Jesus, these people (Beck et al) are so obsessed with Soros payola that they don’t even accept that the Klan has sincerely held beliefs but in fact only claim to be vile racists ‘cuz leftists pay them to.
I don’t know that words like cynicism or even nihilism captures the depth of the depravity. I’ll stick with reflexive willful stupidity I guess.
So help me out here if you will… The Atlantic runs it’s article on Patel’s absenteeism and misconduct, and in response, he makes the Sunday rounds promising arrests in The Case of the Stolen Election. Instead, we get this bombshell story with a tie to the deadly Unite the Right rally, which is talked about as if it were a hoax. Is this what Kash was talking about? Is the administration setting this up so the insurrection was a hoax, and can they the alleged fraud committed by SLPC be the basis for the alleged stolen election? Is that too weak of a link?
I am only a relatively minor contributor to the SPLC, and I approve of their work. I believe that the use of informants is necessary to follow the actions of hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the "Unite the Right" group in Charlottesville. If paid informants are necessary, I trust that the SPLC has used its best judgement to evaluate that necessity. With regard to the 2017 Charlottesville event, even Trump said that there were "good people on both sides." Perhaps the SPLC informants were the good people to whom Trump referenced as being on the same side as the majority white supremacists.
each horrible thing which, in the past would have been a chapter in a history book, will now take a whole book to examine. a department of justice that investigates and indicts obviously innocent people, and then goes out of its way to help the terrorists that actually undermine our country , risking people's lives as they go ... wow.
i hope one of the eventual books is a compilation of grand jury decisions and discovery documents with summaries written by a poet.
My God the frivolous lawsuits are keeping the justice department lawyers and defense lawyers in court and RICH. There should be some check the box review of the validity of at least half of the lawsuits clogging up the courts and delaying meaningful cases. My sense is that many would be stopped in their tracks because they are all about vengeance and money.
I'm pretty sure I've seen the SPLC denounced as "hate group" in "legitimate" conservative media (NR Online, maybe). As always, it's the denunciation of Jim Crow that's "divisive."
If you don’t already I would highly recommend subscribing to Klasfeld. There are some very good attorney Substacks out there but I like Adam because he comes more from the perspective of a reporter
By the way Joyce White Vance wrote a very good column a little earlier this evening. She was the federal prosecutor in Alabama
Great reporting. I'd skimmed through a couple of articles elsewhere and completely missed any nuance until reading this one. Anyway, thanks for bringing the story back to our collective attention with so many questions!! Yes, I sincerely doubt SPLC is "manufacturing racism." Sheesh. Thank you Will (and The Bulwark)!!
Adam Klasfeld had former federal prosecutor Mitch Epner on All Rise News yesterday and did an excellent breakdown (as he always does) on this Epner said there was nothing in the financial transactions that constituted wire fraud
A bonu8s was Epner compared some of this to time he spent peripherally around the Whitey Bulger Case when he was a rookie prosecutor Fascinating
William, thanks for mentioning Epner's explication on Adam Klasfeld's All Rise News. I was puzzled when I first read about the SPLC indictment. But Will's FF article and the ARN post and Epner interview make it clear this is just a pathetic attempt by Blanche to suck up to Trump.
It seems to me that this administration is doing everything it can to make its notion of antifa into a terrorist organization that they can go after. Case in point is the recent demand that internationally antifa be recognized as such, which would let it fall under the current definition of terrorist organization under our laws. Most notably. SPLC has never given antifa an extremist group designation and rightfully so because they are not an organization. I may be paranoid about this, but I fear that the government wants any excuse to label protesters as antifa, and therefore promote whatever shenanigans administration wants to do in order to silence them including arrests, and invoking the insurrection act.
Jesus, these people (Beck et al) are so obsessed with Soros payola that they don’t even accept that the Klan has sincerely held beliefs but in fact only claim to be vile racists ‘cuz leftists pay them to.
I don’t know that words like cynicism or even nihilism captures the depth of the depravity. I’ll stick with reflexive willful stupidity I guess.
Was Glenn Beck looking in the mirror when he said that? If not, he should have been.
Turns out the SPLC is in good company, historically speaking.
After WW II, antisemitism and racism went up-not down. There were covert activities to thwart America's fascists, by
- Anti-Defamation League
- American Jewish Committee
- Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League
So help me out here if you will… The Atlantic runs it’s article on Patel’s absenteeism and misconduct, and in response, he makes the Sunday rounds promising arrests in The Case of the Stolen Election. Instead, we get this bombshell story with a tie to the deadly Unite the Right rally, which is talked about as if it were a hoax. Is this what Kash was talking about? Is the administration setting this up so the insurrection was a hoax, and can they the alleged fraud committed by SLPC be the basis for the alleged stolen election? Is that too weak of a link?
I am only a relatively minor contributor to the SPLC, and I approve of their work. I believe that the use of informants is necessary to follow the actions of hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the "Unite the Right" group in Charlottesville. If paid informants are necessary, I trust that the SPLC has used its best judgement to evaluate that necessity. With regard to the 2017 Charlottesville event, even Trump said that there were "good people on both sides." Perhaps the SPLC informants were the good people to whom Trump referenced as being on the same side as the majority white supremacists.
each horrible thing which, in the past would have been a chapter in a history book, will now take a whole book to examine. a department of justice that investigates and indicts obviously innocent people, and then goes out of its way to help the terrorists that actually undermine our country , risking people's lives as they go ... wow.
i hope one of the eventual books is a compilation of grand jury decisions and discovery documents with summaries written by a poet.
My God the frivolous lawsuits are keeping the justice department lawyers and defense lawyers in court and RICH. There should be some check the box review of the validity of at least half of the lawsuits clogging up the courts and delaying meaningful cases. My sense is that many would be stopped in their tracks because they are all about vengeance and money.
The more I think about it the more I believe that, “The “right” is wrong!”
I'm pretty sure I've seen the SPLC denounced as "hate group" in "legitimate" conservative media (NR Online, maybe). As always, it's the denunciation of Jim Crow that's "divisive."
Steve,
If you don’t already I would highly recommend subscribing to Klasfeld. There are some very good attorney Substacks out there but I like Adam because he comes more from the perspective of a reporter
By the way Joyce White Vance wrote a very good column a little earlier this evening. She was the federal prosecutor in Alabama
This better not turn into the night of the long knives. Have the never heard of prison gangs?
What's the Never Trump take on Alberto Gonzalez firing all those US attorneys.
Great reporting. I'd skimmed through a couple of articles elsewhere and completely missed any nuance until reading this one. Anyway, thanks for bringing the story back to our collective attention with so many questions!! Yes, I sincerely doubt SPLC is "manufacturing racism." Sheesh. Thank you Will (and The Bulwark)!!
Anything to paint themselves as the victims....
Adam Klasfeld had former federal prosecutor Mitch Epner on All Rise News yesterday and did an excellent breakdown (as he always does) on this Epner said there was nothing in the financial transactions that constituted wire fraud
A bonu8s was Epner compared some of this to time he spent peripherally around the Whitey Bulger Case when he was a rookie prosecutor Fascinating
William, thanks for mentioning Epner's explication on Adam Klasfeld's All Rise News. I was puzzled when I first read about the SPLC indictment. But Will's FF article and the ARN post and Epner interview make it clear this is just a pathetic attempt by Blanche to suck up to Trump.
It seems to me that this administration is doing everything it can to make its notion of antifa into a terrorist organization that they can go after. Case in point is the recent demand that internationally antifa be recognized as such, which would let it fall under the current definition of terrorist organization under our laws. Most notably. SPLC has never given antifa an extremist group designation and rightfully so because they are not an organization. I may be paranoid about this, but I fear that the government wants any excuse to label protesters as antifa, and therefore promote whatever shenanigans administration wants to do in order to silence them including arrests, and invoking the insurrection act.