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Creating Lists Of Political Dissidents: Good Enough
For The Nazis, Good Enough For the SPLC
Hitlist links mainline political activists with
violent extremist minority groups
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With the publication of a "Patriot Hitlist", the Southern
Poverty Law Center has once again proven itself to be anything
but a "civil rights" organisation, as it continues
to act in its role as an intolerant and belligerent slander
outfit, almost exclusively targeting legitimate, peaceful, grassroots
political and social dissent.
The SLPC makes millions every year off the back of attacking
libertarians and conservatives and anyone in between who doesn't
share their own myopic political outlook.
It has a nasty habit of labeling "extremist" and
"radical" any group or person that it merely disagrees
with, lumping them in with white supremacists and right wing
militias, all the while preaching that it is committed to "Fighting
Hate, Teaching Tolerance, Seeking Justice".
Perusing their website and published materials for just a short
time will lead any rational and discerning person to identify
the SPLC for what it is - an über leftist outfit of control
freaks with an axe to grind. However, the U.S. government, under
both Republican and Democratic administrations - and by proxy
the corporate mainstream media - has chosen to elevate the SPLC
to the level of revered research group.
Most infamously last year, the SPLC was cited as a primary
research source in the highly inflammatory Missouri
Information Analysis Center report, a federally
funded "fusion center" document that equated Ron Paul
supporters, people who display bumper stickers, people who own
gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag with radical race hate
groups and terrorists.
Along with the ADL, another group that just loves
to compile lists of political enemies, the SPLC
was also a prominent source for the leaked Department of Homeland
Security "Rightwing
Extremism" report. The sources for the document,
which equated veterans and gun owners with violent terrorists,
were revealed following a freedom of information act request
from the group Americans for Limited Government.
Along with the SPLC and the ADL, other sources included a number
of news articles, some of which also cited the SPLC, and a scattering
of web posts from highly dubious sources. No statistical analysis
was found to have been undertaken by the DHS - they just took
the opinions of the SPLC and threw in a few internet posts as
an afterthought.
The disgusting irony of the whole sorry affair came with the
fact that the SPLC immediately jumped on the DHS report when
it was leaked, using it to justify their materials and agendas.
In the months that followed, the SPLC returned
to the report again and again to tie it in with
incidents such as the tragic shooting at the Holocaust museum
in Washington DC.
The SPLC has continued its sustained effort, with the establishment
media in tow, to
float the talking point that worried gun owners
are growing in the United States and that this could portend
a violent act of domestic terror.
With it's latest defamatory output, entitled Meet
the 'Patriots', the SPLC has compiled and profiled
a top forty of targets it associates with the phrases "antigovernment",
"radical right", "conspiracy theories" and
"militias".
Texas Congressman Ron Paul is in at number 40 - Of course,
the SPLC couldn't resist another pop at Paul, dredging up long
debunked claims that the Congressman was responsible
for the publication of racist comments in newsletters in the
1990s.
The piece labels Paul, along with Andrew Napolitano, Michele
Bachmann and Glen Beck as anti-government
patriot movement “enablers”. As Infowars'
Kurt Nimmo points out, if anyone is an enabler of extremism
it is the SPLC, as it continues to propagandize for the miniscule
and completely irrelevant white supremacist movement in order
to magnify the ludicrous threat it claims these fringe groups
pose.
Other notables to make the hitlist (see below) are Luke Rudkowski
of We Are Change, Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers, Larry
Pratt of Gun Owners For America, former Phoenix police officer
Jack McLamb and former IRS special agent Joe Banister - a who's
who of regular guests on the Alex Jones show, who is of course,
also included on the list.
Alex is quoted in the piece as saying "The entire planet
is being enslaved by global, dominant corporations." If
that's the classification of what an radical extremist believes
then the SPLC better prepare to compile a much larger list.
The list is an extension of
last month's smear attack by the SPLC that seamlessly
blended fringe minority groups, racist skinheads and Timothy
McViegh with political activists who have never advocated violence
against anyone. Mentioning the OKC bombing and warning that
there are “Signs of similar violence emanating from the
radical right", The SPLC provided a “hate group”
map, where political activists and groups such as We Are Change
were displayed alongside the KKK and neo-Nazis.
The SPLC are always desperate to throw in their mainstream
political opponents with killers and mass murderers, no matter
how ludicrous the notion. Last year the group attempted to link
Infowars and Alex Jones with Pittsburgh cop killer Richard Poplawski
because Poplawski had left comments on Jones’ websites.
Cursory inspection of the comments revealed that Poplawski was
attacking Jones, however that did not stop the SPLC 's ridiculous
smear attempt extending to elements of the media that later
had to issue retractions. What made the entire issue even more
ludicrous was the fact that
comments left on the SPLC's own website four months previously
had called for Alex Jones to be executed for his political views.
Writer
Devvy Kid and Radio
Broadcaster Chuck Baldwin, also on the SPLC's latest
hitlist, have already penned their own devastating responses,
firmly outlining the organisation's place as a back pocketed
establishment mouthpiece.
While the SPLC claims to rail against hate, it seems to have
taken a page out of the book of the most hateful regimes in
the history of the human race by compiling a list of "enemies
of the state".
Perhaps the most famous illustration can be derived from an
evening dubbed "The Night Of The Long Knives" when
in June 1934 Hitler took out his political enemies, based on
a prepared list drawn up by Goering and Himmler, later known
as the Reich List of Unwanted Persons.
Hitler's list of enemies then extended beyond political grievances.
Suffice to say, political enemies lists have somewhat of a bad
rap. But I guess what's good for Hitler is good for the SPLC.
Here is the SPLC's patriot hitlist in full:
1. Chuck Baldwin, Pastor, Radio Broadcaster, Syndicated Columnist,
2008 Constitution Party Presidential nominee.
2. Joe Banister, former IRS special agent, tax protester.
3. Martin “Red” Beckman, tax protester
4. Catherine Bleish, head of the Liberty Restoration Project.
5. Chris Broughton, Second Amendment advocate, member of “We
The People” group.
6. Bob Campbell, head of American Grand Jury.
7. Robert Crooks, Army veteran, retired commercial fisherman,
anti-illegal immigration proponent.
8. Joseph Farah, CEO of World Net Daily
9. Gary Franchi, producer of “Camp FEMA: American Lockdown,”
national director of RestoreTheRepublic.com.
10. Al Garza, head of the Patriot’s Coalition, an anti-illegal
immigration group.
11. Ted Gunderson, retired FBI agent.
12. John Hassey, “The public face of Alabama’s militia
movement in the late 1990s,” says SPLC.
13. Alex Jones, Radio Talk Show host.
14. Devvy Kidd, “prolific columnist, blogger, and public
speaker.”
15. Larry Kilgore, telecommunications consultant, former US
Senate candidate from Texas, pro-secession advocate.
16. Cliff Kincaid, syndicated columnist and author, editor of
AIM Report (Accuracy in Media’s publication), founder
and president of America’s Survival, Inc., a UN watchdog
group.
17. Mark Koernke, associated with the now-defunct Michigan Militia.
18. Richard Mack, former Graham County, Arizona, Sheriff, author,
and public speaker.
19. Jack McLamb, former Phoenix, Arizona, police officer, author,
and public speaker.
20. John McManus, former member of the US Marine Corps, president
of the John Birch Society.
21. Daniel New, father of Michael New (the Army medic who refused
to wear a UN uniform), author, public speaker.
22. Norm Olson, founder of the now-defunct Michigan Militia.
23. Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.
24. Stewart Rhodes, Army veteran and Yale Law School graduate,
founder of Oath Keepers.
25. Jon Roland, computer specialist, founder of the Constitution
Society.
26. Luke Rudkowski, founder We Are Change.
27. Robert “Bob” Schultz, founder of We The People.
28. Joel Skousen, editor, World Affairs Brief.
29. Jim Stachowiak, Radio Talk Show host, “Longtime militia
organizer,” claims SPLC.
30. John Stadtmiller, founder, Republic Broadcasting Network.
31. Orly Taitz, California attorney, a leader in the push to
make President Obama disclose his US birth certificate.
32. Amanda Teegarden, executive director of Oklahomans for Sovereignty
and Free Enterprise.
33. Mike Vanderboegh, anti-Obama health care activist.
34. Paul Venable, former candidate for the Idaho House of Representatives.
35. Edwin Vieira, Jr., attorney, author, proponent of constitutional
State militias, lecturer.
36. Michele Bachmann, US Representative from Minnesota.
37. Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel TV host.
38. Paul Broun, medical doctor, US Representative from Georgia.
39. Andrew Napolitano, attorney, former State judge in New Jersey,
Fox News Channel legal analyist, lecturer.
40. Ron Paul, former member of the US Air Force, medical doctor,
US Representative from Texas, 2008 Republican candidate for
President.
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