The SPLC is running the hotline for the illegals in the State of Alabama and has filed a lawsuit against the state over the immigration laws. I have often wondered why La Voz de Aztlan has never been named a hate group as well as quite a few others, maybe this is the reason.

Southern Poverty Law Center admits it does not monitor 'the extreme Left'





In a stunning display of candor the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of Montgomery, Alabama admitted today that it does not monitor "the extreme Left" although for years the organization has billed itself as a watchdog of hate groups.

The admission came during a phone interview conducted by Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review, during which Cooke asked a spokesman for SPLC if the organization had plans to begin to track the Occupy movement in light of the foiled terrorist attempt to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio.

The suspects who were arrested in the case are connected directly to the Occupy movement.

According to Cooke the person who first answered his call at SPLC appeared stunned by the question. She then transferred him to a representative who was conducting an international conference on right wing extremism.

In an interview that took on the characteristics of a cat and mouse game, the spokesman offered various nebulous reasons for the Center's practice of avoiding the tracking of left wing groups.

Finally, Cooke managed to pin down the spokesman on a key point, which led to a stunning admission that SPLC has never been willing to make in the past. The following excerpt sets the stage:

And then he went on a long speech about “anti-abortion extremists” that had very little to do with what I was asking, but no doubt made him feel good. I met this with silence, so he said that, really, the SPLC only tracks those who commit violence or who seek to destroy whole systems in the name of an ideology.

“Isn’t that exactly what happened in Cleveland?” I asked. “These five men, all linked with Occupy Wall Street, attempted to blow up a bridge as an overture to the wholesale destruction of Cleveland, Ohio, and in the name of anarchism. They also looked to blow up the Republican convention.”

“They were anarchists,” he repeated.

“Yes?”

He paused. “We’re not really set up to cover the extreme Left.”

The problem with the statement is that if SPLC is set up to cover the extreme Right, then it is also set up to cover the extreme Left, which leads to the logical conclusion that apparently the Center is not interested in monitoring left wing hate groups. Their motive is to track and attempt to destroy what they consider to be right wing extremist groups, some of which have not engaged in the type of extremism that has led to violence, although many such groups have done exactly that.

SPLC once issued a report on its blog in which it castigated this reporter and New York columnist and blogger Pamela Geller for exposing the violence of extremist Islam. The Center erroneously claimed that this reporter is the infamous "Ulsterman," the anonymous White House reporter who has made headlines by providing top secret information about the Obama Administration. But curiously, the Center never once commented on the extremism that is a key component of the Islamist element of Islam, or as they are often called, "Jihadis."

The Center also never provided any proof concerning its claim about Ulsterman's identity.

Further, the SPLC spokesman made another telling admission in the interview with Cooke. He stated that the Center covers left wing extremists only when there is a right wing component, such as a case in which a leftist anarchist group is infiltrated by a right wing group.

The logic of such an admission is in itself stunning. A leftist anarchist group may well be engaged in acts of extreme violence, such as, to use an example from the past, Bill Ayers' Weathermen. But the only way SPLC would monitor the group is in the event that a right wing anarchist group, such as Aryan Nation, infiltrates it.

One is pressed to comprehend how the Weathermen could become any more violent or dangerous simply because it had been infiltrated by Aryan Nation. One is further pressed to comprehend how the Weathermen, which was charged with blowing up federal buildings, could be considered unimportant enough to merit SPLC's attention, yet Aryan Nation, which has never been charged with blowing up federal buildings, would be considered such an imminent threat by SPLC that it must be closely monitored.

According to Discover the Networks, SPLC's history and activities expose its political and ideological agenda, which has more to do with advancing left wing causes than monitoring hate groups.

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