What about paying low level arsonists to rat out their boss?
You are defending the KKK.
The only "criminal" thing they did was encouraging non-white people to use their right to vote. How dare they do such a thing before the mid-term elections!
Is there even the slightest bit of proof to this claim? Has SPLC released details on this yet?
Because the crime is not sending KKK and neonazi groups more than a million dollars.
It’s that the committed wire fraud and money laundering to do it - allegedly.
>The only "criminal" thing they did was encouraging non-white people to use their right to vote.
The indictment is linked above. You should read it.
There was always something suspicious about the SPLC, almost like a big brother of the ADL. Both organizations profit greatly from the very thing they supposedly fight. Why dismantle something when you can turn it into a cash cow?
The past decade has been a real eye opener for me. It pays to critique absolutely everything, especially those deemed above reproach.
There are less than 4,000 neo-Nazis in the US, and less than 8,000 KKK members. 12,000 equates to just 0.0035% of the U.S. population, the same number as people who suffer from dwarfism.
Combined, the SPLC and ADL are worth about a billion dollars.
It pays not to be bamboozled by bad faith actors like Todd Blanche.
To be fair, that seems like the vast majority weighted to the ADL.
But otherwise, yes, if you have ever looked at SPLC, it’s been a little curious at best. I believe nothing right away, but if the claim is that the demand for racism outweighed the supply, I can image less plausible things that the indictment.
Edit: I had no idea SPLC was so big. I guess I was confusing ADL for AIPAC.
Do you have a source on that statistic? Because I just don't believe it.
The issue the DOJ has seems to be the alleged money laundering, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit fraud.
Another article that completely demolishes that poor attempt by a sycophant and a drunkard to do anything Trump ordered them to do:
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-doj-will-avenge-the-kkk-...
I can imagine these actions would be inconvenient for the Trump administration.
SPLC destroy all information it has about the Fred Trump lawsuit. Especially the records of Fred Trump arrested for punching a cop during a KKK rally in Queens.
Proud Boys, Oath Keepers etc. removed from the database as Jan 6 is rewritten.
And the grand jury testimony likely includes discussion about why SPLC shell companies are fraud but other shell companies are respectable. I predict this testimony was immediately sealed.
> Infiltrating hate groups with informants is something that goes way back to the civil rights era and before. It's never been something only the government can do, especially when the government is more likely to be showing up for the white power happy hour every third Thursday at Chili's.
https://bsky.app/profile/andycraig.bsky.social/post/3mjzzezd...
And to be extremely skeptical of this administration working in good faith. The lawfare to destroy the good, to destroy institutions, by the very worst, is just out of control. The expression of power of the rich to destroy has gone up and up and up, and they keep getting by even as they destroy load bearing elements of society:
> I will say, frivolously suing a nonprofit for fraud has become A Thing recently. See, e.g., James Huntsman's suit against the Mormon Church or Elon Musk's against OpenAI.
> But rich people wasting money to punish nonprofits they no longer like is one thing;* the government doing it is another.
https://bsky.app/profile/smbrnsn.bsky.social/post/3mk224wrzm...
The FBI had been paying the SPLC to do just this sort of thing, until the new extremist administration stepped in. The people waging this case know all that. The donors new the work the SPLC did. And it's quite clear they can't be expected to show receipts, and safely show where all the money goes. https://bsky.app/profile/tomjoscelyn.bsky.social/post/3mk25s...
More despicable illegitemate mis-governance as usual by the most chaotic evil US government we have ever had.
This is them applying a bias against an institution they don’t like by framing it as fraud and abuse (while they ransack the country at levels 100x larger)
