Opinion: The greatest corruption scandal of the year
It’s been a banner week for news. Between the near-assassination of President Trump and several indictments, it was hard to keep up. But one piece of news that surprised no one was that the biggest funders of racism are Democrats.
If, in recent years, you found yourself thinking, “I am sure racists still exist, but I am also sure that it is a very small group who are barely worth mentioning in the public discourse,” pat yourself on the back because you’re still right. You knew it, I knew it, and apparently, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) knew it, too.
But when you build your entire business model on fighting racism, and you find out that racism is so minor that you can’t make much money fighting it, there’s only one money-making option: create racism.
That is exactly what the SPLC did, according to a recent federal indictment.
The SPLC knowingly solicited donations on the basis that they were going to use the funds to fight racism. Then they turned around and gave that money to the very organizations they claimed to fight, such as the Ku Klux Klan.
This crime is not without a victim. If you remember, the SPLC worked hand in glove with the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ). If the SPLC said a group or person was hateful or on their hate map, that person could be put on a watch list or pursued by the DOJ.
Private companies also listened to the SPLC. Anyone labeled hateful by the group risked deplatforming or demonetization by various social media apps or banks.
Lest you think these victims had it coming for being hate groups, let us recall that those on that list were often just conservatives or Christians. Moms for Liberty, Eagle Forum of Alabama, and Tactical Civics are all on their hate map.
That’s SPLC’s game. They make up racism and hate when the issue is nothing more than political disagreement, then fund actual racism to justify their existence and have something to lump in with the not-actually-hateful groups. All apparently because we must stop the moms fighting to keep their children from being exposed to left-wing ideology or whatever.
Look, we aren’t talking about a little money going to these groups. We’re talking hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars. Anyone who has ever sent money to the SPLC has likely funded the Ku Klux Klan. That includes teachers’ unions. As a shocking new report explains, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers have been sending money to left-wing causes, including the SPLC. Alabama teachers send part of their paychecks to these people – yet another sign to yank your kids out of public school. No wonder public education is flooded with left-wing indoctrination!
Now the SPLC is attempting to put up a good defense, but having personally seen some of their legal work, let me just say that their defense is as poorly-crafted as the rest of their work. Indeed, their defense depends heavily on the reader not actually thinking. But you, my reader, are the thinking type. So consider these facts.
The SPLC claims that these payments went to confidential informants in return for information on the groups' activities. Yet the DOJ claims there is no record of this.
Further, the indictment details that the money went to groups as well as individuals. Not only did the SPLC pay a person involved in the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., but they also paid that person to organize the rally and coordinate transportation. That is not informing, that is creating and organizing hate. Recall, for instance, that the Charlottesville riot and Trump’s inaccurately reported comments were one of the biggest weapons used against Trump by Democrats in the 2020 election – all created by the SPLC.
The SPLC claims the Trump administration is just targeting them for political reasons. That’s rich coming from those who have done nothing but target others for political reasons for decades. That aside, the indictment actually reveals that the SPLC was first investigated by the banks, who noticed that the SPLC would wire funds to informants, who in turn would set up bank accounts under fictitious entities, who then wired funds to these hate groups. The bank noticed that these entities were unincorporated businesses with no employees. That, my friends, is called fraud. The banks notified the Biden DOJ, which launched an investigation, but then stopped for no known reason . The Trump administration, with the help of Alabama’s attorney general, picked it up from there.
It’s not targeting someone who committed several actual crimes. The SPLC is just mad they got caught, and someone had the balls to prosecute.