Good day all. Over the years I’ve written about the Southern Poverty Law Center and how they like to accuse anyone that doesn’t support them of being racists, white supremacists and every other “ists” they can think of.
They used to have hooks into both federal and local law enforcement agencies and like to use them to push their agenda. That agenda seems to have been the further enrichment of the SPLC. Recently, it was reported tat they had shifted some $500 million dollars to an offshore Caymans Island bank, ostensibly to protect them from the avalanche of lawsuits now heading their way. Now we have a member of Congress asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the SPLC and see if they are violating the conditions of their tax exempt status. Here are the details from The Washington Times, (Paywalled):
As the Southern Poverty Law Center implodes over accusations of racial discrimination and sexual harassment, its legion of critics wants answers and a swift burial of the embattled organization’s status as the nation’s judge and jury on hate.
Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, took the lead with a letter to the Internal Revenue Service requesting an investigation into the tax-exempt status of the incongruously wealthy nonprofit group, which he blasted as a “racist and sexist slush fund devoted to defamation.”
“I’ve long been troubled by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s activities, which are centered on serial defamation of its opponents, not on civil rights litigation, as its founding charter says,” Mr. Cotton told The Washington Times.
“Obviously, the revelations that the Southern Poverty Law Center has engaged in systematic racial discrimination and sexual harassment at the highest levels is very troubling as well,” he said. “I think it bears on whether they should have tax-exempt status under our laws and benefit from the taxpayer subsidy.”
Oh, I think it’s safe to say this group of Progressive totalitarian thugs have long since moved past any redeeming qualities. As I mentioned earlier, I know of several lawsuits now winding their way through the courts that have the potential of bankrupting the SPLC. (Hence, the quick move of their money offshore) They are facing at least one defamation/libel lawsuit, and I think the one where they named a pro-life group a “Hate group” that ended up with a moonbat shooting up the place. The latter was settled, but it doesn’t look like the other cases have any interest in settling.
In addition, 60 of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s favorite center-right targets called in an open letter Wednesday for the organization to release emails reportedly from fed-up staffers in a revolt that led to the toppling last month of the progressive monolith’s entrenched leadership.
The letter also asked media outlets and corporations once again to quit relying uncritically on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate” designations, which lump leading Christian and conservative organizations such as the Family Research Council with racist outfits such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation.
This has become one of the major problems with the SPLC. Their original targets, the KKK and the Aryan Brotherhood are true scum of the earth, and themselves conducted illegal actions against people and property, as well as drug running, smuggling and other criminal activities. No one ever had a problem going after them, and the SPLC had the support of Federal Law Enforcement in doing just that.
The problems arose when, for all intents and purposes, the SPLC won. They had “No more dragons to slay” as it were. The leadership needed to find new dragons to maintain the gravy train of donations so the leadership could continue living in the styles they had become accustomed to. Since they were being run by CommuNazis, they decided to go after anyone politically to the right Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Because they now engaged in blatant political attacks against anyone or anything they perceived as not toeing the progressive line, they moved from being a civil rights organization to a hate group.
“SPLC has lost all credibility,” said the letter, led by Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. “We call on all media, corporations, social media companies, and financial institutions to immediately stop relying on their discredited and partisan ‘hate’ and ‘extremist’ lists.”
Still unclear is whether the scandal will prompt a second look from the center’s prominent liberal donors, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and celebrity couple George and Amal Clooney, as well as whether the Southern Poverty Law Center will ever regain its disputed yet prestigious niche as America’s hate arbiter.
Oh, I think it’s safe to say they will continue aiding and abetting the SPLC. They agree with everything they are doing, including trying to suppress any ideas that the left hates.
The center has sought to repair the damage. On Tuesday, Karen Baynes-Dunning, a former juvenile court judge and board member, was named interim president and CEO, making her the first black leader of the civil rights group, which has been run for decades by Morris Dees and Richard Cohen, both of whom are white.
“Our employees deserve a workplace that reflects our highest values, and we will ensure that it happens,” the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a Tuesday statement. “The decision to name Karen as interim president is a critical step in that process.”
Funny, I, along with may others that have followed the antics of the SPLC over the years, thought that their values consisted in enriching and empowering the SPLC and their senior management. Was I mistaken?
Conducting an “external review” of the center’s practices is Tina Tchen, onetime chief of staff to first lady Michelle Obama, who will “advise us on workplace culture issues,” Bryan Fair, board chairman of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in the statement.
“Tina’s evaluation will continue, and we’re committed to enacting long-lasting changes following her recommendations,” Mr. Fair said. “Our employees deserve a workplace that reflects our highest values, and we will ensure that it happens.”
Well, I see that they’ve all read the memo and are staying on message, right down to the buzzwords. I’m sure this will be a truly honest and open investigation to fix all the issues.
Her hiring set off red flags on the right. It was Ms. Tchen who contacted Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on behalf of “Empire” star Jussie Smollett in an effort to move the case to the FBI. All charges stemming from Mr. Smollett’s purported staging of a Jan. 29 hate crime in Chicago were dropped last week.
“This choice raises serious concerns about the neutrality of the investigation,” conservative groups said in their letter. “And the choice appears particularly problematic given Tchen recently making headlines for interfering with the Chicago Police Department’s Jussie Smollett investigation.”
The Smollett case was a classic in corrupt politics, even for Chicago. Apparently, the State’s Attorney is in really deep kimchee over this and, under the worst case scenario, could end up being prosecuted herself.
Mr. Cotton cited another issue: Bringing in Ms. Tchen has fueled speculation of a powerhouse alliance between the Obama camp and a progressive organization with an endowment of nearly a half-billion dollars.
“It really has become little more than a left-wing slush fund, and now that Mrs. Obama’s former chief of staff, Jussie Smollett’s legal fixer, has been brought on board, it raises genuine suspicions over whether the Southern Poverty Law Center will be even more politicized and will expressly be supporting Democrats in the next election,” Mr. Cotton said.
Another problem facing the SPLC is that it looks like that they are not all that big on practicing what they preach. It seems that the “Legal stalwarts” of the rights of the little people treated anyone who wasn’t a white male Progressive like serfs and sexual playthings.
The edifice began crumbling with the departure of senior attorney Meredith Horton, who was the organization’s highest-ranked black woman. She cited in an internal memo “the hardships women and employees of color faced at SPLC,” according to the Alabama Political Reporter.
Her memo, which has not been released, touched off a revolt by staffers, who reportedly sent two emails listing demands and grievances, including the allegation that the Southern Poverty Law Center covered up sexual harassment complaints against Mr. Dees and retaliated against women who brought the accusations.
So, just standard operating procedure for the average Liberal Progressive organization then.
Four former employees “spoke about racial equity concerns in senior leadership,” according to a report this week in the Montgomery Advertiser, which was nominated for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for a separate expose on “questionable management practices and self-interest” at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“All four former employees requested anonymity due to the center’s sterling reputation in the progressive nonprofit and political realms, where all continue to work,” the Advertiser wrote. “Several of the former employees described high staff turnover and a ‘toxic’ workplace riddled with conflicting priorities and interoffice politics.”
Now, what would happen if the SPLC lost its tax exempt status? I am certainly not a tax expert. I don’t even play one on TV. I would guess that at best, from that point forward, they would have to pay taxes like any other profit making company. The worst case? They might be dinged for back taxes, interest and penalties, and offshore slush fund might end up being forked over to Uncle Sam.
As far as I’m concerned, the entire place should be closed down, the lawyers disbarred, the assets seized under RICO, perhaps a few criminal prosecutions and the headquarters dynamited, the ruble bulldozed and salt sewn into the Earth so that nothing like this could ever grow there again. But that’s just me.
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