In 2019, Ethics Alarms reported that the SPLC had fired Morris Dees, its founder, leader and face of the organization. Dees was a race-baiting progressive huckster. He came from the world of direct mail marketing and fundraising, and found the weepy Left perfect marks once he hit on the “anti-hate group” charity formula. Dees’s slimy character was becoming too hard to hide, and the public learning that the group’s creator was prone to staff mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism wouldn’t be good for business.
Seven years later, the Axis media is shocked—shocked!—that anyone would impugn this saintly group. The agreed-upon spin, spun by the likes of MSNOW contributor and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, is that “the use of paid informants was essential to the intelligence the Center was gathering on the groups they were members of, including intelligence that was shared with the FBI.” USA Today, absurdly, wrote, “FBI: SPLC paid informants without donors knowing. Feds pay them too: The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted for allegedly paying sources in hate groups without donors knowing. The FBI also pays informants.”
Yes, and the FBI is a law enforcement operation, and does not receive tax-deductible donations from suckers who want the group to fight “hate groups,” nor does it give the hate groups’ members and leaders millions in cash. Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman chimed in, “The DOJ uses paid informants all the time —why is it OK for them but not the SPLC?”
Jeez, somebody explain it to him.
This is a ridiculous argument, but I’m sure the IQ 84 crowd will find it persuasive. According to the DOJ indictment, the SPLC paid far right extremists while posing as their nemesis to raise money. Among those who were allegedly paid: an organizer of the infamous “Unite the Right” neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville. I can see why the FBI would want to infiltrate that group, but how would paying a neo-Nazi benefit the SPLC, except to give the group an episode (and riot) to raise funds with?
The defense reminds me of the standard excuse offered by people caught with child porn on their computers: “I was doing research!”
Ethics Alarms 
I suppose it would be inappropriate to comment with nothing but laughing emojis.
I suppose…
This looks like a false flag. Let’s gin up racism to make society look worse than it is and to make ourselves more relevant. I never understood what conservatives meant what they called people race hustlers when I was younger. Now, it makes perfect sense.
Here is an interesting thought. How many ‘racist incidents’ would there be in this country if we didn’t have anti-racism groups like the SPLC? When you look at sites that track such things, an overwhelming majority of the ‘racist incidents’ that get widespread coverage are fabricated or mischaracterized (From Tawana Brawley to Jussie Smollet and from the arrest of Henry Louis Gates to George Floyd). How much actual racism is there in the white community?
It’s difficult to determine since the definition of racism is continuing to expand. Discriminatory hiring practices and lynch mobs are certainly far less prevalent than expecting African-American students to learn math and white teenagers singing rap songs with racial slurs in them.
F-37 was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia and attended the event at the direction of the SPLC. F-37 made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-37 more than $270,000.00.
The way this event was managed by the intelligence apparatus of the US (paramilitary Federal police) was an extraordinary example of mass manipulation and engineering of perception. See for example Anne Wilson Smith, Charlottesville Untold: Inside Unite The Right. This is an excellent example of how the collusion between intelligence agencies and media systems in the US operates. The SPLC is just one major instrument of these “deep state” forces that manage perception and attitude of what you think and feel. Once you get this, then it is easier to understand that the same intelligence operatives have their “agents” on payroll in most or all of the major media corporations.
The US can hardly be referred to principally as a Republic in that old sense. It is in the larger degree a giant business, with world-wide interests, requiring a government intelligence military corporate management system. When this is understood it becomes far clearer why it is that the demographic composition of the nation had to be re-structured on a globalist, multi-cultural model. A business and a corporation hardly cares about the composition of the workforce. And in this and so many other senses the “will of a people” is irrelevant to the plans and objectives of its rulers and directors.
Still though, make no mistake! we have simply got to deal with Iran and follow through on the Remodeling Project in the Middle East! Making America Great begins in far-flung places obviously. The shores of Tripoli, etc etc 🤩
The Unite The Right rally, originally, was very much “grass roots” and there were many different groups, many from the Southern States, that resented the southern monuments being torn down by flocks of Progressive Warriors on campaigns of righteousness. That is to say, people of the nation who felt they had something to say about mass-influence campaigns and PR campaigns run by trained executives who know better where the direction of culture must go in the American Walmart.
The way that the perception of the event was managed and manipulated is indicative of an inevitable molding force to ‘twist’ perception, to prejudice, to color what is seen on the TeleScreen. And when their work is done there is no perceptual re-litigation.
Oh BTW, how are things going over there in Iran? I assume the force of Goodness has achieved all its aims? Onward Post-Christian Soldiers!
Would this be an example of Ratf*cking?
PWS
You simply cannot make this shit up. So the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was basically a psyops operation, funded by groups like SPLC? Those Neo Nazi types waving swastika’s, paid for by the SPLC? This event was used to tar President Trump as sympathetic to Neo Nazis by misquoting him as saying “There are very fine people on both sides”. This event that is the basis for Biden’s Reichstag speech?
Now we have to wait until the other shoe drops. How big of a psyops operation were the events at J6? Who really organized this. Left wing activists (Antifa, SPLC and Soros funded) in cahoots with deep state operators from the FBI?
Yet, folks are trying to claim that it is. Sen. Schumer is on Twitter claiming the President is targeting watchdog groups. Plenty of the far-left-influenced Trump Deranged will dismiss all of this evidence as just Trump is a Dictator. They will not believe it.
Joyce Vance sounds like a typical swamp monster. A normal person would look at that comparison and say “Well, maybe it isn’t OK for the FBI or the SPLC to staff and fund hate groups and stage terrorist incidents. How odd for you to think it is OK for both.” She sounds like what we have come to expect from a federal prosecutor and federal employee.
Her counterparts over at the FDA probably agree with her, unfortunately. It has come out that when they discovered that at least 20 child deaths in VAERS were almost certainly from the vaccine, they weren’t upset by the deaths or the conclusion that it is likely that the vaccine hurt more people than it helped, they were upset that news of that might fuel ‘vaccine hesitancy’. They didn’t seem bothered at all that they likely killed thousands of kids with a vaccine that they knew from the beginning would never be beneficial for children.
Wellll…. As the judge told the attorney who was complaining that the informant was himself a criminal, “Counselor, when one casts a play in hell you cannot expect angels playing the parts…”
Being up-front about a compensated informant and hiding compensation to an informant to stimulate tax-deductible donations are horses of different colors.
The Federalist has a nice article claiming that the SPLC is practically a hedge fund with a news letter. Some figures:
https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/23/the-splc-is-a-hedge-fund-with-a-dumb-anti-racism-newsletter/
SPLC is a hedge fund with an anti-racism news letter. Staff at SPLC joked that they will keep working “until justice rolls down like dollars”.
Charity Watch gives SPLC an F for aggressive fundraising while sitting on a mountain of cash.