Southern Poverty Law Center photograph, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has wielded its so-called Hate Map like a weapon. They have targeted pro-family organizations, Christian groups, and parents' rights advocates with labels designed to silence and intimidate. Now the SPLC itself has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Justice Department announced eleven initial counts against the organization, including wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche put it plainly that the SPLC stands accused of manufacturing racism to justify its existence and using donor money to literally fuel the fires of Klansmen burning crosses! According to the original and superseding indictment, the SPLC has operated a covert network since 1980 of individuals either associated with violent extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated such groups at the SPLC's direction. Donors had no idea their contributions were funding the very people the organization claimed to be fighting. The DOJ further alleges the SPLC opened bank accounts under fictitious entities to disguise where the money was going, and made false statements to keep the scheme running.
Moms for Liberty President Tina Descovich, whose organization has been an SPLC target almost since its founding, said she wasn't surprised, but she was gratified. Her group started with five hundred dollars while facing a leftist organization with hundreds of millions. She described years of cyberattacks, threats, and cancellations that flowed directly from the SPLC's targeting, and said the organization has put a target on the back of every mom who dares speak up for her child.
Conservative groups that have spent years fighting the SPLC's defamatory labels are watching closely. The FBI, which relied on the SPLC as a reference on hate crime for nearly two decades, officially severed all ties with the organization last fall after Director Kash Patel acknowledged the Hate Map had been used to defame mainstream Americans and had even inspired violence.
The mainstream media, of course, is rallying to the SPLC's defense, calling the case weak and politically motivated. That should surprise no one. Leftist media has treated this organization as gospel truth for years. The facts, however, speak for themselves. Americans have had enough of the SPLC’s games, and justice finally seems to be coming.
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