No. I have never trusted the SPLC, and have been quite vocal about the evils of the SPLC and in particular Morris Dees. You used to agree; and it was but one of many points that we saw eye to eye upon.
Those days seem long gone...... On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 2:09 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > The SPLC is declaring good honest Americans as "Hate Groups" based on > their political motivations and financial motivations. The SPLC is more > dangerous today than they were twenty years ago, and they are no longer > trusted, even my elitist mainstream media. > --- > I've never trusted them ... and now you don't. Welcome to the 21st century. > > On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 1:06:35 PM UTC-6, KeithInTampa wrote: > >> The SPLC is declaring good honest Americans as "Hate Groups" based on >> their political motivations and financial motivations. The SPLC is more >> dangerous today than they were twenty years ago, and they are no longer >> trusted, even my elitist mainstream media. >> >> Southern Poverty Law Center's Lucrative 'Hate Group' Label >> By Rosslyn Smith <http://www.americanthinker.com/rosslyn_smith> >> Last week's shooting >> <http://www.examiner.com/article/frc-shooting-and-hate-crimes> at the >> headquarters of the Family Research Council (FRC) has placed the Southern >> Poverty Law Center (SPLC) back into the news. The SPLC recently had placed >> the FRC on its list of hate groups because the SPLC claims that in its >> opposition to gay marriage, the FRC defames gays and lesbians. >> >> It should be noted that the not-for-profit SPLC ostensibly began its >> mission to help those who had been victimized by civil rights violations by >> filing suits on their behalf. In recent years, the SPLC greatly expanded >> its definition of civil rights and hate groups to the point where any >> organization that opposes the left's favored causes risks being labeled a >> hate group by the SPLC. It has also moved away from suing on behalf of the >> aggrieved to raising awareness of the presence of "hate groups." Most of >> all, for the last 35 years, it has become a real fundraising dynamo. >> >> The labeling of opposing political views as hate by the SPLC has become >> so egregious that at the end of a report on a solidarity march in the >> Swedish city of Malmö by people protesting attacks on Jews by Islamists, >> William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection >> <http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/08/kippah-walk-in-malmo-in-solidarity-with-jews-persecuted-in-malmo/> >> wonders: >> >> >> *Bonus question*: Will pointing out the truth about Malmö land me on >> SPLC's "hate map <http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=NY>" >> along with Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs >> <http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/>? >> >> Update: I just noticed that Danel Greenfields' Sultan Knish >> <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> also is on SPLC's NY hate map. >> >> A growing consensus on the political right is to consider being labeled a >> hate group by the SPLC a badge of honor. I agree that it is, but I take >> issue with others about what is to be done. When I look at the entire >> history of the SPLC, I don't think the recent trend of inflate the hate >> <http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2012/08/stop-calling-conservative-groups-hate-groups/> >> is >> as much about political correctness run completely amok in the age of Obama >> as it is about the greed and self-aggrandizement of the founder of the SPLC >> and the gullibility of the donor base. >> >> Yes, mock those who increasingly conflate disapproval of policy ideas >> with hate. It is a silly idea. But mock even more those who continue to >> donate to SPLC as dupes of pious-sounding con men. Make them doubt their >> self-image as serious-thinking people by showing that they are being >> manipulated by a shameless huckster whose principal agenda has always been >> to become very wealthy. For if you understand that motivation, it is easy >> to see why the definition of hate had to be expanded to include groups that >> were considered very mainstream just a short time ago. >> >> SPLC founder Morris Dees is a lawyer, but he began his career as a direct >> marketer, hawking everything from cookbooks to tractor seat cushions. >> Indeed, the SPLC was a latecomer to the civil rights movement, as many of >> the biggest legal and legislative battles had been won before the >> organization was formed in 1971. >> >> Dees' first law partner, Millard Fuller >> <http://www.secondclassjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Egerton-Poverty-Palace-July-1988.pdf>, >> had this to say of him and their legal and direct marketing business >> ventures in the 1960s: >> >> Morris and I, from the first days of our partnership, shared the >> overriding purpose of making a pile of money. ... We were not particular >> about how we did it. We just wanted to be independently rich. During the >> eight years we worked together we never wavered in that resolve. >> >> By the mid-60s, Morris was rich. He also became deeply interested in the >> money side of leftist politics. The initial donor list of the SPLC >> consisted of those who had contributed to McGovern's political campaign, >> because Dees ran that campaign's direct mail operation and had requested >> the mailing list as his fee. The Southern-born Dees knew that many of the >> northern liberals on McGovern's donor list would get a vicarious thrill >> from sending a check to the Alabama-based SPLC to fight the Ku Klux Klan >> and other white supremacists. >> >> If appealing to some of these rather naive donors meant tarring other >> Southerners as racist, bigoted hicks, so be it. Dees also raised money for >> Jimmy Carter in 1976 and wanted to be attorney general, but he and Carter's >> people had a falling out. After Carter left office, spokesman Jody Powell >> made no bones about his disgust with Dees and the use of appeals in SPLC >> mailings that were intentionally designed to play up to the stereotypes >> "ignorant Yankee contributors" had about Southerners. >> >> It should also be noted that Millard Fuller took a different course from >> his erstwhile partner's. After he sold out to Dees, Fuller donated the >> money to charity and went on to found Habitat for Humanity. As >> contributions to the SPLC kept increasing, so did Dees' salary. Within two >> decades, he was among the most highly compensated of the heads of advocacy >> groups, earning much more than the heads of more widely known organizations >> such as the ACLU, the Children's Defense Fund, and the NAACP Legal Defense >> and Educational Fund. That something was seriously rotten at SPLC was >> noted along with the increases in Dees' salary. While the SPLC promoted >> its pursuit of lawsuits related to civil rights, especially those >> challenging the imposition of the death penalty on black offenders, >> fundraising was pursued even more fervently. By 1989, an ecumenical guide >> to charitable giving described the mission of the SPLC as >> <http://www.secondclassjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Other-Side-Givers-Guide-1989.pdf> >> "the >> aggressive distribution of junk mail, soliciting funds for more junk mail." >> >> A decade later in *Harper's* magazine >> <http://www.americanpatrol.com/SPLC/ChurchofMorrisDees001100.html>, a >> feature titled "The Church of Morris Dees" noted: >> >> Today, the SPLC spends most of its time--and money--on a relentless >> fund-raising campaign, peddling memberships in the church of tolerance with >> all the zeal of a circuit rider passing the collection plate. "He's the Jim >> and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement," renowned anti- >> death-penalty lawyer Millard Farmer says of Dees, his former associate, >> "though I don't mean to malign Jim and Tammy Faye." >> >> The results of one of the SPLC's most famous cases as detailed in that >> article certainly might lead even the most credulous donor to think the aim >> of the SPLC may have shifted a bit from helping victims of hate to greed >> and self-aggrandizement. >> >> In 1987, Dees won a $7 million judgment against the United Klans of >> America on behalf of Beulah Mae Donald, whose son was lynched by two >> Klansmen. The UKA's total assets amounted to a warehouse whose sale netted >> Mrs. Donald $51,875. According to a groundbreaking series of newspaper >> stories in the Montgomery Advertiser, the SPLC, meanwhile, made $9 million >> from fund-raising solicitations featuring the case, including one >> containing a photo of Michael Donald's corpse. >> >> In what Dees must have seen as icing on the cake, his battles against the >> fast fading and largely judgment-proof Klan even became the subject of a >> 1991 made-for-TV movie that depicted him as a huge hero in the civil rights >> movement. Again, the movie was used to feed the all-important fundraising >> beast. >> >> The year 1998 saw Dees being inducted into the Direct Marketing >> Association Hall of Fame >> <http://www.the-dma.org/awards/hof/hofinductees.shtml#1998>, a move that >> also should have alerted the SPLC donor base that just maybe the SPLC was >> not quite as cash-strapped as it always represented itself in its frequent >> solicitations. >> >> Dees' reputation has long been beyond tarnished inside much of the civil >> rights bar. In 2007, Atlanta civil rights lawyer Stephen Bright was >> invited by the University of Alabama Law School to present its Morris Dees >> Justice Award. Here is what Bright wrote Dean >> <http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001573>Kenneth C. Randall >> <http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001573>: >> <http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001573> >> >> I also received the law school's invitation to the presentation of the >> "Morris Dees Justice Award," which you also mentioned in your letter as one >> of the "great things" happening at the law school. I decline that >> invitation for another reason. Morris Dees is a con man and fraud, as I and >> others, such as U.S. Circuit Judge Cecil Poole, have observed and as has >> been documented by John Egerton, Harper's, the Montgomery Advertiser in its >> "Charity of Riches" series, and others. >> >> The positive contributions Dees has made to justice -- most undertaken >> based upon calculations as to their publicity and fund raising potential -- >> are far overshadowed by what Harper's described as his "flagrantly >> misleading" solicitations for money. He has raised millions upon millions >> of dollars with various schemes, never mentioning that he does not need the >> money because he has $175 million and two "poverty palace" buildings in >> Montgomery. He has taken advantage of naive, well-meaning people -- some of >> moderate or low incomes -- who believe his pitches and give to his >> $175-million operation. He has spent most of what they have sent him to >> raise still more millions, pay high salaries, and promote himself. Because >> he spends so much on fund raising, his operation spends $30 million a year >> to accomplish less than what many other organizations accomplish on >> shoestring budgets*.* >> >> The award does not recognize the work of others by associating them with >> Dees; it promotes Dees by associating him with the honorees. Both the law >> school and Skadden are diminished by being a part of another Dees scam. >> >> None of this has ever seemed to dent the SPLC's ability to raise money by >> inflating the influence of what it calls hate groups. But by the late >> 1980s, a different problem was starting to develop: the Klan was all but >> dead, and few of the organizations labeled as white supremacists had more >> than a handful of members. >> >> But this didn't stop SPLC from using such groups for their direct mailing >> haul of shame. Still, the original donor base was aging. So during the >> Clinton administration, the SPLC found Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh >> a handy substitute for the Klan in its fundraising, despite failures to >> link his actions to any of the small militia groups the SPLC had earlier >> identified as hate groups. Eventually that appeal also ran its course, so >> the SPLC needed to "inflate the hate" by identifying another group as the >> boogieman for a new generation of naive souls eager to depart with their >> money for a righteous-sounding cause. >> >> In 2010, Ken Silverstein, the author of the 2000 *Harper's* article, >> noted that the SPLC had found a large new target >> <http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/03/hbc-90006753>: those immigration >> reform groups that supported almost anything more restrictive than amnesty >> and de facto open borders. >> >> For the record, I am totally opposed to CIS's stance on immigration, as I >> stated at the press conference. I accepted the invitation to speak on the >> panel because it came from my friend Jerry Kammer <http://cis.org/Kammer>, >> of whom I am a big admirer. >> >> I also agreed to the invitation because, much like CIS, I feel that the >> Law Center is essentially a fraud and that it has a habit of casually >> labeling organizations as "hate groups." (Which doesn't mean that some of >> the groups it criticizes aren't reprehensible.) In doing so, the SPLC shuts >> down debate, stifles free speech, and most of all, raises a pile of money, >> very little of which is used on behalf of poor people. >> >> Silverstein's good friend Kammer <http://www.cis.org/immigration-splc> had >> this to say about Dees' manipulative methods as he demolished the SPLC in >> "Immigration and the SPLC: How the Southern Poverty Law Center Invented a >> Smear, Served La Raza, Manipulated the Press, and Duped Its Donors." >> >> While Dees was raised a Southern Baptist, he suggested to some donors >> that he had a more diverse background. For example, in a 1985 fundraising >> pitch for funds to protect SPLC staff from threats of Klan violence, Dees >> made conspicuous use of his middle name - Seligman, which he received in >> honor of a family friend. A former SPLC attorney told The Progressive >> magazine that Dees signed letters with his middle name in mailings to zip >> codes that had many Jewish residents. The article was titled "How Morris >> Dees Got Rich Fighting the Klan." A former SPLC employee told the >> Montgomery Advertiser that the donor base was "anchored by wealthy Jewish >> contributors on the East and West coasts." >> <http://www.cis.org/immigration-splc#94> >> >> Attorney Tom Turnipseed, a former Dees associate, told Cox News Service, >> "Morris loves to raise money. Some of his gimmicks are just so transparent, >> but they're good." >> <http://www.cis.org/immigration-splc#95> >> >> Turnipseed described a fundraising letter whose return envelope carried >> "about six different stamps." The purpose of the ruse was to present the >> appearance of an organization struggling to keep going. As Turnipseed >> noted: "It was like they had to cobble them all together to come up with 35 >> cents." >> >> After decades of claiming in his mailings that the SPLC was itself on the >> verge of poverty, Dees raised a few eyebrows in 2010 when a sixty-photo >> spread of his >> <http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=DS&Dato=20100325&Kategori=LIFESTYLE04&Lopenr=3250804&Ref=PH>*objets >> d'art-*filled >> <http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=DS&Dato=20100325&Kategori=LIFESTYLE04&Lopenr=3250804&Ref=PH> >> home >> <http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=DS&Dato=20100325&Kategori=LIFESTYLE04&Lopenr=3250804&Ref=PH>, >> complete with guest house, pool, and grounds, ran in his hometown >> newspaper, the *Montgomery Advertiser*. As blogger Steve Sailer noted >> <http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/08/house-that-poverty-built.html>: >> <http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/08/house-that-poverty-built.html> >> >> This shiny thing-a-mabob with the #20 on it is described as "A poolside >> rickshaw at the home of Morris Dees and Susan Starr in Montgomery, Ala," >> because nothing screams *Equality! *like a fancy rickshaw. >> >> A look at the recent numbers >> <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4482> >> reported >> by SPLC is highly informative. With net assets of $238 million as of the >> close of its last fiscal year, the SPLC is among the wealthiest of civil >> rights and advocacy organizations. Despite this endowment, the SPLC often >> implies that it is on the verge of cutting back operations vital to the >> quest for equality and civil rights due to lack of funds. Yet it spends >> almost 19% of its annual budget on fundraising each year despite the fact >> its net assets are already an extremely healthy seven times annual >> expenses. Note that this 19% figure is under cost allocation rules that >> allow some solicitations to pass as program expenses because educational >> material is included with the solicitation. >> >> Last year, the SPLC generated a surplus of $4.1 million on revenues of >> $38.7 million. CEO J. Richard Cohen makes $299K/year, and editor in chief >> of the SPLC Intelligence Report and Hatewatch blog Mark Potok makes >> $150K/year. Chief Trial Counsel Morris Dees, age 74, makes $305K/year. I >> wonder how many hours Dees spent on trial preparation compared to >> fundraising. The title Dees carries is Chief Trial Counsel, yet his chief >> bailiwick has always been direct mail marketing. >> >> As the SPLC publicizes the names of ever more hate groups to "raise >> awareness" of intolerance and to tap into ever new sources of funds, its >> donors should keep in mind a genuine larger truth. Heightened awareness >> has never by itself helped the actual victims of anything, anywhere, at any >> time. At best, it is entirely self-referential. At its worst, it serves >> as a useful ploy to make a donor who hasn't done much in the way of due >> diligence about an organization's finances feel good about sending money to >> what appears to be a righteous cause. >> >> The SPLC has more than mastered the exercise of raising awareness. In >> his 2000 article, Silverstein noted that during its then-29 years of >> existence, the SPLC had carefully adjusted its operations to fit the needs >> and self-image of its largely urban, white, and often Jewish donor base. >> Causes that garnered favorable early media attention but which also risked >> upsetting some donors, such as filing suits protesting the death penalty, >> were dropped, even if that meant the mass resignation of staff attorneys. >> Images of angry blacks and other minorities never appear in solicitations. >> Nor do concrete issues related to race and poverty get much attention in >> these appeals. Donors aren't called on to actually fight to improve >> housing, improve inner-city schools, or end violence at the borders. >> Everything is geared to the equal-opportunity and secular sin of being >> intolerant of those who are different. According to Silverstein, the >> payoff is also always the same -- the SPLC is all about making guilty white >> donors feel good about themselves for being understanding by writing a >> check to the wealthy and largely white SPLC. Actual attempts to help the >> oppressed and downtrodden aren't just optional. They are almost superfluous. >> >> This is done with a tried-and-true formula Dees learned listening to >> evangelical preachers as well as TV hucksters. Silverstein writes: >> >> No faith healing or infomercial would be complete without a moving >> testimonial. The student from whose tears this white schoolteacher learned >> her lesson is identified only as a child of color. "Which race," we are >> assured, "does not matter." Nor apparently does the specific nature of "the >> racist acts directed at him," nor the race of his schoolyard tormentors. >> All that matters, in fact, is the race of the teacher and those expiating >> tears. "I wept with him, feeling for once, the depth of his hurt," she >> confides. "His tears washed away the film that had distorted my white >> perspective of the world." Scales fallen from her eyes, what action does >> this schoolteacher propose? What Gandhi-like disobedience will she >> undertake in order to "reach real peace in the world"? She doesn't say but >> instead speaks vaguely of acting out against "the pain." In the age of >> Oprah and Clinton, empathy -- or the confession thereof -- is an end in >> itself. >> >> What matters is that the targets feel they will become part of the >> solution by writing a check to SPLC. The comparison to Jim and Tammy Faye >> is really quite apt. The Bakkers always featured the power of the personal >> testimonial as panacea. The SPLC wants the potential donor to identify >> with the guilty white teacher. The idea behind Jim Bakker's testimonials >> was to get potential donors to identify with the one giving the testimony >> and not dwell on what actual changes must be made in one's life to truly >> get closer to God. Solutions were left intentionally quite vague. And, of >> course, both the SPLC and the PTL Club offer absolution for sins secular >> and sacred in nature by means of sinners' dropping a nice fat check in the >> mail. >> >> While the formula is timeless, the pitch itself was badly in need of >> upgrading in the case of the SPLC. It's been two generations since the >> civil rights battles of the 1950s and '60s. America elected a black man >> president, and while few of the truly intractable social problems relating >> to race have been solved, those problems are for serious people willing to >> do real work -- not film flam artists writing empty prose for the crowd >> that prides itself on self-described awareness. >> >> For some time now, the media culture has been suggesting that the battle >> for gay marriage has its parallels with the civil rights battles. >> Promoting gay marriage has certainly become a huge cause among the largely >> secular, affluent coastal elites who make up much of the donor base of the >> SPLC. It seems the perfect newly fashionable cause to adopt to attract a >> new generation of marks. Thus, it shouldn't be surprising to anyone who >> has followed the history of the SPLC that groups which promote traditional >> values suddenly find themselves on the SPLC hate map. I guess it is also >> not surprising that after so many warnings about its money-grubbing ways, >> the SPLC still has an audience for its exaggerations, misrepresentations, >> and outright distortions. As the man said, there is a sucker born every >> minute. >> >> Perhaps if you personally know people who swear by the validity of the >> new SPLC hate map you may want to nicely inform them they are now charter >> members of the new secular version of the PTL Club >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_PTL_Club> and watch the reaction. If >> they get angry, remind them that this is not the assessment of the >> political right. The most damning quotes about Dees and the SPLC all come >> from former associates on the political left. >> >> Last week's shooting >> <http://www.examiner.com/article/frc-shooting-and-hate-crimes> at the >> headquarters of the Family Research Council (FRC) has placed the Southern >> Poverty Law Center (SPLC) back into the news. The SPLC recently had placed >> the FRC on its list of hate groups because the SPLC claims that in its >> opposition to gay marriage, the FRC defames gays and lesbians. >> >> It should be noted that the not-for-profit SPLC ostensibly began its >> mission to help those who had been victimized by civil rights violations by >> filing suits on their behalf. In recent years, the SPLC greatly expanded >> its definition of civil rights and hate groups to the point where any >> organization that opposes the left's favored causes risks being labeled a >> hate group by the SPLC. It has also moved away from suing on behalf of the >> aggrieved to raising awareness of the presence of "hate groups." Most of >> all, for the last 35 years, it has become a real fundraising dynamo. >> >> The labeling of opposing political views as hate by the SPLC has become >> so egregious that at the end of a report on a solidarity march in the >> Swedish city of Malmö by people protesting attacks on Jews by Islamists, >> William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection >> <http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/08/kippah-walk-in-malmo-in-solidarity-with-jews-persecuted-in-malmo/> >> wonders: >> >> *Bonus question*: Will pointing out the truth about Malmö land me on >> SPLC's "hate map <http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=NY>" >> along with Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs >> <http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/>? >> >> Update: I just noticed that Danel Greenfields' Sultan Knish >> <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> also is on SPLC's NY hate map. >> >> A growing consensus on the political right is to consider being labeled a >> hate group by the SPLC a badge of honor. I agree that it is, but I take >> issue with others about what is to be done. When I look at the entire >> history of the SPLC, I don't think the recent trend of inflate the hate >> <http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2012/08/stop-calling-conservative-groups-hate-groups/> >> is >> as much about political correctness run completely amok in the age of Obama >> as it is about the greed and self-aggrandizement of the founder of the SPLC >> and the gullibility of the donor base. >> >> Yes, mock those who increasingly conflate disapproval of policy ideas >> with hate. It is a silly idea. But mock even more those who continue to >> donate to SPLC as dupes of pious-sounding con men. Make them doubt their >> self-image as serious-thinking people by showing that they are being >> manipulated by a shameless huckster whose principal agenda has always been >> to become very wealthy. For if you understand that motivation, it is easy >> to see why the definition of hate had to be expanded to include groups that >> were considered very mainstream just a short time ago. >> >> SPLC founder Morris Dees is a lawyer, but he began his career as a direct >> marketer, hawking everything from cookbooks to tractor seat cushions. >> Indeed, the SPLC was a latecomer to the civil rights movement, as many of >> the biggest legal and legislative battles had been won before the >> organization was formed in 1971. >> >> Dees' first law partner, Millard Fuller >> <http://www.secondclassjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Egerton-Poverty-Palace-July-1988.pdf>, >> had this to say of him and their legal and direct marketing business >> ventures in the 1960s: >> >> Morris and I, from the first days of our partnership, shared the >> overriding purpose of making a pile of money. ... We were not particular >> about how we did it. We just wanted to be independently rich. During the >> eight years we worked together we never wavered in that resolve. >> >> By the mid-60s, Morris was rich. He also became deeply interested in the >> money side of leftist politics. The initial donor list of the SPLC >> consisted of those who had contributed to McGovern's political campaign, >> because Dees ran that campaign's direct mail operation and had requested >> the mailing list as his fee. The Southern-born Dees knew that many of the >> northern liberals on McGovern's donor list would get a vicarious thrill >> from sending a check to the Alabama-based SPLC to fight the Ku Klux Klan >> and other white supremacists. >> >> If appealing to some of these rather naive donors meant tarring other >> Southerners as racist, bigoted hicks, so be it. Dees also raised money for >> Jimmy Carter in 1976 and wanted to be attorney general, but he and Carter's >> people had a falling out. After Carter left office, spokesman Jody Powell >> made no bones about his disgust with Dees and the use of appeals in SPLC >> mailings that were intentionally designed to play up to the stereotypes >> "ignorant Yankee contributors" had about Southerners. >> >> It should also be noted that Millard Fuller took a different course from >> his erstwhile partner's. After he sold out to Dees, Fuller donated the >> money to charity and went on to found Habitat for Humanity. As >> contributions to the SPLC kept increasing, so did Dees' salary. Within two >> decades, he was among the most highly compensated of the heads of advocacy >> groups, earning much more than the heads of more widely known organizations >> such as the ACLU, the Children's Defense Fund, and the NAACP Legal Defense >> and Educational Fund. That something was seriously rotten at SPLC was >> noted along with the increases in Dees' salary. While the SPLC promoted >> its pursuit of lawsuits related to civil rights, especially those >> challenging the imposition of the death penalty on black offenders, >> fundraising was pursued even more fervently. By 1989, an ecumenical guide >> to charitable giving described the mission of the SPLC as >> <http://www.secondclassjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Other-Side-Givers-Guide-1989.pdf> >> "the >> aggressive distribution of junk mail, soliciting funds for more junk mail." >> >> A decade later in *Harper's* magazine >> <http://www.americanpatrol.com/SPLC/ChurchofMorrisDees001100.html>, a >> feature titled "The Church of Morris Dees" noted: >> >> Today, the SPLC spends most of its time--and money--on a relentless >> fund-raising campaign, peddling memberships in the church of tolerance with >> all the zeal of a circuit rider passing the collection plate. "He's the Jim >> and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement," renowned anti- >> death-penalty lawyer Millard Farmer says of Dees, h >> >> ... > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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