UN-FREAKING BELIEVABLE!
The Leftist propaganda organization vainly trying to shore
up their reputation as a hate-watchdog – Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC) – constantly condemns non-violent Christian organizations, Conservative
values organizations and Counterjihad people/organizations as hate-groups. BUT
the SPLC says violence oriented ANTIFA is not a hate-group.
JRH 12/5/17
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'HATE-GROUP MONITOR' CLAIMS ANTIFA NOT A
HATE GROUP
'Domestic terrorists' aren't a part of 'group that
vilifies people on basis of race, ethnicity, religion'
December 4, 2017
For at least a year, America has been under attack by
black-clad, bandanna and helmet-wearing “domestic terrorists,”
say the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
The self-described anarchists and revolutionary
communists are known for brutal acts of violence and their
chilling threats.
But there’s something you simply don’t understand about
antifa, according to the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which has
appointed itself America’s leading arbiter of “hate”:
The brutally violent “domestic terrorists” don’t actually
espouse hate.
“If you are familiar with our work, we write about antifa
often,” SPLC President Richard Cohen told the House Homeland Security Committee
on Nov. 30. “We condemn their tactics – I’ve said so publicly and we do so
always – but antifa is not a group that vilifies people on the basis of
race, ethnicity, religion and the like.”
Except antifa certainly does vilify people, especially based
on political viewpoint, and sometimes even based on religion.
On the day of President Trump’s inauguration, antifa members rioted in Washington, D.C.,
smashing a limousine window with a hammer, shattering storefronts, vandalizing
bus stops and throwing rocks at police officers, six of whom sustained
injuries.
After the inauguration, antifa rioters smashed windows and
set fires in Portland.
In February, antifa activists set the University of
California at Berkeley campus on fire, throwing rocks through windows and
causing $100,000 in damages. In March, they shouted down a Gold Star mother
whose child was killed in the line of duty. Then they crashed a pro-Trump march
in Berkeley while reportedly toting bricks and baseball bats.
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In April, they crashed a Trump rally again, this time
carrying knives, flagpoles and sticks. In May, they made an appearance at a May
Day rally in Portland, assaulting cops, lighting fires and spray-painting a
police car. In June, antifa activists wore masks and protested in Portland at a
rally for President Trump. Police were forced to deploy stingballs and grenades
with rubber pellets to keep the antifa activists away so Trump supporters could
finish their speeches.
Antifa threw bricks, rocks, marbles, tampons, urine and
feces, PBS reported. They left
graffiti messages stating, “STAB A NAZI, TWICE :).”
In August 4,000 Antifa agitators and other leftists
shut down a “No to Marxism” rally and prayer vigil being held by about 400
conservative Christians in Berkeley, California. Police released mugshots of 11 of the
13 persons arrested at the violent political riots in the university town. Charges
include assault with a deadly weapon, felony assault and various municipal code
violations. One officer was injured while making an arrest, and several
others were struck with paint and bottles.
Antifa’s war cry, caught on video during the rally, was no
less than the total destruction of American society. “No Trump, no wall, no USA
at all!” they chanted.
[Posted by Muh Dernity
Published on Aug 27, 2017]
Since then, they have prepped for a mass uprising to “remove” fascist Trump.
But don’t confuse any of those actions with “hate,” says the
SPLC, which has condemned groups and public figures who disagree
with its agenda, putting them on its “hate” map, which once prominently
included former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson before the group was
skewered on social media, prompting an abrupt retreat.
While featuring organizations such as the KKK, the
“hate map” – which is cited by many media outlets – also
includes mainstream groups such as the Family Research Council.
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., questioned the SPLC’s refusal to
include antifa on its “hate map,” telling Cohen that it “reduces your
credibility.” Perry accused the leftist group of picking and choosing which
individuals and groups it includes on its map based not on actual facts but
“only your opinion.”
“So you’re OK with antifa as long as they don’t say things
that you don’t agree with, but it’s OK if they hit people on the head with a
bike lock or set things on fire or riot and flout the law by wearing face masks
and incite riots – you’re OK with that?” Perry asked.
Cohen responded: “We condemn groups like antifa. We write
about them often. We don’t list them as hate groups.”
He claimed the Family Research Council is included on the
“hate map” because it “relentlessly vilifies” members of the LGBT community.
“Our listing of hate groups doesn’t necessarily mean that
they engage in violence, although we think that the anti-LGBT propaganda is one
of the factors that makes the LGBT community in our country the most likely to
be victimized by hate crimes,” Cohen said.
Ironically, the SPLC’s own “hate map” appears to have
incited violence against the Family Research Council in 2012
when a gunman shot the group’s security guard after consulting the
“hate map.”
SPLC was linked to domestic terror through Floyd Lee
Corkins, who cited SPLC as his inspiration for his going to the Washington
offices of the Family Research Council, armed with a gun, intending to kill as
many people as he could. He was stopped by a security guard, who was
injured. WND reported a video showed Corkins entering the FRC
offices and confronting Leo Johnson.
[Posted by Family Research Council
Published on Apr 25, 2013
On August 15. 2012 at 10:46 a.m., Floyd Corkins entered
the lobby of Family Research Council armed with a loaded semi-automatic pistol,
100 rounds of ammunition, and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches. FRC building manager
Leo Johnson was temporarily manning the front desk at our Washington
headquarters when a now-confessed terrorist intent on killing everyone in the
building entered with a handgun and 100 rounds of ammunition. As he drew his
gun, Leo courageously charged the attacker into oncoming gunfire. Even after
sustaining a direct hit to his forearm, he subdued the attacker and wrestled
the gun away from him.
Why did confessed terrorist Corkins
choose Family Research Council as a target for his attack? In an FBI
interrogation, Corkins admitted he found his target from the Southern Poverty
Law Center's list.]
Cohen denied all responsibility for the 2012 shooting at
FRC.
He defended SPLC’s selections of groups and individuals
to include on its “hate map,” noting that includes groups like the Nation of
Islam and the New Black Panther Party.
Perry then noted that the organization Students for Justice
in Palestine has called for violence against Jews. He asked Cohen why the group
wasn’t included on its map.
“I don’t know about that particular group,” Cohen said. “We
try to call hate as we see it. We limit our list not by left versus right but
by groups that villify others for factors such as race, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, religion or the like.”
In August, a headline on The Drudge Report declared that
Google was teaming up with “liberal groups to snuff out conservative websites.”
Google said it was partnering with SPLC and other leftist
organizations to document and publicize “hate crimes and events” in the U.S.
Cohen told the House Homeland Security Committee that he has pushed Google
to manipulate its search engine to suppress results from so-called “hate
groups.”
“What we try to get Google to do is not prioritize hate
groups,” he explained, citing racist shooter Dylann Roof, who searched “black
on white crime” before he killed nine black churchgoers in 2015 at a church in
Charleston, South Carolina.
Cohen continued, “So we’re trying to say to Google, your
algorithm is flawed or easily manipulated.”
In another line of questioning, Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La.,
asked why SPLC, a nonprofit, is stashing at least $69 million in its offshore
accounts.
“I think there’s been some confusion in the press about
this,” Cohen claimed. “It’s common for nonprofit organizations, including
universities and big foundations, to have money in offshore accounts. It avoids
two things: certain kinds of filings and unrelated business income tax.”
Cohen also told the House Homeland Security Committee that
Trump’s campaign for the White House “energized the white supremacist
movement.” He said the white-supremacist website Stormfront doubled its
visitors between 2008 and 2017.
But Rep. Thomas Garrett, R-Va., noted that the number of
Stormfront’s visitors increased most rapidly during the administration of
Barack Obama. And the biggest growth in black separatist groups on SPLC’s
“hatewatch” list took place while Obama was president.
“Again, this isn’t President Obama’s fault. It’s not, is
it?” Garrett asked. “I mean, I don’t think it is. If someone were to say that
the prevalence of these groups is because of the rhetoric of one individual,
that would be oversimplifying the problem, would it not?”
Cohen responded, “Depending on the individual.”
Garrett then observed that SPLC’s staff tends to contribute
to Democrats. And he also noted that SPLC works with leftist organizations like
Media Matters for America.
“I respect what you do. I’m concerned with how you’re doing
it,” Garrett said, adding: “[It] troubles those to see an entity that has
essentially been de facto made responsible for determing [sic] what is and
isn’t hate that skews almost exclusively as do their collaborators in a particular
direction.
But it shouldn’t be shocking to anyone that SPLC is staffed
by leftists, Cohen said.
“The liberal tradition is an inclusive one,” he said. “Hate
is the opposite of that liberal tradition of inclusivity. So it’s not
surprising to me that people at the SPLC, people at other inclusive
organizations tend to give money to liberal organizations. It seems obvious to
me.”
The “alt-left” has been around for decades, but
conservatives have remained ignorant. Now, WND takes you inside antifa with an exclusive
special report revealing the origins, motivations and future of America’s most
widespread and active domestic terrorist group. Get your FREE copy of “Antifa: What Americans
Need to Know about the Alt-Left.”
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