Am sending this to CTRL at Listserve to see if mail running through
.......so
Here is a man, known as Morrise the Sleaze Dees, who deserves a little
investigation - the Southern Poverty Stricken Law Center and for those
interested pull up the item and see the pictures this man sends out who
is also known as Sleaze Dees, whose own wife charged him with child
molestation according to court records made available on the net,
amongst other charges.
This letter is written by one of his own; further some of these TV
movies showing Dees as a such a moral man - have been sponsored
financially by Dees........wonder if this guy is involved in a certain
amount of money laundering?
Would make a nice front - right? Accountable to nobody?
For the full effect of this sleaze Dee's tactics pull up under subject
matter in particular about the BOMBINGS .....
Saba
May 8, 1996
Mr. Morris Dees
Chair, Executive Committee
The Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Avenue
P.O. Box 548
Montgomery, AL 36101-0548
re: MILITIA TASK FORCE
Dear Mr. Dees:
I have, until recently, been a contributing member to SPLC for several
years, and until recently, I have been proud of that association. Even
when the center received adverse publicity due to the overwhelming
success of its financial strategy, I continued to support it. The
Center's programs for Teaching Tolerance and pursuing justice for those
whose civil rights were violated have made a lasting and positive
impression on American society. Unfortunately, the SPLC's new focus is
detracting from our solid reputation, and if it does not change soon, I
fear that the damage to an excellent organization will be permanent.
As the impact of the SPLC lawsuits against bigotry and
racially-motivated violations of constitutional protections were felt,
their efficacy was proven by the waning severity of the violations that
were pursued in the courts. As this occurred, the Southern Poverty Law
Center was faced with a choice: it had to widen or shift its focus. The
question was, "how?"
In the past, the Lawsuits by SPLC have been taken up on behalf of the
weak in order to secure compensation and/ or some measure of justice
against a somewhat stronger entity, whether that entity was a
well-financed racist fringe group, or a local government. With the
overwhelming success of this strategy, new frontiers had to be opened.
There are many out there whose civil rights are being ravaged by the
strongest entity of all - the United States Government - not for racial
reasons, but for political reasons. I personally have three friends* who
are currently fighting for their lives, and who have been through
horrors inflicted on them by their own government, our government, the
likes of which most people don't even believe can happen in this
country. There are literally thousands like them, and these people are
in severe need of assistance.
But rather than seek justice for those so abused, the Center has chosen
to exploit sensationalist journalism, to which the SPLC itself has
contributed heavily, inducing largely irrational fears to fight against
the so-called "Patriot Movement" and its related "Militias". In the SPLC
campaign, this heterogeneous group is painted with broad strokes in
threatening ways which are very unfair to the great majority of those in
the movement.
Abuses of power by the federal government like those mentioned above
have given rise to the Patriot Movement and the Militias. These are
understandable reactions from a very concerned population. If we in the
SPLC are truly concerned with the threat presented by these groups, we
should be looking for ways to constructively address their legitimate
concerns, rather that seek to blindly discredit and destroy the entire
movement.
There is no room for violence in the Patriot Movement. Violence always
results in more power being granted to the federal government in the
interest of "security" and at the expense of constitutional law - the
exact opposite of what the Patriots seek. But any counter-establishment
movement which addresses problems the magnitude of which are addressed
by the Patriots is bound to attract some fringe elements, whose motives
and means are dangerous and counter-productive. (In fact, the deliberate
infiltration of such agent provocateurs by the federal government has
been a common occurrence in its dealings with rebellious organizations
for many years.) But instead of "throwing out the baby with the bath
water," the decent and truly patriotic core of the Patriot Movement
should be integrated into the Center's constituency, rather than
marginalized and alienated from it.
In the SPLC's latest mailing, there is a picture of some militia men in
fatigues, taking target practice with rifles in the desert. Their eyes
are blacked out, and on the other side, we are informed that this is for
"security reasons." I would submit that the real reason for this move is
because the defamatory nature of the Center's accompanying description
of Patriots and the militias would make a picture without such
alterations ripe for a libel lawsuit. If that is true, it should tell us
something: that the agenda being pursued here is not entirely correct.
About a year ago, I sent to you a copy of Defrauding America, by Rodney
Stich, and I asked that you consider taking up Rod's legal case, as his
civil rights were and are clearly being violated. I received a reply
from the center indicating that the case was outside of the SPLC's
current mission. It is unfortunate that in its evolution, the SPLC has
chosen to become closer to Mr. Stich's persecutors than to him. I
sincerely hope that this is a reversible trend. If not, I fear that a
once-great organization will have lost its ideals in a quest for cash,
and will be forever lost to the people it once served.
Sincerely,
David H. Stern, M.D.
Member, Leadership Council
Southern Poverty Law Center
DHS/dhs
cc: *Rodney Stich, Lester K. Coleman, and Michael Williams
Multiple Concerned Citizens
Deep Times News Service
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