SPLC Indicted. Are you kidding me?
Just when you think the radical left could not become more outrageous, along comes the recent indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SLPC). In the annals of institutional hypocrisy, few scandals punch as hard as this indictment. This self-proclaimed guardian against hate stands charged by the Department of Justice of … (drum roll) … subsidizing hate groups and financing domestic terrorism. No, it is not a humor story from the satirical publication, The Onion. Far too ridiculous even for them.
The indictment charges that the SPLC funneled more than $3 million in donor funds straight into the pockets of the very Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists the organization claims to battle against. It would be as ridiculous as America sending money to the terrorist regime in Iran. (Oh. We did that, too.) It is another example of where truth is stranger than fiction.
One can almost hear the collective gasps from the left-wing echo chamber. The SPLC, once a legitimate 1960s-era civil rights litigator that took on the Ku Klux Klan in the courts, now finds itself charged with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering for secretly propping up the very terrorist groups it professed to fight against.
The details read like a script from a bad political novel, except this one comes with real federal indictments. Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in one documented case more than one million dollars, to active members of the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, the National Socialist Movement, the Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, and the National Socialist Party of America, also known as the American Nazi Party. One recipient was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, who pocketed cash while the SPLC publicly condemned his organization as a hate group.
Another operative received more than $270,000 while helping to plan and participate in the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. A neo-Nazi operative tied to the National Alliance walked away with more than one million dollars over the decade. The money flowed through shell bank accounts and prepaid debit cards, all while donors believed their contributions dismantled extremism rather than financed it.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche put it bluntly in the announcement. The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was manufacturing the extremism it purported to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred. Picture that for a moment. It is the equivalent of a fire department writing checks to arsonists to buy gasoline and matches so they can afford to start more fires. The SPLC did not merely lose its way. It executed a full U-turn into the very abyss it once claimed to illuminate.
This is not mere incompetence. It constitutes an intentional brazen fraud on the donors who poured hundreds of millions into the SPLC coffers under the illusion they fought genuine evil. The organization sits on an endowment fund approaching $800 million, yet it still solicits small donations from well-meaning Americans who think they support civil rights. In reality, it has been a criminal enterprise operating for profit and power – left-wing political power.
Major benefactors include George Soros (of course) through his Open Society Foundations, JPMorgan Chase, George Clooney and his foundation, former Apple CEO Tim Cook, OpenAI, and even Chick-fil-A. These deep-pocketed elites wrote checks while the SPLC played both sides of the hate game and compiled an enormous slush fund. Will the donors demand refunds or simply shrug and write it off as the cost of doing business in the grievance industry?
The betrayal runs deeper still. For years the SPLC has weaponized its so-called hate map and extremism trackers to smear mainstream conservative organizations as domestic terrorists. Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the vibrant youth movement founded by Charlie Kirk, has the dubious honor of a prominent spot on the SPLC hate list alongside real Klansmen and neo-Nazis. The group’s unwarranted demonization of Kirk has been cited as one of the motivating factors leading up to his assassination.
The Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms for Liberty, and countless faith-based and parental rights groups received the same scarlet letter treatment. These dishonest designations had consequences. They invited harassment and ongoing threats from the SPLC. In one tragic 2012 case, an armed attack on the Family Research Council offices was inspired directly by the bogus SPLC listing. And all the while the real hate groups were receiving cash under the table. If that does not define left-wing hypocrisy, nothing does. Instead of fighting hate-based violence, the SPLC for promoting and subsidizing it. It would be more appropriate to label the SPLC as a hate group – even a domestic terrorist organization.
The SPLC long ago ceased operating as an independent civil rights advocate. It morphed into a corrupt appendage of the Democratic Party and angry and violent left-wing establishment, a deep-state operation that manipulates fear for power and profit.
Democrat politicians from coast to coast have cited the SPLC as gospel. They quote its reports in floor speeches, incorporate its data into federal policy, and treat its pronouncements as unassailable truth. The media complex amplified the deception for decades. CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post and others hailed the SPLC as the gold standard while ignoring mountains of prior complaints about inflated numbers, sloppy research, and ideological bias. They praised when they should have been investigating.
Previous accusations of financial mismanagement, internal sexual harassment scandals, and mission creep drew shrugs from these same outlets. The SPLC remained the darling of the left because it delivered the narrative they craved — conservatives equal danger, dissent equals domestic terrorism.
One cannot help but draw the analogy to a classic confidence scheme. The SPLC created a perpetual motion machine of manufactured outrage. When actual Klan chapters dwindled to a handful of toothless relics, the SLPC revitalized them with money. Alternatively, the organization simply expanded its definition of hate to encompass anyone who dared defend traditional values, border security, or parental rights.
Turning Point USA became the new Klan in the SPLC imagination. Meanwhile, real Klansmen and Nazis cashed the checks. It is the ultimate grift — scare donors with phantom threats, smear political opponents, and quietly subsidize the villains to keep the panic machine alive.
This scandal exposes the rot at the heart of the modern progressive establishment. The SPLC did not drift from its founding mission. It abandoned that mission with eyes wide open in pursuit of relevance, revenue, and raw political influence. The group that once sued the Klan into near oblivion now stands accused of keeping the embers glowing for its own enrichment. Donors who believed they funded justice instead bankrolled betrayal. Conservative groups smeared as terrorists now know that the real terrorists received SPLC stipends.
In the end, this indictment represents more than a legal reckoning. It serves as a cultural indictment of an entire ecosystem that rewarded deception for so long. The SPLC did not lose its way. It sold its soul, cashed the donation checks, and laughed all the way to the bank. The only question remaining is whether its high-profile donors will finally admit they were duped or simply double down on the delusion.
Hopefully, the fraudsters will be brought to justice and enjoy retirement behind bars – and the organization will be fined to the full extent of its assets and put out of business. Either way, the American public now sees the fraud in full daylight thanks to a Department of Justice they puts the rule of law over politics.
So, there ‘tis.
Larry, I am interested in how this plays out, but as for you-you need to be more skeptical of what the trump (in)justice department dishes out. I know, in your dementia addled brain, you believe that any organization led by conservatives has to be doing the right thing, but this justice department has shown time and again that they are grossly incompetent (charging Powell for cost overruns , charging members of congress for reminding the military not to carry out illegal orders…) and are obviously just doing trumps bidding in about all their actions. I don’t know (and certainly you don’t either), but this sounds like another example of trumps government trying to suppress the opposition. But you’ve already eaten so much crow since trump took office I suspect you must be enjoying that flavor…
Mike f … You just cannot get away from you childhood schoolyard name calling …yeh?. You just love to sling insults without any justification of basis. LOL You never fail to mention my non-existent dementia. Sorry to disappoint you, but despite my age, I have no noticeable decline in mental acuity The fact that it makes you feel good to throw around such nonsense says more about you than me. I cannot say you have dementia, but your comments strongly suggest ignorance and a lack of maturity. I feel sorry for people like you because behind all that hateful bluster there must be a very pathetic person with self-esteem issues. If it makes you feel good, go for it. Just don’t delude yourself in to thinking your drivel is having any impact in the real world.
Larry a person has to be a fool to be a democrat. But I noticed that most of the people posting on this site are totally not democrats. But we are joined by a few idiots. Some are already ramping up assaults on the non democrats. But enough is enough. We are preparing for whatever they throw at us.
Joe, I think it is hilarious that you consider all democrats to be fools. Do you ever read the comments that are posted on this site? I suggest you check out some of them (Joe Dixon and Seth recently)-their collective IQ’s do not add up to room temperature. I think that tells us all we need to know about the idiots that still believe that trump is doing anything good for the country….
Mike f as in fag the really stupid people are just like you. Democrats!!!
Larry, So you are not demented? You’ve always been dumb as a rock (as are the readers that write messages of support for your positions). I see… But as per usual, you don’t issue any rebuke to my comments, just fault me for calling out someone that is obviously slipping (one of the defining characteristics of dementia is that those affected with it don’t realize they have it-look at Trump….) You are stupid (as well as dementia addled) if you believe anything that the dept of injustice says or does-what they are doing has nothing to do with justice, merely filing lawsuits to please their master, and if you and Joe can’t see that, it speaks reams about your collective intelligence…..
The SPLC also made founder Morris Dees rich.
Snaps: while I was cutting n pasting my “are you a racist” liberal comeback, unlike the fools around here, I looked before I leaped (or is it lept?). You are wrong, but you are right. Wrong in that Dees was already rich from his mail order marketing business (mail order huckster, we shoulda known), but right in that he took a $400+ salary from SPLC to become even richer which seems even more of a sin. He was fired in 2019 for undisclosed reasons, but racism, sexism feature heavily as best guesses. Hitting on young women was bandied about a lot. Power corrupts.
However, has nothing to do with this DOJ indictment and DOJ’s recent bating record is really bad being well-known as even unable to indict a sub sandwich. And what Comey’s around, Comey’s around again. Don’s happy and his attention span is so short he does not notice when they drop the cases, and drop them they do. More than any other DOJ in modern history.
“In the annals of institutional hypocrisy, few scandals punch as hard as this indictment.” You have got to be kidding. Has not Larry viewed the annals of Trump’s DOJ as they serve not the Constitution, but the whims of one man, their Felon King.
Two facts: 1) In 2016, out of 155,000 cases, federal prosecutors serving the Constitution and the rule of law, not the President, only failed to secure an indictment in six of them.
2). Thus far in Trump’s second term, the Trump DOJ proves it is NOT following the rule of law because it has failed to secure dozens of indictments. In addition to the six members of Congress, the DOJ has failed to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James twice (with a third successful indictment being tossed for an improper appointment), failed to indict a man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer on felony charges before then failing to even convict him on the accompanying misdemeanor case, as well as many more cases against protesters against Trump’s operations around the country.
That’s right, these folks set the a record for being unable to indict a sandwich, perhaps being ham even. They had it on film, could not indict.
Blanche is clearly postering to make his position permanent with his Comey and SPLC indictments. DOJ’s game plan is 1) do the perp walk for indictment, or sometimes out them during investigation. 2) try the case in the press with folks like FOX or Larry being judge, jury, but not executioner and then 3) drop the case or have it booted. The purpose is to satisfy an audience of one with the indictment fully knowing that he will lose focus, forget, fall asleep, and miss the fact the case gets dropped later. And be willing to try the same guy over and over, don’t matter when you win or lose, just trying is good enough for these chumps.
The Comey case is a joke and I expect it just goes away like the last one.
The SPLC case is a joke too where Trump’s lawyers wants you and the court to believe that the people who broke the Klan, who currently expose white supremacist groups, actually supports racism, domestic terrorism, they are responsible for inciting it, and, most important, that they defraud their donors to do that. The indictment says the SPLC engages in materially supporting domestic terrorist groups by paying Cis for information.
DOJ claims wire fraud on the assumption that SPLC donators were ripped off because their dollars funded paid informants to obtain inside information for CI’s about what white supremacists and other groups were up to. And the CI’s might use the money for nefarious reasons.
It’s funny actually, impossible to get a conviction, but the goal is to get idiots like Larry to drink this swill, tell stories, advertise their guilt, diminish and demean the institution and call it a day. The Felon King will smile.
Remember, DOJ has to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt that SPLC’s intent was to defraud its donors. If DOJ is successful in this case, then every law enforcement agency who pays Cis for info, where said Cis are part of a criminal organization, is breaking the law. The rest of Larry’s spew unveils his longstanding hatred for SPLC and has little to due with the case itself.
GOOD LUCK.
Dunger you want ALL democrats to be able to do as they please including threatening the president. I’m not a lawyer but I think comer will get out of this one. His argument could be that using the term “86” meant removing Trump from office. Don’t even think that I’m a fan of comer. I seriously believe that he was involved in the coup during trump’s first term. And I believe that he lied to Congress. But that’s another matter. My point is that they should stick with the perjury charges and not be nitpicking. It’s no secret how bad he hates trump. But that’s his right. But Trump’s doing a great job And Dunger is still a fool
Sethsuckshit: It’s not true and like everything else you say about me, you cannot prove it because you suck at it. Anyone threatening the President goes to jail; that’s the law. AI says”Threatening the President of the United States is a federal felony under 18 U.S.C. § 871″ And you are an idiot for saying elsewise or your fake, false, feckless accusations.
As to Comer, that’s your guy, a farmer, who is incompetent to the take of being a House Representative. More like Trump’s puppet who investigated us for six years now, one indictment, no convictions, just bullshit —- guess you have that in common. IF Comer had a real job in investigations, he would have been fired years ago.
Comey, not Comer, yes, I agree — there’s an unusual occurrence.
As to a “coup,” give it a rest. If team Biden, in 2019, running up to his massive election victory, fair and balanced, if team Biden had over 100 contacts with the Russians, many with top Russian intelligence workers, would you have passed on an investigation of that? We did not find enough evidence to indict, beyond some Russians, but there certainly was more than enough smoke to look. I mean who the fuck meets with foreign parties before being elected? Trump’s was a first, and boy, did he pick the most innocuous one to start with.