003, New York Times Magazine report that stated: “…. the ‘traditionalist’ [Catholic] belief of Gibson and his father – and it quoted 85-year-old [late] Hutton Gibson denying that the Holocaust occurred.”

Even though SPLC has never reported that Mel has denied the Holocaust, he is guilty by association (in the minds of the honorable members of the SPLC). Does the SLPC expect Gibson to slam his father publicly? If the father of an SLPC leader was a nut case, it is unlikely they would publicly rebuke him. The SPLC also paraphrased the Times report by saying “The Passion [Movie] may reflect radical Catholic view that Jews are collectively responsible for the death of Jesus.” The operative word is “collectively.” Curiously, the SPLC has not condemned other movies about the final days of Jesus (e.g., The Robe and Jesus of Nazareth).

Despite what the SPLC and others who want to smear Gibson say, the historical truth is that certain Jews did conspire to enable the Romans to kill one of their own, Jesus. At the turn of this century, Saint Pope John Paul II apologized for the historical failures of the Catholic Church. That openness to history as it happened is indeed honorable, but it does not make modern Catholics accomplices of the crimes of others.

And a film about Jesus’ crucifixion does not make modern Jews responsible for killing Jesus. Thus it is essential to note that Jesus was a Jew, and only a particular group conspired for the crucifixion. As shown in Mel’s movie, there were many Jews who were against the crucifixion.

Of course, Your Author condemns any of Gibson’s outrageous behavior. Reliable reports indicate that, while in a drunken stupor, Mel spewed an antisemitic slur and later apologized. Such behavior applies to any person of any persuasion. Some people seem never to accept apologies.

And there is this vile and viral meme headline by the SPLC from January 16, 2007 (boldface added): The radical traditionalist Catholics, who reject the teachings of the modern papacy, may form America’s largest group of antisemites. Claiming “largest group” is a form of linguist gymnastics to plant the misleading and debased meme (mental virus) that traditional = antisemite. Moreover, in SPLC Newspeak, the term “radical traditional Catholic” is a Gastly Gaslighting tactic in warp-drive. Since SPLC seems to have “expertise” in Catholicism, they engage in theatrical theological arguments to imply any Catholic questioning Vatican II must therefore be an antisemite “radical, traditional Catholic.”

This SPLC headline is a typical gaslighting ploy as in its Winter 2006 Intelligent Report: Radical Traditionalist Catholic Spew Anti-Semitic Hate, Commit Violence Against Jews. That headline draws attention to violence, but the article lacks examples. Again, a misleading and debased meme (mental virus) that traditional = violence. Aside from the gaslighting by this SPLC article, any violence committed against the Jewish faith (or any other) is a despicable act. And where the SPLC correctly attributes violence against African Americans, Jewish people, gay people, transgender people, Muslims, Christians, etc., by neo-Nazis or other trash is a good thing. It is also important to point out the slippery slope that can occur with thought crimes. See Frederick R. Smith Speaks, Hate Crime Horrors.

People who fully embrace Political Correctness find solstice in the debased SLPC ecosphere. Therefore, only catholics (in name only) and others who drink the debased collectivist Kool-Aid TM may be allowed into the SPLC family. Traditionalists of any type, including fundamental Christians and Catholics, shall be tagged radical. Political Correctness, also known as WOKE, forms the new secular religion.

In another shameful example of the sandwich smear, the same edition of SPLC’s Summer 2003 Intelligence Report (hard copy) shows a picture of neo-Nazi literature. In the background of this same image is a booklet titled “Separation of Church and State.” Therefore, the SPLC wants us to think that the neo-Nazi cult is in partnership with those who question the “separation of church and state.” That is a small sampling of how the SPLC purposefully creates hysteria and fear about conservatives to fill its coffers. This strategy has worked as the mainstream media and law enforcement, which uses much of SLPC’s “research,” has brainwashed most people to believe that the “right-wing extremists” are more of a threat than the other terrorists. That has been so successful that the SPLC has built an endowment worth more than $300 million. John Stossel’s video below does a good job reviewing the Socialist Propagandists Liars & Crooks.

As detailed in the video, in 2012, the Family Research Council was on the receiving end of left-wing hate violence. That is detailed in Washington Examiner’s article Southern Poverty Law Center website triggered FRC shooting.² Also, in the video, Stossel reviewed SPLC’s venom against Ayaan Hirsi Ali. See Ayaan’s article; Progressives are a gift to Islamism. Grab your sphygmomanometer (/ˌsfɪɡmoʊməˈnɒmɪtə/ SFIG-moh-mə-NO-mi-tər), also known as a blood pressure monitor, as you will need it after watching that video and reading the writeup by Ayaan, the brave lady. Now there is a real expert.

In even more tepid use of mass psychological manipulation, the SPLC takes the sandwich smear to the stratosphere in the Summer 2003 “Intelligence” report section titled “Reframing the Enemy.” There, it avers that discussing the Frankfort School’s influence in academia beginning in the 1930s constitutes antisemitism. Many books in Your Author’s library discuss the Frankfort School, and none hint at it being a Jewish conspiracy.³ It Just so happens that some involved with this collectivist movement were Jewish, like any other segment of society. Nevertheless, any talk about conspiracy theories with anybody who might be Jewish brings on the wrath of the SPLC, which loves to take all kinds of information and quote it out of context to make conservatives out to be conspiracy whackos at best or anti-Semites at worst.

All this is like the kettle calling the pot black. Throughout its publications, the SPLC makes it a point to expose perceived shadowy links between conservatives. In the Summer 2003 edition of the SPLC’s Intelligent Report, one of the feature articles was about the Washington Times titled Defending Dixie: The Washington Times has always been conservative and error-prone. Now it’s helping to popularize extremist ideas. This article points out the shadowy links to the strange owner of the paper, none other than the Reverend Sun Myong Moon. Curiously, a publication that derides people from the right who write about conspiracy theories but finds it necessary to smear a newspaper with its own childish wacky conspiracy theories.

Buried by the media is the SPLC’s active role in removing the Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Supreme Court in the summer of 2003. Attorneys backed by the SPLC, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the American Civil Liberties Union found the monument “offensive.” Dees, the then head of this team, said:

“The law is clear, and the evidence, in this case, was overwhelming… Chief Justice Moore clearly crossed the constitutional line that separates church and state. By hauling the monument into the judicial building, he intended to impose his own brand of Christianity on the state. This he cannot do…” 

The separation of church and state story aside, it is clear by reading Dees’ literature that he is indeed intolerant—intolerant of Christianity. The SPLC continually uses “Christianity” to relate to real extremists, but we see a few vague disclaimers exonerating mainstream Christianity. 

Indeed, it is acceptable for the SPLC to expose bigotry and racism. However, it would be honorable to stop using the broad brush against the “right-wing.” The SPLC does not seem to admit what we know—evil exists on both the right and the left. But wait, there is more from the Washington Post. Years of turmoil and complaints led the Southern Poverty Law Center to fire its founder, Morris Dees, in 2019:

News of Dees’s firing comes in the wake of a string of other controversies that the center has dealt with in recent years. The nonprofit apologized in 2015 after calling Ben Carson an extremist. Three years later, it apologized for including the former British politician Maajid Nawaz, a Muslim and a known critic of Islamic extremism, in a publication called “A Journalist’s Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” and agreed to a $3.4 million settlement with Nawaz’s foundation. The organization has also been dogged by questions, including from former employees, about whether it has been focused on fundraising at the expense of work that would further its mission.

Dees’s termination also brought to light significant turmoil among staff, much of it described in internal emails reviewed by The Post. On March 8, the nonprofit’s associate legal director, Meredith Horton, a black woman, resigned, writing that the SPLC must to do more “to ensure . . . values we are committed to pursuing externally are also being practiced internally.” She did not respond to messages seeking comment.

The above notwithstanding, in 2020, true to its collectivist left-love, the SLPC says that Designating Antifa as Domestic Terrorist Organization Is Dangerous, Threatens Civil Liberties.⁴ Would they say that about the Proud Boys? And, of course, the SPLC jumped onto the collectivist view of COVID. The bottom line is that bigotry and racial discrimination from any direction (up, down, left, or right) is shameful.

Meanwhile, make any hint about the problem of undocumented visitors, migrants, or the term-of-the-week (illegal immigrants), and you might become a target of the Socialist Propagandists, Liars & Crooks. Seeing the media and law enforcement blindly using SPLC’s “information is infuriating.” When was the last time a mainstream media pundit or a written article indicated a left-wing (or particular element of a specific religion) caused a terrorist act? Crickets.

Bottom line. Your Author defends our First Amendment creed of freedom of speech. That includes the SPLC’s right to expression. Does the SPLC or the rest of the mad machine have any moral fortitude or fairness in that regard?

Sources

• Frederick R. Smith Speaks, A Bill of Rights and Power Brakes

• Southern Poverty Law Center website:  www.splcenter.org

• SPLC: Intelligence Report, September 2003 (printed magazine)

• Harper’s magazine, November 2000: The Church of Morris Dees - How the Southern Poverty Law Center profits from intolerance

• Washington Post August 5, 2019: Years of turmoil and complaints led the Southern Poverty Law Center to fire its founder Morris Dees

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Cogent author and publisher, Frederick R. Smith

1. Your Author avoids Wikipedia like the plague. However, incredibly, an internet search finds this good Wikipedia definition: “Traditionalist Catholicism is a Catholic religious movement characterized by a set of religious beliefs and practices comprising customs, traditions, liturgical forms, public and private, individual and collective devotions, and presentations of Catholic Church teachings that preceded the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). It is associated in particular with attachment to the 1570–1970 form of the Roman Rite Mass (the Tridentine Mass), which traditionalist Catholics call the Latin Mass, the Traditional Mass, the ancient Mass, the immemorial Latin Mass, the Mass of All Time, the Mass of the ages or the Mass of the Apostles, the Traditional Latin Mass, or the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.”

Unlike the above Wikipedia entry, the Internet contains scandalous “Traditional Catholic” definitions. Incredibly some of the more outrageous text comes from so-called “catholic” (sic) circles. The National “catholic” Reporter (NcR) shows its hatred of orthodoxy with this text from November 5, 2019: “In short, many traditionalist communities are breeding grounds for white supremacy, and the host of evils that often accompany it: misogyny, antisemitism, homophobia, and abusive or manipulative uses of religion. One need only glance at popular far-right Catholics on Twitter to see the toxicity and prejudice that, in these circles, is not only tolerated but applauded.” As a note, catholics who belong to the NcR ecosphere embrace (in various degrees) women priests, abortion, United Nations worship, saving the environment over souls, idol worship, debased collectivism, humanism, and heterophobia. So naturally, the NcR and their debased collectivist traveler allies, such as the SPLC, engage in a mnemonic battle. Specifically, the injection of a mental virus (meme) into the body politic to program the masses into an altered reality that can falsely project Fred and friends to be a member of one of those “traditionalist communities [that] are breeding grounds for white supremacy.”

Your Author knows cogent New Order Roman Catholics that, other than liturgical preferences, we share the same orthodox creeds that do not comport to the SPLC’s venomous ecosystem. Various Rites, such as the Byzantine Catholic Church and others, share a similar holistic orthodoxy as Roman traditionalists. Conclusion: the SPLC’s ostensibly broad-brush use of the word “radical” is an ignorant, insulting, and arrogant meme (mental virus).

2. Making the connection between speech and somebody else acting out on those exact words can be tricky because of our free speech rights. In this case, as detailed by the Washington Examiner, the perpetrator openly admitted to doing such a thing. Also of note is this opinion piece in USA Today from August 17, 2019: The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered.

3. Frederick R. Smith Speaks, Madness Made to Order Part 2 - Philosophical Lineage includes a short review of the Frankfort School. Located under the Analysis section, with no hint of any particular religion, without a doubt, the SPLC might find even that writeup to be antisemitic. Your Author has extraordinary Jewish friends. It is infuriating that the SPLC and its fellow collectivist travelers work to divide society along such lines.

4. ANTIFA, without a doubt, is a domestic terrorist organization, as detailed in Andy Ngo’s book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. Of course, the official designation never occurred because Trump said that Antifa is real. Secondarily, it goes even more profound. Meanwhile, the debased and collectivist Los Angeles Times opinion piece says that Andy Ngo’s new book still pretends antifa’s the real enemy in a hit piece. More recently, on October 18, 2021, as reported by the Catholic Loop, radical Antifa agitators disrupted a college pro-life prayer vigil, shouting: “F--- your God!” Antifa accused the pro-life organizers of supporting “christo-fascist abortion legislation.” Kelly Neidert, the founder of the Young Conservatives of Texas chapter at the University of North Texas, said: “They harassed us; they were throwing things at us. They were chanting things. They brought all sorts of instruments that they were playing to drown out whatever we were saying. They brought their megaphones; they brought whistles.” Quick, get on the horn to the SPLC to report this incident so they can launch their shock troops to do some fair-minded investigative reporting. How about some swamp land for sale in Texas?